Flashback Pure Evil: NATO Attacked Libyan Water Supply Pipeline and the Factory that Makes Replacement Pipes

Scott Creighton
willyloman.wordpress.com
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:11 UTC

Were the Norway terrorist attacks designed in part to cover this story? Both occurred July 22nd, 2011 and only one has really seen the light of day in the alternative as well as the mainstream media.

Last week Pravda reported that NATO attacked the Great Manmade River pipeline in Libya which literally brings water across the desert to millions of Libyans and farms in western and southern Libya as well as to the capital Tripoli and Benghazi. The Manmade River project is not only a life-sustaining source of water for millions of Libyan people and a core part of Libya's agriculture, it also stands as a source of national pride and identity. It is the largest irrigation system in the world and you can find a map of it on the Libyan dinar note. Gadhafi himself called it "the eighth wonder of the world". They started the project in 1983 with an extraordinary session of the People's Congresses and 25 billion dollars later, it was completed. Funding came from profits from the very oil industry that NATO countries hope to privatize.

NATO's strikes seem to have been extremely deliberate in their planning. First, they targeted a key section of the water supply line itself, then the next day or so, they targeted the only facility which makes the replacement sections of the pipes.

"July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it." Pravda

There is absolutely no justification for this action. It is indefensible on every single level. No one can say they "accidentally" hit the pipeline then they "accidentally" hit the only facility which makes replacement pipe section for it. Their intentions are crystal clear; they intend to kill perhaps a million Libyan by depriving them of life's basic necessity, water. This cowardly action is beyond the definition of a war-crime and has moved into a different realm altogether for which I don't know if there is word that describes it.

You really have to go all the way back to Nazi Germany to find anything to compare this barbaric behavior to. Perhaps what Suharto did with our blessings in East Timor would qualify for this level of pure malevolence.... perhaps.

Perhaps it's not a coincidence that the Norway terrorist acts took place on the exact same day as these NATO strikes on the water supply of 70% of the Libyan people. Seems to me that there are just too many strange aspects to the Anders Behring Breivik story for it to have been just another case of a wealthy lone gunman getting mad at the leftists and the Muslims. The whole thing seemed like it was hastily pasted together with his Facebook page being put up just days before the attack and his 1,500 page manifesto lifting so many passages straight from the Unibomber's. There would be no possible way for NATO counties to justify the attack on the water supply of the Libyan people, so the only option that would remain to the planners would be to ensure that some other story would garner all of the public's attention across the Western world.

Just like the story of Umar Fizzlepants was slapped together to distract the nation from the story of President Obama authorizing the cruise missile strikes that killed 23 children in Yemen, this Anders Behring Breivik story did the same thing for the NATO allied nations as they committed one of the most heinous acts of state sponsored terrorism I have recently read about. It's hard to believe in coincidences like that anymore.

This Libyan video shows the facility that made the replacement sections of the Great Manmade River Project after it was bombed.

It is also important to note as the two strategies seem like they would be connected, NATO attacked the state run TV's broadcast towers across Libya this past Friday, further cutting off and isolating the people of Libya from their leadership and each other. Clearly these actions and many others during the NATO bombardment of Libya are designed to target the people of Libya in what appears to be yet another application of the Bush era "Shock and Awe" style warfare.

Though the reports of this horrific crime are scarce, one can find them if one looks closely enough. In one article from USA Today which touted that Gadhafi must face war-crimes charges, you find this set of passages which confirms the accuracy of the Pravda story...

NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega on Friday killing six guards, Libyan officials said.

The plant, located six miles (10 kilometers) south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.

"Major parts of the plant have been damaged," said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. "There could be major setback for the future projects."

When one thinks about the broader implications of this act, one can't help but be amazed at the level of pure evil this act constitutes.

Under Gadhafi's rule, they were able to bring water to the desert, literally. It was a feat of near biblical proportions accomplished not just by Gadhafi and the People's Congresses, but by all the Libyan people all across the country. Some contributed by building parts, others by installing the line itself, and still others worked in the nationalized oil industry to create the national wealth that permitted it to happen. And NATO, under the guise of the lie of the "humanitarian intervention", is actively seeking to destroy it.

I am reminded of what the Clinton administration did to the people of Iraq when they imposed harsh sanctions on them in order to weaken or remove Saddam Hussain because they wanted what he had just like they want what Gadhafi and the people of Libya have. It's an apt comparison because as you all know, Obama brought in many people who served in the Clinton administration and Hillary Clinton now runs the State Department.

I am equally reminded of what Madeleine Albright said on 60 Minutes when asked if killing 500 thousand children in Iraq was "worth it" to weaken Saddam Hussein. There is no other way to describe this level of contempt for human life other than to say it's just pure evil.

Comment: Here is some backgound information on Libya's 'eight wonder of the world':

Source: Libya S.O.S.

Libya's investment bank used $33 billion, without interest rates, to build the 'Great Man-Made River', the "eighth wonder of the world". It is, or was, 3,750 kilometers long with three parallel pipelines running oil, gas and water from deep in the Saharan desert up to Libya's cities in the north of the country, over an area roughly the size of Western Europe. The River project supplied 70% of the Libyan people (4.5 of its 6 million population) with clean drinking water from enormous aquifers discovered under the sands in the 1980s.

Here are some facts and figures to give you an idea of sheer scale of this project. (Source: official website of the Great Man-Made River Authority, h/t Libya S.O.S.)

• Some half a million concrete cylinder pipes, some wide enough to drive articulated trucks through, were made up until the point NATO (the US) blew up Libya's infrastructure.
• Transporting these enormous structures across the sands was ongoing until 19 March. Work went on day and night, all year long, for decades. The accumulative distance traveled by the transporters is apparently equivalent to the sun and back.
• Before all this even began, over 3,700 km of roads had to be constructed alongside the gigantic pipe line trenches to enable the heavy trucks to deliver pipe sections to the installation sites.
• Volume of trench excavation: 250 million cubic meters.
• The amount of aggregate materials used in the project: 30,000,000 tonnes, enough to build 20 pyramids the size of the great pyramid of Khoufu.
• Total weight of cement used: 7 million tonnes.
• Total length of pre-stressing wire: 6 million kilometers; this would circle the Earth 280 times.

What an incredible turnaround for a country that was the poorest on the planet just 40 years ago. But certain other civilised countries across the seas looked on jealously as their own indebted, crime-ridden societies began crumbling. And then along comes NATO, activated by the US as usual, under the bullshit pretext of 'protecting the Libyan people'.

The unconscionable destruction of Libya's pioneering water supply infrastructure by NATO war jets was a heinous deed.

It has also emerged that Libya was set to be awarded commendation for its commitment to, and implementation of, international treaties governing political and economic human rights, religious freedom and freedom of expression, by the Human Rights Council of the UN General Assembly just days after the launch of the US-European air assault on civilians. Some of the countries which praised Libya's human rights record in this report then subsequently joined in the mass-murder.

There is another way to describe this level of murderous deceit: purely psychopathic.