Iraqi style destruction of Libya
Arms traders (merchants of death), oil
tycoons and all other businessmen are ready with their bags to
reconstruct Libya?
Latheef FAROOK
The NATO military strikes on Libya, claimed to free Libyans from
Gaddafi’s 42-year-long dictatorship, were supposed to be “humanitarian
intervention”. However more than three weeks later, killing scores of
civilians, Gaddafi’s forces continue to advance forcing revolutionaries
to flee for life.
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Nicolas
Sarkozy |
David
Cameron |
Barack
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NATO interference in Libya is not to liberate Libyans but to help
themselves by putting Libyans against each other as they did in Iraq.
Libyans who trusted NATO to remove Gaddafi sarcastically asked, “where
is Sarkozy? He may be sleeping”! They said, “NATO is not helping us.
Instead NATO is against us”.
Realizing the worldwide hostility towards US for its disastrous
military invasions President Barack Obama put forward French President
Nicolas Sarkozy to lead the killing and destruction mission in Libya. It
is Libya’s turn to pay the price for the US -NATO conspiracy to turn
this peaceful country into to yet another killing field, loot its oil
wealth, set up a military bases to cover the Mediterranean and, from
there, penetrate deep into Africa. In the process divide Libya as they
had done in Iraq.
NATO military strikes
Hitting out at NATO’s failure to protect civilians, rebel commander
Abdul Fatah Younis said two weeks after NATO military strikes, on April
6, 2011, that NATO forces failed to supply weapons. Hundreds of
thousands of families fleeing for safety caused a humanitarian crisis.
Their pathetic plight was nobody’s concern and neither United Nations
nor any one spoke.
Innocent civilians fleeing for safety has become common sight in
Libya as it happened from Bosnia and Kosovo to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Libyans, some of whom were armed and trained for years by America in
neighbouring African countries, are paying the price for trusting
Americans and Europeans to bring them freedom and democracy.
Reiterating this view the rebel forces commander General Khalifa
Hefter told Al Jazeera on Thursday that is three weeks since the so
called military strikes and Gaddafi still has 1,400 tanks and enough of
other sophisticated weapons. So called military strikes were nothing but
skirmishes? There are plenty of trained professional fighters among pro
democracy forces who lack weapons which the NATO failed to supply. He
also accused Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika of supplying
mercenaries to Gaddafi.
What is happening in Libya today resembles what happened in Iraq
after the Kuwaiti war in 1991. For example, in the aftermath of the war
George Bush Sr urged the Iraqi people to rise up and overthrow Saddam
Hussein.
Encouraged by Bush’s verbal green light, a violent rebellion against
Saddam’s regime broke out in the predominantly Shiite South and the
Kurdish North.
However Bush refused to help and betrayed them when he helped Saddam
Hussein to slaughter them warning Iran not to interfere in Iraq. Laurie
Mylroie, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
said the US military presence in Southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia is like
“the Red army outside Warsaw watching the slaughter of the Polish. Tens
of thousands are being massacred in Iraq,” she said, “and the United
States said nothing”.
UN Charter
This time also the US and NATO got their tool, United Nations
Security Council, to legalize their interference by adopting Resolution
1973 on March 17, 2011 authorizing to take all necessary measures to
protect civilians and impose ‘a no-fly zone’. However three weeks later
even Britain and France accused NATO of its failure to protect
civilians.
Some consider this resolution a flagrant violation of the UN Charter
itself while others asked why no UN No Fly Zones on Bahrain, Yemen,
Saudi Arabia, Syria and Israel. Perhaps they are useful tyrants? Their
interests come first. Widely publicized gatherings in Qatar and Cairo,
two most important centers of activities in the Middle East for Israel’s
secret service Mossad and America’s CIA, are only to confuse and
hoodwink the world.
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Betrayed by Obama, Cameron and
Sarkozy, Libyans fleeing Gaddafi’s forces carrying their
belongings. |
It appears both Gaddafi and the people have become victims of
American, British and French conspiracies. Gaddafi played into their
hands by his failure to listen to the genuine grievances of his people
who pinned their hope on America to bring democracy and freedom.
The ultimate beneficiary of this carnage on oil rich Libya is the
weapons industry, oil cartels, financial oligarchy and other corporate
conglomerates which make and unmake Barack Obama, David Cameron and
Nicolas Sarkozy who turned out to be more of their salesmen than rulers
of their nations.
Judging from what happened since the collapse of former Soviet Union
one thing has become clear.
That is invading Muslim countries, killing people there, destroying
infrastructure and turning them into virtual graveyards has become good
business for America, Britain and France.
The pro Jewish Western media, owned predominantly by conglomerates,
mislead and prepare the world whilst politicians implement all these
designs for their own benefit.
The unfortunate part is the ordinary people in the West who have no
animosity towards Muslim countries have no say in the crimes committed
by their leaders. Muslims are aware of it. Thus they do not hate the
innocent and misguided people in the West.
(The writer is a senior Sri Lankan journalist who, after working for
the ‘Ceylon Daily News’ and ‘Ceylon Observer’ for almost a decade, led a
team to Dubai in February 1979 where he re-launched ‘Gulf News’ After
almost a quarter century in the Gulf he returned home and now based in
Colombo)
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