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NATO war in Libya still run by America
Published: 29 March, 2011, 00:28
Smoke billows as Libyan rebels progress westward from the town of Bin Jawad towards Moamer Kadhafi's home town of Sirte on March 28, 2011
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NATO has agreed to take over all military operations in Libya, taking command away from the Pentagon – or have they? Critics claim America is still in control.
Journalist Pepe Escobar from the Asia Times said although NATO has taken control, America is still in control to an extent.
“This is an enormous enterprise built on lies,” he said.
He argued that papers leaked by Italian intelligence eluded o a planned French operation where the French propped up rebellion in Libya in order to set up for an intervention and invasion. This is why France too the lead and was the first to recognize the rebels and call for intervention. France and the US are strong allies.
Now, with the US involved in the intervention, the US and the UN are supporting and fighting alongside the rebels – who are al-Qaeda, Escobar argued. It is all part of the agenda of global humanitarian imperialists.
“To sum it all up, it’s still an American war,” he argued. “NATO is basically the Pentagon.”
Escobar said NATO with UN authority takes American orders, no matter what. The Pentagon is still in charge. Even the commanding general, who is Canadian, will take orders from American, he argued.
“Nobody trusts the UN anymore,” he commented. “Everybody knows that NATO is the UN’s armed body.”
Moving forward, America’s new NATO branded war in Libya is just another American intervention under the guise of humanitarianism with an imperialist agenda.
“There is no end game, there is no end in sight,” he added. “Nobody knows where this thing could go. It could become a new Afghanistan.”
28.03.2011, 23:37
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29.03.2011, 01:08
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And Russia and China are complicit too; they can't just rest on a phony abstention. What nauseating pretense on their respective parts! What the U.S. has done, under the pretense of NATO cover, is nothing short of state sanctioned MURDER, the moral equivalent of domestic terrorism and murder by organised crime. And the United Nations? A TOOL of the permanent members of the security council whose aims are obviously naked aggression, domination, manipulation, and imperialism--RUSSIA AND CHINA INCLUDED FOR DOING NOTHING! A war crimes tribunal needs to be immediately convened to hold those responsible for the extension of the brutual Libya War beyond the noflyzone artifice. SHAME ON NATO, CHINA, AND RUSSIA.
Indeed and very briefly:
no evidence of intense continuous bombing of Libyan towns, yet great deal of damage is shown to army equipment. This could because NATO are bombing the army indiscriminately. The so called Libyan revolution erupted within minutes and became well armed simply walking in to military basis and taking over, this can’t be by armless civilians, the stage was well set in advance. All picture on TV show the revolution fierce firing from numerous weaponry such anti-aircraft, multi rocket launchers, surely if the army was firing the same together with SSKUD and GRAD missiles the TV camera would have picked up evidence of such shelling in the air and on the ground.