© Emilio Morenatti/Associated PressA woman picks a newspaper reporting the news on the suicide attack at a concert by Ariana Grande that killed more than 20 people as it ended Monday night in central Manchester, Britain, Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
There are reports that Salman Abedi, the Manchester suicide bomber, returned from "Daesh stronghold" Libya just days before he carried out his horrific attack.
The question we need to be asking is: who turned Libya — which as recently as July 2010 was being lauded in the British press as one of the top six cruise ship
holiday destinations — into an "Daesh stronghold" — and a training ground for terrorists like Abedi?
It's not a question that the West's political elites and their media stenographers want us to be asking. And that's hardly surprising. Because it was they — and the military alliance they support, who transformed Libya from a modern progressive country which acted as a bulwark against Salafi-jihadism, into a haven for al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Comment: Wherever a problem arises for the West, and an independent and truth-speaking Duterte is certainly a 'problem', ISIS appears to 'take care of it'. One would be forgiven for thinking that terrorism is a means to an end for the US and its allies.
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