NATO’s 2011 war on Libya: myth and reality
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
27 April 2019
Last month retired British major-general Rob Weighill gave a public lecture at the London School of Economics titled The Cauldron: NATO’s 2011 Operation to Protect Civilians in Libya – based on his new co-authored book of the same title published by Hurst.
Shame people with no knowledge or understanding of Libya want to play politics with the appallingly dangerous reality in Sirte.
— Boris Johnson, Twitter, October 3, 2017
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles.
— Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013, “The Cure at Troy.”)
A photo from 2011 shows buildings ravaged by fighting in Sirte, Libya where the U.S. military has carried out airstrikes.
In a press briefing at the Pentagon today, African Command leader Gen. Thomas Waldhauser announced that the US intends to keep ground troops in Libya for the foreseeable future to support “friendly forces,” and to “degrade” the ISIS forces that remain in the country.
Barack Obama has ended his presidential career doing what he does best.
This Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 photo shows a general view of buildings destroyed by NATO bombing of the Bab Al-Aziziya compound and an occupied intact building in Tripoli, Libya. (AP/Manu Brabo)
WASHINGTON (REPORT) — U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers and drones attacked a pair of ISIS military camps in Libya, seeking to eliminate extremists who had escaped the former IS stronghold of Sirte, a defense official said Thursday.
The attack on Iraq, the attack on Libya, the attack on Syria happened because the leader in each of these countries was not a puppet of the West. The human rights record of a Saddam or a Gaddafi was irrelevant. They did not obey orders and surrender control of their country.
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(ANTIWAR) Citing a formal request from the UN-backed “unity government,” US warplanes today began a substantial bombing campaign against the city of Sirte, an ISIS-held city on Libya’s central coast. Details are scant, but early reports detail “heavy losses” among ISIS forces.
On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st, an American/CIA drone (being operated from Las Vegas) spots the convoy and alerts NATO bombers, which immediately begin bombing the vehicles. It was French planes that started the attack, but soon NATO war-planes […]
The recent bombing of select ISIL positions in the former nation once known as Libya may be a precursor to a much larger operation. France’s Le Figaro reported in December that France is considering a second intervention in Libya, with a six-month military operation possibly to be launched against ‘Daesh’ in Libya before the spring. […]
