General: US ‘May Consider’ Ground Troops in Libya

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Insists Ground Deployment Not Ideal
by Jason Ditz, April 07, 2011
General Carter Ham, the commander for US AFRICOM, told Congress today that the Obama Administration would consider sending ground troops into Libya to “aid the rebels,” though he insisted such a move was “not ideal.”

His reasoning was, predictably, nothing to do with the danger of yet another US ground war on the other side of the planet, but because it might harm international support for the ongoing war. The US and France started the war two and a half weeks ago, and have since transferred it to NATO control.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates indicated last week that ground troops were not on the near term agenda, saying that there would be no ground invasion “as long as I’m in this job.” The promise is increasingly meaningless, however, amid talks he could be replaced by CIA Director Leon Panetta within the next few months.

It is already confirmed that the US has had CIA ground forces inside Libya for “several weeks,” and the US has also deployed troops in the nation for “rescue” missions. The question then is not so much if ground troops will be sent to Libya, but to what extent they are already there, and how much this presence will be escalated in the days and weeks to come.
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/04/07/general-us-may-consider-ground-troops-in-libya/

No shutdown for the Imperial War Machine.
Damn the budget crisis ! Full speed ahead !

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'April 19-20: Feast of Moloch'

EU countries agree plan to send ground troops to Libya Apr 19, 2011 (http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/04/19/49128314.html)

European Union countries have agreed on a plan to send ground troops to Libya, ostensibly to offer protection for humanitarian convoys.

Ground units will be dispatched to Libya, if the United Nations requests the European Union to do so. In this case, the military will not be performing any combat missions.

Earlier, authorities of Western coalition countries denied the possibility of sending ground troops to Libya.

Presently, the air force of NATO countries is conducting strikes at Muammar Gaddafi’s targets. However, despite support from the air, the Libyan opposition cannot achieve notable breakthrough.

Both the politicians and military leaders recognize that there is presently a stalemate situation in Libya, where neither of the sides can win.

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Sheeple: Where do I sign up at?

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Also on the radio show today Jim Tucker says they were talking of $7 gas in the US by the end of 2012 and Rockefeller in wheelchair and didn't say anything.

Bilderberg Insider: Kissinger Calls For US Ground Invasion Of Libya (http://www.infowars.com/kissinger-calls-for-us-ground-invasion-of-libya/)
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, April 22, 2011

Despite the fact that the United States is embroiled in three major conflicts and can barely service its own gigantic debt, with Standard and Poor this week indicating the US will soon lose its triple-A credit rating, top globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently told fellow elitists at three different globalist confabs that the US needs to launch a ground invasion of Libya and keep the war running for at least another year.

According to veteran Bilderberg journalist Jim Tucker, whose sources have proven routinely accurate in leaking discussion topics shared by globalists at their regular meetings, Kissinger gave almost the exact same speech at three different conferences over the past two weeks, firstly during an April 8-10 get-together at the George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, then at an Aspen Institute session on “Values and Diplomacy” at the National Cathedral, and finally during the Bretton Woods II conference in New Hampshire. [Bilderberg meeting is in June]

“Kissinger, visibly depressed, gave a rationale for the war on Libya that the TC (Trilateral Commission) and its brother group, Bilderberg, want to keep rolling, according to an inside source who has proved reliable for years. Both groups want the war extended through 2012 to generate turmoil throughout the Middle East and pressure the United States into attacking Iran on behalf of Israel. Which would also produce huge war profits,” writes Tucker.

With President Obama keen to oversee more “mission creep” in Libya, by sending unmanned drones to intensify the air bombardment, Kissinger made it clear that the ultimate intention was to do what Obama specifically promised would never happen, a US ground invasion...

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Is anybody surprised about sending troops into Libya?

McCain is in Libya right now on a so called "surprise visit"

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McCain is in Libya right now on a so called "surprise visit"



I guess this can keep him happy for a while till the U.S. bombs Iran.

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EU readies for large-scale military operation in Libya
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/04/27/49514811.html
Apr 27, 2011

The European Union is preparing for a large-scale military operation if the United Nations authorizes the international coalition to scale up its military action in Libya. This comes in a 60-page document that has landed in the hands of reporters of Germany’s biggest daily publication, Das Bild.

According to the paper, all branches of arms are due to take part in the operation in question. The plan also enumerates the threats that the western force will come to face in Libya, specifically terrorist attacks, road and field mining and the drawing of the troops into inter-clan and inter-tribal conflicts.

A ground operation in Libya would thus prove a dangerous undertaking for Europe, the document says. According to the plan, the operation should last no more than four months.

NATO airstrikes have failed to ensure a settlement in Libya, says the African Union Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra. He was speaking during a meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa on Tuesday.

The meeting focused on the situation around Libya. The African Union has reiterated that it rejects any foreign interference in Libya. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said Tuesday that the humanitarian situation was worsening in the North African country.

The international community’s basic objective in Libya is the protection of civilians, preservation of ceasefire and political decision-making, Ban Ki-moon said.

Libyan government troops have resumed attacks on the rebel-held city of Misurata west of Tripoli.

Several Grad missiles reportedly hit the Misurata port on Tuesday, injuring dozens of African refugees.

A humanitarian vessel that came to evacuate them had to leave the port and head out to sea.

On Monday, the NATO military attempted to disrupt telecommunications between several Libyan cities that the Gaddafi troops are in control of.

This came in a report by Libyan state television earlier today.

According to the report, NATO frigates dropped depth bombs onto a fibre-optic cable that’s laid 15 nautical miles off the coast.

The cable provides communication between Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte and the cities of Ras Lanuf and Marsa El Brega.

According to the TV report, communications failures were reported in the north of Libya following the attack.

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Putin slams NATO on Libya attacks (http://en.rian.ru/world/20110426/163721016.html)

RIA Novosti. 26/04/2011

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sharply criticized NATO's military actions in Libya on Tuesday, saying the North African state was being illegally destroyed by "so-called civilized society."

"We must act within international law, with an awareness of our responsibility, with concern for peaceful civilians," Putin told a news conference in Copenhagen after talks with his Danish counterpart. "And when the whole of so-called civilized society gangs up on one small country, destroying infrastructure that has been built over generations, is it good or bad? Personally I do not like it."

This is not the first time Putin has publicly criticized the NATO-led intervention in Libya. In late March he made international headlines by likening a UN Security Council resolution to enforce a no-fly zone in the country to a "call to a medieval crusade."

At today's news conference, the premier also criticized the Western coalition for dropping two guided bombs on Gaddafi's compound in central Tripoli last week.

"What kind of no-fly zone is this if they are striking palaces every night?" Putin said. "What do they need to bomb palaces for? To drive out the mice?"

A commander of the coalition forces denied earlier on Tuesday claims made by the Libyan authorities that NATO aimed to eliminate Gaddafi. He said the Gaddafi compound was a military compound and therefore a legitimate target for airstrikes.

Putin lashed out at the West for attacking Libya in the interests of oil.

"Libya has the biggest oil resources in Africa and the fourth largest gas resources," Putin said during a news conference in Copenhagen. "It raises the question: isn't that the main object of interest to those operating there."

Russia abstained from the UN Security Council resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been less critical than Putin of the Libya intervention and publicly called Putin's crusade remarks "unacceptable."

The Russian premier made a further dig at the West in answer to a journalist's question about international media criticism of him running in the 2012 presidential elections.

"Future presidential candidates in Russia do not need support from abroad. They need support from the Russian people," he said