Shameless
The American government, which drops bombs on civilians in Tripoli, now condemns US attacks against Western embassies.
The United States condemned the attacks on embassies that occurred today in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. "We have seen reports indicating that the diplomatic facilities of the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States in Tripoli were attacked," said U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner. "If this is true, we condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms," he added.
"The Vienna Convention stipulates that Muammar Gaddafi's regime must protect diplomatic missions in Tripoli. By failing to do so, the regime is once again violating its international obligations and responsibilities," said Toner.
Vandals reportedly attacked the Italian and British embassies in the Libyan capital on Sunday, following NATO airstrikes that allegedly killed a son and three grandsons of Gaddafi. The United Nations (UN) decided to withdraw its international staff from the city, and the United Kingdom announced the expulsion of its Libyan ambassador from London. The US, UK, and Italy had already withdrawn their diplomats from Tripoli weeks earlier.
Saif al-Arab, Gaddafi's son, reportedly died after a NATO attack on his home yesterday, according to Libyan government sources. They claim the attack was an assassination attempt and a violation of international law. NATO said it attacked a "command and control building," but insisted that all its targets are military and linked to Gaddafi's actions against the population.
In 1986, Seif escaped a US air strike aimed at his father. At the time, he was only four years old. Today, at 29, he was one of the least prominent of Gaddafi's eight biological children, without clear political or military power. Seif spent much of his last years in Germany, where he studied economics.