by Stephen Lendman,
NATO's sole new millennium accomplishment consists of endless unwinnable wars. Coalition partners eventually tire and pull out.
America may end up
isolated against raging street anger to end imperial wars and address
vital neglected homeland needs. It's already happening.
The battle for Iraq
continues. Afghanistan's war was lost years ago. Libya's also though
political Washington, coalition partners, media scoundrels, and NATO
won't admit it.
At its October 24 press briefing, NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said:
....(W)e all have
seen the celebrations in Benghazi and across Libya as the National
Transitional Council declared the full liberation of Libya. A momentous
day for Libyans and for the whole region."
Fact check
Fighting rages in
Benghazi, Bani Walid, Sirte, Tripoli and other cities across Libya.
Jamahiriya loyalists control most territory though portions shift back
and forth. Terror bombings continue daily.
Tribal leaders swear
revenge for Gaddafi's assassination. Lungescu's rhetoric belies the
spirit of millions of Libyans to resist until free. Alleged
celebrations were staged. Official accounts of conditions are surreal,
bearing no relation to reality.
Major media
scoundrels regurgitate official lies. On October 23, New York Times
writers Adam Nossiter and Kareem Fahim headlined, "Revolution Won, Top Libyan Official Vows a New and More Pious State," saying:
TNC chairman Mustafa
Abdel-Jalil "declared to thousands of revelers in a sunlit square (in
Benghazi) on Sunday that Libya's revolution had ended, setting the
country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government
would be based on Islamic tenets."
Fact check
NATO waged lawless
imperial aggression against a nonbelligerent country. Daily terror
bombings massacred tens of thousands. Rebel rat assassins committed
shocking atrocities. Libya's revolutionary struggle just began and
won't end until victorious.
Gaddafi's murder
investigation will be whitewashed. Killers don't judge their own
innocence or guilt. So-called elections will install powerless puppets
subservient to Washington, Britain and France. Free Libya won't again
exist until loyalists regain it.
On October 24, DEBKAfile
discussed Gaddafi's assassination, saying Pentagon sources claim
drones pinpointed his Sirte location. US and UK Special Forces
surrounded it after days of surveillance. They directed rebel rats to
kill him.
Other accounts say
his 75-vehicle convoy was attacked leaving Sirte. Some reports said a
USAF River Joint RC-135V/W intelligence plane detected him. They
alerted French warplanes that struck his vehicle.
Another credited
German intelligence. Whatever account's most accurate (if any), US, UK,
French, and perhaps other NATO intelligence and Special Forces played a
decisive role in locating and killing Gaddafi.
Rebel rats followed
orders throughout NATO's aggression. From inception, trained commandos,
CIA operatives, and Western intelligence elements led them. Even with
air cover, they'd have floundered on their own.
On October 25, Stratfor's
George Friedman said NATO's war "involved far more than airstrikes,
including special operations forces on the ground targeting for
airstrikes, training (rebel) troops, managing logistics, overseeing
communications and both planning and at times organizing and
leading....insurgents in battle."
In fact, highly
trained commandos ran all ground operations. Otherwise it would have
floundered and failed. On their own, rebel rats were incompetent.
Friedman added that
TNC elements are "in no position to govern Libya by any ideology, let
alone through constitutional democracy."
Guerrilla war lies
ahead. Libyans are enraged by NATO's intervention. "The universal
congratulations on the death of (Gaddafi) are as ominous as all victory
celebrations (real or hollow) because they ignore the critical
question: Now what?"
DEBKAfile added more, saying:
US and NATO "allies
have no compunctions about eradicating (regimes) one way or
another....A primary objective of the Arab Spring as promoted by the
United States and the Western Alliance is (installing puppet)
fundamental(ist) Muslim regimes" under Sharia law.
On October 21, DEBKA also said:
....(M)ilitary
sources report mounting indications that a NATO special forces
unit....located and captured (Gaddafi in Sirte). They apparently shot
him in both legs to prevent his escape and informed (rebel rats) of his
whereabouts, knowing they would kill him...."
His death lets "NATO draw a line on its Libyan venture - but not the war." It rages without end.
On October 24, Mathaba.net headlined, "DEBKAfile 'confirms' previous assessment: NATO had surrendered," saying:
"....NATO has totally
failed to conquer Libya, and even described its own, eight-month
campaign as 'ineffectual' and 'pathetic.' " Its intelligence chiefs
said:
"NATO's military
intervention in Libya achieved little beyond (Gaddafi's) ouster...."
Otherwise, it's been "ineffectual and in many instances pathetic."
DEBKA said its
assessment came in late September at CIA Langley, VA headquarters. Its
"secondary plan" now begins, involving "the self-destruction, by the
Libyan Tribes themselves, of the Libyan Jamahiriya."
NATO hopes tribes
will turn on each other. Gaddafi's killing, in fact, united them
against coalition partners and rebel rat cutthroats.
In other words, one
nation united for liberation. Revenge depends on exorcising NATO and
its bandit insurgents. Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim earlier said
that:
"After this war, we
will all embrace each other again, as brothers and sisters." Saif
al-Islam Gaddafi said much the same thing. Directing energies against
imperial invaders is job one. Years of struggle lie ahead. Unity is
vital to prevail. Healing and reconciling differences can follow later.
On October 25, Algeria ISP headlined, "Libya - News from the front with the resistance fighter 'Alae,' " saying:
Al Rai TV said Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Moussa Ibrahim are alive, well and safe, adding:
"Libya('s) army is
strong and there are 202 volunteers from Egypt who arrived yesterday.
(In) the next two days ," Libya's resistance will report "good news."
Also reported was that Gaddafi's convoy "was surrounded by seven Apache helicopters."
On October 25, Algeria ISP headlined a second report, "Libya - is NATO that killed Muammar Gaddafi," saying:
"NATO bombs were
fitted with nerve gases including incapacitating agents producing a
cholingeric delirium. (Gaddafi's) convoy was stopped." All vehicle
occupants were "asleep. (T)he famous exchange of gun(fire) never took
place."
Arriving afterwards,
rebel rats murdered vehicle occupants. "Have you not noticed that there
is no image of the so-called battle, if not burned cars? No image of
the arrest of other occupants, or Moatassem nor attendants?"
Gaddafi toxicology
tests "would have revealed traces of fentanyl, carfentanil and
halothane, according to" an anonymous doctor at his autopsy.
Official reports and
major media scoundrels sanitize information to exclude unspeakable
crimes of war and against humanity. They also won't admit that millions
of Libyans are committed to wage protracted struggle for freedom.
On October 24, NSNBC
said rebel Tripoli commander Abdelhakim Belhadj was targeted for
assassination. In addition, "unconfirmed reports (suggest) infighting
for positions of power, control over arms, ammunitions and money as well
as territory among NATO and TNC allied mercenary and tribal militia"
elements. It represents "a growing problem for the TNC leadership."
In contrast,
Gaddafi's spirit unites Libyans to resist. Several tribes declared him
one of their own. Doing so shows commitment for revenge and liberation
from NATO's scourge.
On October 25, NSNBC
said Libyan resistance continues. Official spin aims to weaken it and
manipulate public opinion about NATO's impressive victory when, in
fact, it's losing, not winning except in body count numbers.
Reports about most
areas under NATO control are lies. Southern Libya alone equals Spain in
size. Jamahiriya loyalists control all of it. In addition, fighting
rages from East to West across Libya in coastal cities and others near
them.
With plans to end air
operations on October 31, NATO urgently wants an "interim government"
established, similar to Iraq and Afghanistan, so it can request more
imperial support.
After eight bloody
months of war, getting it through another Security Council resolution
won't work. This time, Russia and/or China won't tolerate it as they've
so far stood firm on Syria.
However, as long as
Libyans resist, NATO claims a mandate to stay involved, even though its
air and ground presence provokes conflict.
NSNBC also said "a
legal initiative" is being prepared against NATO for crimes of war and
against humanity. It's premature to report details, but obvious ones
include:
- assassinating a head of state and his sons;
- withholding medical aid from Gaddafi and Mutassim;
- sodomizing Gaddafi;
- committing genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of Black African guest workers, as well as other atrocities;
- terror bombing civilian targets, including schools, hospitals, civilian neighborhoods, and other sites unrelated to military necessity;
- murdering 53 civilians in Sirte; replicating similar incidents in Benghazi, Tripoli and elsewhere;
- committing genocide against Tawergha tribal members;
- arresting and killing medical staff and others suspected of being pro-Gaddafi;
- using illegal terror weapons, including depleted uranium (DU), thermobaric fuel-air bombs, white phosphorous, nerve and mustard gas; and
- countless other atrocities against civilians thought to be pro-Gaddafi.
Justice demands
accountability for political and military officials at the highest
levels. Otherwise, they'll replicate similar crimes against other
targeted nations.
On October 21, Hugo Chavez condemned Gaddafi's murder, calling him "a fighter and a martyr," adding:
Protracted conflict
in Libya continues because "there is a people, a dignity, and the
Yankee empire will not be able to dominate. The most lamentable thing
is that in (America's) determination to dominate the world, and their
European allies, they are setting it alight."
Chavez strongly
supported Gaddafi. He called strategic relations with Libya part of
constructing a "multi-polar world" with greater "south-south"
cooperation between Latin America and Africa.
On Venezuelan public television,
analyst Laila Tajeldine said Gaddafi's assassination "sent a clear
message to governments who oppose the United States" to worry which one
will be targeted next.
Broadcast on FORA TV
on October 3, 2007, General Wesley Clark said America underwent a
"policy coup" post-9/11. Hard-liners co-opted power with no public
debate or acknowledgement.
Ten days after 9/11,
he visited Defense Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. "No one will
tell us where or when to bomb", he said. Military commanders explained
Iraq would be attacked.
"I walked out of
there pretty upset," said Clark. On a second visit, he was told plans
were to "destroy the governments in seven countries." Besides
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran
would be attacked.
Today add Pakistan,
Yemen, Uganda, and dozens of other countries invaded by US Special
Forces death squads. As a result, no one anywhere is safe, including US
citizens Obama calls fair game if accused of terrorism or complicity
to commit it, with or without evidence.
Hardline officials
"took control of the policy of the United States." In 1991, as a
one-star general, Clark visited Under Secretary of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz at the Pentagon after Operation Desert Storm.
He lamented that "we
should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein....But one thing we did
learn," he added. "We can use our military anywhere in the Middle East
and the Soviets won't stop us."
"And we've got about
five or 10 years to clean out those old Soviet client regimes." Among
others, he named Syria, Iran, and Iraq. Doing it he said was essential
"before the next great superpower comes along to challenge us."
Clark was stunned
that top Pentagon officials wanted America's military to "start
(unprovoked) wars.". Extremist policy makers then and post-9/11 "wanted
to destabilize the Middle East, turn it upside down, (remaking) it
under (US) control."
Did Congress debate
it? Did presidents explain it? Did America's media report it? "Was
there a full-fledged (public discussion) on it? Absolutely not, and
there still isn't."
"And that's why we're
failing in Iraq." Regional states understand US plans. Americans
expect better public policy from officials serving them, not war
profiteering designs to control the entire Mediterranean Basin into
Central Asia to Russia's borders.
Obama didn't soften
Bush's policy. He intensified its war on humanity at home and abroad
for unchallenged global dominance. Syria perhaps is next followed by
Pakistan and Iran even though ongoing wars are being lost, not won.
NSNBC
reports infighting "between 'rebel' factions in Tripoli" and
elsewhere. Libya's war "is far from over." Under Gaddafi, Libyans had
Africa's highest standard of living. Now they have death, destruction,
depravation and misery, conditions they won't tolerate.
For over eight
months, they bested NATO's might, delaying or preventing further
aggression. Rest assured it's coming because the business of America is
war.
It won't change
unless sustained public rage no longer tolerates corrupt politicians
serving Wall Street, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites at
the expense of essential social needs gone begging, en route to being
entirely ignored.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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