i hope the occupiers will make a statement codemming ANY foreign intervention in Libya.

fucking nice work! seriously, thats wicked news. If i wore a hat, I'd take it off to this lot. they need as much support as possible, this a daring and important occupation. if i was in london i'd be there in a flash!

in solidarity

 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23930497-squatters-take-over-colonel-gaddafi-sons-pound-11m-mansion.do

Anyone ever heard of these people ('montgomery jones') before?

Use of double standards is a way to opress unfavoured nations and support others. What about Saudi Bahrain and Yemen?

Congratulations with this spectacular action, I am glad at least somebody is doing something. The way most of the left are continuing with their own fights, as if nothing is going on in Libya, is scary. At certain moments in history one has to put its own fight aside, to serve a more important goal. The incapacity of left to focus itself from time to time is its greatest weakness. Personally I would have preferred you to squat the American Embassy, because, as it looks now, the West will let Ghadaffi get away with the crimes against humanity that have been committed on his command. The fight for freedom in Libya is being sufficated in blood. The west has the key to stopping the blood shed and topple a brutal dictator. The Libyan freedom movement is begging for a no-fly zone, whiles the United States is hiding herself behind the United Nations, where “democratic” countries and big friends of dictator and criminal against humanity Ghadaffi, Russia and China, have veto rights…
Without denying that double standards are being applied in international relations, when these double standards are put aside to topple one brutal dictator, I think we have to be glad for that. At the same time we have to keep on fighting against these double standards in order to free the other oppressed nations (Saudi, Bahrain, Yemen, China, Russia, Myanmar,…)

Er, I don't think you'd have much luck trying to occupy the US embassy! Maybe if you had a death wish you could go for it.

Good luck to the squatters! Could be a good new tactic - squatting properties of rich foreigners who are rarely in the country and who possibly have troubles at home.

If this is a genuine action then the success of the publicity must be giving the participants and it's supporters pause for thought, apart from the criticism here. Genuine actions rarely get any mainstream publicity. It could be a genuine action for all I know that has been leveraged by the mainstream media so I'll assume it was.

The thing is our state has vacillated on this dictator, and has recently burned their bridges against further dealings with him. In the recent past though our 'democratic leaders' have enriched themselves with oil, arms and diplomatic deals and sent the SAS to train Libyan special forces. Libya is tonight's menu, and it is currently safe to attack their regime. This action is currently useful for our current government.

If there is such a group as 'Topple The Tyrants', then great, but prove it. There are even nastier regimes who have property holding in London, from the former Soviet state dictators to the mad middle-eastern regimes our politicians are currently paid by, to our own leaders and their closest corrupt allies all of whom are scum and none of whom have been hit -yet.

They are not so easy to hit and get mainstream media attention, but if there are decent people in the occupied house tonight then that should be your aim because your lack of further action against more dangerous and less hyped targets will condemn you as safe and hip rebels at best.

If you are genuine then good luck, but be aware there are previous articles here claiming to be close both to the Libyan government and MI5, so a follow-up action against a different evil regime would be helpful in differentiating you from our own state disinformation.

be prepared for some of the first pro-squatting articles to appear in the British press now(!)

Fucking hell. These squatters decide to go target the country where all the west's dirty operations are in full operation right now. Great for towing the Cameron/Hague line.

Maybe you guys can have a banner outside calling for foreign bombs on Libya, like Beno Klee above.

Please look at things a bit more critically. Don't be blinded by what you *want* to see..

Russian military have said there were no air strikes on civilians:  http://rt.com/news/airstrikes-libya-russian-military/

The 'rebels' are anti-black racists:  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122865814378541.html  http://somalilandpress.com/libya-rebels-execute-black-immigrants-while-forces-kidnap-others-20586  http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=626137 and all the while, apart from the media hype, dodgy mobile phone footage and photos of beaten up black men, there is NO evidence of black mercenaries

british state meddling has been exposed. SAS are there on the ground providing logistics, Mi6 have admitted that they've been there for well over half a year.

The opposition consists of groups with a history of cia funding and backing (NFSL). The british-libyan-solidarity-campaign who have been organising the demos at the Libyan embassy have meetings in parliament with the likes of David fucking Trimble, bitch boy of british imperialism for decades. all the right wing americans and british and their press are in FULL support of the rebels.

Gaddafi is winning. All you liberals who fell for the hype, who wanted to believe it so bad because of your own hatred for Gaddafi, have to start to face it now. There is no popular support for the rebels in Libya. The momentum is waning. The rebels are now begging for military intervention (they may make statements saying no to foreign intervention, but in the same breath they emphatically call for UN enforced no fly zone, *read* UN backed bombing of Libya).

The bbc reports intense fighting, but the most they can show is a rag tag bunch of dozen or so guys shotting aimlessly into the air, while at the same time tens of thousands are on the streets in Saudi, Bahrain, Yemen etc, but SILENCE on those fronts... hmmmmm, do you smell a rat?

British and Americans realise that their sabre rattling has failed, their hope for inciting regime change has failed, their hope that Libyan masses would join in with their orchestrated uprising has failed. They are backing out of unilateral intervertion. They are saying it must be UN backed, but Russia and China will veto. Gaddafi has held them off, and beat them, and now they'll begin to run back to him clucking for his oil.

The west never intervenes on humanitarian grounds. We know that. They intervene for their own intrests, and if you think the british state's intrests are the same as yours, you've got a BIG problem.

"there is NO evidence of black mercenaries "

The reality is that we don't really know if there are or not. There are plenty of witnesses saying this is the case, and since the Libyan army are squeamish about shooting their own people it would make logical sense. But until we see some actual footage of African mercenaries fighting we will not really know. Even then, there are is a black population in Libya and they could be regular soldiers. This is a fairly good analysis of what information has come to light so far:-

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/gaddafi-mercenary-force-libya

"There is no popular support for the rebels in Libya."

I doubt this to be accurate, the Gaddafi regime is hated by the people of Libya. There were massive protests a few weeks ago, and now that the regime has opened fire on it's civilians people are scared to come out on the streets. This has effectively created a situation where more radically minded people are fighting and others are hiding or fleeing. Not everyone wants to stand up and fight, but this does not mean they don't support the rebels. Fair point about the CIA funded 'resistance groups', but this does not negate the fact that there are a lot of people who want to see the back of the regime.


 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201131041228856242.html

I think this is a great action and the people behind it on the ball. It highlights the role that places like London have had in accepting money from dictators around the world and demonstrates solidarity. The resistance in Libya, as in Egypt and elsewhere have been clear that what they want is their own Revolution, not a western guided one. Showing solidarity with that is a good thing. Do you really think that a rich parasite such as Saif Gaddafi should keep that mansion? Where's your class solidarity for a start? I thought it was brilliant when I heard on Radio4 news that they'd be welcoming Libyan asylum seekers.

All those snipping - what are you doing. Its fucking easy to be theoretically pure at your keyboards. These people are out doing something. You make other suggestions, but if you believe that much then why are you not organising those actions? Then, as they say, actions speak louder than words.

Black mercenaries:

 http://blackagendareport.com/content/race-and-arab-nationalism-libya

 http://davidrothscum.blogspot.com/2011/03/libyan-insurgents-begin-to-reverse.html

 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/furuhashi020311.html "In an interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide in Libya, Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch said he had conducted research and found no proof of mercenaries being used."

 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/ford030311.html

As for popular support, I will have to disagree with re@list above. There is obviously some popular supoprt in Bengahzi, but nothing compared to the hundreds and thousands seen in Tunisia and Egypt. The rest of Libya very little has transpired in way of mass support. This rebellion has been an armed rebellion from the outset, not a peacefull mass demonstrations. Tripoli is firmly on Gaddafi's side.

Anon, you say fair point about the CIA backing. So, do we really want to see US/UK control of Libyan oil?... Do you really want to see the ascendency of pro-europe, pro-US forces in Libya.

The holding company is called Capitana Seas Limited and they have offices at 6 New Street Square, London

 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6+New+Street+Square,london&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=21.041261,51.416016&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=6+New+Street+Square,+London,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.516808,-0.108726&spn=0.004019,0.012553&z=16

Summaries of 2009 reports of Middle Eastern countries from a human rights organization.
Which one is Libya?

Is it this one?
'Terrorism suspects were detained incommunicado and subjected to unfair trials. The authorities continued to harass human rights defenders and journalists. Converts from Islam and individuals deemed to offend its tenets were prosecuted. Irregular migrants faced arrest, indefinite detention, ill-treatment and collective expulsion. Hundreds of people were sentenced to death but there were no executions. Impunity remained entrenched for members of armed groups and security forces who perpetrated grave abuses during the internal conflict of the 1990s.'

Or this?
XXX’s human rights record and continuing violations cast a shadow over its improved international diplomatic standing. Freedom of expression, association and assembly remained severely restricted in a climate characterized by the repression of dissident voices and the absence of independent human rights NGOs. Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants continued to be detained indefinitely and ill-treated. At least eight foreign nationals were executed. The legacy of past human rights violations remained unaddressed.

Or this?
'Prisoners were reported to have been tortured and otherwise ill-treated. Thousands of people were held without charge or trial under a sweeping provision allowing administrative detention. Procedures in trials before the State Security Court (SSC) breached international standards for fair trial. New restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly were approved by the parliament. Women faced discrimination and were inadequately protected against domestic violence. Migrant domestic workers were exploited and abused, and inadequately protected under the law. At least 14 people were sentenced to death but there were no executions.'

Where is Gaddafi’s record of brutal, bloodsaoked dictatorship?

Nice one TooStrongTooBlack.


 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23640
Russia warns the West against interference: Medvedev suggests that revolts in the Arab world were instigated by outside forces

by Vladimir Radyuhin

“The Arab revolt may have begun as spontaneous protests, but the West has now moved to take the endgame under its control,” says Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma. Analysts say the U.S. is using the same techniques in the Arab East it earlier used in staging “coloured revolutions” in the former Soviet Union — in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. They noted the role of CIA-linked foundations such as the Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in supporting and training civil activists and Twitter and Facebook organisers of the protests in Egypt and Tunisia.

“The events [in the Arab world] bear all the traits of a total ‘network war' (netwar) as formulated by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt of the RAND Corporation back in 1996,” says Alexander Knyazev of the Moscow-based Institute of Oriental Studies.