Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin


English: The leader de facto of Libya, Muammar...

English: The leader de facto of Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi. Português: O líder de facto da Líbia, Muammar al-Gaddafi. Deutsch: Libyens de facto Staatsoberhaupt Muammar al-Gaddafi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My comment:  Well, Libya and Egypt worked out so well, I don’t know why we would even question the same intervention in Syria, and lets not forget Iraq.

A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources.

Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market. Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July.As world attention focused on the coup in Egypt and the poison gas attack in Syria over the past two months, Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi two years ago. Government authority is disintegrating in all parts of the country putting in doubt claims by American, British and French politicians that Nato’s militar

Read More:  via Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin – Africa – World – The Independent.



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  1. All this just doesn’t sound good at all! I hope they’re aware that attacking Syria can easily escalate into WW 3. I truly believe that this war is being provoked in order to set the stage for a so called “peace maker” the antichrist…

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