Is this why we are in Libya?

Iman al-Obeidi (also Eman al-Obaidi[1]) is a Libyan woman who, on March 26, 2011, stormed into the restaurant of the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, residence for most of the international press corps in Libya, in an attempt to inform the foreign reporters that Libyan government troops had raped her.[2][3] A scuffle took place in which government security forces took Obeidi out of the hotel to an unknown destination and used violence against journalists who had tried to defend Obeidi.[4] A government spokesperson claimed that Obeidi was drunk and possible mentally ill[2][3] and a Financial Times journalist who had tried to protect Obeidi was deported.[4]

After entering the hotel and finding foreign journalists at the hotel's restaurant, Obeidi showed her injuries, which New York Times described as "a broad bruise on her face, a large scar on her upper thigh, several narrow and deep scratch marks lower on her leg, and marks that seemed to come from binding around her hands and feet."[4] Speaking in English, Obeidi said that she had been arrested at a checkpoint near Tripoli because she was from the rebel-held city of Benghazi, and detained for two days.[4] She went on to say that she had been tied up, urinated and defecated on, and raped by 15 men.[3][5] She also pleaded for friends still in custody.[4]

Obeidi's actions triggered what's been described variously as a wild scuffle,[4] a brawl,[1], and a melee,[2] as government forces tried to silence her. Government minders and security forces beat and kicked intervening reporters, smashed a CNN camera,[5] threatened the Sky News team with a gun,[6] and seized a device a Financial Times reporter had used to record Obeidi's words. Members of the hotel staff accused her of being a "traitor" and two members grabbed table knives to threaten both her and the journalists.[4] A Reuters reporter[1] was the only journalist who was able to speak with her; the rest of her statements were captured by cameras. [4] Obeidi was finally subdued, dragged out of the hotel and driven to an unknown location.[3] The incident further strained relationships between the international media and the Muammar Gaddafi's regime over the government's tight control of the foreign reporters and their access to Libyan civilians for independent information.[3][2]
At a press-conference held later on the same day, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said that investigators had found al-Obeidi "drunk and possibly mentally challenged,"[3] – a suggestion that raised fears that she would face an indefinite incarceration in a government-controlled mental institution,[2] continuing the list of forced disappearances the opposition charges the Gaddafi regime with.[2] Ibrahim also said the authorities were going to "find her family and see if she was really abused or not"[7] and promised the media to provide independent access to Obeidi within a few days.[2] After international journalists repeatedly demanded to see al-Obeidi and challenged Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim on the issue, Kaim replied that the incident was under investigation and added, "We will let you know."[5]

One of the journalists who had tried to protect Obeidi from the security forces, Charles Clover of The Financial Times, was deported from Libya shortly after Obeidi's appearance at the hotel. He had already been told the previous night that he would have to leave Libya because of inaccuracies in his reports.[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_al-Obeidi

Is this why we are in Libya?

Video http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/afric ... ten.woman/

Apparently so. The Left doesn't seem to care!!!

This happening in more ME countries than just libya. So does that mean we do this to all of them. Hell no. This is a problem that the Arab league needs to deal with. Look what is going on, on the Africa cont. We are not jumping the hoops to help them out. Its not our business. Rape regardless where it happens is just wrong. IF that is the reason, the President needs to rethink what the hell and deal with that here in the US>

Atrocities of a government against its people is not a reason for the United States to go to war with them. We should mind our own affairs here at home.

major bean wrote: Atrocities of a government against its people is not a reason for the United States to go to war with them. We should mind our own affairs here at home.

yeah......liberals said that for years about the war in Iraq and the conservatives would not listen, it was all rah rah.....the Americans are marching off to war to save the Iraqi people, and those who oppose this action are unAmerican and unpatriotic.......funny how conservatives are all over it now. sheesh.....where were you guys when we went after Saddam?

archer, you do not hate war. You hate conservatives. On other threada you have not congratulated conservatives for embracing the liberal point of view. On the contrary you beat your chest and berated those who would agree with a sane view. It is the same with this thread. Shame on you.

I did not approve of the war with Iraq under the Bushes. I do not approve of the war under Obama. Be broad minded enough to recognize a correct stance on war and support the person who would make such a stance. Stop this hate of yours for conservatives. It shows how little minded you are.

I don't hate conservatives, I hate hypocrites. If you were against the wars Bush started, I applaud that stance, and do not include you in the previous statement. I would applaud too those conservatives who are jumping on the anti-war bandwagon now if I thought they were doing it for the right reasons. Just as you accuse me of hating conservatives, I believe they hate Obama....ok, I know they hate Obama, and that is the reason for their change of heart.

FYI.....I do not hate conservatives, I am married to one, and my entire family from my mom on down are conservative. We disagree on a many things, but actually agree on more issues than we disagree on. I talk and discuss with conservatives on other boards and respect their opinions even when I don't agree. I know it is possible to disagree without rancor and without attacking....but it sure doesn't happen here.

major bean wrote: archer, you do not hate war. You hate conservatives. On other threada you have not congratulated conservatives for embracing the liberal point of view..

I guess yuou missed this post of mine earlier today

archer wrote: Wow....if only the righties had been this vocal back when Bush went to war......think how much better off this nation would be now.....I commend you all, you are articulating what we posted year, after year, about going to war without a clear goal and an exit strategy. You all may be johnny-come-latelies to this cause, but we're glad to have you join liberals in questioning the need for force and curtailing the ability of the president to commit our troups anywhere without a clear mission. So tell me, what took you so long to come over to the other side?

You do not recognize the gaffs with which you filled that post? Wow!