In Paris and London anyway its official, the NATO-led operation to oust Gaddafi’s regime succeeded and a new Libyan government is now in charge … Perhaps.
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The article below is republished with the permission of Xander Meyer its author and Rudo de Ruijter, who translated it from the original Dutch. Rudo de Ruijter is a contributor among other media to France’s Marianne magazine.
The views expressed are entirely those of the author. We republish it here with links to our earlier blogs on Libya, because it offers a view that would otherwise be drowned out by the victory celebrations seen in Paris, Brussels and London.
NATO Rescues Euro in Libya
by Xander Meyer – Xander Nieuws
Translation by Rudo de Ruijter.
(Free of Copyright)
Over the past few months we have heard so much nonsense about the so-called need for what is in effect a scandalous, NATO –led “humanitarian” war against Libya (in which about 50,000 have perished so far) and shielded behind the R2P – “responsibility to protect” doctrine , that (the writer ) felt the time had come to put forward some facts as he sees them . These strongly suggest the real reason why Gaddafi’s regime was ousted has nothing to do with the given reasons his “shedding of blood “, and everything to do with rescuing the troubled French banks and the euro currency itself.
Read on to learn, how once again, we the public have been deceived by politicians and mainstream media.
It is a fact that in countries such as Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates no NATO-led military intervention has been planned to remove the dictators in power there. On the contrary European countries such as Germany offer these regimes help with intelligence and arms. So, why then was there an intervention in Libya?
In October 2010, Gadaffi’s chief of protocol, Nouri Mesmari, defected to Paris and was interrogated by the French secret services. It has been reported in Asian and other media that Mesmari disclosed Libyan state secrets in exchange for a large payment. For President Nicolas Sarkozy these secrets were a slap in the face, in particular because one of them was that Gaddafi intended to withdraw billions in Libyan oil revenues from Europe. These balances would be withdrawn mostly from French banks and would be transferred to Asia.
Fears about possible collapse of French banks
Sarkozy feared this would have far reaching consequences for already-troubled French banks (hit by the aftermath of the 2007/8 toxic debt crisis and financial meltdown). He feared they would collapse if Libyan oil billions were withdrawn. And if French banks collapsed, France would no longer be able to participate in the European Rescue Funds (mounted to rescue the euro). Without France’s participation, that program would collapse as well. This chain reaction would endanger the continued existence of the euro and indeed the entire euro zone.
Also playing a role (in the decision to intervene) was the fact that Gaddafi announced he would not buy the French built Rafale fighter plane and would also not award the construction of a Libyan nuclear plant to the French. The French corporation Total had been working on winning new oil contracts in Libya, but Gaddafi granted them to the Italian company ENI. (Gaddafi and the Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi are good friends.)
What followed was essentially a repeat of the 1953 coup d’état in Iran. In that case it was the CIA who set up the coup, now it was the French mounting a similar operation in Libya. In the respected newspaper the Asia Times all of this has been described in detail. First France assured it had the support of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by promising to leave these regimes alone despite their human rights violations. Both Arab regimes would in turn arrange the support of the Arab League for the Libyan intervention. “Naturally”, the US, together with a number of European nations (including the Netherlands) also joined in the strikes so as to help prevent the collapse of French banks.
Rebel insurgence organized by France
The French philosopher and media sweetheart Bernard Henri-Lévy was flown to Benghazi to become the spokesman of the “rebel movement” that was cobbled together by Western secret services. In the presence of the carefully gathered mass media Henri-Lévy phoned Sarkozy from Benghazi and announced the start of the Libyan Democratic Movement’s fight to oust Gaddafi. Thereafter Libyan bank balances in France were frozen and the French banks were – temporarily – rescued.
The whole circus looked convincing enough for Western voters. In Libya the existing rivalry between different tribes was exploited to ensure the media step by step reported a false narrative about fictitious conquests of territories. The next phase had been planned in advance too: the support of these rebels by NATO.
Reports in Asia that the CIA flew 1,500 fighters from Afghanistan to Libya to support the rebels came from Pakistani governmental circles, whose relations with the CIA have now cooled to below freezing point. Since the elimination of Osama bin Laden, an angered Pakistan has started to spread all kinds of false rumours about the CIA. One of these was the transfer of hundreds of Persians and Uzbeks to Libya. The numerous journalists in Libya, who were constantly accompanying the rebels, have yet to meet a single Persian or Uzbek there.
Oil deal in exchange for the support of the insurgence
And so back to France. Here the Libyan oil billions — – probably in excess of €10 billion — will, for the main, remain in the hands of French banks. From these frozen accounts, France intends to release a maximum of € 1.5 billion for the new Libyan government.
As a result banks in other EU countries can now also feel relieved. Moreover, in exchange for these billions France can sell lots of goods to Libya. Finally, it is also being made clear to the new Libyan government that it must show its gratitude for the “liberation” of their country. The media announced on 1 Sept 2011 that France has indeed made a secret oil deal with the rebels in exchange for France’s support of the rebellion against Gaddafi. (3)
We will find out soon enough if Libya will also reverse Gadaffi’s decision on the French fighter jets, and on who will get to build a nuclear plant to the French and on oil concessions for the Total oil company.
Also, the secret services will have to find out how they can offer new opportunities to their new contacts. Gaddafi’s Dutch prostitute supplier has already been questioned by the, the Dutch Intelligence and Security Service, the AIVD. She supplied the prostitutes to the Gadaffi regime and maybe she can do the same for the new people in power.
France distributes the war bounty
So now you know how the “democratic” Libyan rebellion movement came about and who was behind it. Some 50,000 people have paid with their lives to avoid the collapse of French banks and to postpone for some time the collapse of the euro. On 1 Sept 2011 a “reconstruction” conference took place in Paris, where more than €34 billion of Libyan money in Western banks accounts, will be “distributed”. Sarkozy has set himself up to be the big reconstruction figure for Libya. In other words he will ensure the greater part of the bounty remains in France by means of billion-euro contracts with the new Libyan power brokers.
Recently it has been reported that brigades with links to Al Qaeda have become the new masters in Tripoli and this has now been confirmed by US president Barack Obama. (2). In short: the Al Qaeda militants against whom the West fights in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, are the same Muslim-extremists helped by NATO to take the reins in Libya. Once again we see that Western principles are worthless as soon as (big) money is involved. The real prostitutes are not those supplied to the ousted Libyan regime but those in the financial and political power elite.
Middle East in flames?
Meanwhile the bigger (end) game continues. Sarkozy has already publicly suggested that the Islamic Republic of Iran may well be the next target. In addition Turkish-Saudian preparations for military intervention in Syria are well underway. We will likely see that the next major war, the one that may well set the whole Middle East on fire — and maybe even spread to countries elsewhere – will be presented by the media as a “complete surprise”, exactly like the Libyan revolution, which as we have seen was planned, from the start, by France.(1)
Footnotes: (1) KOPP (2) DEBKA (3) NU
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