Stan van Houcke bracht gisteren een artikel over het motief achter de illegale oorlog tegen Libië, gebaseerd de de e-mails van Hillary Clinton, e-mails gelekt via WikiLeaks. Het artikel werd geschreven door Brad Hoff en gepubliceerd op Africa, News & Analysis.
Brad beschrijft de vele leugens, waarmee men Khadaffi zwart maakte, o.a. het verhaal dat hij zijn soldaten Viagra zou hebben gegeven, zodat ze beter konden verkrachten. Een verhaal dat onderuit werd gehaald door NB Amnesty International (kom daar nu nog maar eens voor...), maar dat desondanks 'een eigen leven ging leiden......'
Een kleine stad met 30.000 zwarte en donkergekleurde Libiërs, loyaal aan Khadaffi verdween in het geheel, deze mensen werden geëxecuteerd, gemarteld en gevangengezet, wat er van hen geworden is, is vooralsnog niet bekend, uiteraard niet gemeld door de westerse politici en reguliere media.......... Let wel: dit gebeurde door terreurtroepen, die door het westen werden gesteund......
Dan is daar nog de kwestie van Khadaffi's goud en zilver, waarmee hij een Afrikaanse munt van de grond wilde tillen, geld gefundeerd op edelmetaal en niet op lucht zoals in het westen..... Jammer dat er in dit bericht niet over wordt gerept, dat Khadaffi volgens alweer WikiLeaks, met de 'gouden dinar' ook de (olie-) dollar, de gangbare munt voor oliewaarderingen wilde vervangen, iets wat hem in Washington op z'n zachtst gezegd nog minder geliefd maakte.......
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Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention
Newly
disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed
currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s
intervention.
The
New Year’s Eve release of over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails
from the State Department has CNN abuzz over
gossipy text messages, the “who gets to ride with Hillary”
selection process set up by her staff, and how a “cute” Hillary
photo fared on Facebook.
But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.
Hillary’s Death Squads
A
March 27, 2011, intelligence brief [archived
here]
on Libya, sent by long time close adviser to the Clintons and
Hillary’s unofficial intelligence gatherer, Sidney Blumenthal,
contains clear evidence of war crimes on the part of
NATO-backed rebels. Citing a rebel commander source “speaking in
strict confidence” Blumenthal reports to Hillary [emphasis mine]:
Under
attack from allied Air and Naval forces, the Libyan Army troops have
begun to desert to the rebel side in increasing numbers. The rebels
are making an effort to greet these troops as fellow Libyans, in an
effort to encourage additional defections.
(Source
Comment: Speaking in strict confidence, one rebel commander stated
that his troops continue
to summarily execute all foreign mercenaries captured
in the fighting…).
While
the illegality of extra-judicial killings is easy to recognize
(groups engaged in such are conventionally termed “death squads”),
the sinister reality behind the “foreign mercenaries” reference
might not be as immediately evident to most.
While
over the decades Gaddafi was known to make use of European and other
international security and infrastructural contractors, there is no
evidence to suggest that these were targeted by the Libyan rebels.
There
is, however, ample documentation by
journalists, academics, and human rights groups demonstrating that
black Libyan civilians and sub-Saharan contract workers, a population
favored by Gaddafi in his pro-African Union policies, were targets of
“racial cleansing” by rebels who saw black Libyans as tied
closely with the regime.[1]
Black
Libyans were commonly branded as “foreign mercenaries” by the
rebel opposition for their perceived general loyalty to Gaddafi as a
community and subjected to torture, executions, and their towns
“liberated” by ethnic cleansing. This is demonstrated in the most
well-documented example of Tawergha,
an entire town of 30,000 black and “dark-skinned” Libyans which
vanished by August 2011 after its takeover by NATO-backed NTC
Misratan brigades.
These
attacks were well-known as late as 2012 and often filmed, as
this report from The
Telegraph confirms:
After
Muammar Gaddafi was killed, hundreds of migrant workers from
neighboring states were imprisoned by fighters allied to the new
interim authorities. They accuse the black Africans of having been
mercenaries for the late ruler. Thousands of sub-Saharan Africans
have been rounded up since Gaddafi fell in August.
It appears that Clinton was getting personally briefed on the battlefield crimes of her beloved anti-Gaddafi fighters long before some of the worst of these genocidal crimes took place.
Al-Qaeda and Western Special Forces Inside Libya
The
same intelligence email from
Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well-known theme of
Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East: the contradiction
of special forces training militias that are simultaneously suspected
of links to Al Qaeda.
Blumenthal
relates that “an extremely sensitive source” confirmed that
British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training
Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in
Benghazi suburbs.
While
analysts have long speculated as to the “when and where” of
Western ground troop presence in the Libyan War, this email serves as
definitive proof that special forces were on the ground only within a
month of the earliest protests which broke out in the middle to end
of February 2011 in Benghazi.
By
March 27 of what was commonly assumed a simple “popular uprising”
external special operatives were
already “overseeing
the transfer of weapons and supplies to the rebels” including “a
seemingly endless supply of AK47 assault rifles and ammunition.”
Yet only a few paragraphs after this admission, caution is voiced about the very militias these Western special forces were training because of concern that, “radical/terrorist groups such as the Libyan Fighting Groups and Al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are infiltrating the NLC and its military command.”
The Threat of Libya’s Oil and Gold to French Interests
Though
the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the
no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April
2011 email [archived
here]
sent to Hillary with the subject line “France’s client and
Qaddafi’s gold” tells of less noble ambitions.
The
email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the
attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan
oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s
reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent
Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”
Most
astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that
Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of
gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc
(CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble
sounding “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the
public, there is this “confidential” explanation of what was
really driving the war [emphasis mine]:
This
gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended
to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan
golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone
African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
(Source
Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold
and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence
officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion
began, and this
was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s
decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.)
Though
this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving
France’s (and by implication NATO’s) intervention in Libya, it is
interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously
absent from the briefing.
Instead,
the great fear reported is that Libya might lead North Africa into a
high degree of economic independence with a new pan-African currency.
French
intelligence “discovered” a Libyan initiative to freely compete
with European currency through a local alternative, and this had to
be subverted through military aggression.The Ease of Floating Crude Propaganda
Early
in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused
Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though
numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International,
quickly debunked these
claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians
and major media.
It
seemed no matter how bizarre the conspiracy theory, as long as it
painted Gaddafi and his supporters as monsters, and so long as it
served the cause of prolonged military action in Libya, it was deemed
credible by network news.
Two
foremost examples are referenced in the latest batch of emails: the
sensational
claim that Gaddafi issued Viagra to his troops for mass rape, and the
claim that bodies were “staged” by the Libyan government at NATO
bombing sites to give the appearance of the Western coalition bombing
civilians.
I
communicated more than a week ago on this story—Qaddafi placing
bodies to create PR stunts about supposed civilian casualties as a
result of Allied bombing—though underlining it was a rumor. But
now, as you know, Robert gates gives credence to it. (See story
below.)
Sources
now say, again rumor (that is, this information comes from the rebel
side and is unconfirmed independently by Western intelligence), that
Qaddafi has adopted a rape policy and has even distributed Viagra to
troops. The incident at the Tripoli press conference involving a
woman claiming to be raped is likely to be part of a much larger
outrage. Will seek further confirmation.
Not
only did Defense Secretary Robert Gates promote his
bizarre “staged bodies” theory on CBS News’ “Face The
Nation,” but the even stranger Viagra rape fiction made
international headlines as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice made
a formal charge against Libya in front of the UN Security Council.
What
this new email confirms is that not only was the State Department
aware of the spurious nature of what Blumenthal calls “rumors”
originating solely with the rebels, but did nothing to stop false
information from rising to top officials who then gave them
“credence.”
It
appears, furthermore, that the Viagra mass rape hoax
likely originated with
Sidney Blumenthal himself.
Note
[1]
The most comprehensive and well-documented study of the plight of
black Libyans is contained in Slouching
Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (publ.
2012, Baraka Books) by Maximilian
Forte,
Professor Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University in
Montréal, Québec.
Brad Hoff
Brad
Hoff served as a Marine from 2000-2004 at Headquarters Battalion,
Quantico. After military service he lived, studied, and traveled
throughout Syria off and on from 2004-2010. He is Managing Editor of
LevantReport.com and currently teaches in Texas.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal-true-motive-for-libya-intervention/
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