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Coalition of
Crusaders Join
with al Qaeda
to Oust Qaddafi
and Roll Back Libyan Revolution
By Gerald A.
Perreira
A coalition of
Crusaders, as Qaddafi described them, including the US,
Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Spain and
Canada, have begun an all out military assault against
Libya. Using what Libya claims is an invalid and illegal
UN resolution as a pretext, the coalition is pounding
the Libyan defense forces with a military might that has
not been seen since the Gulf war.
The real and
illegal goal of what has been called Operation “Odyssey
Dawn” is “regime change.” A replay of the nightmarish
Gulf war scenario, the plan is clear: to disable Libya's
defense ability, and to arm and strengthen the
reactionary conglomerate of rebel forces in Benghazi, in
the hope that this rag tag bunch will roll back, once
and for all, the Libyan revolution.
This is not the
first imperialist attempt to lynch Qaddafi and bring
Libya to its knees. In 1986, the US falsely accused
Libya of the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin and
Reagan attempted to assassinate Qaddafi, by bombing the
Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli where he was housed,
killing Qaddafi's daughter and over one hundred Libyans.
Next, Libya was falsely accused of the
1988 Lockerbie
bombing as an excuse for initiating sanctions, in order
to economically cripple the revolution.
Not the first time Britain and
al Qaeda have collaborated on Libya
In 1996, British
intelligence employed the services of an al Qaeda cell
inside Libya, paying them a huge fee to assassinate
Muammar Qaddafi. A grenade was lobbed at Qaddafi as he
walked among a crowd in his hometown, Sirte. He was
saved by one of his bodyguards, who threw herself on the
grenade.
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Former MI5
operative
David Shayler revealed that while he was
working on the Libya desk in the mid 90s, British secret
service personnel were collaborating with the Libyan
Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of
Osama bin Laden’s trusted lieutenants.
Muammar Qaddafi and
the Libyan revolutionary forces were the first to issue
an arrest warrant for
Osama bin Laden. They have spent
years trying to warn the world about the very serious
threat posed by these Islamic deviants. According to
Shayler, western intelligence turned a deaf ear to
Libya's warnings because they were actually working with
the al Qaeda group inside Libya, to bring down Qaddafi
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Anas al Libi was a
member of the Libyan al-Qaeda cell. He remains on the US
government’s most wanted list, with a reward of $25
million for his capture, and is wanted for his
involvement in the African embassy bombings. al Libi was
with bin Laden in Sudan before the al Qaeda leader
returned to Afghanistan in 1996.
Surprisingly, or
not so surprisingly, despite being a high-level al Qaeda
operative,
al Libi was given political asylum in Britain
and lived in Manchester until May of 2000.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM)
The claims by Qaddafi and the
Libyan revolutionary forces that the rebels in
Benghazi
are inspired by al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM)
and the serious threat this poses, not only to Libya but
to the entire region, are once again falling on deaf
ears, just as
David Shayler said they did back in the
mid 90s. Why? Because once again, British intelligence
forces, among others, are clearly in collaboration with
the rebels in Benghazi—those referred to all over Libya
as the "bearded ones," who have close ties to al Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb.
The evidence for this is
overwhelming. As revealed by Shayler, the British have a
long standing relationship with the al Qaeda affiliated
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, based inside Libya. The
British also have an historical relationship with the
Wahhabi/Salafi brand of Islam, espoused today by Ikhwan
al Muslimeen (Mulsim Brotherhood) and their offshoots,
including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
A Battle with a Long History
In 1744, an
alliance was formed between the founder of
Wahhabism,
Muhammad ibn Abdal-Wahhab and the ruthless tribal
leader,
Muhammad ibn Saud, whose descendants rule Saudi
Arabia up to today. This reactionary brand of Islam was
the perfect theological foundation for the colonial
creation of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Wahhabism
remains the official Islamic tendency in Saudi Arabia up
till today. In 1915, the British entered into a treaty
with the murderous House of Saud, protecting their lands
and supplying them with weaponry, as part of the
colonial project to establish the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. At the same time, the British did everything
they could to help the Wahhabist doctrine to flourish,
recognizing it as the perfect ideological tool to
further their imperialist objectives. Some scholars have
argued that the British actually helped to create
Wahhabism.
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Imagine, today, the British are calling
on the descendants of
Muhammad ibn Saud, the current Saudi regime, and their present day
army of Wahhabis in the form of al Qaeda, to join in a
medieval crusade to crush a bastion of revolutionary
Islam, which is present day Libya. And the
contradictions verify this. We have to wonder why a
Saudi government official can say on BBC that “to allow
the people to choose their own government is a very bad
thing,” and why, with all the Western outcry about
women's rights in the Muslim world, the Saudi regime,
which does not even allow women to vote or drive
motorcars, is never questioned. Instead they are the
ones that the Americans, British, and French are calling
on to join them in the destruction of Libya which has
liberated women and struggled to bring real democracy to
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As early as the mid
19th century, Wahhabi fundamentalism was imported into
Benghazi by the reactionary and feudal
Senussi
fraternity. The influence of this tendency has been
passed on from generation to generation, and
Benghazi
has been the center for those who have consistently
opposed the liberatory Islam articulated by Qaddafi and
implemented by the Libyan revolution.
The Muslims of
Benghazi, who embrace the same ideology as al Qaeda in
the Islamic Maghreb, and have done for the last hundred
years or more, have been reinvigorated in the last few
years by AQIM's presence on Libya's borders. There is a
renewed interest in the possibility of achieving the
stated goal of AQIM, which is the establishment of an
Wahhabi Islamic Emirate in the Maghreb, stretching over
the entire North African region. When we understand the
history of this region, we realize why the imperialists
have not gone out of their way to find Osama bin Laden
and
Ayman al Zawahiri and how and why these reactionary
forces and doctrines are actually encouraged by western
powers.
To understand
Qaddafi's current claims about al Qaeda in the Maghreb,
we have to understand both the history of this current
battle and also the present day chapter: how al Qaeda
affiliated organizations operate in the region in 2011.
There is a deliberate attempt to misguide the uninformed
with the suggestion that Qaddafi is throwing up a
simplistic image of Osama bin Laden directing the
rebellion in Benghazi from a cave somewhere, as a scare
tactic. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Qaddafi is well
aware of the reactionary aims of
Wahhabism and
understands only too well their modus operandi in the
region. Being affiliated to al Qaeda does not mean that
each cell refers to an al Qaeda central command. Rather,
al Qaeda is a Wahhabi/Salafi ideological movement and it
has reinvigorated Salafi movements and cells worldwide.
The term Salafi simply refers to a contemporary strain
of Wahhabism.
If there remains
any skepticism regarding Qaddafi's claims, let us turn
to the Washington based think tank, the
Council on
Foreign Relations, which gives us a description of AQIM's operations in the region.
On their official
website they state:
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Terrorist activity in North Africa has
been reinvigorated in the last few years by a local Algerian
Islamist group turned pan-Maghreb jihadi organization:
al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM). A Sunni group that previously called
itself the
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC),
the organization has taken responsibility for a number
of terrorist attacks in the region, declared its
intention to attack Western targets, and sent a squad of
jihadis to Iraq. Experts believe these actions suggest
widening ambitions within the group's leadership, now
pursuing a more global, sophisticated, and
better-financed direction. Long categorized as part of a
strictly domestic insurgency against Algeria's military
government, AQIM claims to be the local franchise
operation for al Qaeda, a worrying development for a
region that has been relatively peaceful since the
bloody
Algerian civil war of the 1990s drew to a close.
European officials are taking AQIM's international
threats seriously and are worried about the growing number
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The Struggle Continues
This current battle
in Benghazi is not new in Libya. For many years, the
revolutionary forces have been struggling to keep this
feudal, reactionary brand of Islam in check.
On February 24th,
2011, at the very outset of the Benghazi rebellion,
al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb posted the following
statement on the al Qaeda affiliated al Fajr website:
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We declare our support for the legitimate
demands of the Libyan revolution. We assert to our people in
Libya that we are with you and will not let you down, God
willing. We will give everything we have to support you,
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A few days after
this statement was issued by AQIM,
al Libi resurfaced.
The same al Libi exposed by
David Shayler as an al Qaeda
operative working inside Libya back in the 90s. Now a
top al Qaeda commander based in Afghanistan, he urged
his countrymen to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi's regime and
establish Islamic rule. Al Libi, a pseudonym that means
'the Libyan' in Arabic, said in a video, produced by
As-Sahab,
the media wing of al Qaeda, that “it would bring shame
to the Libyan people if the strongman (Qaddafi) were
allowed to die a peaceful death.”
Al Qaeda and Drugs in the
Maghreb
Libya's
revolutionary forces have also made continual references
to the fact that there are drug problems in the region
and that many of the young people are affected. Once
again, this claim was scoffed at by Western media and
analysts, who are ill informed about what is actually
taking place on the ground.
As recently as
November 2010, Moroccan police detained
34 people with
ties to al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb, attempting to
move 1,300 pounds of cocaine through the country.
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Moroccan Interior
Minister,
Taieb Cherquaoui said "We are dealing with an
apparent coordination and collaboration between drug
traffickers and terrorists linked to al Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb.”
He added that the
leader of AQIM's drug ring was detained in Mali, and he
stated that the international drug peddling ring
involved local Moroccan drug traffickers, who were
collaborating with
al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb, as
well as cartels in Latin America.
Until recently,
Moroccan authorities have been able to keep the actions
of al Qaeda inside Morocco at bay. The drug activity,
however, has now revealed the extremist organization's
growing network, and the interior minister expressed
“the urgent need for the Sahel countries to collaborate
to secure their territories and to fight the group's
expansion.”
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Tragically, the
“coalition of crusaders” has seen fit to pound Qaddafi's
defense installations, thereby preventing Libya from
being able to challenge AQIM's expansion into their
sovereign territory.
In a further
development on this front, the Wahhabi spiritual leader
of Ikhwan al Muslimeen, Egyptian cleric,
Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
issued a fatwa stating that any Libyan soldier who can
shoot dead embattled leader Muammar Qaddafi should do so
"to rid Libya of him."
Qaradawi is a
neo-feudalist, who has defended the practice of
female
genital mutilation, called for the death penalty to be
applied to those who leave Islam and advocates separate
systems of law for different classes of citizens. Such
are the views of those who are opposing Muammar Qaddafi.
In a letter to
Barak al Hussein Obama and in a separate letter to
Sarkozy,
Cameron and
Ban ki-Moon
hours before the coalition launched its first military
strikes, Qaddafi stated clearly that the destabilization
of Libya's eastern cities was being inspired and
assisted by
al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb, and he invited member
states of the coalition to come to Libya and confirm
this reality for themselves.
Of course, just as
the war in Iraq was not about establishing the truth
regarding weapons of mass destruction, this war against
Libya was not about discovering the truth of events on
the ground or verifying Qaddafi's claims. When we
understand the historical and present day facts, we
realize that the crusader coalition is well aware of
exactly who they are fighting and who they are
supporting. In fact, that is why they were in such a
hurry to act—to prevent any international fact finding
mission which would verify Qaddafi's claims for the
world to see.
In the letter to
Obama, Qaddafi asked him if al Qaeda was occupying
American cities what Obama would do so that he (Qaddafi)
could follow his lead. All to no avail, because Qaddafi
has been demonised to the point of being inhuman and
therefore not requiring even the courtesy of a response.
Named by US media as the Castro of the Middle East there
is only one aim—remove him by any means necessary.
Why?
In contrast to the
Wahhabis and the neo-colonial regimes in the region,
Qaddafi is a revolutionary leader who has consistently
opposed
western hegemony in the Arab and African World.
Libya's revolution has, for the past three decades,
assisted liberation movements all over the world
struggling against neo-colonialism and imperialism.
Libya's oil
resources are of course a factor. We know for sure that
control of oil resources is a top priority for the US
and Europe. But even more worrying for the imperialists
is Qaddafi's call for a
United States of Africa—with one
government, one army, and one currency.
Not surprisingly,
the actions taken against Qaddafi and Libya are in stark
contrast to western inaction with regard to events on
the ground in other countries in the region such as
Yemen,
Bahrain, and
Saudi Arabia, where protesters are
being shot in the streets. In the case of Bahrain,
protesters are being brutally suppressed with the
assistance of invading Saudi ground forces and in Saudi
Arabia itself, the regime has told its people that
“anyone who raises a finger against the Saudi monarchy
will have their finger cut off!.”
The so-called
international community can barely name their long time
partner in crime, Saudi Arabia, in their pronouncements,
such is their support for this most undemocratic of
regimes. In fact, far from condemning the actions of
these governments, the Crusading coalition is
frantically trying to get some of these same Arab
countries to actively join the military operation
against Libya so that this whole thing does not look
like another US and European led aggression.
Are we going to
hear impassioned pleas regarding the aspirations of the
people of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia? Are the US, Britain
and France going to launch attacks on Yemen and Bahrain
to assist the uprisings there to achieve regime change.
I don't think so.
Arab League legitimizes Crusade
The
Arab League
endorsed this imperialist attack on Libyan soil despite
the nightmare of Iraq, where the number of civilian
deaths has now reached one and a half million. It is an
honor for Qaddafi to have no support among this league
of bloated imperialist surrogates. At a recent meeting,
he told them, prophetically it now seems, that they
should be ashamed of themselves, having sat by and
watched the US hang the entire leadership of the Iraqi
Arab Ba'ath regime. It should be noted that although
there were serious ideological and political differences
between Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein, Libya took a
principled position regarding hostile external
aggression against Iraq. A few days ago, the National
Leadership of the
Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party issued a
statement expressing solidarity with the revolutionary
forces of Libya.
The Arab League has
been consistently embarrassed by Qaddafi's outspoken
criticism of their double standards and hypocrisy with
regard to Palestine, Iraq, and a host of other issues,
they are terrified by Qaddafi's revolutionary Islam, and
are contemptuous of Black Africa and Qaddafi's attempts
to bring about African-Arab unity.
Recently, when
Qaddafi urged Libyans to intermarry with Africans,
following the example of Prophet Muhammad himself, who
encouraged intermarriage between races, Libyan and Arab
contempt for Black Africans re-surfaced. Extremely few
fair skinned Arabs would sanction the marriage of their
daughters to a Black African. Rarely do fair skinned
Libyans marry Black Libyans. Their disdain for Black
people runs deep.
In fact, across
other Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and
the Gulf States, the horror stories emerging regarding
the mistreatment of African domestic servants is
reminiscent of the kind of treatment meted out to Black
people during the days of chattel slavery. So a project
for the development and unification of all of Africa,
uniting, on equal terms, the “Arab” north with Black
Africa, is not close to the hearts of many fair skinned
Arabs. Qaddafi is an exception to the rule.
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In his book
Islam and the Third Universal Theory: The Religious
Thought of Muammar Qaddafi, the respected Muslim
scholar,
Mahmoud Ayoub, states that:
he [Qaddafi] wishes
to follow the example of the Prophet who fought with
such determination against oppression and inequality in
society that Bilal, the Black slave,
became equal with his master Umayyah. He sees his own
mission and the task of the Libyan revolution
as having the same motivations and goal for modern
Muslim society. The basic aim of the Green Book
is to present in general and contemporary terms the
ideals of justice and equality which Qaddafi sees in the
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And what of Libya's African
neighbors?
“A Million Man March”
Already an
estimated 16,000 African freedom fighters (not
mercenaries as the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera would have us
believe) have poured into Libya from the Congo, Guinea,
Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Chad,
Mauritania, Southern Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Burkina
Faso to fight to the death for the Libyan revolution and
Brother Muammar Al Qaddafi.
According to an
official in northern Mali, hundreds of young
Tuaregs
from Mali and Niger are also among the African fighters,
"We’re very worried," said
Assalat Ag Abdou Salam,
president of the Regional Assembly of Kidal, "These
young people are moving in droves to Libya. It’s very
dangerous for us because whether Qaddafi wins or falls
the impact will be felt in our region."
We are witnessing a
Pan-African unity
on the ground that we have never seen
before. Who is this man and this revolution that has the
moral authority and power to draw an army of Africans
from every corner of the continent?
One Tripoli
resident answered with the following statement: “Qaddafi
is our
Che Guevara, and for Libyans and many people
around the world, he is a symbol of freedom and
democracy.”
He explained that
the West does not understand Libya and the age old
tribal and religious battles that are being waged, and
pointed out, that even if Qaddafi was to leave Libya,
these armed gangs and tribes would fight till judgment
day. He added that it is Qaddafi who has tried for the
last 40 years to overcome these age old conflicts and
the backwardness that accompanies them, and build real
democracy, through a system of people's congresses and
popular committees.
He finished by saying that “the
West does not know this man but that they would surely
come to know who he is now.”
The
Pan-Africanism
we are finally witnessing is not the ivory tower
academic brand, which has been viewed as relatively
harmless and ineffective by the imperialists, but a
grassroots Pan-Africanism—bottom up—which has given
birth to the continent's first Pan-African army, willing
to lay down their lives for a revolution and a leader
that they love and to whom they owe a great deal.
Many of these
fighters and liberation movements have received
education, military training and assistance from Libya
when they were battling imperialist backed despotic
regimes in their own countries, and now they are
determined to defend the man and country who stood by
them in their darkest hour. This attack on Libya has
serious repercussions for the entire African continent.
The
Pan-Africanist
Congress of Azania (South Africa) travelled to Libya to
meet with Qaddafi face to face and express their support
and solidarity. They issued a statement expressing
“their support to Qaddafi, who had been crucial to the
PAC during the days of apartheid in South Africa.”
“We have a long cooperation with Qaddafi himself and
Libya. Our cadres were trained in Libya by Qaddafi and a
friend is a friend no matter what,” said the party’s
spokesman,
Mzwanele Nyhontso
Qaddafi has been a
friend to all oppressed peoples throughout the world.
There is hardly a liberation movement that has not been
helped in some way by Qaddafi and Libya over the past
three decades. He is our friend and brother and let's
hope everyone is clear on who our enemies are.
The Emperor is naked—what's new?
Of course,
imperialist maneuvers and crusades similar to this
current one have been on going for centuries. In more
recent times, from Vietnam to Iraq, we have seen the
same scenario played out based on a litany of lies. So
what is different this time around?
Certainly not the
lying part—they are still weaving their usual web of
lies. The African freedom fighter
Kwame Ture, who had
close ties with the Libyan revolution, warned us that
“the imperialists don't just lie sometimes, they lie all
the time.”
What is different
is that things are changing for the imperialists as the
world plunges deeper and deeper into chaos, and their
ability to influence affairs worldwide is diminishing
rapidly. In the midst of rebellions all over the Arab
world, what is clear is that fewer and fewer people give
a damn what the US and Europe thinks. So they saw fit to
take desperate measures in an attempt to regain some
political hegemony and limit the demise of their
strategic influence in the region.
Even as
Mussa Kussa,
the Libyan Foreign Minister, announced a cease fire and
the Libyan authorities determination to accept the UN
resolution and utilize it in a positive way, the French
and British were in a frenzy, trying to get
international support for military strikes against the
Libyan forces. We have witnessed their war mongering
before, however, they were quite literally foaming at
the bit this time.
Such a frenzy can
only be understood against a backdrop of their dwindling
ability to dominate. Even in the economic sphere, their
power is decreasing, as China, India and Brazil emerge
as vital new trading partners in Africa and South
America. In the words of
Kwame Nkrumah, “Neo-colonialism
is not a sign of imperialism’s strength, but rather of
its last hideous gasp”.
In 2011, the
imperialists have brought the world to the brink of
disaster. At an economic summit, at the outset of the
current ongoing global capitalist crisis, former
president of Brazil,
Lula da Silva, publicly told the
gathering that “the credit crunch was the fault of
white, blue-eyed people.”
As the capitalist
crisis worsens, and the world plunges deeper and deeper
into chaos, the imperialists will become more and more
desperate in their attempts to regain their influence
and direct events worldwide as they are used to doing.
Events which they are increasingly incapable of
comprehending—not only because of the speed at which
these events are occurring, but also because of the
complexity of the events and the paradigm shifts taking
place, that are, quite simply, far outside their western
imagination.
Furthermore, they
have lost all credibility as the Iraq and Afghanistan
debacles continue. The Emperor is naked, and the
hypocrisy of the Empire has become so transparent, that
even the least informed observers are finally realizing
that something is horribly wrong.
A Last Hideous Gasp?
Imperialism is
experiencing its “last hideous gasp” and it is
imperative for progressive and revolutionary movements
worldwide to seize this moment and to oppose this
current assault with all of our collective strength.
Those who still struggle to see the wood from the trees
remain enablers of the continued enslavement of our
people. As Pan-Africanists we need to come together as
never before to defend this brother and the
Libyan Al Fateh revolution.
Sadly, the African
Union has become another impotent international body
with a neo-colonial mindset, due to the fact that
unfortunately, a number of member states are still
imperialist facilitators. The Pan-Africanist scholar,
Chinweizu, calls these
facilitators of imperialism
“leaders in Africa,” because, as he points out, they are
not “African leaders.”
Despite this, the
African Union, under the guidance of progressive
members, have managed to take a principled stand on
Libya. In a statement issued by the AU Peace and
Security Council, headed by
Zimbabwe, they unanimously
opposed any foreign military intervention and recognised
the unity and territorial sovereignty of the North
African State of Libya. The statement went on to call
for “an urgent African action for the immediate
cessation of all hostilities.”
How good and how pleasant it
would be, before God and man . . .
Muammar Qaddafi has
a vision for Africa—a
United States of Africa—with one
government, one army, and one currency. Of course, if
this were to happen, it would shift the balance of power
globally. The well documented fact is that if Africa
stopped the flow of all African resources and raw
materials to the western nations for just one week—the
United States and Europe would grind to a halt—they are
that dependent on Africa and are therefore determined to
maintain their ability to control events on the
continent.
Control over
Africa’s affairs has always been a priority for the
imperialist project. As
Minister Louis Farrakhan pointed
out many years ago at a conference in Libya, “Europe and
the US cannot go forward into the new century without
unfettered access to the vast natural resources of
Africa” and he added that “Qaddafi is one who stands in
their way.”
If they cannot
maintain control, then at least they must try to
maintain Africa's divisions, thereby ensuring it is
always in a position of weakness. African unity and true
independence is something white supremacy, in all of its
manifestations—capitalism, imperialism and
neo-colonialism—will oppose with all its might.
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When Sarkozy the
clown, to quote
Saif Qaddafi, made his ridiculous
pronouncement recognizing the rag tag conglomerate of
reactionaries in
Benghazi as the sole legitimate
representative of the Libyan people, and Hillarity
rushed to meet with the “Libyan opposition,” the
sinister imperialist plot began to unfold. Their mission
was certainly not to “protect innocent civilians.” They
had from the outset, very clearly chosen a side and now,
as they bombard the Libyan revolutionary forces we know
without any doubt, whose side they are on.
Their plot further
unraveled, when a Dutch helicopter, carrying Dutch
marines on some kind of sabotage/espionage mission was
captured right inside Libyan territory. The Dutch
government finally acknowledged that its warship, the
Tromp, was offshore in the sea off Sirte and the
captured helicopter had lifted-off from there.
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If the
rebellion in
Benghazi was, as the media has reported, “a
spontaneous rebellion, like others in the region,” then
the Dutch were surprisingly well prepared. Actually, it
would have been impossible for them to arrive so swiftly
at the scene, and so they had to have had prior
knowledge of what was taking place. It is now crystal
clear that this rebellion in
Benghazi was an
orchestrated attempt, supported by foreign sources, to
use the events taking place across North Africa as a
cover for the overthrow of the Libyan revolution.
And then there was
William Hague’s brazen landing of the
British SAS
personnel inside Libyan territory to make contact with
the al Qaeda inspired rebels. Of course it is no
surprise that the British and al Qaeda are on the same
side—as noted above they have been collaborating to
destroy Libya for a very long time. Reactionaries
inevitably end up dovetailing, and a partnership with
the imperialists is after all where al Qaeda had its
beginnings: as a US instrument in the war against the
Soviets in Afghanistan. George Bush Senior had close
ties with the
Taliban, and Ronald Reagan poured millions
of dollars into assisting the Jihadists in Afghanistan,
the forerunners of al Qaeda, which means “the base,” and
refers to a data base of
Mujahideen from numerous
countries, compiled with the help of the CIA.
Many Battlefronts
In addition to the
battle between “true religion and false religion” to
paraphrase the Muslim revolutionary thinker,
Ali Shariati, there is another major battlefront in Libya.
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It is the battle between Black Africans and those fair
skinned “Arab settlers,” who embrace a “separatist”
stance, refusing to acknowledge their African heritage,
and who want little to do with the Pan-African project
although they are on the African continent. As noted
above, these “Arabs” look upon black people with utter
contempt and disdain. They definitely do not share
Qaddafi's vision of a united Africa and resent the
resources of Libya being used to assist projects towards
this end throughout the continent.
It has been well
documented that the Libyan rebels are committing crimes
against humanity. There have been “African hunts” in
rebel held territory. Black workers, students and
refugees have been detained, raped and executed—some of
them were led into the desert and stabbed to death. Even
Black Libyans have been targeted, and many of them have
been abducted by armed rebels and are being held in
secret locations. These are the forces that the
imperialists are racing to support. There has been a
deafening silence from the so-called international
community and western media regarding these well
documented “African Hunts” and the massacre of Black
Africans by the rebels.
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From Washington,
France and London, they continue their attempts to
demonise Muammar Qaddafi with their lies. But the truth
is that he is a revolutionary and a freedom fighter, who
has assisted almost every struggle for liberation over
the past three decades, and worked tirelessly, day and
night, to facilitate African advancement and
unification. At the same time, the revolution he has
led, has taken Libya from the status of being the
poorest country in the world to a country that has
attained the highest standard of living in Africa. The
“weapons of mass deception” assembled by the Crusaders
can never succeed in portraying him as a ruthless
dictator—an enemy of humanity? Let us heed the warning
of the great revolutionary, Al Hajj Malik Al Shabazz,
better known as Malcolm X:
| The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have
the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty
innocent, and that's power because they control the minds of
the masses. |
As I write this
article, Qaddafi is addressing the world. He is defiant,
preparing Libyans for a long war and assuring the
crusaders that they will never get their hands on Libya
and its resources. Meanwhile, the coalition of Crusaders
and their Arab enablers are starting to show some signs
of strain.
I am reminded of
Qaddafi's words in 1986, when Reagan bombed his
residence, “They may hit us with long range missiles and
aircrafts—this is expected, but they will never stay.
This land is too hot for their feet.”
Gerald A.
Perreira has lived in Libya for many years. He
served in the Green March, an international battalion
for the defense of the Libyan revolution and was an
executive member of the World Mathaba based in Tripoli.
He can be contacted at
mojadi94@gmail.com.
This article previously appeared in
Global Breaking News
Source:
BlackAgendaReport
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Obama’s Imperial
Twist: “Humanitarian” Regime Change in Libya—by Glen
Ford—Obama relies, more than Bush, on deceptive
propaganda and semantic trickery, although he is just as
willing to use brute force and bald-faced lies. The
President will have to employ all of his tricks to
accomplish his current political project, which is to
make “humanitarian” warfare the signature aspect of an
Obama Doctrine. The Libya “crisis” is Obama’s
opportunity to raise R2P—“Responsibility to Protect—from
a shaky and highly controversial legal construct, to a
broadly recognized justification for superpower
intervention, a doctrine that expands, rather than
restrains, American military options.
In the midst of a
fluid international crisis, Obama’s challenge is to
usher in his signature R2P Doctrine while distancing
himself from the vocabulary of “regime change” that has
been so closely associated with George Bush—without
actually forswearing regime change.
Obama’s real policy
on Libya is regime change, as it must be for an imperial
superpower. More than three weeks ago, he entered the
arena of regime change when he declared that “Col.
Khaddafi needs to step down from power, and leave.” The
U.S. military immediately began to facilitate Khaddafi's
involuntary exit in coordination with its allies in
Europe. Obama is dancing away from the vocabulary—but
not the reality—of regime change to establish a new
Doctrine that will widen the parameters of imperial
action and augment his own presidential legacy.— BlackAgendaReport
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Naked Aggression: 'Libya assault planned months ahead'
Eastern Libyas Tribes Jihadism: Did U.S. Consider Its
Own Libya Intel?
John Henrike Clark—Cheika Anta Diop /
Farrakhan Warns, Advises Obama on Libya (March 11, 2011)
Minister
Farrakhan on Ghaddafi & Libya—1 /
Minister Farrakhan
on Ghaddafi & Libya—2
China slams US-led
airstrike on Libya /
China regrets military strike against Libya
Putin likens UN Libya resolution to crusade call
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The manipulative pro-war
argument in Libya—By
Glenn Greenwald—22 March 2011—Dropping lots of American bombs on
a country tends to kill a lot of innocent people. For that reason,
indifference to suffering is often what war proponents—not war
opponents—are guilty of. But whatever else is true, the notion that
opposing a war is evidence of indifference to tyranny and suffering is
equally simple-minded, propagandistic, manipulative and intellectually
bankrupt in both the Iraq and Libya contexts. And, in particular, those
who opposed or still oppose intervention in Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq,
the Sudan, against Israel, in the Ivory Coast—and/or any other similar
places where there is widespread human-caused suffering—have no business
advancing that argument.— Salon
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The Green Book
By M.
Al Gathafi
Republished in a new translation, "The Green
Book" provides fresh insight into the
thinking of Muammar Al Qaddafi, and his
Third Universal Theory for a new democratic
society. Outlined first is his theory for
direct democracy in society, or Jamahiriya,
focusing on the authority of the people,
renouncing representation or delegation of
authority, and recognizing the need for
organization of the people at lower levels
of society. Part Two suggests an economic
revolution, transforming societies of wage
earners into companies of partners by
applying a political and economic theory of
social organization that gives the
ownership, and regulation of production,
distribution and exchange to the community
as a whole. Part Three launches a social
revolution, presenting solutions to man's
struggles in life, and the unsolved problems
of man and woman, as well as tackling the
situation of minorities by laying out sound
principles of social life for all mankind.
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My Vision
By
Muammar Gaddafi and Edmond Jouve
This
breezy but well-researched history takes a
not-so-critical look at a man described by
Nelson Mandela as "one of the greatest
revolutionary legends of our times" and by
President Ronald Reagan as "the mad dog of
the Middle East." The leader of Libya since
1969, Gaddafi's life story is revealed
through the interviews and research of Jouve,
an expert in Third-World Africa who first
met Gaddafi in 1979. Told from Gaddafi's
point of view, this book portrays him as a
leader of conviction and consideration,
committed to peaceably bettering the lives
of his countrymen, historically threatened
by the influence of the Zionists and the
Western traditions they bring to the Middle
East with them.
Jouve details this anti-Zionism largely
without critical comment—which
may bristle Western audiences—except
for that provided by Gaddafi himself, who in
2004 gave up his nuclear weapons in order to
reconcile with the West, a move Jouve says
is "the result of deep thought and
soul-searching."
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Whether or not you believe in his transformation (and to
be sure, Jouve doesn't provide any reasons why you
shouldn't), Gaddafi's perspective is well represented
here and should satisfy anyone interested in man, the
march of Islamic democracy, or the perspective of an
"enlightened Muslim" on Israel, the West, democracy and
terrorism.— Publishers
Weekly
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