Libya is Sentenced by the UN in 1973
That's Resolution 1973, which is current as of today. And by "sentenced," I mean that the UN has followed its standard procedure of writing its resolutions as gigantic sentences.
The UN has taken an the odd position of advising member states to "take all necessary measures" to protect the population in Libya, as long as those states don't set foot in Libya. It explicitly prohibits “boots on the ground” - their phrase “all necessary measures” is carefully “excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
It instructs all states to freeze Libyan assets and give them to the Libyan people:Affirms its determination to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to paragraph 17 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall, at a later stage, as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
No trial, no judicial proceedings needed. Rather high-handed of them, it seems.
This creates a very difficult situation for member states - essentially “Protect the people on the ground but don’t go there.” And I am troubled, knowing the UN’s proclivities in this area, about the likelihood of those seized assets becoming a bonanza of funding for Muslim Brotherhood groups.
This is al-Ikhwan’s lucky year, it seems-with the US, the UN, the EU and OIC on their side now. It will be unlucky for other Muslims, and everyone else. And Syria is now in revolution mode, with the MB bragging about playing a "vital" role there despite Syria's law (49/1980) prescribing a death sentence for anyone convicted of being a member of the Brotherhood. They are feared by secular ruling powers all across the Middle East.
From Gaza to the West Bank, from Bahrain to Egypt to Syria, from al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to CAIR in the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood is feeling its oats and gaining power.
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The UN has taken an the odd position of advising member states to "take all necessary measures" to protect the population in Libya, as long as those states don't set foot in Libya. It explicitly prohibits “boots on the ground” - their phrase “all necessary measures” is carefully “excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
It instructs all states to freeze Libyan assets and give them to the Libyan people:Affirms its determination to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to paragraph 17 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall, at a later stage, as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
No trial, no judicial proceedings needed. Rather high-handed of them, it seems.
This creates a very difficult situation for member states - essentially “Protect the people on the ground but don’t go there.” And I am troubled, knowing the UN’s proclivities in this area, about the likelihood of those seized assets becoming a bonanza of funding for Muslim Brotherhood groups.
This is al-Ikhwan’s lucky year, it seems-with the US, the UN, the EU and OIC on their side now. It will be unlucky for other Muslims, and everyone else. And Syria is now in revolution mode, with the MB bragging about playing a "vital" role there despite Syria's law (49/1980) prescribing a death sentence for anyone convicted of being a member of the Brotherhood. They are feared by secular ruling powers all across the Middle East.
From Gaza to the West Bank, from Bahrain to Egypt to Syria, from al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to CAIR in the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood is feeling its oats and gaining power.
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