Western war on Libya

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"Political agreements are just the tip of the iceberg. Because if behind these political agreements is the same destroyed economy and various gangs that are trying to rob the potential of the country, which used to be unitary, then all these political agreements will be disavowed sooner or later," Medvedev said at the conference.

"The restoration of economy, the restoration of the social sphere, promising projects that can be restored and should be restored — this is also a key to the renewal of normal life in Libya. We are ready to be engaged in it," he added.

This Asset Audit of Libyan Funds might have something to do with the recent meetings of the various groups by Medvedev?

November 22, 2018 - Exclusive: Libyan Wealth Fund to hire Auditors in push to Unfreeze Assets
Exclusive: Libyan wealth fund to hire auditors in push to unfreeze assets | Reuters

Libya’s sovereign wealth fund will appoint auditors within weeks and conclude a wide-ranging examination of its assets by 2019 as part of its efforts to get billions of dollars of assets unfrozen, the fund’s head told Reuters.

Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed, the chairman and chief executive of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), said financial auditing and consulting company PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was one of the firms the fund was considering. About 70 percent of the LIA’s $67 billion worth of assets have been frozen under United Nations sanctions since the toppling of veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 pushed the country into turmoil.

UN diplomats say they want to see a stable government in Libya before relaxing the sanctions.

“We want to strengthen the trust of the international community in the Libyan Investment Authority. We are cooperating with the United Nations and adhering to their sanctions,” Mohamed said in an interview in London.

“We are making reforms from top to bottom and carrying out an audit that can be used by the UN to check the assets of the LIA,” he said, speaking through a translator.

Libya’s economy has collapsed, and the fund could eventually be an important source of finance for the war-torn country. But it has long been hampered by a leadership dispute between rival factions in Tripoli and eastern Libya. Mohamed said he had ended some of those divisions by merging departments and offices.

“We need to enhance our governance. Political splits damaged the Libyan Investment Authority. Our assets were frozen in order to protect them,” he said.

Asked about reports on funds that had been transferred out of European bank accounts linked to LIA, Mohammed said that stemmed from dividends and interest paid on holdings of equities and fixed income instruments. The asset freeze only applied to the equity itself or the principal of the bonds, he said.

“These revenues from equity dividends are worth hundreds of millions every year. We have received those since 2011,” he said, adding more than $1 billion had been transferred to LIA’s accounts at Arab Bank Corporation (ABC) in Bahrain from custodian bank accounts in Belgium and Luxembourg since 2011.

“Money withdrawn from ABC bank was used to pay for the operational costs of the LIA. We have statements dating back to 2011,” he said, adding he had full control over the accounts and no money had disappeared.

Around $8.5 billion of LIA’s assets were invested in global equities and some $1.5 billion in bonds, according to Mohamed.

Mohamed also said all the fund’s Tripoli-based staff had now moved out of the Tripoli Tower office block to a different, undisclosed location in the city, amid security breaches that saw a number of employees threatened or abducted by militias.

Tripoli is largely controlled by a handful of powerful armed groups claiming official status that have expanded their economic interests, penetrated key institutions and frequently abducted rivals with impunity. LIA said it employs 140 people directly though more than 1000 including its subsidiaries.

 

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Islamic State claims deadly attack in southern Libya

The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a town in Libya's southern desert that killed at least nine people and in which several others were kidnapped.

The militant group, which made its claim in a statement on its news agency Amaq, said 29 people had been either killed or wounded in Friday's attack, Reuters reported.

A military source said the gunmen had occupied a police station in the oasis town of Tazerbo, north of Kufra, until residents expelled them.

IS fighters targeted security service members loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who heads the self-styled Libyan National Army, AFP news agency reported.

Eleven people, including civilians and a security chief, were also kidnapped by gunmen who attacked the police station, a senior security official told AFP on Friday.

Tazerbo had been used in the past as a rest stop for tourists on Sahara camping tours before Libya plunged into chaos in 2011 following the ouster of longtime leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

The town listed six residents on its website as being among those killed in Friday's attack.

A resident told Reuters that nine people had been killed in total and 10 others were wounded. Several policemen and civilians had also been abducted, he said.

IS fighters have staged several attacks on southern towns since withdrawing into the desert after losing its main stronghold, the coastal city of Sirte, late in 2016.

The militant group took advantage of the chaos in Libya to gain a foothold in the city in 2015, but forces loyal to the internationally-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) regained control of Sirte in December 2016 after eight months of fighting.

This is the second attack on forces loyal to Haftar that has been claimed by IS. The first killed at least five people in October in the central Kufra region.

 

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December 4, 2018 - Libyans protest against US Air Strike in Southern Libya
Libyans protest against U.S. air strike in southern Libya | Reuters

BENGHAZI, Libya - Dozens of Libyans protested on Tuesday against a U.S. air strike on suspected al Qaeda militants in the country’s southwestern desert, saying civilians had been targeted, witnesses said.

The U.S. Africa Command (Africom) on Thursday said it had killed 11 al Qaeda militants near the town of al Uwaynat in its third strike since March on the militant group’s North African branch - al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

The strike close to the Algerian border, destroyed three vehicles, Africom had said in its statement last week, adding that at the time, they had assessed “no civilians were injured or killed”.

Members of the ethnic Tuareg tribe living in the area staged a protest on Tuesday, calling on the Tripoli-based government to launch an investigation into the strike.

The protesters, among them women and children, held up pamphlets saying “Africom attacked civilians”, and “Africom is killing our sons”, witnesses and participants told Reuters.

Jihadists linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State have sought refuge in Libya’s vast southern desert as the country struggles to restore stability seven years after the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

 

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December 22, 2018 - Libya complains of Arms Cargo from Turkey, joint investigation launched
Libya complains of arms cargo from Turkey, joint investigation launched | Reuters

TRIPOLI - Libya and Turkey agreed on Saturday to open an urgent joint investigation into a consignment of arms which arrived from Turkey and was seized at a port near Tripoli this week, the UN-backed Libyan government said.

The government released the statement following talks in Tripoli between Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

The statement quoted Cavusoglu as saying Ankara rejected such actions “which do not represent the policy or approach of the Turkish state”.

The weapons were seized by customs on Tuesday in Khoms port, just over 100 km (62 miles) east of Tripoli.

The consignment sent from Turkey contained 3,000 Turkish-made pistols, as well as some other pistols, hunting rifles and ammunition, Benghazi’s Benina airport customs services said on their official Facebook account.

A day earlier a cargo of 2.5 million Turkish-made bullets was seized at the same port, the same source said.

The UN mission in Libya has condemned the shipment of arms to Libya as “extremely disconcerting.”

The UN last June extended an arms embargo on Libya for another year.

The oil-rich country plunged into chaos nearly eight years after a NATO-backed uprising that toppled former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.

The country has been divided between rival governments and military factions based in the east and west of the country since 2014, causing political deadlock and an economic crisis.

 

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Note by Joanne Moriarty (on Friday the 21st) regarding Senator Richard H. Black:

Senator Richard H. Black Congratulates Dr. Saif al Islam Ghadafi on Winning the Referendum

Dr. Saif al Islam Ghadafi, the second son of Moammar al Ghadafi, is the Libyan people"s choice for leader of Libya. I published the final results of a referendum in my previous article.
Virginia state Senator, Richard Black has sent his personal congratulations to Dr. Saif via the Great Tribes of Libya. Senator Black is a great humanitarian and a supporter of the Libyan people's right to choose their own leader.
I am posting his personal note below:

To: Dr. Saif al Islam Ghadafi December 19, 2018
From: Virginia Senator Richard H. Black

For eight years, Western powers tried to force Libyans to submit to rule by tyrants. Those puppets were corrupt terrorists. They robbed and murdered Libyans with the ongoing support of the West.

Libyans refuse to be dominated by colonial puppets - selected by foreigners.

This referendum vote conducted in Egypt, demonstrates that nearly all Libyans want Saif al Islam Ghadafi as their president.

Colonial powers should understand that immigrants will continue pouring into Europe until Libya has a popularly elected government that rescues Libya from despotism and chaos. For 40 years Libya was the effective buffer to provide jobs and assistance to Sub-Sahara and other parts of Africa, while nearly eliminating the flow of immigrants through Libya. The destruction of Libya opened the floodgate to this most threatening, non-war destruction of most European countries. What Moammar Ghadafi did to stop the migration from Africa to Europe was monumentally beneficial to Europe.

My heartiest congratulations to the next president of Libya — Dr. Saif al Islam Ghadafi!
Warm regards,

Senator Richard H. Black,
13th District, Virginia

 

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December 25, 2018 - Three dead in Suicide Attack on Libyan Foreign Ministry
Three dead in suicide attack on Libyan foreign ministry | Reuters

TRIPOLI - At least three people were killed when suicide bombers attacked Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, the health ministry said. The assailants were suspected to be Islamic State militants, a security source said.

Smoke rises from the site of the headquarters of Libya's foreign ministry after suicide attackers hit in Tripoli, Libya December 25, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara

The three attackers began their assault with a car bomb, damaging vehicles and buildings, and then opened fire on the ministry. Two managed to get inside and blow themselves up. The other was killed by ministry guards, the source said.

Heavy smoke rose from the building which was surrounded by security forces as people were rushed to hospital. The health ministry said at least eleven people were wounded.

The ministry denounced the attack on its employees, saying: “the Libyan people are waging a war on terrorism on behalf of the world.”

Suicide bombers have targeted a number of Libya’s vital institutions as militant groups take advantage of the chaotic political situation.

A source from Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, one of the strongest armed groups in the capital, told Reuters their spokesman, Abdulrahman Mazoughi, died in the attack.


December 25, 2018 - Russia says Gaddafi's Son should play role in Libyan Politics: RIA
Russia says Gaddafi's son should play role in Libyan politics: RIA | Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, attends a hearing behind bars in a courtroom in Zintan May 15, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

MOSCOW - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of the former Libyan leader, should play a role in his country’s political life, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was cited as saying on Monday by the RIA news agency.

RIA said that one of Saif’s representatives had delivered a letter from him to Moscow earlier this month in which he had set out ideas for the political future of Libya and that Saif was in regular contact with Russia.

Western powers and the United Nations are pushing for the North African country to hold elections next year after a national conference to try to end seven years of conflict in the oil producer.

Saif’s father was toppled and killed in a 2011 revolt. Saif, who was detained afterwards before later being freed, was seen by some as a potential reformist successor to his father in the years before 2011 and remains a key figure for Gaddafi loyalists.

“We support everyone. We believe that nobody should be isolated or excluded from a constructive political role,” RIA cited Bogdanov as saying.

“That’s why we are maintaining contacts with all groups who are based in the west, east and south of the country ... Saif al-Islam has the backing of specific tribes in specific areas of Libya and all this should be part of the overall political process with the participation of other political forces.”

Russia is also in close contact with Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar who dominates eastern Libya and has visited Moscow and held talks with top officials.

 

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December 25, 2018 - Kremlin redirects query on Gaddafi son’s appeal for support to Russian Foreign Ministry
Kremlin redirects query on Gaddafi son’s appeal for support to Russian Foreign Ministry

It was earlier reported that the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, had asked the Russian authorities to support him during the upcoming elections.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi © EPA/SABRI ELMHEDWI

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has answered a question about a letter written by the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, asking for support at the upcoming elections, saying that it should be addressed to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"I don’t know. You should obtain information at the [Russian] Foreign Ministry. I don’t know whether it was sent through diplomatic channels, whether it was actually handed over or not," Peskov said.

Bloomberg earlier reported that Saif al-Islam had asked the Russian authorities to support him during the upcoming elections. Media reports said that he counted on both campaign financing and mediation in negotiations with the Libyan power centers.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed in 2011, has made no public appearances since he was released from the Zintan prison in June 2017, where he had been kept since his father’s regime had been toppled.

There are currently two governments competing for authority in Libya. The Tripoli-based National Accord Government led by Fayez al-Sarraj has been recognized by the international community. The second Cabinet led by Abdullah al-Thani is backed by the Libyan National Army under the command of Khalifa Haftar. Attempts by the parties to achieve a final settlement have so far yielded no results.

 

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December 27, 2018 - Armed Chadian Group attacks forces loyal to Haftar in Southern Libya
Armed Chadian group attacks forces loyal to Haftar in southern Libya | Reuters

BENGHAZI - A Chadian armed group attacked a military camp of forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar in southern Libya on Thursday, killing one fighter, a local official and a spokesman for Haftar said.

After the toppling of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011, fighters from neighboring Chad and Sudan joined the ensuing turmoil. Competing Libyan armed factions frequently accuse each other of deploying mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa.

Thirteen people were also wounded in the attack, which took place near Traghen, some 900 kilometers (560 miles) south of Tripoli and about 400 kilometers north of the border with Chad, a spokesman for the Traghen municipality said.

Haftar’s Libya National Army (LNA) is the military wing of the government that operates in the east of the country. An LNA spokesman, Ahmed Mesmari, said the dead man was one of its members.

The rival, UN-backed government of national accord (GNA), which is based in Tripoli, condemned the assault as a violation of Libya’s sovereignty.

It also called for all military forces in the country to unify. “Let the Libyan south be the start for countering terrorists and mercenaries together, until we rid the country of them,” the GNA said in a statement.

Libya’s east-west division, in place since disputed elections and an escalation of fighting in 2014, has split key institutions and produced a deadlock between the rump parliaments and the shifting military factions they are aligned with.

 

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Setting deadlines for elections in Libya is counterproductive as the political players need to agree first on a political solution to end the country’s conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

January 25, 2019 - Russia warns against setting deadlines for Libya elections
Russia warns against setting deadlines for Libya elections | Reuters

The comments add to doubts whether the troubled North African oil producer can hold parliamentary or presidential elections by June as sought by the United Nations and Western powers.

“We have repeatedly highlighted the counterproductive character of setting deadlines in Libya,” Lavrov told reporters after talks in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita.

Libyans needed to agree first on the “rules of the game” for elections, he added, speaking through a translator.

Under a French plan, Libya was meant to hold national elections on Dec. 10 but the idea was dropped due to a spike in violence in the Tripoli and a lack of progress between rival parliaments in the west and east to find a political solution.

Libya has two governments, the internationally recognized one in Tripoli and a parallel version in the east, a result of conflict going back to the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

U.N. Special Envoy Ghassan Salame said in November he hoped elections would happen by June but so far there is no law or constitutional frame in place for a vote to go ahead.

 

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Just keeping it on the radar, the Moriarty's apparently have a series of unseen video's -
Moriarty's Release UNSEEN Libyan Videos - New Series with Jason Goodman

We have started to release the unseen videos we took on the ground in Libya during the 2011 NATO destruction of Libya. These are raw videos, taken by us with a small Sony Camera. They are not edited, these are the real Libyan people sharing their sorrow, their thoughts and their desires for their future. They speak in Libyan Arabic but we are there with a translator. Our series will be every Monday night at 6pm central, you find the links below.

Jason Goodman is the one we have ever entrusted these videos with and he is doing a great job. He is clear and honest and works to share the importance of the information.

These are the videos that the CIA, DIA and FBI were after when they came into our home.

These videos will prove the false flag, the war crimes, the lies and the atrocities committed by the UN/US/NATO/France/UK and the criminal lying media.

Please watch the introduction to this series free on YouTube at

We will be releasing the videos every Monday at 6pm Central time with Jason Goodman on Patreon. Patreon is a paid site, you can become a patron of ours for as low as $1 per month, up to you what you want to pay to support.
You can find our Patreon site at JoAnne Moriarty are creating Truth about US/UN/NATO war Crimes in Libya, we are Eye Witnesses | Patreon

Thank you to all of our great supporters and angels, we appreciate you all more than you know as do the Libyan people.

 

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Just keeping it on the radar, the Moriarty's apparently have a series of unseen video's -
Moriarty's Release UNSEEN Libyan Videos - New Series with Jason Goodman

The Moriarty's have put out some decent videos in the past - I look forward to reviewing the content of their new video's. I remember reports, when they were being harassed by the alphabet agencies, their home - trashed and ransacked. No different then what took place in Libya. Justice will only be served - when all of the truth surfaces. The Moriarty's are doing their part.

 

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For those of you who haven't heard the SOTT Radio interviews with the Moriatrys, here are the links:

Behind the Headlines: NATO Slaughter - James and Joanne Moriarty expose the truth about what happened in Libya -- Sott.net

Behind the Headlines: Libyan 'Islamic State', with James & JoAnne Moriarty -- Sott.net

Very eye-opening and terrifying ordeal that they went through.

 

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Forces from eastern Libya who have swept through the south and taken control of remaining oilfields in recent weeks have now reinforced a base in the center of the country and signaled to the capital Tripoli that it may be next.

Libyans fear showdown as eastern commander eyes capital

FILE PHOTO: A poster of the Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar on a building in Benghazi, Libya February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori/File Photo

The United Nations, stunned by the southern advance, is scrambling to mediate between eastern commander Khalifa Haftar and Tripoli’s internationally-recognized government led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, Western diplomats say.

They fear it may be the last U.N. attempt to unify the rival administrations and end the chaos that followed the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 with free elections.

Haftar, a 75-year-old former general, is increasingly taking the situation into his own hands, backed by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, which see him as a bulwark against Islamists and the man to restore order.

He has not said whether he wants to march on Tripoli, which would dramatically escalate tensions. But his Libyan National Army (LNA) has hinted heavily that it might do so — if Haftar is not recognized as the country’s overall military commander, his aim since he began assembling the force in 2014.

 

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Haftar, a 75-year-old former general, is increasingly taking the situation into his own hands, backed by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, which see him as a bulwark against Islamists and the man to restore order.

JoanneM had this to say of Haftar in mid February:

Haftar has NO support and very little so called army. He makes no bones about letting his gang of "soldiers" steal from people and abuse the civilian population. He has no support in Libya. What he does have is FEAR, the Libyan people are afraid of him, he is a ruthless KILLER. He has access to the CIA/NSA phone listening devices in Libya and he uses it to track and destroy anyone who is against him. He is an evil strongman and he too works with terrorists, radical Islamists and has himself committed acts of terrorism.

There are reports of Haftar cleaning the South of Libya (being a Libyan hero) nothing could be farther from the truth. The Libyan tribes of the south are using their own people to fight the terrorists who came in from across the Chadian border to rape and steal.

What the media would like you to believe is that now in Libya, Sarraj and Haftar are fighting each other. NOT TRUE. These two work together to continue the control and abuse of Libya and her people for their Khazarian masters.

Time to tell the truth, this will break the tie of evil sitting upon beautiful Libya.

 

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Here is JoanneM's latest:

Latest Media Lies About Libya

Submitted by JoanneM on Fri, 03/08/2019 - 2:47pm

The latest media lies about Libya are targeted at Russia. Why?
Libya is destroyed, a failed state but the natural resources of Libya have always been the target.
The reason for the fake news (lies/propaganda) is to make Russia appear to be supporting criminals in Libya.
The person the media state Russia is supporting is Khalifa Haftar. Khalifa Haftar is a CIA puppet. Under no circumstances would Russia ever support a CIA puppet and the knowledge of Haftar's masters is well known everywhere.
Two major publications have reported these lies. Another proof of collusion of the mainstream media. The Publications are as follows:

1. Breitbart - "Forces Loyal to Russia-Backed Strongman Haftar Kill Civilians, Raze 100 Homes in Libya" https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/02/26/forces-loyal-to-r...
2. The Telegraph - "Russian mercenaries back Libyan rebel leader as Moscow seeks influence in Africa"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/03/russian-mercenaries-back-lib...

Understand this if nothing else, Khalifa Haftar is a terrorist hand puppet of the CIA. He is a thief, a liar, a thug, and a traitor to Libya. He threatens legitimate Libyans daily and uses the NSA listening equipment (brought into Libya in 2011) to target any Libya who speaks his name. Khalifa Haftar would not ever be supported by Russia. This lie has been perpetrated in the mainstream for years. Now they have stepped up their game and have stated that Russian mercenaries are in Libya supporting Haftar at the behest of the leader of Russia. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The Great Tribes have confirmed to me everything that I have written.
Libya has lost their country to terrorist thugs, their infrastructure has been destroyed, their wealth has been stolen and continues to be stolen. They have had one million Libyans killed and yet the media, run by the Khazarian mafia New World Order, continues its attacks. It is the assets and geographical location that they would own. The ruination, destruction and death of Libya and her people are just acceptable collateral damage to achieve their evil agenda.