*The cost of killing Gaddafi*

Al Baik

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  • Jan 5, 2011
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    In 2009 Libya was a friend to the US so much so that Libya allowed several
    US corporate giants to enter & approval was given for training of Libyan
    security personnel & civilians. These were the civilians that eventually
    became “rebels” given arms by the West to overthrow Gaddafi in a movement
    called “liberating Libya”. Arming locals has become a new strategy to avoid
    deaths to coalition forces while NATO is tasked to take on the
    indiscriminate air strikes. So what has been the cost for killing a man who
    has ruled a nation for 42 years without debt to the IMF or the World Bank?
    It took 8 months for US-NATO to take over Libya, the pro-US Libyan
    Government may celebrate & rejoice but that celebration is as short-lived as
    the jubilations in Iraq & Egypt where the people are beginning to realize
    their country would have still been better off with Saddam Hussein & Hosni
    Mubarak!


    The world needs to know that Gaddafi gave Libyans. Education in Libya is
    free to everyone from elementary school right up to university and
    post-graduate study, at home or abroad, Libyans enjoy free health care,
    ratio of one doctor per 673 citizens. Libyans are given interest free
    housing loans, free land for farmers. In 2010, Libya ranked 53rd on the
    Human Development Index (out of 170 U.N. member
    states),<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/Lets-Talk-HD-HDI_2010.pdf>making
    it a “high human development” country, electricity is free for all
    its citizens. if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the
    price. price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per litre. Libya has no external
    debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally A mother
    who gave birth to a child receives US$5,000. 40 loaves of bread in Libya
    costs $ 0.15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree, All newlyweds in Libya
    receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first
    apartment so to help start up the family. Prior to the international
    sanction placed on Gaddafi & Libya in the 1980s, it was one of the richest
    in the world by GDP per capita – with a living standard higher than Japan.
    It was the richest in Africa before the revolution. Libya is the only
    country in North Africa where terrorists do not exist. Fundamentalists have
    no voice whatsoever in Libya. Not a single terror-incident has been recorded
    in Libya during Gaddafi’s regime. Gaddafi is no saint but the above examples
    show that the qualities of leadership that made Libya what it was need to be
    benchmarked against what the US & West have in store for Libya that has been
    purposely destroyed to advance the agenda of the West.


    With the death of Gaddafi the most important question is where are the
    50,000 people that Gaddafi is supposed to have killed prior to US-NATO
    forces attacking Libya? Clearly the “genocide” claim is a lie – a little too
    late as the objective of killing Gaddafi has been achieved.
    It's another lie like the Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam was supposed to
    have stockpiled and was 'about' to unleash upon the world.


    The number of civilian casualties as a result of US-NATO air strikes, rebel
    attacks & pro-Government forces range between 1000 & 10,000. These remain
    only “estimates”. Mainstream media has erred in blaming deaths caused by
    pro-Gaddafi totally ignoring the reality that the majority of deaths would
    have resulted by the indiscriminate bombing by US-NATO air strikes. NATO
    cannot deny that it has purposely targeted civilian infrastructure –
    hospitals (Al-Tajura Hospital & Saladin Hospital in Ain Zara), power
    generating facilities, water purification systems, TV stations & other
    communication networks, civilian airports, schools, government buildings &
    residential complexes. What has happened to the network of canals that was built to
    provide water to the remotest regions of this dry land. The purpose of such bombings is obviously to destroy
    the country’s institutions. The UN Human Rights organization or other human
    rights bodies seem to care little for the realism behind the exercise of
    freeing Libya & at the fatalities that has been caused by NATO which has no
    mandate whatsoever to carry out air strikes on Libya. What these
    international bodies are doing to humanity is a shame & a crime for which
    all of them must be tried for holding office & remaining silent over crimes
    taking place under false motives & concocted lies.


    Thus the “humanitarian” bombing campaign part of the R2P agenda is part &
    parcel of a new military strategy carved by the West & a major component of
    this strategy is to destroy civilian infrastructure. This methodology was
    applied in Yugoslavia & Iraq where bridges, power plants, water systems,
    cultural & historical heritages, schools & hospitals were all identified as
    “legitimate military targets” validated in advance. In Yugoslavia the
    civilian economy was the target.


    The US military intervention in Libya has cost America USD896million. While
    UK tax payers have to fork out £200m & likely to cost up to £1bn & rising
    just to kill one man! In all the operation to free Libya of Gaddafi would
    have cost USD2billion.


    The USA is morally and financially broke, uneducated and sick but it is its
    arrogance that continues to think that all nations must bow down to US
    dictates. Gaddafi’s Libya will soon find out what it is like to live in a
    country without Gaddafi’s charisma in a country that is soon likely to be
    fleeced by the West. Where people will be broke, without money, hungry,
    paying for all services but reminded all the while that they are “free,
    liberated & enjoying the fruits of human rights”. In the meanwhile, the US
    will ensure friction amongst tribes in Libya so that turmoil will prevail
    just like they are doing in Iraq & Afghanistan while Western oil giants
    seize the oil, gold & all natural resources that Libya possesses which in
    reality was the reason for the whole exercise of humanitarian intervention.


    It is not difficult to comprehend the trend that is taking place & the
    dangers of the West’s financial turmoil will mean further “humanitarian”
    operations on targeted nations & the basis for the next stop being Syria is
    already under way.


    Let all US-NATO nations realize that the people of the world are no fools.
    Citizens of these nations may be fooled since mainstream media have blinded them with lies & false versions to brainwash them but nemesis for the innocent deaths will follow US-NATO & their leaders for the destruction they are doing to the people, the environment & to nations throughout the past decade.