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With a weak government possessing very few tools to exert control throughout its territory, Libya has become a terrorist safe haven and its transit routes are used by various terrorist groups, notably in the southwest and northeast.
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Terrorists continue to utilize ancient trade routes across these borders. All of Libya's borders are porous and vulnerable to this activity ....Why has Libya become a safe haven for terrorists? The State Department's 2012 Country Reports on Terrorism - the first Country Report to list Libya as a terrorist safe haven - explains:
In 2012, Libyan internal security suffered significant challenges and setbacks as it sought to reassert central authority following the fall of the Qadhafi regime ....And why did the Qadhafi regime fall? Oh, yeah ... in 2011, the U.S. launched a war in Libya and "regime changed" Qadhafi. As then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said:
We came, we saw, he died.
"According to the evidence that I've seen ...Odessa was a giant false flag operation. It... was one of those staged massacres that the pro-Western forces from Bosnia to Kosovo, now Ukraine, excel at staging, intended to draw Russia to overreact and commit military forces ... I believe that the fact that they are willing to stage such a horrendous atrocity shows the depth of their desperation at this point."Photos of the victims of the Odessa fire which have been circulating on the Internet have cast doubt on the official version of events. It's now clear that many of the anti-junta activists who occupied the Trade Unions House were neither burned to death nor died of smoke inhalation, but were savagely shot at point-blank range by agents and thugs who had infiltrated the building to kill as many of the occupants as possible, burn the corpses, and then slip away without notice. Some of the victims - like a young woman who was eight months pregnant - were strangled with an electrical chord and left slumped backwards over her desk in a room that shows no sign of fire or smoke damage. In another case, a woman was stripped naked from the waste down, raped, killed, and set ablaze.
- Nebojsa Malic, political analyst, Russia Today
"Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us."
- "Requiem" - Anna Akhmatova
Comment: See also:
A deal between devils: The neo-Nazi element and the U.S.'s proxy war in Ukraine