Western war on Libya
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It is all hard to keep track of. Since 2011 it has been one big stage of musical chairs and revolving doors arming terrorists. One big arms bazaar in the Middle East. I can't imagine the Russian's are pleased, and they surly understand who is who and what arms are supplied and moving around, as they don't want these terrorists head-choppers on their door step, not to mention the leaders of all these states who keep knocking on their door for talks while, one can assume, giving assurances.
Turkey is NATO member state, so that will always play some sort of role, along with those beholden to Gülen within, and the Israelis in time have declared they have designs on Turkey, too.
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May 27, 2019 - Field Marshal Khalifa stated that he will continue fighting forces loyal to the internationally-recognized government of the North African country until they are defeated.
Libya's Haftar Vows to ‘to Continue Fighting’
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In an interview with the Journal de Dimanche newspaper in France on Sunday, Haftar claimed that he sought a “political solution” but “to return to politics, we need to finish with the militias”, referring to the groups of armed forces loyal to the government.
In the interview, he took aim at United Nations (UN) envoy Ghassan Salame, who has warned about the consequences of Haftar’s offensive.
Salame is making irresponsible statements. He wasn't like that before; he has changed. From an impartial and honest mediator, he has become a biased one," the renegade general added. Salame recently warned that Haftar’s offensive was “just the start of a long and bloody war”. He also urged the UN Security Council to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the fighting.
Backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Hafta launched a deadly campaign last month to invade and conquer Tripoli, where Libya's internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj is based.
Libya: GNA Repels Attack as Haftar's Forces Make Push for Tripoli's Old Airport
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Intense fighting raged between forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) and forces loyal to Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar on the outskirts of Tripoli. [VIDEO]
Libya's Haftar Vows to ‘to Continue Fighting’
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In an interview with the Journal de Dimanche newspaper in France on Sunday, Haftar claimed that he sought a “political solution” but “to return to politics, we need to finish with the militias”, referring to the groups of armed forces loyal to the government.
In the interview, he took aim at United Nations (UN) envoy Ghassan Salame, who has warned about the consequences of Haftar’s offensive.
Salame is making irresponsible statements. He wasn't like that before; he has changed. From an impartial and honest mediator, he has become a biased one," the renegade general added. Salame recently warned that Haftar’s offensive was “just the start of a long and bloody war”. He also urged the UN Security Council to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the fighting.
Backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Hafta launched a deadly campaign last month to invade and conquer Tripoli, where Libya's internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj is based.
Libya: GNA Repels Attack as Haftar's Forces Make Push for Tripoli's Old Airport
Farsnews
TEHRAN (FNA)- Intense fighting raged between forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) and forces loyal to Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar on the outskirts of Tripoli. [VIDEO]
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A drone is likely to be a Phoenix 2 Turkish-made landed in Mutiqa on the morning of June 4th, the first day of Eid. The General Command subsequently announced the wounding and destruction of two of them on the runway after ASTHEDAVHA air strikes, while no comment was issued by the concerned authorities on the#طرابلس nature of the target. #ليبيا #
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The General Directorate of Criminal Research conducts checkpoints on the coast road of Ghriba, 40 km from the coastal city of Sirte.#
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and Gaddafi militants have joined together to fight within the ranks of warlord Khalifa Haftar’s armed groups in south Tripoli battlefields.
Lured with millions of dinars, the coalition of gangs call themselves “Libyan National Army”, abbreviated as LNA, despite claims by Haftar and his propaganda outlets that their army is made up of regular soldiers.
Al-Habotat gangs
In one of the videos posted by the Military Information Division of Khalifa Haftar, two wanted criminals from Wershiffana region boasted about being members of LNA to “liberate Tripoli from the gangs” and “bring order” to the capital.
Ali Al-Hadi Abu Khashim (photo) and his brother are from Nasriya district in Wershiffana, a region in western Tripoli. Both are infamous for abduction, killing and committing ISIS-style beheading. The two and other members of their gang called “Al-Habotat” had disappeared after the takeover of the region by the commander of GNA Western Military Zone led by Osama Juwaili.
Now the gangsters showed up in south Tripoli front lines fighting with Tarhuna’s notorious Kanyat militia led by Mohsan Kani alongside Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army.
Al-Habotat gang is wanted for dozens of terrorist crimes. In July 2016, the gang members hanged to death 65-year old Saied Shariha from Kabou town in Nafousa Mountain after his poor family could not pay the LYD 800.000 ransom.
In March of the same year, Al-Habotat terrorists beheaded hostage Talal Shaikhi and hanged his decapitated head in a shop. (See photos)
Children were not an exception. In May 2016 Al-Habotat terrorists kidnapped Ehab Al-Maedani, a boy from their district, and demanded an LYD 200,000 dinar ransom. When his family could not pay, they killed him and threw his body on the road.
In a similar terrorist act, Al-Habotat strangled 12-year old boy Abdullah Dagnoush to death after his family failed to collect an LYD 500.000 dinar ransom.
Terrorist Al-Kubba
But Al-Habotat terrorists are not the only ones fighting for warlord Khalifa Haftar. A terrorist from Sabratha nicknamed Al-Kubba, who commands Al-Aruba militia, has also joined Haftar’s armed groups in south Tripoli front lines.
He has recently posted a video with his militiamen inside a Tiger armoured vehicle in south Tripoli threatening to torture and kill any captured GNA fighter.
Al-Kubba’s crime record is so horrible. In 2018, he abducted three brothers from Abu-lghith family and tortured them before being boiled to death in a cauldron, in an apparent ISIS-inspired crime.
Video of the three victims of Abu-lghith family after being boiled to death by Al-Kubba
Role of Madkhali extremists
War on Tripoli
Militiaman Daab from terrorist to regular soldier
Kanyat militia
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Translated from Arabic by Microsoft
A drone is likely to be a Phoenix 2 Turkish-made landed in Mutiqa on the morning of June 4th, the first day of Eid. The General Command subsequently announced the wounding and destruction of two of them on the runway after ASTHEDAVHA air strikes, while no comment was issued by the concerned authorities on the
Translated from Arabic by Microsoft
The General Directorate of Criminal Research conducts checkpoints on the coast road of Ghriba, 40 km from the coastal city of Sirte.
LNA Resumes Its Advance North Of Tripoli Airport, Destroys Several Vehicles
The Libyan National Army (LNA) has moved from its positions north of the International Airport and resumed its advance towards...
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Military Situation In Libya On June 9, 2019 (Map Update)
Clashes between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Government of National Accord (GNA) forces continue around the Tripoli Airport; LNA...
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- Clashes between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Government of National Accord (GNA) forces continue around the Tripoli Airport;
- LNA warplanes struck positions of pro-GNA fighters in Zawiyah;
- Despite attempts of the GNA backers to halt the LNA advance by diplomatic means, the operation is ongoing.
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It shows "ISIS Presence" nested in Tripoli south - like a holdout zone originally in alignment (and now cut off) with the LNA?
Misurata is cut off by the overlaid photo, which according to the Moriarty's, the Turkish government have been flying in arms and supplies - this is a key control point for the terrorists.
Misurata is cut off by the overlaid photo, which according to the Moriarty's, the Turkish government have been flying in arms and supplies - this is a key control point for the terrorists.
05/29/2019
Just in: A report from the Libyan National Army - Passed to me from the Libyan Tribes
Operations Room:
Turkey is stepping up its participation in the fraternal war against the armed forces and continues to violate Security Council resolutions by sending new military supplies and experts to take you directly to the fighting. They also sent armored vehicles to the Turkish Embassy. Last night, at 11 pm, a Turkish C130 cargo plane landed at Misurata. With a team of experts from the Turks with an integrated operating room, which had arrived before an Antonov aircraft belonging to a Ukrainian company coming from Ankara and carrying drones, at least two aircraft have been assembled so far with their ammunition and one was tried overnight and flew in the suburbs Misurata and Zliten coast and confirm our sources predicted that the Turks begin to use against our armed forces in the coming hours from Misurata base.
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تركيا تصعد من مشاركتها فى الحرب الاخوانية ضد القوات المسلحة وتستمر فى خرق قرارات مجلس الأمن بأرسال امدادات عسكرية جديده وخبراء أتىاك للمشاركة فى القتال بشكل مباشربعد ان قاموا بأرسال مدرعات باعتراف البرلمان التركي حيث هبطت الليله الماضية على تمام الساعة11 مساء فى مصراته طائرة شحن تركيه من طراز c130 على متنها فريق خبراء من الاتراك مع غرفة عمليات متكاملة هذا وكانت قد وصلت قبلها طائرة من طراز انتينوف تابعة لشركة اوكرانيةقادمة من انقره وعلى متنها طائرات بدون طيار تم تجميع طائرتين على الاقل حتى الان بذخيرتهما وتم تجربة احداهما الليله وحلّقت فى ضواحى مصراته وزليتن والساحل وتؤكد مصادرنا توقع ان يبدا الاتراك استخدامها ضد قواتنا المسلحة خلال الساعات القادمة انطلاقا من قاعدة مصراته.
The Libyans understand the dirty game that is being played against them as they fight to regain their sovereignty from the terrorist mercenaries that were left to destabilize and steal from them by NATO in 2011. This disease left by NATO is like a cancer, it does not want to go, especially the head of the snake, Misurata. This is Hillary Clintons murdering terrorists, they were/are the home of the Turkish mafia in Libya. They were caught in a scheme to steal hundreds of millions from the Libyan people before 2011 and were about to lose all their stolen assets in Libya. Of course they joined Clinton and became her gang of murderers. They are the criminals who imprisoned over 70,000 innocent Libyan men, women and children in secret prisons after the fall of Libya in 2011. Thousands of these people were tortured to death, their only crime was loyalty to their country against the terrorists. There are thousands of unmarked graves near Misurata.
Misurata terrorists also attacked and destroyed the Tawergha tribe's city and homes. They have attempted a genocide of the Tawergha tribe because they are dark skinned. To this day the Misurata terrorists hold the Tawergha people as hostages in the desert and will not allow them to return to their homes. The slave trading in Libya is held in Misurata.
Misurata is the most hated city (and people) in Libya. They are fighting desperately to maintain their control and their evil ways. But, all of Libya is against them, they will lose and Turkey should be condemned for supporting these evil, soul less, God less criminals.
Once back in charge of their county, the Libyan people would demand the return of the stolen 500 billion that was in the Federal Reserve and EU. They would demand the return of the stolen gold, silver and precious metals by Qatar and other NATO puppets. Of course, this is a strong reason for the thieves and criminals to keep Libya destroyed and a failed state.
If you understand anything, understand this.. there is no civil war in Libya.
1. There would be no war in Libya if there were no terrorist militias.
2. If the terrorist militias would leave, the Libyan tribes and people would hold a country wide election bringing together their country under a solid and duly elected leader, House of Representatives and General Secretariat of the Tribes.
It is time for the world to stand up for the Libyan people, it is time to remove the embargo from their national army imposed by the UN in 2011. Meanwhile, while the terrorists have been receiving arms and money from Turkey and Qatar. This is why the terrorist militias have been able to control Tripoli, Misurata and much of Libya for the past 8 years. The Libyan people have been held at gun point without any resources to fight back. Now we (and they) pray for support from good countries who understand the current situation on the ground in Libya.
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From past experience, I consider "The Southfront" site to be a reliable information outlet but I have reservations on reports coming from "the Libya Observer"? They don't come across as "independent or neutral" but contain a large majority of tweets supporting U.S./NATO/EU initiatives. Where ever Haftar's name is mentioned - it is "always presented" in a derogatory manner - as though he and his military are the one's perpetuating crimes against fellow Libyan citizens. Haftar's military are blamed for bombing hospitals and ambulances. In some of the tweets, you only have to substitute Syria's al-Assad - in the place of Haftar - to get the same propaganda spin that was coming out of publications by the White Helmets, against Assad and Russia.
Haftar militias target two ambulances in south Tripoli | The Libya Observer
Haftar militias target two ambulances in south Tripoli | The Libya Observer
Underlining should be made that the Zionists are the main culprit and are the head of the Beast.
All mentioned are just conduits and extensions of Mossad and the 4DSTS.
And that knowdge is gifted, here.
LNA Claims Its Forces Downed GNA Warplane Near Misrata (Video)
The Libyan National Army (LNA) claimed on June 13 that is units had shot down a warplane of the Government...
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Libya PM Serraj will not sit down with rival Haftar to end war
Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said on Sunday he was not prepared to sit down with eastern commander Khalifa Haftar to negotiate an end to the two-month offensive against Tripoli.
“I will not sit down again with this person because what he has done in past years shows he won’t be a partner in the political process,” the 59-year-old Serraj said in an interview at his wood-panelled office in central Tripoli.
Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said on Sunday he was not prepared to sit down with eastern commander Khalifa Haftar to negotiate an end to the two-month offensive against Tripoli.
“I will not sit down again with this person because what he has done in past years shows he won’t be a partner in the political process,” the 59-year-old Serraj said in an interview at his wood-panelled office in central Tripoli.
‘Mercenary’ pilot captured by Libya’s Haftar forces identified as a US Air Force vet after release
A fighter jet pilot who was shot down and captured by the forces of one of Libya’s rival governments was revealed to be a US Air Force veteran. The US media identified Jamie Sponaugle after his Saudi-facilitated release.
Jamie Sponaugle during interregation. Screenshot from footage released by the LNA.
A fighter jet pilot who was shot down and captured by the forces of one of Libya’s rival governments was revealed to be a US Air Force veteran. The US media identified Jamie Sponaugle after his Saudi-facilitated release.
Sponaugle was captured by the Libyan National Army (LNA), the military force loyal to Gen. Khalifa Haftar, allegedly after his Mirage F1 was shot down near capital Tripoli on May 7. The LNA said the man was conducting bombing raids against its troops on behalf of Libya’s internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and accused him of being a mercenary. The true identity of the pilot, who was previously reported as a Portuguese national, was first broken by the Washington Post and later confirmed by CNN.
Images of a bloodied Sponaugle were released by the LNA shortly after his capture, but at the time he was called a Portuguese national, named Jimmy Rees. According to the Post, Sponaugle enlisted as an airman in 2006 and worked as a mechanic until 2013. He then served in the Florida Air National Guard before retiring in late 2016. The newspaper says he didn’t have pilot training and that US officials are not sure what he was doing in Libya
Sponaugle was released from captivity with the help of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally, the report said, stressing that the Saudis did not pay for his release. On Tuesday, the American was flown to Saudi Arabia, where he is to meet US diplomatic officials and undergo medical examinations.
Task and Purpose gave a somewhat differing service record for Sponaugle, as well as a list of merits that indicates deployments to Iran and South Korea and involvement with the US Air Force’s nuclear deterrence operations.
Libya remains fractured since the 2011 NATO bombing campaign, which helped anti-government militants oust and kill longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sponaugle was captured amid an offensive operation launched by Haftar’s forces in April. The general said he was trying to free the capital from militias destabilizing the country.
Salame: There is a match in the ideas with Marshal Haftar in some aspects
25 Jun 2019
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The Living Force
An L39 Albatros was shot down near the town of Tarhuna, a rear base of the self-styled Libyan National Army located 80 kilometers southeast of Tripoli.
Haftar forces shoot down unity government plane
Above, a missile truck found at a camp used by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in this June 28, 2019 photo. (AFP)
July 05, 2019 - Troops loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said they shot down a plane belonging to forces loyal to the rival unity government, which acknowledged losing contact with one of its aircraft.
Haftar’s spokesman Ahmad Al-Mesmari said Thursday night an L39 Albatros was shot down near the town of Tarhuna, a rear base of the self-styled Libyan National Army located 80 kilometers southeast of Tripoli.
GNA forces, under attack around Tripoli by Haftar’s forces since early April, said they had lost contact with an air force L39 that was on a combat mission south of the capital. There was no word on the crew’s fate.
The two rival camps, locked in battle on the ground, have both lost several planes in the past three months of fighting.
Libya’s Haftar ‘nothing but a pirate’: Erdogan
Libya’s Haftar ‘nothing but a pirate’: Erdogan
Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff, Khalifa Haftar. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP)
July 04, 2019 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar as “nothing but a pirate” in comments published Thursday amid rising tensions in the North African country.
Turkey supports the internationally recognized national unity government in Tripoli, which Haftar has been trying to overthrow from his base in the east of the country.
Six Turkish sailors were briefly detained by General Haftar’s forces this week after he blamed Turkey for his loss of a key town.
“Haftar is nothing but a pirate,” Erdogan told reporters in comments published in several local newspapers. “We hope that in a short while an opportunity for Libya to hold elections emerges and the people take the chance to represent their rights democratically,” he added.
Erdogan confirmed in June that Turkey was provided weapons to the Tripoli government, saying it was necessary to “rebalance” the fight against Haftar, who has the backing of Turkey’s rivals, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Haftar forces shoot down unity government plane
Above, a missile truck found at a camp used by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in this June 28, 2019 photo. (AFP)
July 05, 2019 - Troops loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said they shot down a plane belonging to forces loyal to the rival unity government, which acknowledged losing contact with one of its aircraft.
Haftar’s spokesman Ahmad Al-Mesmari said Thursday night an L39 Albatros was shot down near the town of Tarhuna, a rear base of the self-styled Libyan National Army located 80 kilometers southeast of Tripoli.
GNA forces, under attack around Tripoli by Haftar’s forces since early April, said they had lost contact with an air force L39 that was on a combat mission south of the capital. There was no word on the crew’s fate.
The two rival camps, locked in battle on the ground, have both lost several planes in the past three months of fighting.
Libya’s Haftar ‘nothing but a pirate’: Erdogan
Libya’s Haftar ‘nothing but a pirate’: Erdogan
Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff, Khalifa Haftar. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP)
July 04, 2019 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar as “nothing but a pirate” in comments published Thursday amid rising tensions in the North African country.
Turkey supports the internationally recognized national unity government in Tripoli, which Haftar has been trying to overthrow from his base in the east of the country.
Six Turkish sailors were briefly detained by General Haftar’s forces this week after he blamed Turkey for his loss of a key town.
“Haftar is nothing but a pirate,” Erdogan told reporters in comments published in several local newspapers. “We hope that in a short while an opportunity for Libya to hold elections emerges and the people take the chance to represent their rights democratically,” he added.
Erdogan confirmed in June that Turkey was provided weapons to the Tripoli government, saying it was necessary to “rebalance” the fight against Haftar, who has the backing of Turkey’s rivals, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
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The Living Force
Three killed as car bomb targets funeral in Libya's Benghazi: sources
Damaged cars are seen at the site where a car bomb hit a funeral of a former senior military commander at Huwari cemetery in Benghazi, Libya July 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ayman al-Warfalli
At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb hit a funeral of former senior military commander in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, medical and military sources said.
The funeral at Benghazi’s Huwari cemetery was for Khalifa Mismari, the assistant commander of Libya’s special forces under former leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was toppled in 2011, the military source said.
According to the military source, the current head of the special forces, Wanis Bukhamada, was attending the funeral but was unharmed.
Damaged cars are seen at the site where a car bomb hit a funeral of a former senior military commander at Huwari cemetery in Benghazi, Libya July 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ayman al-Warfalli
At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb hit a funeral of former senior military commander in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, medical and military sources said.
The funeral at Benghazi’s Huwari cemetery was for Khalifa Mismari, the assistant commander of Libya’s special forces under former leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was toppled in 2011, the military source said.
According to the military source, the current head of the special forces, Wanis Bukhamada, was attending the funeral but was unharmed.
Started reading an article by Thierry Meyssan only to realize it is an extract from a book he wrote - this is article 5/25 and I've read none of the others proceeding this. This could actually be posted in either Syria, Libya or Egypt, yet it is more appropriate for here (at least this #5 extract).
There were a few things that were of interest:
Note about posting, the article is peppered with live links to the actual article and note sure what is causing that?
There were a few things that were of interest:
The Muslim Brotherhood as members of the National Security Council of the White House
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206957.html
We are continuing the publication of Thierry Meyssan’s new book, « Right Before Our Eyes, Fake Wars and Big Lies ». In this episode, he takes us back to the first semester of 2011, during which, supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, the Muslim Brotherhood approached or won power in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206957.html
Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 19 July 2019
by Thierry Meyssan
In 2011, Ben Ali (Tunisia), Kadhafi (Libya) and Moubarak (Egypt) were three heads of state at the orders of Washington (Kadhafi since his change of policy in 2003, and the two others had always been US vassals). Despite their service record, they were swept aside for the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The beginnings of the “Arab Spring” in Tunisia
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On 12 August 2010, President Barack Obama signed Presidential Security Directive n° 11 (PSD-11). He ordered all his embassies in the Greater Middle East to prepare for « régime changes » [1]. He nominated the Muslim Brotherhood to the US National Security Council, to coordinate secret actions on the ground. Washington was going to implement the British plan for the « Arab Spring ». For the Brotherhood, the hour of glory had arrived.
On 17 December 2010, a street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire after the police had seized his wheelbarrow. The Brotherhood seized on the affair and circulated false information that the young man was an unemployed university student, and that he had been slapped by a female police agent. Immediately, men from the National Endowment for Democracy (or NED, the fake NGO run by the secret services of the five Anglo-Saxon states) paid the dead man’s family so that they would not reveal the truth, and began to foment a revolt throughout the country. A series of demonstrations against unemployment and police violence followed, and Washington asked President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to leave the country, while MI6 organised the triumphal return from London of the Guide of the Tunisian Brotherhood, Rached Ghannouchi.
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This was the “Jasmine Revolution” [2]. The plan for this régime change borrowed both from the abdication of the Shah of Iran, followed by the return of Imam Khomeini, and from the technique of colour revolutions.
Rached Ghannouchi had created a local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and attempted a coup d’etat in 1987. Arrested and imprisoned several times, he took exile in Sudan, where he was offered the support of Hassan al-Turabi, then in Turkey, where he became close to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (then the director of Millî Görüş). In 1993, he obtained political asylum in Londonistan, where he lived with his two wives and their children.
Two personalities who claimed to be « anti-American » - Moncef Marzouki (extreme left, working for the NED - USA) and Rached Ghannouchi (Muslim Brotherhood, working for the Westminster Foundation - UK).
The « League for the Protection of the Revolution » (LPR) is the Tunisian equivalent of the Egyptian « Secret Wing ». Its head, Ihmed Deghij, received instructions from Rached Ghannouchi concerning the personalities to be eliminated.
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The Anglo-Saxons helped him to improve the image of his party, the Movement of Islamic Tendency, renaming it the Renaissance Movement (“Ennahdha”). In order to soothe the population’s fear of the Brotherhood, the NED called on its extreme left-wing puppets. Moncef Marzouki, President of the Arab Committee for Human Rights, offered moral sanction. He claimed that the Brotherhood had truly changed, and had become democrats. He was elected President of Tunisia. Ghannouchi won the general election and managed to form a government between December 2011 and August 2013. He nominated other puppets from the NED, like Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, ex-Maoist, then Trotskyist, converted by Washington. Following the example of Hassan al-Banna, Ghannouchi formed a militia within the party, the “Leagues for the Protection of the Tunisian Revolution”, which proceeded with political assassinations, including that of the leader of the opposition, Chokri Belaid.
However, despite conclusive support from part of the Tunisian population when he returned, his party soon sank into the minority. Before leaving power, Rached Ghannouchi forced a vote on the tax code which was aimed, in the long term, at ruining the secular bourgeoisie. He hoped in this way to transform his country’s social structure and return once again to the front of the stage.
In May 2016, the 10th congress of Ennahdha was organised by Innovative Communications & Strategies, a company created by MI6. The speakers gave assurances that the party had become “civil,” with a separation of political and religious activities. But this had no connection with secularism, it simply required a division of labor between members, who must refrain from being both an elected official and an Imam at the same time.
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The “Arab Spring” in Egypt
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206957.html
On 25 January 2011, just one week after President Ben Ali had fled, the Egyptian national holiday was transformed into a demonstration against the authorities. The protests were supervised by the US team traditionally used for colour revolutions – the Serbs trained by Gene Sharp (a NATO theorist specialised in non-violent régime change, in other words, without recourse to war [3]) and the men from NED. Their books and brochures, translated into Arabic, including the rules for demonstrations, were widely distributed from the first day. Most of the spies were arrested later, and judged, condemned, then expelled. The demonstrators were mainly mobilised by the Muslim Brotherhood, who enjoyed the support of 15% to 20% of the population throughout the country, and also by Kifaya (“That’s enough!”), a group created by Gene Sharp. This was the “Lotus Revolution” [4]. The protests took place mainly in Cairo, on Tahrir Square, but also in the seven other major cities. Yet it was very different from the revolutionary wave which had swamped Tunisia.
The Brotherhood used weapons right from the start. On Tahrir Square, they moved their wounded into a mosque which was fully equipped to provide them with first aid. The TV channels of the petro-dictatorships – al-Jazeera for Qatar, and al-Arabiya for Saudi Arabia – called for the overthrow of the régime, and carried live broadcasts which gave out strategic information. The United States called on the ex-Director of the Atomic Energy Agency, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and President of the National Association for Change, Mohamed El-Baradei. He had been honoured for calming the anger of Hans Blix, who, in the name of the UN, had denounced the lies that the Bush administration used to justify the war against Iraq. For more than a year, El-Baradei presided over a coalition created on the model of the Damascus Declaration – a reasonable text, signatories from all sides, plus the Muslim Brotherhood, whose own programme was in reality totally opposed to that of the platform.
For the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Essam Elarian, the Camp David Agreement meant little, the essential task was to criminalise homosexuality.
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Finally, the Brotherhood was the first Egyptian organisation to call for the overthrow of the régime. The television channels of all the member states of NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council predicted the flight of President Hosni Mubarak. President Obama’s special envoy, ambassador Frank Wisner (Nicolas Sarkozy’s father-in-law by marriage), first of all pretended to support Mubarak, then pretended to withdraw and hide behind the crowd. He pressed Mubarak to resign. Finally, after two weeks of rioting and demonstrations gathering up to a million people, Mubarak gave in. However, the United States wanted to change the Constitution before putting the Brotherhood in power. Power was therefore retained, temporarily, in the hands of the army. Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi presided over the military committee which administered current affairs. He nominated a Commission of 7 members, two of whom were Muslim Brothers. Indeed, it was one of these, judge Tariq Al-Bishri, who presided over the work of the Commission.
However, the Brotherhood held demonstrations every Friday after prayers at the mosques, and continued lynching Coptic Christians, without the police interfering.
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No to Revolution in Bahrain and Yemen
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Although the Yemenite culture has nothing in common with North Africa, other than the Arabic language, an important dispute had been troubling Bahrain and Yemen for months. Revolutionary fervor had unexpectedly spilled over from Tunisia and Egypt, an unwelcome development for the Empire. Bahrain harboured the 5th US Fleet and controlled maritime traffic in the Persian Gulf, while Yemen and Djibouti controlled the entrance and exit of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
The reigning Sunni dynasty in Bahrain feared that the popular revolt could overthrow the monarchy, and automatically blamed Iran for organising it. Indeed, in 1981, an Iraqi Shiite ayatollah had attempted to export Imam Khomeini’s revolution and topple the puppet régime which had been set up by the British upon independence in 1971. Perhaps 70 to 80% of the Bahraini population is Shiite, and they have many grievances, including the destruction of their mosques and lack of representation in the Sunni-dominated government, in addition to the economic and political grievances shared with ordinary Sunnis, who also joined the protests.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited the area and authorised Saudi Arabia to nip these authentic revolutions in the bud. The repression was directed by Prince Nayef. He belonged to the Sudairi clan, as did Prince Bandar, although Nayef was his elder, and Bandar was only the son of a slave. The sharing of roles between the two men was clear – the uncle would maintain order by repressing popular movements, while the nephew would destabilise States by organising terrorism. They only needed to know which states were to receive which treatment [5].
Seldom had the hypocrisy and contradictions of imperialist policy been more evident. The grip of a Sunni minority dictatorship would be imposed against a real popular uprising in Bahrain, while a fake uprising was to be armed against a popular government, nominally headed by a member of the Alawite minority in Syria. Bahrain would be occupied by 5,000 Saudi military police indefinitely, along with 7,000 US troops stationed at the US Naval Base in Bahrain, the peninsula of the two seas.
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The “Arab Spring” in Libya
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While Washington had planned to overthrow of the governments of Ben Ali and Mubarak without waging war, the situation was very different in Libya and Syria, ruled by the revolutionaries Gaddafi and Assad.
After having taught the petro-dictators how to speak “PC”, after having reorganised Al-Jazeera and set up US companies in Libya, Brother Mahmoud Jibril became the leader of the « revolution » against the régime for which he had been working the day before.
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At the beginning of February 2011, in Cairo, while Hosni Mubarak was still President of Egypt, the CIA launched the next phase of the operations. A meeting was held with representatives of several power centers, such as the NED (Republican senator John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman), France (Bernard-Henri Levy), and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Libyan delegation was led by Brother Mahmud Jibril (the man who had trained the Gulf leaders and reorganised al-Jazeera). He entered the meeting as the number two of the Jamahiriya government, Libya’s head of planning and economic development and a protégé of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. On his way out, his new job was … head of the opposition to the “dictatorship”. He did not return to his luxurious offices in Tripoli, but landed in Benghazi, in Cyrenaica. The Syrian delegation included Anas al-Abdeh (founder of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) and his brother Malik al-Abdeh (director of Barada TV, an anti-Syrian channel financed by the CIA). Washington gave instructions to begin the civil wars in Libya and in Syria both at the same time.
On 15 February, Fathi Terbil, attorney for the victims of the 1996 massacre at Abu Salim prison, ran through the city of Benghazi claiming that the local prison was on fire, and calling for help to free the prisoners. He was briefly arrested and freed the same day. The next day, 16 February, still in Benghazi, rioters attacked three police stations, the buildings of Internal Security and the offices of the Prosecutor. The police killed 6 people while defending the armoury of Internal Security. Meanwhile, in Al-Bayda, between Benghazi and the Egyptian border, other rioters also attacked police stations and Internal Security. They took the Hussein Al-Jawf barracks and the air force base of Al-Abraq. They captured a large quantity of weapons, beat the guards and hanged a soldier. Other less spectacular incidents took place, in coordinated fashion, in seven other towns [6].
These attackers claimed to be members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, (LIFG-al-Qaeda) [7]. They were all members or ex-members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Two of their commanders had been brainwashed in Guantánamo according to the techniques of professors Albert D. Biderman and Martin Seligman [8].
At the end of the 1990’s, on the demand of MI6, the LIFG had made four attempts to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi and establish a guerrilla warfare operation in the Fezzan mountains. They were bitterly opposed by General Abdel Fattah Younès, who forced them to flee the country. Since the attacks of 2001, LIFG has figured on the list of terrorist organisations established by Committee 1267 of the UN, but still maintained an office in London, under the protection of MI6.
The new head of LIFG, Abdelhakim Belhaj, who fought in Afghanistan alongside Osama Bin Laden, and also in Iraq, had been arrested in Malaysia in 2004, then transferred to a secret CIA prison in Thailand, where he was subjected to truth serum and torture. After an agreement between the United States and Libya, he was sent back to Libya, where he was again tortured, this time by British agents, in Abu Salim prison. In 2007, the LIFG and al-Qaeda joined forces.
However, in the context of negotiations with the United States during the period 2008-2010, Saif el-Islam Gaddafi (as naïve as he was idealistic) had negotiated a truce between the Jamahiriya and the LIFG (al-Qaeda). Belhaj had published a long document, entitled “Corrective Studies”, in which he admitted that he had committed an error by calling for a jihad against co-religionists in a Muslim country. In three successive waves, all the members of al-Qaeda were amnestied and freed on the sole condition that they renounce violence in writing. Of 1,800 jihadists, only a hundred or so refused the agreement and preferred to stay in prison. As soon as he was freed, Abdelhakim Belhaj left Libya and settled in Qatar. They all managed to return to Libya without attracting attention.
On 17 February, 2011, the Brotherhood organised a protest in Benghazi, in memory of the 13 people who had died at the Italian Consulate there during the demonstration against the Danish Mohamed cartoons in 2006. A vicious rumour had been spread by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a media group of the Muslim Brotherhood that agitates for the Caliphate, that Muammar Gaddafi himself was behind the blasphemous cartooning, in league with an ally of the US and Israel, the Italian Northern League. This fake news was widely believed in Benghazi. At the anniversary the demonstration went from bad to worse than before, with 14 people killed and shot, both police and demonstrators. One may conjecture that the shooters were most likely special forces provocateurs, as this is the very template of an insurgency sparked by death squad snipers shooting from the roofs at both sides during a public demonstration. Such was precisely the starting gun for the Syria insurgency a month later, and on the Maidan in Kiev, three years afterwards.
The Muslim Brotherhood distributed the new flag that they wanted for Libya – it was that of ex-King Idriss and British colonisation.
This massacre was the beginning of the “revolution”. In reality, the demonstrators were not seeking to overthrow the Jamahiriya, but to proclaim the independence of Cyrenaica. So, in Benghazi, tens of thousands of flags of King Idris (1889-1983) were distributed. Modern Libya is composed of three provinces of the Ottoman Empire (Tripolitania in the west, Fezzan in the southwest, and Cyrenaica in the east); it has only been a single country since 1951. Cyrenaica was governed between 1946 and 1969 by the Senussi monarchy – a Wahhabi family supported by the Saudis – who extended their power across all of Libya.
Muammar Gaddafi promised to “spring rivers of blood” to save his population from the Islamists. In Geneva, an association created by the NED, the Libyan League for Human Rights, took these declarations out of context and inverted them in the Western Press as threats against the Libyan People. It asserted that Gaddafi was bombing Tripoli. The League itself was an empty shell which housed the men who were chosen to become future Ministers of the country after the NATO invasion.
Mahmoud Jibril reorganised Al-Jazeera in 2005, transforming it into the Muslim Brotherhood channel. This was the news channel that perpetuated the myth of a surviving Ben Laden. Jibril’s spiritual guide, Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradâwî, hosted a weekly programme during which he called for the assassination of Mouamar Kadhafi.
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On 21 February, on al-Jazeera, sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa ordering the Libyan military to save their people by assassinating Muammar Gaddafi.
The Security Council, basing its work on that of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva – which had auditioned the League and the Libyan ambassador – and at the request of the Gulf Cooperation Council, authorised the use of force to protect the population from the dictator.
The commander of AfriCom, General Carter Ham, hit the roof when the Pentagon ordered him to coordinate with the LIFG (al-Qaeda). How could he work in Libya with the same people he was fighting in Iraq, combatants who had killed GI’s? He was immediately relieved of his concerns, and replaced by the commander of EuCom and NATO, Admiral James Stavridis.
30 of the 38 Navy Seals (here seen in training) who had participated in the pretended killing of Oussama Ben Laden in Pakistan died in various accidents in the weeks following this operation.
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Intermission: on 1 May 2011, Barack Obama announced that in Abbottabad, Pakistan, US Navy Seal Team 6 had eliminated Osama Bin Laden, of whom we had seen no credible life signs for almost 10 years. This announcement closed the al-Qaeda file, and made it possible to recast the jihadists as allies of the United States, just like in the good old days of the wars in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya and Kosovo. “Bin Laden’s body” was buried at sea, far offshore from prying eyes [9].
For six months, the Libyan front line remained unchanged. The LIFG controlled Benghazi and proclaimed an Islamic emirate in the town of Derna, the hotbed of extremism where most of its members originated. In order to terrorise the Libyans, LIFG death squads would kidnap people at random. Their bodies would be found later, dismembered, their limbs scattered in the streets. The jihadists had originally been normal people, but they were put on a regime of natural and synthetic drugs which made them lose all sensitivity. They were then able to commit atrocities without being aware of what they were doing. {somewhere in these threads (including threads on Syria) this business of drugs comes up - Gaddafi spoke of it personnaly, and it was spoken about often in context to Syria and what Assad's soldiers faced}
The CIA, which suddenly needed large quantities of Captagon – an amphetamine derivative – contacted the Mafia capo, Boyko Borissov. As the Bulgarian Prime Minister he holds the presidency of the European Council for the first half of 2018. Borissov is an ex-bodyguard who joined the Security Insurance Company, one of the major Mafia organisations in the Balkans. This company has a number of clandestine laboratories which produce the drug for German sports professionals. Borissov manufactures these miracle pills by the ton, to be ingested while smoking haschich [10].
General Abdel Fattah Younès defected and joined the “revolutionaries”. At least, this is the story that was circulated in the West. In reality, he remained in the service of the Jamahiriya at the same time as becoming the head of the armed forces of independent Cyrenaica. The Islamists, who remembered his actions against them a decade earlier, lost no time in discovering that he was still in contact with Saif el-Islam Gaddafi. They laid a trap for him, killed him, burned him and devoured part of his corpse.
Emir Hamad of Qatar hoped to get rid of the Jamahiriya and install the new power structure, as he had done with the unconstitutional President of Lebanon. While NATO settled for airborne intervention, Qatar built an airstrip in the desert and landed men and equipment there. But the population of Fezzan and Tripolitania remained loyal to the Jamahiriya and its Guide.
When NATO rained a deluge of fire on Tripoli, in August, Qatar massed Special Forces and unloaded its tanks in Tunisia. These thousands of men were of course not Qataris, but mercenaries – mainly Colombian – trained by Academi (ex-Blackwater Xe) in the United Arab Emirates. They joined al-Qaeda (now once again the good guys, even though they were still considered as terrorists by the UN) in Tripoli, dressed and hooded in black, so that their eyes could not be seen.
Only two groups of Libyans participated in the taking of Tripoli – the fighters from Misrata, under the command of Turkey, and the Tripoli Brigade (al-Qaeda – LIFG), commanded by the Irishman Mahdi al-Harati, and supervised by regular officers from the French army.
On the proposition of NATO, Abdelhakim Belhaj (centre), the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) or the Libyan branch of Al-Qaïda, became the military governor of Tripoli. Mahdi al-Harati (left), whom President Erdogan came to congratulate during the Freedom Flotilla in Gaza, is now his assistant.
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Even before Muammar Gaddafi had been lynched, a provisional government was formed by Washington. We note the presence of all the “heroes” of this story – under the presidency of Moustafa Abdul Jalil (who had covered up the torture of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor), Mahmud Jibril (who taught the Emirs of the Gulf, reorganised Al-Jazeera and underwent metamorphosis in the February meeting in Cairo), and Fathi Terbil (who launched the “revolution” in Benghazi). The head of the LIFG and world ex-number 3 of al-Qaeda, Abdelhakim Belhaj (implicated in the attacks on Atocha train station in Madrid), was named as “military governor of Tripoli”.
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Thierry Meyssan
Note about posting, the article is peppered with live links to the actual article and note sure what is causing that?
angelburst29
The Living Force
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The Libyan coastguard has seized an Italian fishing vessel, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Rome said the reasons for the seizure were not clear, but were likely linked to fishing activities in waters that Italy itself considers “risky”, the statement said, noting that Italian vessels have been warned not to enter those waters.
Rome said the vessel was taken to the port of Misrata, a city allied to the U.N.-recognized government of Fayez al-Serraj.
Eastern Libyan forces warplane makes emergency landing in Tunisia, pilot held: LNA
A warplane belonging to eastern Libyan forces fighting the internationally recognized Tripoli government made an emergency landing in Tunisia on Monday and the pilot was detained, the self-declared eastern foreign ministry said.
Libya's Mitiga airport halts air traffic after air strike: statement
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Libya's Mitiga airport re-opens after air strike: statement
Mitiga airport in Libya's capital Tripoli re-opened to air traffic on Tuesday after an air strike, according to a post on the its Facebook page.
Drone strike near Tripoli kills seven fighters loyal to Haftar: military source
At least seven fighters loyal to Libyan National Army (LNA) forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar were killed overnight in a drone strike in southern Tripoli, a military source said.