'Western countries fighting for Libya’s oil fields like piranhas'

Published time: August 22, 2011 17:06
Edited time: August 22, 2011 22:58
Outside the eastern oil town of Brega,Libya (AFP Photo / Odd Andersen)
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Months of chaos await Libya if the NATO-led operation in the country topples Muammar Gaddafi, political analyst William Engdahl told RT, but regime change would suit Western oil interests.

“They are eventually going to topple Gaddafi," he said. “And I think what Libya is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos. Nobody knows the outcome.”

“What emerges from that, I think it suits some of the Western oil interests, especially the British and the French, who were fighting like piranhas over grabbing the most juicy oil fields for their own companies,” said Engdahl, author of "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.”

Engdahl says NATO’s actions in Libya have created a very virulent precedent.

“What we have going on in Libya for some months now is a major effort by the US and NATO forces to pour at least $1 billion by various estimates into the so-called Transitional National Council,” he said. “It’s rival tribal clan warfare that is going on in Libya. This is not a democracy movement by any stretch of the imagination.”

Engdahl said it is simply an insurgency being supported covertly by US-financed armed shipments to the rebels – in order, he claimed “to simply carve up the oil fields and get them into Western hands, rather than in Libyan state hands, which Gaddafi held firmly on to.”

David Maimela from the South Africans for Peace in Africa Initiative shared Engdahl’s pessimism about Libya’s near future.

“NATO has not achieved anything [in Libya],” he said. “Even if they are to remove Gaddafi and his government at the moment, what we are going to have is a greater form of political instability in the country and a further breakout of civil war in Libya,” he said.


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Will (unregistered) 23.08.2011 09:01

On the one hand US and NATO forces are fighting al-Qaeda militants in Iraq and Afghanistan.Yet there supporting the al-Qaeda affiliated "rebels" in Libya.Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi the commander of anti Gaddafi "rebel" forces in Libya has admitted that among the ranks of those fighting against the government are islamic militants who have fought and killed US troops in Iraq, otherwise known as “al-qaeda” fighters.al-Hasidi, was actually responsible for recruiting Benghazi suicide bombers to fight NATO in Iraq and Afghanistan.Of course, when Gaddafi pointed out that al-Qaeda fighters were instigating a revolution in Libya, the castrated corporate controlled media reacted by branding the man crazy and declaring him deluded.Al-Qaeda is a CIA creation, literal translation 'the database,' it was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen including Osama bin Laden who were armed, trained & funded by the CIA during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in the early 80's.With a huge investment of $3 billion the CIA effectively created & nurtured bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network using american tax-payers money.

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werdy 22.08.2011 23:19

I don't think the terrorist organization NATO minds chaos in libya. They mind as much as mitt romney does about violence in a Detroit ghetto. What the terrorists in nato care about is causing enough damage and distraction to get what they want without anyone noticing.

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Aleksandar 22.08.2011 21:23

NATO is NO.1 terorist in the world. They commited crime against humanity all over the world. I hope they will face the justice one day. My city was under attack of NATO "brave" pilots for 78 nights and they destroy all 3 bridges in my town Novi Sad. On BBC and CNN they say they destroy vital comunication to Kosovo and Metohia. Novi Sad is 450 Km  from Kosovo. Now you have same story in Libia. Last night NATO war criminals kills 1300 inocent people in Tripoli.Just to reminde all of you the say they are going to protect civilians!!!!!

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