Hillary Clinton Helped Topple Gadhafi While France & UK Fought Over Libya’s Oil

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Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Helped Topple Gadhafi While France & UK Fought Over Libya’s OilSource: Kit O'Connell (http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-helped-topple-gadhafi-france-uk-fought-libyas-oil/215104/)

http://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Hillary_Kissinger_AP_img-800x483.jpg (http://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Hillary_Kissinger_AP_img.jpg) Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talk during an interview by PBS’s Charlie Rose, Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at the State Department in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

WASHINGTON — A message from Hillary Clinton’s private email server reveals that France and the United Kingdom both sought to control Libya’s oil in the days after the U.S.-backed coup in 2011.
An email sent on Sept. 16, 2011 to Clinton (https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12900#efmALTAqG), then the U.S. Secretary of State, from journalist and family friend Sidney Blumenthal, shows that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron each traveled to Tripoli about one month after Moammar Gadhafi’s government fell in order to assert their claim on Libya’s energy reserves.
They made these demands, Blumenthal wrote, during meetings with the country’s National Transitional Council, a de facto government which formed with Western support in the aftermath of the coup:
“According to knowledgeable individuals, as part of this effort, the two leaders, in private conversations, also intend to press the leaders of the NTC to reward their early support for the rebellion against Muammar al Qaddafi. Sarkozy and Cameron expect this recognition to be tangible, in the form of favorable contracts for French and British energy companies looking to play a major role in the Libyan oil industry. According to this source, Sarkozy feels, quite strongly, that without French support there would have been no revolution and that the NTC government must demonstrate that it realizes this fact.”
Blumenthal reported that Cameron sought to downplay the historically strong ties between the U.K.-based BP Oil and the Gadhafi government. France, he wrote, was negotiating “to reserve as much as 35% of Libya’s oil related industry for French firms, particularly the major French energy company TOTAL.”
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Analysis of the Clinton emails by Antiwar.com shows Sarkozy also lusted after Gadhafi’s gold and silver reserves (http://original.antiwar.com/Brad_Hoff/2016/01/05/new-hillary-emails-reveal-propaganda-executions-coveting-libyan-oil-and-gold/), valued at about $7 billion.
The United States, France, U.K. and other NATO allies backed rebel forces in Libya that ousted Gadhafi in August 2011, in what was widely reported to be a “humanitarian intervention” against a government with a history of severe human rights abuses.
Clinton played a major role in convincing allied nations to join in the attacks (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html), and after Gadhafi was killed that October, she boasted during a break in an interview for CBS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y), “We came, we saw, he died.”
However, far from improving conditions, the fall of Libya’s government left what was once an economically prosperous nation in chaos and disarray (http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-dissociation-game-understanding-the-evolving-narrative-on-libya/202354/).
The failed state proved to be a perfect opportunity for Daesh (http://www.mintpressnews.com/libya-burning-isis-lays-claim-to-another-country-right-at-europes-door/203474/), the terrorist group commonly known in the West as ISIS or ISIL, as Catherine Shakdam reported for MintPress last March. She highlighted that it brought extremists closer to European shores:
“With ISIS now inserted into the mix of Libya’s unravelling, the country is back on the forefront of the war on terror. Two days after the video surfaced, Egypt’s Ambassador to the U.K. Nasser Kamel told the BBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqSYYHW_PI) that ISIS would attempt to break into Europe by exploiting conventional migration routes, camouflaging its fighters within the waves of illegal migrants pouring toward Western capitals.”
Both the U.S. (http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-airstrikes-on-libya-leave-41-dead/214070/) and France (http://www.mintpressnews.com/report-french-troops-engaged-in-secret-war-in-libya/214268/) were reported to have re-entered the conflict in Libya in February.
Clinton’s emails also suggest that another U.S. ally, Israel, supported the destabilization of Syria (http://www.mintpressnews.com/clinton-emails-reveal-israels-desire/214925/) through efforts to weaken Iran and control energy reserves in Syria’s Golan Heights (http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-takes-advantage-of-syrian-civil-war-to-expand-illegal-golan-heights-settlements/210294/), a region illegally occupied by Israel.
Similar to the conflict in Libya, the Syrian civil war is driven by competing interests in gas pipelines (http://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant-crisis-syria-war-fueled-by-competing-gas-pipelines/209294/) which would run through the country.


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The Real Policy In Libya Was Clearly Regime ChangeSource: Shadowproof (https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/24/the-policy-in-libya-was-clearly-regime-change/)

In an interview in 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked on the torture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi by famously paraphrasing Julius Caesar, exclaiming, “We came, we saw, he died.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y)The follow up question from the CBS reporter who prompted the declaration was, “Did it have anything to do with your visit?” to which Clinton jokingly responded, “I’m sure it did.” But was it such a joke? Gaddafi died at the hands of US-backed rebels after a US Predator drone attacked a military convoy Gaddafi was traveling in, (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/obama-qaddafi-death-ends-long-and-painful-chapter-in-libya.html) wounding him and forcing him to surrender to his assassins. Whether Clinton specifically knew of this attack is almost irrelevant. What she did know was that, through her own actions, the US policy in Libya was not a humanitarian intervention but, in fact, regime change.
This point is hammered home magnificently in a recent article in Foreign Policy magazine by Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations (no fringe group, last I checked). Zenko goes through a point-by-point rebuttal of the big lie of the Libyan war (http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention/): that the US and NATO intervened for humanitarian reasons.
Using the pretext of protecting civilians from a massacre in Benghazi, US and NATO forces began a full campaign to overthrow the Gaddafi regime, which included decapitation strikes on Gaddafi’s residence from the start. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8394380/Libya-Col-Muammar-Gaddafi-endures-second-night-of-air-attacks-from-British-French-and-American-forces.html) Once the war got going, the support for regime change continued.
As Zenko notes, the US and NATO claimed they were upholding UN resolution 1970, which forbids arming either side of the conflict, while at the same time allowing arms to go to the rebels. NATO even posted a video where its forces stopped a ship, found arms destined for the rebels, and then let the ship go on. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKh6Kzqc428&feature=youtu.be) So much for the UN. By the end, the US was arming the rebels on its own.
While the article in Foreign Policy is – to borrow a phrase from a former CIA director – a slam dunk case that the US was always pursuing regime change in Libya, it was already obvious to many that the Obama Administration was, at the very least, not upset by Gaddfi’s overthrow.
A recent New York Times story revealed in more detail how it was former Secretary Clinton that drove the US into the war in Libya, (https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/01/new-report-shows-hillary-clinton-drove-us-libya-disaster/) with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates claiming it was a 51-49 decision within the Obama Administration, and that Clinton made the difference.
Hillary Clinton’s history of supporting regime change is so pronounced that a major line of questioning at a recent MSNBC town hall focused on Clinton’s support for the idea of regime change generally. (https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/15/hillary-clinton-confronted-support-regime-change-town-hall/) MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews repeatedly challenged Clinton to name an instance where the US pushing for regime change had worked out. Clinton had no answer other than to offer hypothetical scenarios of possible positive outcomes in stopping Hitler in Germany before World War II, or intervening in Rwanda in hopes of stopping a genocide. The Rwandan reference is odd, as it was President Bill Clinton who was in office during the Rwandan genocide, and Hillary Clinton has repeatedly cited his presidency as a model and credential for her candidacy.
The truth is, Libya shows Hillary Clinton learned nothing from the Iraq War. (https://shadowproof.com/2015/11/24/libyas-collapse-proves-hillary-clinton-learned-nothing-from-iraq-war/) If she gets into office, expect more regime change posing as humanitarian intervention.


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From the New Yorkers article about Khalifa Haftar/Hifter...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/unravelling

The intervention that helped decide the Libyan conflict began tentatively. As Qaddafi moved harshly to put down the rebellion, vowing to “cleanse Libya house by house,” President Obama was reluctant to get involved, and his aides argued about the wisdom of forcing Qaddafi from power. But America’s allies in Europe, particularly the British and the French, were already convinced. In March, 2011, the well-connected French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy arrived in the city and took it upon himself to make sure that the rebels got aid. In Paris recently, I asked Lévy why he’d adopted the Libyan cause. “Why? I don’t know!” he said. “Of course, it was human rights, for a massacre to be prevented, and blah blah blah—but I also wanted them to see a Jew defending the liberators against a dictatorship, to show fraternity. I wanted the Muslims to see that a Frenchman—a Westerner and a Jew—could be on their side.”

Lévy said that he returned to Paris and told President Nicolas Sarkozy that humanitarian intervention wasn’t enough. “The real objective had to be to topple Qaddafi,” he told me. Sarkozy agreed, and Lévy became his emissary. Lévy accompanied a Libyan opposition leader to meet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lobby for U.S. involvement.* “It was hard to convince the Americans,” he said. “Robert Gates was totally opposed. Obama as usual was hesitating. But Hillary got it.”
The Jews Levy and Sarkozy and the crypto Hillary was instrumental in the NATO intervention that brought Khadaffi down. I recommend reading the entire article it is very good!

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She will not be outdone by Miley Cyrus.

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[Cebu_4_2]

Libya was a good run and ruled country by a leader that supported it. The american rule fucked it all up for foolish reasons. We need some Russian members here, are they banned or not able to access this site? The UK is just dismal but russians have tact and real thinking abilities.