US, NATO & DESTRUCTION OF LIBYA

US, NATO And The Destruction Of Libya: The Western Front Of A Widening War – OpEd August 16, 2014 By Pambazuka News By Horace G. Campbell NATO claimed that its intervention in Libya was a historic success. But three years later, Libya is in complete chaos. Some 1700 militias have a combined total of 250,000 men under arms. Another external intervention seems necessary to stabilize the country. But the US and NATO must never be involved INTRODUCTION Most western embassies evacuated their personnel from Tripoli over the past few weeks as the fighting between rival armed militias creates a nightmare of violence, insecurity and death for millions of Libyans. The United States used its military presence in the Mediterranean to escort its embassy personnel and Marine guards to travel by road over the last weekend to Tunisia. The evacuation of western diplomats leaving the millions of Libyans to an uncertain fate has brought to the fore the Libyan dimensions of a wider theater of warfare from Tripoli through Benghazi to Cairo, Alexandria and Gaza and from Aleppo in Syria to Mosul in Iraq. The former allies of NATO such as Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are now connected to differing factions of the Libyan civil war. In Libya, the war and bloodletting between the US supported General Khalifah Hifter (sometimes spelt Haftar) and the militias supported by Qatar is one indication of former allies falling out. Citizens of the West have little understanding of the depth of the sufferings unleashed on the peoples of North Africa, Palestine, Syria and Iraq since the United States and NATO launched wars against the peoples of this region. The battles in Libya are merging with the criminal war against the people of Palestine, especially the peoples of Gaza. [...] EXTRACT - FULL ARTICLE @ SOURCE http://www.eurasiareview.com/16082014-us-nato-destruction-libya-western-front-widening-war-oped/

Good article for anyone interested in Libya.

I'm a bit slow so I've been reading and re-reading, trying to get the hang of what's happening.

I'm heading back the article for another read about US military and CIA involvement ... a sneaky NATO intervention ... incessant bombing  ... US investment firms ... oil money and more.  Oh, and the US involvement with Jihadists.

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No matter how much I re-read, there's only so much info I can take in.  This is about all I can absorb:

Since 2011 NATO destruction Libya = 50,000 dead.

General Khalifah Hifter (aka Haftar) was a Gadaffi general who defected and at one stage lived in Washington.

Hifter went back to Libyawhen the NATO bombings began in 2011.

Hifter heads 1,700 militias (yep, that many), which is about 250,000 armed men.

(I think) the article indicates the problem in Libya is that the anti-Gadaffi fighters are now not prepared to subordinate themselves to Hifter.  

Hifter's the US-backed man ... he's the Libyan 'wonder'.  But that's not necessarily a positive.

CIA under Petraeus recruited Islamists from Eastern Libya to fight in Syria (see Broadwell biography).

War against Syria:  Qatar, Saudi Arabia & Turkey backed (money & weapons) ISIS.

Now Saudi Arabia & Qatar fallen out over military takeover of Egypt by Grl SISI (and something to do with the Brotherhood).

Article says US Africa Command and CIA recruited previously designated terrorists.

There was a Hifter and Jihadist alliance.

Sounds like Hifter wants to be the main man.  

His main rival was bumped off (General Abdul Fattah Younis).

Wikipedia on Younis - here - says he was #2 in Gadaffi govt before he resigned and joined the rebels.

Shot & body burnt (along with x1 other).  Said to have been killed by rebels on suspicion he was double agent (for Gadaffi).

The Libyan stuff is supposed to affect North Africa, Gaza, Syria and maybe some other areas, but I don't understand how and this is pretty much all I can kind of get a handle on at the moment.  LOL.

Great article for anyone who knows more about the region than I do.  Worth a read.