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Libya asks U.N. to probe NATO "abuses"

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR. A building Libyan officials described as a civil engineering office lies flattened after being bombed overnight by NATO in Tripoli, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Paul Hackett

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR. A building Libyan officials described as a civil engineering office lies flattened after being bombed overnight by NATO in Tripoli, August 20, 2011.

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RABAT | Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:12pm EDT

RABAT (Reuters) - Libya has asked United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to form a "high-level commission" to investigate alleged abuses by NATO, state news agency JANA reported Saturday.

NATO warplanes have been hitting the Libyan government's military infrastructure, backing up rebels who have launched a six-month uprising against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.

Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi spoke to Ban by telephone Saturday and Ban promised to study the proposal, the agency said.

Mahmoudi asked for "a high-level delegation ... to visit Libya as soon as possible and look closely at (NATO) abuses and what is happening in Libya and discuss a solution between Libyans themselves without foreign interference," JANA reported.

Mahmoudi asked Ban and African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping to join the commission, the agency added.

(Reporting by Souhail Karam; writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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ContiUK wrote:
How cynical Gaddafi and his entourage are. The government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, wasn’t able to report a single truthful statement so far. The government consistently lie to Libyans using a filthy state propaganda. Gaddafi even sponsors a media war in the internet to spread defamation.
So far there is ONE account of civilian death by NATO, which was a missile failure. In the other hand, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of accounts of Gaddafi forces indiscriminately shelling civilian areas, use of cluster bombs, rapes, kidnapping, torture, executions, etc. Fight on rebels, Gaddafi’s end is near.

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