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Unclassified Hillary emails show confiscating Gaddafi's gold (plus France's power) was an important motivation for 2011 Libya War.
As stated in the Foreign Policy Journal : "Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at "143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver" posed to the French Franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding "Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this "confidential" explanation of what was really driving the war: "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)." (Source Comment: 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.) Though this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving France’s (and by implication NATO’s) intervention in Libya, it is interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously absent from the briefing."
As stated in the Foreign Policy Journal : "Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at "143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver" posed to the French Franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding "Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this "confidential" explanation of what was really driving the war: "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)." (Source Comment: 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.) Though this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving France’s (and by implication NATO’s) intervention in Libya, it is interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously absent from the briefing."
