Exiled Libyan Monarchy Admit Their Role In Fomenting War In Libya

Background ‘The Libyan monarchy of Idris, which was based in Benghazi, was installed by the United States and British in the 1950’s to oversee their economic and military interests in North Africa. Libya in 1952, under the leadership of King Idris, officially had the lowest standards of Living in the world. The Idris monarchy was…

Insurgents Received On The Ground Guidance From CIA, MI6, SAS

Editor’s Note: There is no victory yet for either NATO or the insurgents. The Libyan people will never submit to a government run by the NTC. The insurgents and their incompetent NTC were created and funded by NATO and various intelligence agencies. The Libyan people enjoy direct democracy now. What the imperialists hope for is…

How A Fatal Twitter Message Opened The Door To War Against Libya

Marinella Correggia The mother of all lies was sent to the world through a Twitter message by Al Arabiya, February 23th. A message which makes Qadafi out to be a Hitler, and even more outrageous and cruel: “the repression in Libya has already claimed 10,000 dead and 50,000 injured.” It may be a ballon d’essai…

The NFSL And Its Faux-Revolutionary Poster Child

Martin Iqbal Empire Strikes Black Created by the CIA and Mossad in 1981, the NFSL was part of a plan to destabilise Libya using a ‘fifth column’ of fighters and insurgents, and this surreptitious and chequered history stretches to the present day. As the current leader of the NFSL pleads in front of the White…

Qatar Supplies “Libyan Rebels” With Ammunition

What is a Tank from Qatar doing in Benghazi? This video shows the flag of Qatar on a Tank in Benghazi. Read more about the way Qatar is supporting the Armed Gangs of Libya not only in Benghazi but also in the Western Mountains. *** MISRATA, Libya, August 6 (Reuters) – A Qatari plane made…

World Food Program In Somalia: Angel Of Mercy? Angel Of Death?

To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in…

The War On Libya: Divisions Within The NTC And “Rebel Forces”

Michel Chossudovsky and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya. Global Research. 7.29.11 The death of General Abdel Fattah Al-Younes, Commander in Chief of Rebel Forces was announced on July 28. Younes was Colonel Qaddafi’s former interior minister who defected to the rebels. Younes was also key leader of the Transitional Council based in Benghazi. His death has created…

Anti-Empire Report: Arguing Libya

William Blum On July 9 I took part in a demonstration in front of the White House, the theme of which was “Stop Bombing Libya”. The last time I had taken part in a protest against US bombing of a foreign country, which the White House was selling as “humanitarian intervention”, as they are now,…

The Libyan National Transitional Council

HRI Mark. 7.27.11 The self-appointed Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) has now been recognised by the British government as the sole representative of Libya. Regular readers of Human Rights Investigations will be aware of the involvement of the Libyan rebels in lynchings, ethnic cleansing and incitements to racial violence. The attempt to impose the former…

An Imperialist Project To Create Three Libyas

The division of Libya into three separate countries is part of the US-NATO imperial design. It is part of a project shared by the U.S., Britain, Italy, and France. The NATO war launched against Libya in March 2011 was geared towards the breakup of the country into three separate entities. The NATO led war, however,…

Libya, Obama And The “Other Wars”

Impeachment: If Not Obama, Who? Glen Ford. BAR. 7.20.11 President Obama’s insistence that the U.S. is not at war with Libya, even as Washington and its allies methodically assault the country’s military and infrastructure, reveals that the many “Other Wars” around the globe have become, collectively, “the main arenas of conflict” with the Empire. Yet,…

US And Ethiopia Kill Somalis With Food Weapon

The drought that threatens more than ten million lives in the Horn of Africa has been made vastly more deadly by U.S. and Ethiopian use of food as a weapon of war. The Americans last year forced the collapse of cooperation between aid agencies and Shabab resistance fighters in Somalia. And Ethiopia, a center of…