The Arab Agenda

Chapter 22

Lizzie Phelan a British journalist stated, "looking back, the media stated that thousands were about to be killed in Bengazi, but they never showed the public any evidence, they claimed that 6,000 people had been killed by the Libyan Government where as Human Rights organizations reported that 250 people had died from both sides.

The media claimed the Libyan Government were attacking its own people from the air and Russian satellite has since shown that this was impossible. They claimed that the government was hiring mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa, again the evidence was never produced, however what was produced was black Libyans and black Africans being lynched in public squares by NATO's ground troops, the rebels, with scores of people filming on their mobile phones and Western Special Forces just looking on.

The mass controlled media claimed Gadhafi was hated by his people, but they never showed the 1.7 million people in a country of 6 million people in Green Square on July the first 2011 besides masses in Sirte, Tarhuna, Suppa, Bani Walid where they pledged their allegiance to their leader and to the Jamahiriya.

Masses of ordinary men and women had accepted the governments offer to take up weapons to defend their families and neighborhoods from people who wished to condemn them and enslave them to imperialism. As NATO claimed to be targeting Gadhafi forces they ignored the fact that they killed 33 children, 32 women and 20 men who were later buried in the small town Zlitan.

On the 21st of August reports came in that Tripoli fell without resistance, what was not reported was that during the twelve hours 1,300 people were massacred and 900 people were injured. The reports went on to claim that Saif Al Islam had been arrested and Gadhafi's bunker had been taken by rebels.

While those reports were being circulated, Saif Al Islam was escorting journalists and during that time on the 22nd of August 2011, thousands of people in Bab Al Azizia and the streets of Tripoli went to the streets waving the green flag. This was never showed.

Within 24 hours Bab Al Azizia was pounded 63 times with NATO bombs yet despite all the major journalists from major western networks having seen this with their own eyes, this was never reported. As people went to the streets in support of their leader they were attacked by missiles and apache gunships learn a little more from the word on the street.

As the people of Abu Salim one of the poorest areas of Tripoli defended their area for five days in support of Gadhafi by the 24th of August 2011, NATO attacked anything that moved leaving behind bodies that piled on to the streets.

The media went on to claim a Libya that has been "liberated", six weeks later the rebels conceded that they wouldn't be able to take Bani Walid and Sirte as they Libyan people defending their country and Gadhafi still had a strong hold. The media portrayed Gadhafi as a mass murderer, they made him look as if he was so hated by his people that they would beg NATO to bomb their own country leaving thousands dead.

The truth lies far from this... NATO was the murderer that killed the masses who died in support of their leader. Similar traits of the NATO mass murdering can now be seen in reports on Iraq."

So how does Libya stand today? Are the people's lives any different from how they were? Not really. Nothing really changed. Democracy as the term goes does not provide a palace or a better living condition. In fact the Libyan people were better off before the revolution then they are today.

The U.S. alone spent 2 billion dollars bombing Libya for 90 days. That's enough to provide clean water and education for half the world's needy children. The intervention in Libya is itself the consequence of another. The Libyan war is frequently touted as a success story for liberal interventionism. Yet the toppling of Muammar Gadhafi's dictatorship had consequences that Western intelligence services probably never even bothered to imagine.

Owen Jones wrote "Tuaregs – who traditionally hailed from northern Mali – made up a large portion of his army. When Gadhafi was ejected from power, they returned to their homeland: sometimes forcibly so as black Africans came under attack in post-Gaddafi Libya, an uncomfortable fact largely ignored by the Western media. Awash with weapons from Libya's own turmoil, armed Tuaregs saw an opening for their long-standing dream for national self-determination."