Libya: The Rest of the Story
Libyan opposition literally running protests from Washington.
by Tony Cartalucci


When Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, accused foreigners and opposition groups of fomenting unrest within Libya, it appears no truer words have been spoken. It is not surprising BBC and the rest of the corporate owned media went through extensive measures to discredit his speech.

Unbelievable revelations have been discovered regarding the unrest in Libya. The leader of Libya's opposition group organizing the protests both inside and outside of Libya, is currently in Washington D.C. as he and his organization direct the upheaval and bedlam consuming the North African nation.

An interview with Ibrahim Sahad of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) on ABC Australia, features every talking point covered by the mainstream corporate media from over the past week, all with the White House and Washington Monument looming over him in the background.

Ibrahim Sahad and his NFLS formed the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition (NCLO) in London in 2005. This group specifically went out of its way to appear not to be influenced or supported by the United States. Perhaps to cement this notion, Huffington Post featured documents released by the NCLO in a wikileaks-esque move to pin US support on Qaddafi. Of course, as with all the unrest in the Middle East, as the facts trickle out we find out this is not to avoid confusion, it is to avoid the truth.

The Sahad's NCLO began organizing the February 17th "Day of Rage" right on cue as Egypt fell so the mainstream media apparatus could swing around and put the focus on Libya. Conveniently, the media needs only move from Cairo to Egypt's western border and wait for Sahad's men on the ground to secure them a base of operations, presumably in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. Qaddafi apparently understands the role of NGOs and the foreign media, which is why they are not in the streets of Libya's cities, and coverage has been admittedly daunting.

It turns out that both the corporate owned news and the US State Department/corporate funded Movements.org are getting their reports entirely from Sahad's NCLO in Washington, who claims to be in contact with "first hand" reports out of Libya. Other NFSL members including one in Dubai, are also supplying the media with this "first hand" information. These reports have become the basis for accusations of "genocide", the convening of the UNSC, economic sanctions, threats directed toward Libyan security forces that attempt to quell protesters, and NATO enforced no-fly zones.

http://landdestroyer..com/2011/02/libya-rest-of-story.html

Can I have fries with that?

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Lwkmd at the responses.

@CAP28
I feel you, it's always a difficult uphill task to be among zombies.
Let them simmer in their ignorance

@zombies( beaf, mariory et al)
I have a little assign,ent for you for a starter. go and read "The confession of an economic hitman" or youtube it for a preview.
Till then shuush from me

Actually, I have seen that documentary -- MORE THAN ONCE -- on LINK TV. Please do not here pretend it Provides SUPPORT for your crazy crazy vomit here.

^^^^^

can you set out in plain english what it is about the above article that led you to the conclusion that it is according to you "crazy crazy vomit"

er kobojunkie im still waiting,

Kobojunkie:

Actually, I have seen that documentary -- MORE THAN ONCE -- on LINK TV. Please do not here pretend it Provides SUPPORT for your crazy crazy vomit here.

hey Kobo, i'm actually seeking your attention.
If you are left alone,you'l prolly grow old on this section of NL.
Take a walk, something is happening to your namesake here :
www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-608501.160.html#msg7856263

cap28:

^^^^^

can you set out in plain english what it is about the above article that led you to the conclusion that it is according to you "crazy crazy vomit"

See, that would be hard since you have deemed all media reports that oppose what you say to be of WESTERN COHORTS  . . . so, my producing report upon reports that actually speak to the fact that

a) there are many groups involved trying to manage the protests in Libya

b) that these groups are not as organized as your article there claims

c) These groups are mostly right there in Libya,

Would be of no use. You would immediately label them all WESTERN PROPAGANDA and nothing more. So again, it is HARD TO answer any of your questions because you have CONVENIENTLY created for yourself a way to have ONLY that which aligns with your current mindset to be the only acceptable retort -- anything else will be deemed false by you and your conspiracy-buddies. 

Kobojunkie:

So again, it is HARD TO answer any of your questions because you have CONVENIENTLY created for yourself a way to have ONLY that which aligns with your current mindset to be the only acceptable retort -- anything else will be deemed false by you and your conspiracy-buddies.

He is nairaland's *secret agent man*.

Kobo, Kobo, quite contrary
u dey do yanga on top ignorance. What a shame.
Crazy, crazy olodo No. 1.

I don't know what crazy docu you watched. Liar!
''Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins'' is a b-O-O-K! Fool

I have read your empty posts on NL. So much noise for someone who knows nothing (ditto Mariory). Arrogant Ignoramus!

^^^ It is one thing to be a slowpoke, but taking an extra step to reveal it is a whole nother step entirely.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8

See me see this obstinate 'olodo' arguing over obvious fact. your ignorance reeks of arrogance.

NLer be the judge:
jon.bee says ''Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins'' is a b-O-O-K! a new york time bestseller published by plume books (2004)

kobokobo says: it is a documentary. Abeg na who produce the 'docu' (ehn? Don Baba J?). Year?
Did your watch the docu on foxnews? Sorry the media brainwashed you. Do you want candy?

Meanwhile continue to argue blindly on NL. So much noise for someone who knows nothing.
The award for the most opinionated dunce goes to kobojunkie! NL olodo No. 1

*singing Olumide Eni duro ''don't cry me a river, baby. Cry me a lagoon''

Jon Bee no mind Mrs Junkie - confessions of an economic hitman IS a best selling book, the "documentary" that Mrs Junkie is referring to is actually an interview in which the author John Perkins discusses the book.

FOLLOW THE MONEY,

and WHO STANDS TO GAIN by Quadaffi demise?

I know CNN in Amerikka is putting WAYYYY too much attention on it.

Libya have OIL, so who wants the DICTATOR gone?

^^^^^^
glad you can see it

cap28:



Jon Bee no mind Mrs Junkie - confessions of an economic hitman IS a best selling  book, the "documentary" that Mrs Junkie is referring to is actually an interview in which the author John Perkins discusses the book.

Hmm hello cAP28 i been a way for a while, so are the Doubters now being converted!!! nice to see you still analysing strong as usual, !

martinosi:

Hmm hello cAP28 i been a way for a while, so are the Doubters now being converted!!! nice to see you still analysing strong as usual, !

Hey bro - good to hear from you.

no am afraid its too late to convert them they are too far gone, by the time they wake up it will be too late.

here is how a former KGB agent explains the different stages of brainwashing and their far reaching consequences:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk

While you are at it alerting the world of THE WEST"S ATROCITIES pic up the todays Wall street journal and see the faces of your BROTHERS being brutalized by these ARAB libyans who are looking for mercenary BLACK AFRICAN scapegoats to channel their frustrations towards.

OR is this more propaganda

Hmmmm??

African viewpoint: Colonel's continent?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12585395

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo ponders Libya's relationship with the rest of Africa.

To lose one dictator as the year began may have been fortuitous, to lose two and a possible third in the space of three months seems miraculous.


He had no qualms about pitching his tent in our capitals”
The desert winds of change blowing across North Africa are howling a firestorm in the direction of the conundrum that is Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and Africans are reeling from the speed of it all.

In the theatre of these revolutions, the man currently occupying centre stage has more reason than others to take up the interests of Africans, and so the death throes of his 42-year-old regime are reverberating across an entire continent.

The colonel's theatrical character seems to have walked out of the pages of macabre fiction, and as the years passed, the character came closer to a caricature of the absolute dictator than to the memory of the 27-year-old captain who took Libya kicking and screaming into the second half of the 20th Century, then remained stuck there well into the 21st.

Tunisia's former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali loved and exploited his Parisian connections and kept his distance from Africans; Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was caught in the net of the Middle East and its conflicts - and was in any case paranoid about black Africa ever since gunmen fired on his motorcade in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa.

The colonel, though, embraced us.

African portfolio
  Libya's wealth has allowed Col Gaddafi to foster close ties with African leaders He had no qualms about pitching his tent in our capitals and could drive his motorcade across several African borders to attend a conference or just to dazzle us with oil money as an array of designer shaded curvaceous bodyguards attended to his needs.

A brief examination of the colonel's African connections reveals a deep-rooted intent to forge ties with the rest of Africa.

Having come to power in that decade of former UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's "winds of change" speech, there was not a liberation movement that had not received his backing.

From Nelson Mandela's African National Congress in South Africa to Namibia's freedom fighters, plus every rebel without a cause like Sierra Leone's Foday Sankoh to Liberia's Charles Taylor, Uganda's late Idi Amin and even that country's present leader Yoweri Museveni - they have all supped at his revolutionary table or taken his money and weapons.
Only the other year Mr Gaddafi was the chairman of the African Union, and has almost single-handedly funded its existence for decades.

As head of this largely mute and ineffective brotherhood of presidents, the colonel pushed for a United Africa over which he would preside.


We had 70-80 people from Chad working for our company - they were cut dead with pruning shears and axes, attackers saying: 'You are providing troops for Gaddafi'”


His money had of course spent a long time constructing such a possibility.

Libyan investments in Africa through its huge reserves of oil are legion and the soaring price for this black gold enabled the Libya Africa Portfolio for Investments (LAP) to set up a "sovereign wealth fund" in 2006.

And then there is Oil Libya Holding company, the Libyan Arab Company for African Investments, Afriqiyah Airlines and a host of other portfolios.

Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe, Uganda, is 100% owned by the Libyan sovereign wealth fund, the Novotel Umubano in Kigali is 60% owned by the Libyans; there is real estate in Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, South Africa; brand new mosques in East and West Africa have been built with the colonel's cash.

Did the Africans accept him as a new Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Africa's independence movement, or did his money know no ideology?

It is no wonder then, that the colonel's dilemma is making headlines all over the continent.

Questions have been tabled in the Zimbabwean parliament as to whether Zimbabwean forces are involved in propping up Mr Gaddafi's last stand, even as 46 people are languishing in a Harare jail for watching videos of the Egyptian uprising.

Venomous hatred

Rumours are everywhere of a recruitment drive for mercenaries in Nigeria and Ghana.

And now, as things fall apart, the colonel is defiantly holding on with many reports suggesting that Africans, black Africans, are the crutches on which his depleted army is now hobbling.

Thousands of foreigners are trying to flee the chaos in Libya In the past week, the phrase "African mercenaries" has been repeated by Libyan citizens and rolling news, eyewitnesses to the violence in Tripoli have spat the word "African" with venomous hatred.

Part of the Libyan story now is the scramble to escape of Turks, Germans, Indians, Englishmen, Italians, Malaysians and a host of other nationalities that include black men commonly known as Africans.

In the violence of the last fortnight, the colonel's African connections have only served to rekindle a deep-rooted racism between Arabs and black Africans.

As mercenaries, reputedly from Chad and Mali fight for him, a million African refugees and thousands of African migrant workers stand the risk of being murdered for their tenuous link to him.

One Turkish construction worker told the BBC: "We had 70-80 people from Chad working for our company. They were cut dead with pruning shears and axes, attackers saying: 'You are providing troops for Gaddafi.' The Sudanese were also massacred. We saw it for ourselves."

Libya's new forces for change have simply picked up where the colonel left off his bloodletting.

And as the world moves to freeze Libya's assets, they must unpick the intricate web of the colonel's investments and decide what is his and what is Libya's - although in 42 years of absolute power it has never been easy to tell the difference.

Belated noises are now coming from the African Union, condemning the use of violence.

Even that anonymous community made from that meaningless phrase - the international community - now deny ever arming him, and claim there is no evidence that their teargas has been used against protesters, as if teargas floats in the colours of a national flag so we can all know where it was made as we choke.

The forces of change must now hope that Mr Gaddafi's fighting friends evaporate, and he can live out his last days in a tent pitched on a hotel lawn once owned by Libya, or Gaddafi plc; or face the music.