LIBYA - EXPOSING THE LIBYAN AGENDA:

ALL ABOUT MONEY, BANKING, AND PREVENTING AFRICAN ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY?

Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in LIBYA. HILLARY CLINTON’S recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing AFRICAN economic sovereignty.

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AFRICAN ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY

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WAS LIBYA GETTING A TOO POWERFUL PLAYER IN AFRICA FOR WESTERN ENTITIES?

IT’S ALL ABOUT WATER, OIL AND

THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

LIBYA HAS BASICALLY BEEN “FAILED” BY WESTERN ENTITIES

The brief visit of then-Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON to LIBYA in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of LIBYAN leader MUAMMAR EL-QADDAFI.

But the victory lap, was premature. LIBYA was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, “as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in EUROPE and allowing the Islamic State to establish a LIBYAN haven that the UNITED STATES is now desperately trying to contain.”

Background Information: 

US STRATEGY IN LIBYA

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WASHINGTON’SAL QAEDA ALLY NOW LEADING ISIS IN LIBYA

DOOMED FROM DAY ONE

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding a lack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As DAN KOVALIK wrote in the Huffington Post, “the human rights situation in LIBYA is a disaster, as ‘thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,’ and ‘kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant’.”

Before 2011, LIBYA had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under QADDAFI from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in AFRICA. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and LIBYANS participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world’s largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and QADDAFI was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout AFRICA.

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LIBYA - A THRIVING COUNTRY BEFORE WESTERN INTERVENTION 

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THINGS WERE LOOKING GOOD FOR LIBYA – TOO GOOD?

  

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But that was before US-NATO forces bombed the irrigation system and wreaked havoc on the country. Today the situation is so dire that President OBAMA has asked his advisers to draw up options including a new military front in LIBYA, and the Defense Department is reportedly standing ready with “the full spectrum of military operations required.”

The Secretary of State’s victory lap was indeed premature, if what we’re talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention. But her newly-released emails reveal another agenda behind the LIBYAN war; and this one, it seems, was achieved.

Mission Accomplished?

Of the 3,000 emails released from HILLARY CLINTON’S private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, special adviser for the CLINTON'S during the MONICA LEWINSKY scandal. One of these emails, dated April 2, 2011, reads in part:

CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA

“QADDAFI’S government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver . . . . 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).”

In a “source comment,” the original declassified email adds:

“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. According to these individuals SARKOZY’S plans are driven by the following issues:

A desire to gain a greater share of LIBYA oil production,

Increase FRENCH influence in NORTH AFRICA,

Improve his internal political situation in FRANCE,

Provide the FRENCH military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,

Address the concern of his advisers over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa.”

Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns.

THE OBJECTIVES ARE MONEY, POWER AND OIL.

Background Information: 

GRAB FOR LIBYA’S MONEY AND GOLD RESERVES 

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GRAB FOR THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA BY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

OVER$100 BILLION UNDER THE GOVERNOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA

Other explosive confirmations in the newly-published emails are detailed by investigative journalist ROBERT PARRY. They include admissions of rebel war crimes, of special ops trainers inside LIBYA from nearly the start of protests, and of AL QAEDA embedded in the US-backed opposition. Key propaganda themes for violent intervention are acknowledged to be mere rumors. Political analysts suggest they may have originated with BLUMENTHAL himself. They include the bizarre claim that QADDAFI had a “rape policy” involving passing Viagra out to his troops, a charge later raised by UN Ambassador SUSAN RICE in a UN presentation. These analysts ask rhetorically:

“So do you think it would it be easier for the OBAMA administration to rally American support behind this “regime change” by explaining how the FRENCH wanted to steal LIBYA’S wealth and maintain FRENCH neocolonial influence

over AFRICA – or would AMERICANS respond better to propaganda themes about GADDAFI passing out Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women while his snipers targeted innocent children? Bingo!”

Toppling the Global Financial Scheme

QADDAFI’S threatened attempt to establish an independent AFRICAN currency was not taken lightly by WESTERN interests. In 2011, SARKOZY reportedly called the LIBYAN leader a threat to the financial security of the world. How could this tiny country of six million people pose such a threat? First some background.

It is banks, not governments, which create most of the money in Western economies, as the BANK OF ENGLAND recently acknowledged. This has been going on for centuries, through the process called “fractional reserve” lending. Originally, the reserves were in gold.  In 1933, President FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT replaced gold domestically with central bank-created reserves, but gold remained the reserve currency internationally.

In 1944, the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and the WORLD BANK were created in BRETTON WOODS, NEW HAMPSHIRE, to unify this bank-created money system globally. An IMF ruling said that no paper money could have gold backing. A money supply created privately as debt at interest requires a continual supply of debtors; and over the next half century, most developing countries wound up in debt to the IMF. The loans came with strings attached, including “structural adjustment” policies involving austerity measures and privatization of public assets.

After 1944, the US dollar traded interchangeably with gold as global reserve currency. When the US was no longer able to maintain the dollar’s gold backing, in the 1970s it made a deal with OPEC to “back” the dollar with oil, creating the “petro-dollar.”  Oil would be sold only in US dollars, which would be deposited in Wall Street and other international banks.  

In 2001, dissatisfied with the shrinking value of the dollars that OPEC was getting for its oil, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein broke the pact and sold oil in euros. Regime change swiftly followed, accompanied by widespread destruction of the country.

In LIBYA, QADDAFI also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency.

NATIONALIZING OIL COMPANIES AND CREATING A PAN AFRICAN CURRENCY BROKE QADDAFI’S BACK. FROM THIS MOMENT, QADDAFI WAS ONCE AGAIN THE BAD DICTATOR

Post 2011 relations with LIBYA

For decades, LIBYA and other AFRICAN countries had been attempting to create a pan-AFRICAN gold standard.  LIBYA’S AL-QADHAFI and other heads of AFRICAN STATES had wanted an independent, pan-African, “hard currency.”

Under AL-QADHAFI’S leadership, AFRICAN nations had convened at least twice for monetary unification.  The countries discussed the possibility of using the LIBYAN dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money to buy AFRICAN oil.

Libyan Gold Dinar 

Until the recent US/NATO invasion, the gold dinar was issued by the CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA (CBL).  The LIBYAN bank was 100% state owned and independent.  Foreigners had to go through the CBL to do business with LIBYA.  The CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA issued the dinar, using the country’s 143.8 tons of gold.

LIBYA’S QADHAFI (AFRICAN Union 2009 Chair) conceived and financed a plan to unify the sovereign STATES OF AFRICA with one gold currency (UNITED STATES OF AFRICA).  In 2004, a pan-AFRICAN Parliament (53 nations) laid plans for the AFRICAN Economic Community – with a single gold currency by 2023.

AFRICAN oil-producing nations were planning to abandon the petro-dollar, and demand gold payment for oil/gas.

SHOWING WHAT IS POSSIBLE

QADDAFI had done more than organize an AFRICAN monetary coup. He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. His greatest infrastructure project, the Great Man-made River, was turning arid regions into a breadbasket for LIBYA; and the $33 billion project was being funded interest-free without foreign debt, through LIBYA’S own state-owned bank.

That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in 2011. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it. Crippling a civilian irrigation system serving up to 70% of the population hardly looks like humanitarian intervention.

AFRICAN SELF-RELIANCE - AT ODDS WITH THE GEO - STRATEGIC AND POLITICAL ECONOMIC AMBITIONS OF WESTERN ENTITIES

The goal of US military intervention was to disrupt an emerging pattern of independence and a network of collaboration within AFRICA that would facilitate increased AFRICAN self-reliance. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental EUROPEAN powers, namely the US.

MYSTERY SOLVED – GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM AFTER LIBYA'S MONEY RESERVE

Hilary Clinton’s emails shed light on another enigma remarked on by early political observers. Why, within weeks of initiating fighting, did the rebels set up their own central bank? Robert Wenzel wrote in The Economic Policy Journal in 2011:

This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

It was all highly suspicious, but as Alex Newman concluded in a November 2011 article:

Whether salvaging central banking and the corrupt global monetary system were truly among the reasons for Gadhafi’s overthrow . . . may never be known for certain – at least not publicly.

LIBYAN INTERVENTION

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LIBYAN INTERVENTION IS AND WAS ALL ABOUT WATER, OIL AND

THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

· LIBYA possessed more than us$150 billion in overseas financial assets and had one of the largest sovereign investment funds in the world at the start of 2011

·        In 2008 GOLDMAN SACHS was given us$1.3 billion dollars by the LIBYAN investment authority.

·  Then, in an blink of an eye, GOLDMAN SACHS had effectively appropriated us$1.3 billion dollars from TRIPOLI

· GOLDMAN SACHS was not alone in filching LIBYAN investment funds: SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE S.A., CARLYLE GROUP, J.P. MORGAN CHASE, OCH-ZIFF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT GROUP, and LEHMAN BROTHERS holdings were also all in possession of vast LIBYAN investments and funds.

·  NATO’s war on LIBYA and the freeze of LIBYAN financial assets profited all the INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

·   While LIBYAN energy reserves and geopolitics played major roles in launching the 2011 war, it was also waged in part to appropriate TRIPOLI’S vast financial holdings and to supplement and maintain the crumbling financial hegemony of Wall Street and other financial centers.

·    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.

·         The NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM

·     LIBYAN government had spent about us$19.6 billion dollars on the water project

·   Huge water multinationals in the US, FRANCE were salivating at the idea of privatizing LIBYAN fresh water and controlling the NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM.

·        NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM is the world’s largest fossil aquifer system and will be “the biggest and in some cases the only future source of water to meet growing demands and development” among CHAD, EGYPT, LIBYA, and SUDAN

·         Was LIBYA getting a too powerful player in AFRICA for the liking's of western powers?

There the matter would have remained – suspicious but unverified like so many stories of fraud and corruption – but for the publication of Hillary Clinton’s emails after an FBI probe. They add substantial weight to Newman’s suspicions: violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people. It was about the security of global banking, money and oil.

Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the original article

written by Ellen Brown, who  is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com. Listen to “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on PRN.FM.

LIBYAN INTERVENTION 2016 – THIS TIME WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF RUSSIA?

US-RUSSIAN MARINES SET UP BRIDGEHEAD IN E. LIBYA FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISIS

Via DEBKAfile’s

President BARACK OBAMA resolved earlier this month, much to the surprise of WASHINGTON insiders, to open a third anti-terror front in LIBYA to eradicate the ISLAMIC FRONT’S tightening grip on the country.

Related Topic:  LIBYAN INTERVENTION - TAKE 2?

NEED FOR A FRESH NATOINTERVENTION IN LIBYA (23 Jan 2016)

While collaborating with RUSSIA in the SYRIAN arena, and with the IRANIANS and the IRAQI army and SUNNIS in IRAQ, OBAMA took his close aides by surprise by another decision – to lead the LIBYA campaign again in conjunction with RUSSIA, as well as with concerned WESTERN EUROPE allies.

The first step in this campaign took place this weekend: A group of US, RUSSIAN, FRENCH and ITALIAN Special Forces quietly landed at a point south of TOBRUK near the LIBYAN-EGYPTIAN frontier. Standing by after preparing the ground were some 1,000 BRITISH SAS troops.

The landing area is located some 144 kilometers from DARNAH, the main bastion of extremist LIBYAN Islamic groups linked to AL QAEDA or ISIS, of which the ultra-violent ANSAR AL SHARIA is the most powerful.

RUSSIAN – USA COLLABORATION, THE FIRST IN MANY DECADES

The joint US-RUSSIAN war offensive building up in LIBYA, the first such collaboration in many decades, may be seen as an extension of their expanding military partnership in SYRIA, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.

Preparations for the campaign were assigned to two special operational commands set up at the PENTAGON and at the US Central Command, CENTCOM, in TAMPA, FLORIDA.

According to the scenario sketched in advance by DEBKA Weekly, large-scale US air, naval and ground units are to spearhead the new coalition’s combined assault on the main LIBYAN redoubts of ISIS, AL QAEDA, ANSAR AL-SHARIA and other radical Islamist organizations. Cruise missiles strikes will blast them from US, BRITISH, FRENCH and ITALIAN warships on the MEDITERRANEAN.

At the peak of the assault, large-scale US, BRITISH and FRENCH marines will land on shore for an operation first billed as the largest allied war landing since the 1952 KOREAN War. The attachment of RUSSIAN forces was negotiated later.

According to this scenario, one group will be dropped ashore from the GULF OF SIDRA (see attached map) to seize the town of SIRTE, a city of 50,000, where ISIS has located its central military command center in LIBYA.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL BE GOING INTO LIBYA FOR THE SECOND TIME IN FOUR YEARS

This group will then split up into two task forces.

One will head south to take over TRIPOLI and its oil fields 370 kilometers away and reinstate LIBYA’S central government, which had been exiled to TOBRUK, at its seat in the capital.

On its way to TRIPOLI, the force will take control of three renegade towns: MISRATA, ZLITEN and KHOMS.                 

The second task force will head north to capture the eastern LIBYAN capital of BENGHAZI, seizing RAS LANUF, 200 kilometers east of SIRTE, en route. A second marine force will meanwhile land in eastern LIBYA to capture the radical Islamist stronghold of DARNAH, a port city with 150,000 inhabitants.

The OBAMA administration will therefore be going into LIBYA for the second time in four years – only this time up front and on the ground - for three objectives:

1. Control of LIBYA’S oil and gas fields.

2. Stripping ISIS of its jumping-off base for terrorizing EUROPE, especially ITALY, from across the MEDITERRANEAN.

3. Saving TUNISIA, ALGERIA and MOROCCO from the noose ISIS and AL QAEDA are pulling around them from their back yard.  

Background Information: USA AND LIBYA

WASHINGTON’S AL QAEDA ALLY NOW LEADING ISIS IN LIBYA

LIBYA – VICTIM OF “ENERGY PIPELINE POLITICS”

AN EXTENDED WAR COMING TO LIBYA? 

By Salman Rafi via Asia times

The so-called global ‘anti-terror’ front seems to be expanding its tentacles as leaders of the ‘free world’ plan to end the terrorist threat posed by the ISLAMIC STATE (IS). Thanks to their ‘wise’ policy of funding proxy groups, IS is reported to have been ‘quite successful’ in capturing a lot of territory rich in oil in LIBYA.

Such groups, whether in LIBYA or in the MIDDLE EAST, owe their existence as well as financial and fighting strength (whatever they have) to “certain powers” that aim at establishing a regime of domination, if not unchallenged hegemony, on global political-economy. Hence, the saga of “oil wars” and “energy pipeline politics”– key pillars of this regime of domination.

Background Information: LIBYA’S NATURAL RESOURCES

LIBYA AND ITS NATURAL RESOURCES - THE CROWN OF AFRICA

‘Oil’ continues to be the cause of many wars being fought today and also the most important source of funding them. Perhaps, an allusion to the fast decreasing financial ability of the “great powers” to fund these wars through ‘shadow money.’ That is to say, if terrorist groups like IS can conveniently extract oil and also sell it in the market, they do not particularly need secret financial assistance from their mentors. Hence, IS’ “oil drive” in SYRIA as well as LIBYA.

WHAT’S BEHIND THE CURRENT DECLINE IN OIL PRICES?

The question these days however is, if with oil prices at an all-time low, one would imagine that IS should also feel loss in revenues from illegal oil trade. 

That is if IS is really funding its operations solely through oil trade.  On the other hand one could ask if the current decline in oil prices is a deliberate strategy initiated by powerful international entities to severely hamper IS expansion and operations, by making IS run out of its main source of income and thereby eradicate IS by means of “economic warfare” instead of airstrikes.   

But given the fact that IS is also a lucrative business for the international weapons industry (and car industry (Toyota), it seems), one has to be cautious with any assumptions regarding the decimation of IS, especially if the persisting allegations that IS is the creation of Western entities such as the CIA, are true. 

Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring.

Were the media reports (and some official statements) to be believed, the IS has already established its control over more than 240 kilometers of LIBYAN coastline. The number of IS militants in the area is estimated to exceed 5,000 and among them, besides LIBYANS, are former citizens of various ARAB, AFRICAN and EUROPEAN states.

LIBYA – A REGROUPING PLACE FOR IS?

Hence, the December 1, 2015 warning by the UN observers that Libya is turning into a key stronghold of IS –implying, indirectly though, that the IS has found a good hiding place to regroup and re-organize itself in LIBYA after facing mounted bombing from RUSSIAN side and reasonably successful ground operations by the SYRIAN Army in SYRIA.

RUSSIA’S specific targeting of IS’ oil tankers in SYRIA certainly has done damage to the groups’ financial strength, prompting them to intensify attacks in LIBYA to capture oil reservoirs. This goal is to be achieved by getting hold of LIBYAN ports, strategically important roads, intersections, and the better part of LIBYA’S oil terminals to the south of AJDABIYA.

Background Information: REGROUPING OF IS

POROUS BORDERS TURN LIBYA INTO RADICAL SANCTUARY

Islamists’ assault on the port of ES SIDER in January leading to a prolonged fire fight with the defense units entrusted with its security reveals they have been actively pursuing this goal. The estimated income one can get from LIBYA’S oil amounts to a whopping $100 billion a year. (That figure might not be correct for 2016 since the oil price seems to be plunging further every month)

On January 12, some other attacks were reported. IS tried to seize export terminals in the so-called “oil crescent” of northern LIBYA, killing 56 people in two suicide bombings in ZLITEN and RAS LANOUF, east of TRIPOLI.

“On Sunday night, the guards intercepted three boats trying to enter the oil port of ZUEITINA,” said ALI AL-HASSI, spokesman for the guards protecting oil facilities for LIBYA’S “recognised government.”

IS fighters have stepped up their attacks on LIBYA’S oil facilities since the country’s two major political factions agreed last month to a UN-negotiated deal aimed at creating a unity government by mid-January. A national unity government backed by loyal security forces could take back control of the country’s oil facilities. In this context, IS not only seems to be aiming at controlling LIBYA’S oil for itself but also disrupting its supply to put the would-be unity government in considerable financial jeopardy as soon as it comes into existence.

Background Information: IS IN LIBYA

ISLAMIC STATE HAS EMERGED IN LIBYA, SPECIFICALLY IN THE CITY OF DERNA

By creating such chaos in LIBYA, IS is planning to use it as a base camp to re-group, re-organize itself financially and militarily to extend its operations not only in AFRICA but also in the EUROPEAN continent. Perhaps, a big reason for the ‘WEST’ to worry about.

Background Information: THREAT FOR EUROPE

LIBYA’S INSTABILITY IS ALREADY SPILLING OVER INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN

DEVASTATING RESULT OF 2011 WESTERN MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA

Here is how LIBYA can boost the groups’ military capacity. Since the beginning of crisis in LIBYA in 2011, the country has turned into a haven for weapons suppliers/smugglers. Apart from it, the destruction of the LIBYAN state as a direct result of Western military intervention in 2011 also marked the uncontrolled spread of weapon supplies in the country and along its borders. As a result, the IS was able to take control of weapons supplies destined to government militias in TRIPOLI.

Background Information: 2011 MILITARY INTERVENTION

AFTERMATH OF THE 2011 MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA

While some may tend to disagree or even deny that IS is gaining easy access to oil and weapons in LIBYA, it can hardly be denied that LIBYA is fast turning into IS’ new ‘international capital.’

Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring

PAYBACK TIME FOR BEING LEFT OUT OF THE LIBYAN EQUATION

Unlike inLIBYA, RUSSIA and CHINA this time around will not tolerate to be left out ofthe SYRIAN equation and energy game

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. 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 and the airstrikes sanctioned by the UN Security Council. CHINA and RUSSIA were lured into voting for the intervention without being told about the true intentions of the Western coalition, 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.

Further we wrote in 2013:

ENERGY DEALS RUSSIA AND CHINA INKED WITH MUAMMAR QADDAFI PRIOR TO WESTERN 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.

Note from the Editor: Above paragraphs were written by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring in June 2012 and October 2013 and included into this analysis

HENCE, THE NEED FOR A FRESH NATO INTERVENTION.

The possibility of a NATO military operation in LIBYA has been confirmed by a LIBYAN representative in the UNITED NATIONS. According to him, four NATO countries (the UNITED STATES, ITALY, FRANCE and the UNITED KINGDOM) are prepared to launch air strikes against IS strongholds in LIBYA, which would be later supported by ground troops, which, in turn, should establish control over the territories occupied by IS.

Although it looks simple enough, it is not so, however. That a full scale NATO intervention has not taken place yet is not simply due to any fictional strategic problem. The WEST, as it stands, is waiting for the eventual establishment of the so-called (western-backed) ‘Unity Government’ in LIBYA — a government that would then ‘invite’ NATO to intervene, making things for NATO countries much easier, especially compared with the sort of troubles they had to face with regard to getting legal authorization for intervening in SYRIA. So much for the WEST’S craving for a “legitimate” intervention! (Since last week this western – backed government has been formed and sworn in.)

According to some credible sources, the P3+5 will now seek a UN Security Council resolution to authorise intervention in LIBYA to “train” the local police, army and coastguard. Special Forces from BRITAIN, FRANCE and the US will also conduct counter-terrorism operations against the LIBYAN branch of IS and other Islamist groups.

As part of the military operations, AMERICAN and FRENCH air strikes will be required, with BRITISH jets unlikely to participate because of the commitment to fight IS in IRAQ (and now is SYRIA too), a WHITEHALL source was reported to have stated.

Background Information: USA AND LIBYA

WASHINGTON’S AL QAEDA ALLY NOW LEADING ISIS IN LIBYA

An extended war is, therefore, most certainly coming to LIBYA. The question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ it will come. As reports indicate, it will be soon.

However, the important question that must be raised at this stage is how a fresh NATO intervention in LIBYA can contribute to “peace” when such an intervention back in 2011 is the very reason for today’s chaos? Will NATO’s fresh intervention be more “humanitarian” this time? And last but not least, will RUSSIA and CHINA be left out of the equation once again?

Written by Salman Rafi Sheikh, who is a freelance journalist and research analyst of international relations and Pakistan affairs, via Asian Times

Related articles on LIBYA that might be of interest:

THE POST-GADDAFI LIBYA IS NOT REAL

IT’S ALL ABOUT WATER, OIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

THE WAR ON LIBYA AND THE WEST'S AFRICAN GEOPOLITICS

LIBYA - DOOMED FROM DAYONE

VOLATILE SAHEL REGION