Mabuhay, Kadhafi forces!
| DIE HARD III |
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| Herman Tiu Laurel |
The strategies employed by the US and Nato are all too familiar by now: First, a massive disinformation campaign, followed by a mobilization of armed opportunistic defectors.
Then, as more gangster and terrorist elements are recruited, massive Nato bombings are set off to precede an actual armed incursion.
Ostensibly, the assault to re-colonize Libya officially began in February 2011 with the disinformation that Moammar Kadhafi’s air force had strafed and bombed “peaceful” demonstrators — who, in no time, had lots of arms and SUVs outfitted with anti-aircraft artillery. A UN resolution for a “humanitarian no-fly zone” was thereafter rushed, which, to date, has yielded 20,000 bombing sorties that have brought death and destruction to thousands upon thousands of innocent Libyan civilians. Of course, the script will never be complete without an International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of Kadhafi and his family.
But despite the promise of a “short campaign” lasting a few days or weeks from US President Barack Obama, it’s been almost seven months now and still, Kadhafi continues to be a pain in his backside.
Remember the reports early on of a Kadhafi plane landing in Venezuela, insinuating an escape? Well, it’s the same kind of blatant disinformation resorted to recently, where Khamis Kadhafi, the son in command of elite forces, was said to have been killed; followed by claims of another two of Kadhafi’s sons being captured.
Between the disinformation that Khamis had been killed and the rebel “invasion” of Tripoli, French journalist Thierry Meyssan reported on GlobalResearch.ca that “(by) evening, a motorcade of official cars carrying top government figures came under attack… (forcing it to flee) to the Hotel Rixos, where the foreign press is based… At 1 a.m., Khamis… came to the Rixos… personally to deliver weapons for the defense of the hotel. He then left… (after which) heavy fighting all around (ensued)…”
We all know that Libyan political leader Seif Al-Islam, another of Kadhafi’s sons, appeared later in public to rally the troops, belying western media claims that he had been arrested by rebel forces.
Moreover, as Sunday’s reports of the rebel advance into Tripoli blared, Meyssan recounted on PrisonPlanet.com eyewitness reports detailing that “a Nato warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking al-Qaeda jihadi forces… led by Nato officers… (Then, after) intense firefights… drones and aircraft (of Nato) kept bombing in all directions… straf(ing) civilians in the streets with machine guns to open the way for the jihadis.”
Kadhafi had repeatedly pointed to these al-Qaeda jihadis as the rebels’ main fighting force. So, even with al-Qaeda’s status as the West’s public enemy No. 1, it should be clear to all that these so-called “enemies” have long worked together, just as Osama bin Laden did with the CIA in Afghanistan.
Overall, since the initial assault of Nato’s sleeper elements almost seven months ago, Kadhafi had quickly regrouped and turned the tables on his foes. Indeed, while the US and Nato believed that drones and air power alone were enough to neutralize Kadhafi in weeks, they didn’t count on his troops hiding their tanks and SUVs from Tunisia to disguise themselves as rebels moving about the desert.
Now that the fighting is all over Tripoli and the other cities of Libya, there’s no denying the tenacity and “brilliance” of Kadhafi’s forces in surprising the enemy. As I have said many times, “The fighting ain’t over till it’s over.” And, going by an old military adage saying, “Let the snake’s head enter then cut it off,” the entry of rebel forces into Tripoli may well be the proverbial snake’s head that Nato-bombarded Kadhafi forces are waiting to decapitate.
Even western media have reported of an imminent “counter attack” by Kadhafi — this, as they expressed fears of a possible crack in the already fractious rebel forces, made evident by the murder of their erstwhile head, Gen. Abdul Fatah Younis, by elements believed to be linked to al-Qaeda. And as the power-crabbing and grabbing of the factions within the rebel forces may erupt any moment, time is not necessarily on Nato’s side. The longer the Kadhafi family keeps the fight going, the greater the chance for a turnaround against it.
Whatever the final outcome of the battles in Tripoli and in Libya as a whole, the conflict will exacerbate beyond the leaders of today, as what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq. Expect Libyan per capita income, at $12,000/annum under Kadhafi, to be slashed to half (and then a fourth), not only because of the war but because of the West devouring the lion’s share of the wealth of Libya’s oil fields already nationalized by Kadhafi.
Both the US and Nato will continue their war campaign against Syria, and then Iran, with their ultimate goal being China — not because the emerging superpower is a threat but because war is necessary for the western oligarchs to survive and for their populations to be continually distracted — all to feed the military-industrial complex (now celebrating its 50th year) that former US President Dwight Eisenhower had warned about, which the world has unfortunately failed to act on.
Unless we stop them soon, we’ll be in for the real holocaust. For now, Kadhafi has done his part to forestall that march toward global war. To him we say, “Mabuhay ka, Kadhafi!”
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(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110826com6.html
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