Blow-back Libya – new sources of weapons with US backed Al Qaeda as “black market” distributor and deal maker
cb editor note: Please read the article by Voltaire’s, Thierry Meyssan, HERE regarding the resurrection of Al Qaeda as a supported US operative in Libya. This is an important article that clearly identifies a failing and misdirected US foreign policy in North Africa and the Middle East regarding the “Arab Democracy Movement”. It sets up a rerun of the scenario of felling trade towers, bombing embassies and sinking naval vessels that the resurrected US ally in Libya, Al Qaeda, once mastered, blow-back squared. Thierry Meyssan’s article is cross-posted on this blog HERE
The article below highlights the Weapons Brokering for Democracy movement that the USG and NATO have created in MENA while the largely peaceful and nonviolent movements for democracy remain under the repression of the Western supported regimes. It seems the Western leaders with their broken economies have reduced their foreign policy ambitions to ensuring success of black markets and increasing tradition weapon sales in the name of “democracy armed”. The lesson to be learned here is; if you don’t buy weapons from the West then you will not know “democracy”.
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U.S. helps create potential market to terrorists for WMDs
By D. Lindley Young – Knoxville Journal
Some question whether U.S. involvement in Libya was really thought out. There are a couple of big problems that the United States has in the war in Libya. First, we don’t really know who the “rebels” are and in all likelihood would count in their numbers members of al-Qaeda attempting to take advantage of the unrest and instability as there is a transition of power from Gaddafi to the rebels or representatives of the rebels.
Second, while some want war with Iran because they could potentially make a nuclear bomb and put it in the hands of terrorists, the Obama administration opens Pandora’s weapons box without control of it creating maybe the greatest opportunity ever for terrorists to get a large supply of Gaddafi’s stock pile of dangerous weapons. Gaddafi controlled chemical weapons, mustard gas, shoulder-held rockets, materials to make road side explosive devices and processed uranium which was left from his nuclear weapons program, which the U.S. does not want to get in the hands of al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations.
The concern is real. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch says that “weapon proliferation out of Libya is potentially one of the largest we have ever documented — 2003 Iraq pales in comparison — and so the risks are equally much more significant.”
As put by Adam Rawnsley in his article titled Gaddafi’s Loose Weapons Could Number a ‘Thousand Times’ Saddam’s: “Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi spent decades piling up a huge stash of weapons like a crazy old lady hoarding cats. Ironically, rebel forces looted his arms depots to turn Gaddafi’s missiles and guns on their old master. But the ease with which the rebels were able to arm themselves points to their next massive problem: securing those weapons before they fuel a lethal insurgency or flood the global arms bazaar.”
Although the U.S. may have special ops trying to secure the weapons our intelligence is weak and the rebels are not malleable to U.S. demands. Will the “rebels” who put their lives on the line in months of fighting and dying just turn them over to the U.S. if they have or get them?
The rebels got at least some of the weapons and used them against Gaddafi. So, can the U.S. count on the rebels since we helped them take down Gaddafi. Probably not.
Despite our help the rebels outright rejected U.S. demands to turn over the master mind behind the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 in Lackerbie, Scotland. The bombing killed over 270 people – mainly Americans. The bomber has been living in Libya as a hero under Gaddafi for the past two years after being released from prison in Scotland for humanitarian reasons. He was supposed to die within months of release from cancer. …source
