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Hat tip to Scott Creighton - his recent article 'CNN's Misogynistic Cell Phone Porn Propaganda', brought this to my attention.

The Libya war propaganda drive has plunged to new depths of cynicism, depravity, and a downright embarrassing lack of credibility.

Over a week after the ICC's completely baseless claims of 'rape being used as a weapon' by Gaddafi's forces, today CNN is running a propaganda set-piece that is so blatantly invented it makes one cringe with embarrassment for this rabble of liars and propagandists.

CNN claims that rebel forces have found mobile phone footage on 'Gaddafi loyalists', which allegedly shows them 'raping women and torturing people'. Lo and behold, the story completely falls apart upon the most cursory inspection.

CNN plainly admits that they "cannot confirm when or where the video was shot". To make matters worse for the propagandists behind this nonsense, there is no date to the video, and the men in the video are not even wearing Libyan Army clothing - they are dressed in civilian attire. But it gets better.

Their story revolves completely around this unverifiable mobile phone footage, and the testimony of NATO's proxy 'rebels'. On top of this CNN doesn't reveal who their source is, and instead they parrot baseless claims from rebel spokespeople:
"We were able to confirm that rape was used as a weapon of war because it was systematic."
~ Rebel spokesman Abdullah al-Kabeir
Without performing even the most basic journalistic duty of providing evidence, CNN simply forwards this completely unfounded claim from a rebel spokesperson.

According to CNN, Al-Kabeir also tells us:
The rebels have many videos showing other types of torture, and a few depict rape, he said. He did not know exactly how many videos there were showing abuse.
But his next admission really exposes this utter fabrication for what it is (emphasis added):
"There was a commander here at the eastern front in Misrata named Mohamed al-Halboos; he ordered all the (rebel) fighters to give him all the rape videos they find on Gadhafi soldiers' cell phones. I heard that he used to destroy every rape video he got."
We are supposed to believe that Gaddafi's forces are 'systematically' raping women in Libya, but all of the evidence has been destroyed.

It's not just CNN that's partaking in this onslaught of propaganda. Today, Time is running some similar 'just trust us' journalism. See the following report regarding doctors working in Benghazi (emphasis added):
They talk for hours about the rape of women. But it's only stories. They have never met a victim.The medics don't deny that others in the hospital may have treated rape victims. But they say the stigma of sexual assault runs so deep in Libyan culture that the raped are virtually forced into social exile, unable to wed, a humiliation to their entire family, choosing to remain silent rather than to give voice to the crime they have suffered.
That the likes of CNN and Time even expect anybody to believe this farcical nonsense demonstrates the contempt in which they hold their audience. The sheer laziness of this propaganda reflects how desperate NATO now is, spectacularly failing to achieve its objective of regime change using the 'humanitarian intervention' myth.