© Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Lybia's Leader Muammar Gaddafi attends a meeting with seven hundred Italian women at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica on June 12, 2009 in Rome, Italy.
Thirteen years ago, the NATO operation against Libya demolished one of the most well-off African nationsOnce one of the leading and most economically prosperous countries in North Africa,
Libya has today become a hotbed of instability and destruction. This country is yet another victim of the so-called 'Arab Spring'.In January 2011, the first riots began, the day after the news of the flight of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from his own country became known. The first protests hit the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Derna, and Al-Bayda.
The discontent was caused by excessively long construction times for housing. Protesters began to seize unfinished houses, attack contractor offices and municipalities.Indeed, there were problems with construction times. Immediately after the start of the protests, then leader Muammar Gaddafi condemned the rallies, but at the same time noted that the construction times for housing had been delayed and promised to punish the perpetrators. On January 27, Reuters reported that the Libyan government had set up a $24 billion fund "to provide housing for the population."
Comment: Gaddafi worked for his country and his people, primarily, rather than the western elites. The NATO countries and nudging from Israel rewarded with balkanisation. Still his work was not in vain, he set an example for others.
1) Gaddafi in SOTT articles, in summary; in title;
220+ articles,
600+ articles, (for Qaddafi in title;
10+ articles, in summary;
90+ articles)
A former Italian premier, in an interview, has contended that a French air force missile brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya's then-leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Former two-time premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.
In an interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Amato said on Saturday he is convinced that France hit the plane while targeting a Libyan military jet.
While acknowledging he has no hard proof, Amato also contended that Italy tipped off Gaddafi, and so the Libyan, who was heading back to Tripoli from a meeting in Yugoslavia, didn't board the Libyan military jet.
What caused the crash is one of modern Italy's most enduring mysteries.
Some say a bomb exploded aboard the Itavia jetliner on a flight from Bologna to Sicily, while others say an examination of the wreckage, pulled up from the seafloor years later, indicates it was hit by a missile.
Radar traces indicated a flurry of aircraft activity in that part of the skies when the plane went down.
"The most credible version is that of responsibility of the French air force, in complicity with the Americans and who participated in a war in the skies that evening of June 27," Amato was quoted as saying.
NATO planned to "simulate an exercise, with many planes in action, during which a missile was supposed to be fired" with Gaddafi as the target, Amato said.
In the aftermath of the crash, French, US and NATO officials denied any military activity in the skies that night.
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2) About Gadaffi's "The Green Book"
The Green Book is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It was "intended to be read by all people". It is said to have been inspired in part by The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung). Both were widely distributed both inside and outside their country of origin, and "written in a simple, understandable style with many memorable slogans".
The book has
three chapers:
Chapter 1: The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People
Chapter 2: The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism
Chapter 3: The Social Basis of the Third International Theory
See also
Wiki. The
Green Book Center has versions "
in European languages and
in CIS languages at separate sites."
Given the independent mind of Muammar Gadaffi, adding a little inspiration from
The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung), it is not hard to imagine how his administration ended up in the red/black books of the NATO alliance partners.
3) On Lockerbie
There's plenty of evidence that suggest that, if the FBI does indeed re-open the Lockerbie case file, they should be looking past the "usual suspects" aka patsies of Libyan terrorists:
4) Libya in the SOTT articles, in title;
800+ articles, in summary,
2410+ articles
In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East - and to test biological weapons on US citizens.
Led by Representative Paul Gosar, a handful of Republican members of Congress launched a protest against 41 nominal "national emergency" declarations, many of which are decades old.
Rep. Gosar has argued the National Emergencies Act is "tyrannical," granting 148 separate powers to the executive branch.
This July 18, the House voted down five resolutions to terminate national emergency powers which date back as far as 2003. The countries affected by the five resolutions include Congo, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Iraq. Each vote saw a coalition of pro-war Democrats and Republicans join together in overwhelming numbers to protect the executive branch's emergency authorities.
5) Gaddafi on Ukraine 2009Since 2009 Gaddafi and Libya are gone. Changes in Ukraine have been even more dramatic and are ongoing.
6)
The GDP chart of Libya from this
Wiki is illustrative of the western sponsored post-post colonial development.
Comment: Gaddafi worked for his country and his people, primarily, rather than the western elites. The NATO countries and nudging from Israel rewarded with balkanisation. Still his work was not in vain, he set an example for others.
1) Gaddafi in SOTT articles, in summary; in title; 220+ articles, 600+ articles, (for Qaddafi in title; 10+ articles, in summary; 90+ articles)
Clinton e-mails reveal Washington's obsession with overthrowing Qaddafi government in Libya
The Ugly Truth: video Of Libyan rebel beheading Gadhaffi soldier and other Nato war crimes
The despicable and heinous timeline of Gaddafi's murder
Why they came for, and killed, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi
Qaddafi Compound Hit by U.K. Missiles as Coalition Says Leader's Forces in Disarray
NATO: Qaddafi loyalist resilience surprising
2) About Gadaffi's "The Green Book" The book has three chapers: See also Wiki. The Green Book Center has versions "in European languages and in CIS languages at separate sites."
Given the independent mind of Muammar Gadaffi, adding a little inspiration from The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung), it is not hard to imagine how his administration ended up in the red/black books of the NATO alliance partners.
3) On Lockerbie
Since 2009 Gaddafi and Libya are gone. Changes in Ukraine have been even more dramatic and are ongoing.
6) The GDP chart of Libya from this Wiki is illustrative of the western sponsored post-post colonial development.