The post you are reporting:
It seems that the rebels sent the plane over Bengazi, that it was flying around for an hour or more, until it developed engine problems and plumeted down near the city. There is general belief by journalists of Sky News that the rebels are waging propaganda to lure the West into attacking Libyan government forces.
This is a very dangerous situation, where President Obama might start claiming whatever the rebels say, as being facts, even though satelite technology and radar from western planes and ships know exactly when a plane would take off in Libya, where it would go and when it would land again, and therefore which side it belonged to.
I hope that propaganda lies from rebels don't start dictating the orders of western leaders now!
Roger, may-be you should know that the leader of the rebels, who went over to them at the start, was a lawer who critisesed the Libyan government in the past, and was subsequently promoted to justice minister in an attempt of the Libyan government to be open towards Libyan people.
If you read the proper analysis of Libyan policies as written by informed people whose researches are promoted on international world news web-sites, it seems that it was not at all as you have stated above.
Periodically, Libyan people who have opposed the government and imprisoned have been released from prison. They were not tortured either.
One interesting example is that of hundreds of members of an extremist group from a town in Eastern Libya who were released, not sure when but possibly a few years ago, in return for renouncing violence as a means of imposing Sharia law.
Your views as above seem to be based on a carried away statement, but not researched. And not only: if Col. Gedaffi had been running an internal terrorist organisation to kill people with opposing views, I am sure that the British, American, yes and French, and many other governments, would have made this known in the past, and wouldn't have established strong trading links with the Libyan government.
But if the imprisonment of people preaching extremist violence had not taken place, and they had been left to preach hatred in Libya, and to promote hatred and violence (putting bombs around in western countries for example), I suppose then that Col. Gedaffi would be the perfect Al Quaeda monster that everyone has a reason for hating.
Unfortunately, when a war breaks out, the enemy has to become a monster, and so any unresearched and unfair - and contradictory comment - can become the vogue of the day.
