Since the start of NATO’s Operation Unified Protector in March 2011, four of the five NATO governments that contributed military forces to the operation against Libya and, subsequently, faced elections or confidence votes have fallen. Only the Turkish government of Recep Erdoğan has survived a strength test.
According to information contained in a confidential report … President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign received up to 50 million euros in secret funds from … Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Mediapart has obtained exclusive access to the document, written by Jean-Charles Brisard, who has notably served since 2002 as an investigator for lawyers representing relatives of the victims of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.
Le Figaro journalist Georges Malbrunot, deemed to have close ties with French intelligence, has now advanced the figure of at least 5,000 Qatari soldiers who were engaged in the Libyan war. Five thousand foreign troops is not compatible with the version imposed by the Atlanticist media to the effect that a popular uprising took place against Gaddafi followed by an international humanitarian intervention.
Eight major oil companies operate in Libya. All six western companies (we have excluded Gazprom and Petro China) ended the trading day up following the announcement of the death of Col. Muammar Qaddafi. This unified trading trend was repeated the following day, October 21, as well.
Qaddafi was assassinated in a NATO-coordinated operation following speculation the government of Libya was considering trading oil in gold rather than dollars.
… military sources report mounting indications that a NATO special forces unit – although of which nation is unknown – located and captured Muammar Qaddafi in the Sirte area. They aparently shot him in both legs to prevent his escape and informed a Misrata militia of his whereabouts, knowing they would kill him. NATO was guided by two considerations: first, not to compromise the presence of ground troops in the battle zone in breach of the alliance’s UN mandate; and second, to give the Libyan rebels a psychological victory – especially after they failed in battle to capture Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
According to DEBKAfile, departing UK Ambassador to the DPRK Peter Hughes remarked on Wednesday “I have had discussions with high-level officials, who have made clear to me their view that if Colonel Qaddafi had not given up his nuclear weapons, then NATO would not have attacked his country.” Will NATO policy in Libya hasten the proliferation of nuclear weapons by states seeking insurance against conventional attack?
In his 2008 paper Why States Give Up Nuclear Weapons, Harald Müller of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt remarked “it is security perception by the actors, not security assessment by far-away scholars which determines the policies of a state.” Müller found that a perception of threat to a non-nuclear state by nuclear weapons states played “a direct or indirect role” in the non-nuclear state’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons. In only one case - Israel - the decision to pursue nuclear weapons was unrelated to actual or perceived nuclear threats against the nation.
