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That was the claim on Tuesday by David Schenker, the assistant secretary for near eastern affairs at the State Department. He told reporters that Russian regulars were being sent to Libya "in significant numbers" to support the Libya National Army (LNA) and said that "raises the specter of large-scale casualties among the civilian population."
Schenker's concern for the lives and well-being of Libyan civilians is especially touching, given that the US was one of the driving forces behind the regime-change operation in 2011 targeting the government of Col. Moammar Gaddafi. Few can forget then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cackling ghoulishly when she was informed of Gaddafi's brutal murder at the hands of US-backed 'moderate' rebels.
Comment: The US government and its media knew all along there was no evidence of Assad using sarin gas against the Syrian people. But that did not stop the information war waged in the name of US dominance. Now that the truth has reached the mainstream, it still does not matter. Lies upon lies have led an hysterisized American population into a bizarre world where truth is the enemy.