IS THE UN
SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORTING WESTERN MILITARY AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN LIBYA?
Executive Summary:
- QATAR AND ITS PROXY WAR
WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND EGYPT IN LIBYA
- UN SECURITY COUNCIL
SUPPORTING WESTERN MILITARY AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN LIBYA
- EGYPT WIDENING WARS IN
NORTH AFRICA AND WEST ASIA
- WARMONGERING MAINSTREAM
MEDIA?
- GRAB FOR THE CENTRAL BANK
OF LIBYA BY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- TRIPOLI THE SEAT OF POWER
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS, THE CENTRAL BANK AND NATIONAL OIL COMPANY
- TRACKING ISIS FINANCIAL
BACKERS – NOT REALLY A BIG DEAL FOR BRITAIN AND THE USA – IF ONLY THEY REALLY
WISH TO DO SO
- BOTH SIDES OF THE LIBYAN
POLITICAL DIVIDE ARE SUPPORTED BY EXTERNAL FORCES
- NTC MOVED TO
TOBRUK-BAYDA, WHEREAS THE WESTS RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENT IS BASED IN BAYDA
- P3 OPPOSED CALLS FROM THE
AFRICAN UNION AND FROM THE BRICS STATES FOR A FULL EVALUATION OF THE NATO
INTERVENTION IN 2011
- REAPING THE HARVEST OF
WESTERN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS IN LIBYA
The hysteria over the
possible deployment of WESTERN troops to WEST ASIA and NORTH AFRICA is again on
the rise. With every passing day there is some new headline about rape,
mutilations, beheadings and mass killings by ISIS. For the last nine months the
news about these killings came out of SYRIA and IRAQ, but as of late there was
the video clip of the beheading of 21 EGYPTIAN workers in LIBYA.
The Pope has called the
beheadings, “barbaric assassinations.” Naturally, the world vented and there
was righteous outrage all around. What was missing, however, was a sober
analysis of what created the conditions for this so-called “Islamic State” to
grow in the LEVANT and now to appear in LIBYA.
QATAR
AND ITS PROXY WAR WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND EGYPT IN LIBYA
In light of the
beheadings the governments of FRANCE and EGYPT called for urgent discussions in
the UN Security Council in order for the UN to lift the arms embargo against LIBYA.
From ITALY, WESTERN news sources are calling for an attack on ISIS in LIBYA
before it reaches EUROPE. At the same moment while the EGYPTIANS were
soliciting political support from EUROPE for its intervention in LIBYA, the
government of QATAR, which has been waging a proxy war with SAUDI ARABIA and EGYPT
in LIBYA, withdrew its ambassador from EGYPT. Using the news organization AL
JAZEERA to bring out its point of view, QATAR’S foreign ministry said DOHA had
expressed reservations over the raids, stressing the need for “consultations
before any unilateral military action against another member state.” The QATARI
government was protesting the bombing of innocent civilians in LIBYA.
Background
Information: QATAR
SAUDI
ARABIA AND QATAR
THE
QATARI PROJECT: “DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”?
SAUDI
ARABIA versus QATAR
EGYPT
WIDENING WARS IN NORTH AFRICA AND WEST ASIA
Some diplomats at the UNITED
NATIONS claim that the government of EGYPT led by General ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI is
seeking the green light from the UNITED NATIONS for more open military
intervention in LIBYA. The EGYPTIAN military leadership has been involved on
one side of the widening wars in NORTH AFRICA and WEST ASIA for some time,
having participated in bombing of some factions in LIBYA last year. The
beheadings of 21 EGYPTIAN workers in the town of SIRTE in LIBYA has been the
new reason used by General SISI to launch a new wave of air strikes in LIBYA.
Yet, although the beheadings had taken place in SIRTE, the aerial bombings took
place in DERNIA, the seat of that faction of LIBYAN society that had been
manipulated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the wars in AFGHANISTAN
in the eighties.
Background
Information: DERNA
ISLAMIC
STATE HAS ALSO EMERGED IN LIBYA, SPECIFICALLY IN THE CITY OF DERNA
WARMONGERING
MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
Although this
inconsistency in the actions of the government of EGYPT has been glossed over
by the WESTERN mainstream media, these same vehicles of militarism expressed
shock at the news of the beheadings of COPTIC CHRISTIANS in LIBYA, and the rise
of the so-called ISLAMIC STATE in LIBYA.
Where was this media when
there was the ethnic cleansing of TAWERGHA? How did this same media act as
cheerleaders for the NATO intervention in 2011? The argument political analysts
and observers have, is that the same WESTERN states and their strategic think
tanks that drove the wars in IRAQ and the intervention in LIBYA cannot give
leadership in the UNITED NATIONS over the questions of peace and
reconciliation. ANGOLA, CHINA, MALAYSIA and VENEZUELA will stand condemned in
the court of progressive public opinion if these countries in the UN Security
Council allow the world to be railroaded into another UN supported deployment
of troops to support western military and economic interests in LIBYA.
Creating an international
commission that can document the role of NATO, EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA and QATAR with
a view to setting the conditions for an international force to intervene in LIBYA
to disarm the militias could be a solution to the problem. Such an international
force would exclude members of NATO and the current combatants in LIBYA: QATAR,
SUDAN, SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEY, the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and EGYPT.
GRAB
FOR THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA BY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
A closer examination of
the beheadings in SIRTE and focus on the struggles over the CENTRAL BANK in LIBYA
and how the NATO governments are maneuvering for their “internationally
recognized” government to get their hands on the billions of dollars in
reserves in LIBYA.
Background
Information: LIBYA AND ITS MONETARY RESERVES
WALL
STREET COULD NOT ALLOW TRIPOLI TO BE DEBT-FREE, to continue accumulating
international financial possessions, and to be a creditor nation giving
international loans and investing funds in other countries, particularly in
AFRICA.
In
2008 GOLDMAN SACHS was given us$1.3 billion dollars by the LIBYAN investment
authority. (Part 2 - BALKANIZATION of LIBYA)
TRIPOLI
THE SEAT OF POWER OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS, THE CENTRAL BANK AND
NATIONAL OIL COMPANY
The so-called ISIS in LIBYA
have mastered the art of propaganda and have learnt how to use the media to
strike fear in the hearts and minds of the citizens of WESTERN EUROPE and NORTH
AMERICA, while committing real crimes against humanity in the LEVANT. Military
information operation is now such a central part of modern warfare, that those
who have trained this JIHADIST front know how to produce slick media products
for maximum shock value.
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| Central Bank Libya |
Although the small base
of LIBYANS who say that they adhere to ISIS in LIBYA is in the EAST in DERNIA,
those who carried out the beheadings of the 21 EGYPTIAN workers choose the city
of SIRTE. This was the birthplace of GADDAFI. It was the seat of the idea of
the Constitutive Act of the African Union and it is near to the center of the
institutions that hold real power in LIBYA: TRIPOLI. At the seat of power are
two of the most important organizations for those who want to wield power, the CENTRAL
BANK and the NATIONAL OIL COMPANY.
ISIS
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY OPS) PER EXCELLENCE
From all reports, the
video of the beheadings had been skillfully produced with one of the beheaders
pointing to EUROPE. This heinous media event had its desired effect. EUROPEAN
newspapers have now carried stores about how ISIS considers LIBYA as the
gateway to EUROPE. One BRITISH newspaper noted, “In ISIS we are observing a
level of atrocity towards mankind that, post-Nazism, we hoped we would never
again witness.”[1]
Every killing, beheading
and rape has become a media event without real alternatives to the WESTERN drumbeat
for perpetual war. Last year when the so-called ISIS made their appearance, it
appeared that for westerners, ISIS was
barbaric only when they killed westerners or those considered to be WESTERN
allies in the region. In October 2014, Human Rights Watch reported that
“Islamic State militants drove 600 SHIA, CHRISTIAN, and YAZIDI male prisoners
into the middle of the desert, lined them up along the edge of a ravine, and
executed them at point blank range.” [2]
TRACKING
ISIS FINANCIAL BACKERS – NOT REALLY A BIG DEAL FOR BRITAIN AND THE USA – IF
ONLY THEY REALLY WISH TO DO SO
BRITAIN and the USA who
clearly understand and know the sources of finance, weapons and training for
ISIS have joined in condemnation of the atrocities while retreating from exposing
the real supporters of ISIS. The governments of BRITAIN, the UNITED STATES,
FRANCE, ITALY, KUWAIT and SAUDI ARABIA have the capabilities to track the
financial backers of ISIS.
ISIS is following a grand
tradition of beheadings and cutting off of hands that had been perfected by
repressive governments for centuries. The difference here is that the forces of
ISIS were nurtured out of the somewhat reckless actions of WESTERN imperialism
in NORTH AFRICA and WEST ASIA over the past twenty years.
Progressive intellectuals
and anti-imperial forces have for long been pointing to the fact that the war
against the regime of ASSAD in SYRIA by the SAUDIS provided the conditions for
the rise of ISIS. Patrick Cockburn has spelt the regional and factional forces
that coalesced into the formation that is now called ISIS in the book, ‘The
Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution’. [3] This knowledge
is kept away from WESTERN citizens as the military and political establishments
skillfully use the atrocities of ISIS to promote their political agendas.
The BRITISH Foreign
Secretary, PHILIP HAMMOND, condemned the murders in LIBYA and said the UK
remains fully supportive of the UN’s efforts to build a national unity
government for LIBYA. “Such barbaric acts strengthen our determination to work
with our partners to counter the expanding terrorist threat to LIBYA and the
region. Acts of terrorism should not be allowed to undermine LIBYA’S political
transition. We remain fully supportive of the UN’s efforts to build a national
unity government for LIBYA and to bring a political solution to the ongoing
security crisis. Those who support terrorists can have no part in this
process.”
The White House called
the killings “despicable and cowardly.” “This wanton killing of innocents is
just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by IS affiliated
terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of
EGYPTIAN soldiers in the SINAI, which only further galvanises the international
community to unite against IS,” said spokesman JOSH EARNEST. “This heinous act
once again underscores the urgent need for a political resolution to the
conflict in LIBYA, the continuation of which only benefits terrorist groups,
including IS.” From the White House and from BRITAIN, the world is alerted to
the fact that the West is working on “political resolution” to the conflict in LIBYA.
WHO
IS THE SO-CALLED LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT IN LIBYA?
When the UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY COUNCIL passed the resolution that gave NATO the green light to
intervene in LIBYA in 2011, it gained the support of a small group of
opposition forces that called themselves the NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL
(NTC). These LIBYANS created a political body with 33 representatives from most
LIBYAN regions. The one thing they could agree on was opposition to GADDAFI,
but they could not agree on how to develop a political program to reconstruct LIBYA.
After the fall of GADDAFI
and the withdrawal of the NATO jets and Special Forces from QATAR, the NTC
split into different factions. Those who had access to the weapons gained the
upper hand. The UNITED STATES started out as a competitor with FRANCE and BRITAIN,
seeking to install a transition process. The late Ambassador CHRISTOPHER
STEVENS was one of the foremost articulators of the ‘transition’ plan with the
agencies and contractors such as the CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT for International
Peace, RAND CORPORATION, the NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE and the STATE
DEPARTMENT travelling to LIBYA with consultancies to establish “good
governance.” We learnt from the army newssheet ‘Stars and Stripes’ that under
this transition plan, the US AFRICA COMMAND was supposed to gain a contract for
US $600 million to train 8,000 LIBYAN soldiers.
Background
Information: USA
AFRICOM
AFRICOM
EXPANDS MISSION IN AFRICA
As with all well laid
plans, reality intervened. The civilian leaders of the NTC proved incapable of
building basic political organizations and those with the guns who had been
organized into militias refused to disarm.
BOTH
SIDES OF THE LIBYAN POLITICAL DIVIDE ARE SUPPORTED BY EXTERNAL FORCES
At first, the plan was
for the CENTRAL BANK to pay-off the more than 200,000 youths in these militias
with monthly stipends, but as the elements with guns grasped the political and
organizational weakness of those in the transitional parliament, they decided
to flex their muscles. When these armed elements started kidnapping and killing
the officials of the NTC, many of whom ran away to CAIRO, MALTA, DUBAI or to GENEVA,
depending on their financial strength, the infighting between the militias and
the bureaucrats consumed many of the NGO workers who had joined in the
rebellion such as SALWA BUGAIGHIS.
Background
Information:
ISLAM
– A CONVENIENT TOOL FOR AMERICA’S GEO -STRATEGIC POLICIES
Small GULF entities such
as the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and QATAR took sides in the internecine battles
providing weapons and logistics as the armed elements sidelined the politicians
who had been anointed by the WEST to succeed in LIBYA. [4] Frederic Wehrey,
writing for Foreign Affairs magazine last year, noted that both sides of the LIBYAN
political divide are supported by external forces:
“EGYPT and the UNITED
ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) have backed DIGNITY, while QATAR, SUDAN, and TURKEY are
purported to be backing DAWN.
Background
Information: DAWN AND DIGNITY
DIGNITY
FRONT VERSUS DAWN FRONT
NTC
MOVED TO TOBRUK-BAYDA, WHEREAS THE WESTS RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENT IS BASED IN
BAYDA
Contrary to some
commentary, both sides have used force against civilians and elected
institutions, and both show little sign of compromise. Despite WESTERN
diplomatic and political support, and with the military support of EGYPT and
the UAE, the rump of the NTC could not organize to defend themselves and
gradually left TRIPOLI, settling to set up its Parliament in the far EAST in
the area around TOBRUK-BAYDA. The seat of the WESTERN recognized government is
supposed to be BAYDA.”
What is becoming evident
is that the fighting in LIBYA is being supported by the staunchest allies of
the UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, FRANCE and ITALY. These countries have pushed the UNITED
NATIONS to pass a resolution to buy time for the factions of the LIBYAN political
class that has been pushed out of TRIPOLI. This section of the LIBYAN political
class is organized around the COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES (COR). The State
Department in their document on transition stated that, “The UNITED STATES government,
the European Union, and several MIDDLE EASTERN governments have stated their
view that the COR and the interim government led by AL THINNI are the
legitimate governing bodies in the country.”
P3
OPPOSED CALLS FROM THE AFRICAN UNION AND FROM THE BRICS STATES FOR A FULL
EVALUATION OF THE NATO INTERVENTION IN 2011
RUSSIA'S REVENGE FOR LIBYA
As mentioned numerous times, RUSSIA and CHINA felt that they
were left out of the equation regarding the LIBYAN operation instigated by the
USA, FRANCE and BRITAIN in 2011.
CHINA and RUSSIA invested heavily in LIBYA prior to the toppling
of the LIBYAN regime, only to find out that they were kept completely out of
the picture regarding the true intentions the Western coalition force had in
mind with LIBYA once the regime was removed, namely tap the oil reserves of
LIBYA.
Subsequently RUSSIA and CHINA learned their lesson and thus
would not make the same mistake regarding SYRIA, permitting LIBYAN style
intervention by WESTERN and GULF STATES coalition forces. No matter that SYRIA
lacks oil reserves or other natural resources worth fighting over, their veto
was more of a symbolic gesture telling WESTERN and GULF STATES coalition
forces: that’s how far you can go this time around, but no further.
Note from the Editor: Above paragraph was written by
Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring in June 2012 and included into this
analysis
UNLIKE IN LIBYA, RUSSIA AND CHINA THIS TIME
AROUND WILL NOT TOLERATE TO BE LEFT OUT OF THE SYRIAN EQUATION AND ENERGY GAME
ENERGY DEALS RUSSIA AND CHINA INKED WITH MUAMMAR QADDAFI PRIOR
TO THE MILITARY INTERVENTION
According to some analysts this instability could also be
triggered deliberately by certain foreign entities who invested heavily in
LIBYA’S oil and fossil extraction prior to the military intervention in LIBYA.
When coalition forces decided to intervene in LIBYA they did not consider the
consequences such intervention would have on the geopolitical landscape.
With the aim to gain control over Libya’s oil reserves WESTERN
coalition forces thought they could outwit CHINA and RUSSIA who also invested
heavily in LIBYA’S lucrative oil industry. Lured into voting in favor of the UN
resolution which in the end paved the way for Military Intervention in LIBYA,
RUSSIA and CHINA expected to receive their fair slice of the “energy cake” once
the intervention was concluded, instead they were left out of the equation,
losing millions of dollars of investments in LIBYA, for all energy deals RUSSIA
and CHINA inked with Muammar Qaddafi prior to the military intervention
suddenly became void, leaving the USA, FRANCE and BRITAIN the sole benefiters
of the entire operation.
Read also:
Note from the Editor: Above paragraph was written by
Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring in October 2013 and included into this
analysis
With their diplomatic
muscle in the Security Council of the UNITED NATIONS, NATO members, especially
the P3 (BRITAIN, FRANCE and the UNITED STATES) have opposed calls from the AFRICAN
UNION and from the BRICS states for a full evaluation of the NATO intervention
in 2011. Instead, the P3 pushed for the naming of a SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO
LIBYA. The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, BERNARDINO LEÓN,
was handed the task of giving meaning to the transition plans that had been
hatched by WESTERN think tanks. LEON’S mandate was “to help establish a
ceasefire, facilitate political dialogue and support the work of the House of
Representatives and LIBYAN Government in establishing an inclusive political
framework as part of the democratic transition.”
REAPING
THE HARVEST OF WESTERN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS IN LIBYA
Throughout the years of
imperial opposition to MUAMAR GADDAFI, the WESTERN intelligence agencies
cultivated the ISLAMISTS in LIBYA because political opposition to GADDAFI had
taken religious forms. The WEST invested heavily in the EASTERN part of LIBYA
and cities such as BENGHAZI and DERNIA built networks of fighters who were
interspersed with WESTERN military forces in AFGHANISTAN and other sites of
destabilization. More than eight years
ago, a West Point study drew attention to the fact that the corridor which goes
from BENGHAZI to TOBRUK, passing through the city of DARNAH (also called DERNIA)
represented one of the greatest concentrations of jihadi terrorists to be found
anywhere in the world.
It was from the East
where the rebellion was stoked and after the fall of GADDAFI, it was from this
same region where the CIA recruited JIHADISTS to fight against the ASSAD regime
in SYRIA. However, these JIHADISTS could not be controlled and when they fell
out, the world found out about the den of JIHADISTS in the EAST when the US
Ambassador to LIBYA was consumed in the struggles between competing militias at
a CIA facility in BENGHAZI in 2012.
There is a long list of individuals that in
the past worked with WESTERN intelligence operations and are now labelled as
terrorists. AHMED ABU KHATTALA and ABU ANAS AL-LIBI are two such individuals
who have been involved in the shadowy networks of JIHADISTs and western intelligence
organizations. When AHMED ABU KHATTALA was picked up in LIBYA by Western
military forces, the New York Times ran the story: “Brazen Figure May Hold Key
to Mysteries: AHMED ABU KHATTALA Capture May Shed Light on BENGHAZI Attack.”[5]
In 2013, ABU ANAS AL-LIBI
was captured on the streets of TRIPOLI by US Delta Force and AL-LIBI was
quickly flown out of LIBYA. He was then extradited to NEW YORK to stand trial
for helping to mastermind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in NAIROBI, KENYA.
ABDUL-HAMED AL-RUQUAI is another name for ABU ANAS AL-LIBI. His career as an
operative with long connections to BRITISH and US intelligence services was
about to be exposed in the trial which was supposed to start in January 2015.
Then before his trial on terrorism charges was set to begin in MANHATTAN
federal court, ANAS AL-LIBI died in custody.
This was a most
convenient death because in his untimely death, the world will never know why
the BRITISH government had released AL LIBI when BRITAIN knew full well the
ties between the AL QUEDA forces and the extremists from LIBYA who wanted to
fight GADDAFI. [6]
Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the original article written by Horace G. Campbell
