UN using NATO as private security force in Libya – writer

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Published time: June 09, 2011 21:02
Edited time: June 10, 2011 01:21

A journalist walks past burnt vehicles that the Libyan government says they were hit by NATO airstrikes the day before at a wilderness park in Tripoli on June 8, 2011 (AFP Photo / Mahmud Turkia)

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NATO is continuing its barrage of the Libyan capital, with no sign there will be any let-up until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi goes. Western and Arab countries are showing their support for the Libyan opposition by pledging more money.

The rebels say they need $3 billion over the next several months to pay salaries and buy supplies.

Although the rebels have managed to get financing from their first oil exports to the US, writer and filmmaker Patrick Henningsen believes the oil business coming out of Libya is not the main driver of this NATO operation.

“We are talking about a total restructuring of the state,” he said. “The rebels drew up plans way back in March to have their own oil company to replace the Libyan national oil company, and their own national bank.”

The unfreezing of Libyan assets to be given to the opposition is taking longer than expected, but Henningsen says there are bigger issues.

“I think a bigger question is that the Libyan national bank has one of the highest per capita gold reserves of any state bank in the world. I think the only country that has a higher per capita gold reserve is Lebanon,” he said. “What Gaddafi might have stuffed away in Swiss bank account or a collection of Swiss bank accounts is miniscule compared to the state assets in terms of gold and oil that Libya possesses. And this has really been the game all along.”

Henningsen claims this operation is about making Libya fold into the globalist umbrella, converting the nation to a more privatized one.

“Libya is the only country that voted not to join Africom, which is the US’s strategic African command project,” he concluded. “And that is one of the reasons why they are getting the blood-end of the hammer from NATO right now.”

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Barnabas 10.06.2011 05:07

Russia and China are certainly aware of when the devil from the West will gradually die on the range of aggression will come they themselves. If Russia and China &nb sp; not settle with the west devil now, so they and all world "have to look forward."

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Nay Lin Maung 10.06.2011 00:51

The reason I think that Sir Mr. Medvedev veto because he wants part of the bone from Mr. Gaddafi. It is wrong Sir Mr. Medvedev. If you want to me prove that Sir Mr. Medvedev cares about Libya, Sir Mr. Medvedev have to make NATO leaves from the Libya. You can work with China. China will need your help too. It is worth to fight another cold war in the Northern Africa right now if Sir Mr. Medvedev and Sir Mr. Putin like to fight. NATO is not trustable guys because they are broke. They are looking for smaller guys that they can take money from smaller guys. Sir Mr. Medvedev and Sir Mr. Putin Your country will be next target of the NATO. Fighting the war is not option from both the leadership of China and Russia that I know very well. Sir Mr. Medvedev and Sir Mr. Hu Without Saving Libya today, Both Sir Mr. Hu and Sir Mr. Medvedev are going to regret by your actions.

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Timmy-Tinker 10.06.2011 00:42

Agree, I think Russia is at the downgrade plane, China/ Russia are back-ing home in front of the Western world´s agression, as Britain and France got out of Germany´s way in the 1930s. Are Moscow / Beijing, at first taking care of their own empires, China/Africa, and Russia of its own large energy-areas ? If the West can´t keep the Arab world down with dictators/proxies, as up to now, and keep its own powder dry, they will take control of the oilreserves, everywhere, as Iraq, and then Iran. China and India, takes a lot oil from Iran and the Gulf states, and here we have the U.S. 5th Fleet, in Bahrain, as we now see "protected" and invaded by the Saudis. The 5th Fleet can close all oildeliveries to China / India, from Middle East, and close those growing economies and markets, with easy " gunboatdiplomacy".&n bsp;The Western public is just lame cynical duck even here, with an understanding, exploatation, of the control of oilsupplies/ prices as important for daily life. Since 1961, Bay of Pigs, Cuba, U.S., sends the Marines, invading, ;often with terrible results as we know, no victories, for 50 years. (But in 1956, the forced London & Paris out of the Suez-invasion.)

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