by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Infighting between the Libyan “rebel” factions results in murder of the leading commander of their military forces. See the UPDATE section at the end of this article.
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Were the Norway terrorist attacks designed in part to cover this story? Both occurred July 22nd, 2011 and only one has really seen the light of day in the alternative as well as the mainstream media.
Last week Pravda reported that NATO attacked the Great Manmade River pipeline in Libya which literally brings water across the desert to millions of Libyans and farms in western and southern Libya as well as to the capital Tripoli and Benghazi. The Manmade River project is not only a life-sustaining source of water for millions of Libyan people and a core part of Libya’s agriculture, it also stands as a source of national pride and identity. It is the largest irrigation system in the world and you can find a map of it on the Libyan dinar note. Gadhafi himself called it “the eighth wonder of the world”. They started the project in 1983 with an extraordinary session of the People’s Congresses and 25 billion dollars later, it was completed. Funding came from profits from the very oil industry that NATO countries hope to privatize.
NATO’s strikes seem to have been extremely deliberate in their planning. First, they targeted a key section of the water supply line itself, then the next day or so, they targeted the only facility which makes the replacement sections of the pipes.
“July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it.” Pravda
There is absolutely no justification for this action. It is indefensible on every single level. No one can say they “accidentally” hit the pipeline then they “accidentally” hit the only facility which makes replacement pipe section for it. Their intentions are crystal clear; they intend to kill perhaps a million Libyan by depriving them of life’s basic necessity, water. This cowardly action is beyond the definition of a war-crime and has moved into a different realm altogether for which I don’t know if there is word that describes it.
You really have to go all the way back to Nazi Germany to find anything to compare this barbaric behavior to. Perhaps what Suharto did with our blessings in East Timor would qualify for this level of pure malevolence…. perhaps.
Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that the Norway terrorist acts took place on the exact same day as these NATO strikes on the water supply of 70% of the Libyan people. Seems to me that there are just too many strange aspects of the Anders Behring Breivik story for it to have been just another case of a wealthy lone gunman getting mad at the leftists and the Muslims. The whole thing seemed like it was hastily pasted together with his Facebook page being put up just days before the attack and his 1,500 page manifesto lifting so many passages straight from the Unibomber’s. There would be no possible way for NATO counties to justify the attack on the water supply of the Libyan people, so the only option that would remain to the planners would be to ensure that some other story would garner all of the public’s attention across the Western world.
Just like the story of Umar Fizzlepants was slapped together to distract the nation from the story of President Obama authorizing the cruise missile strikes that killed 23 children in Yemen, this Anders Behring Breivik story did the same thing for the NATO allied nations as they committed one of the most heinous acts of state sponsored terrorism I have recently read about. It’s hard to believe in coincidences like that anymore.
It is also important to note as the two strategies seem like they would be connected, NATO attacked the state run TV’s broadcast towers across Libya this past Friday, further cutting off and isolating the people of Libya from their leadership and each other. Clearly these actions and many others during the NATO bombardment of Libya are designed to target the people of Libya in what appears to be yet another application of the Bush era “Shock and Awe” style warfare.
Though the reports of this horrific crime are scarce, one can find them if one looks closely enough. In one article from USA Today which touted that Gadhafi must face war-crimes charges, you find this set of passages which confirms the accuracy of the Pravda story…
NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega on Friday killing six guards, Libyan officials said.
The plant, located six miles (10 kilometers) south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.
“Major parts of the plant have been damaged,” said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. “There could be major setback for the future projects.” USA Today
When one thinks about the broader implications of this act, one can’t help but be amazed at the level of pure evil this act constitutes.
Under Gadhafi’s rule, they were able to bring water to the desert, literally. It was a feat of near biblical proportions accomplished not just by Gadhafi and the People’s Congresses, but by all the Libyan people all across the country. Some contributed by building parts, others by installing the line itself, and still others worked in the nationalized oil industry to create the national wealth that permitted it to happen. And NATO, under the guise of the lie of the “humanitarian intervention”, is actively seeking to destroy it.
I am reminded of what the Clinton administration did to the people of Iraq when they imposed harsh sanctions on them in order to weaken or remove Saddam Hussain because they wanted what he had just like they want what Gadhafi and the people of Libya have. It’s an apt comparison because as you all know, Obama brought in many people who served in the Clinton administration and Hillary Clinton now runs the State Department.
I am equally reminded of what Madeleine Albright said on 60 Minutes when asked if killing 500 thousand children in Iraq was “worth it” to weaken Saddam Hussein. There is no other way to describe this level of contempt for human life other than to say it’s just pure evil.
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UPDATE: This past Thursday, former Gadhafi official and military chief of the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council (TNC), General Abdel Fatah Younis was murdered, apparently by CIA connected rival Khalifa Hifter and the CIA linked “al Qaeda” faction of the rebel forces in Libya known as the February 17th Brigade.
“Younis’s death was announced Thursday night by the president of the TNC, Abdul Mustafa Jalil, who revealed that the general had been “summ oned” by TNC security forces earlier in the day for questioning about “military matters.”
The press conference was preceded by exchanges of gunfire between armed men loyal to Younis, who had attacked the Benghazi hotel where it was held demanding Younis’s release. After the announcement of his death, Younis’s troops confronted TNC security forces, shouting, “You killed him.”” Patrick Martin
“According to the Associated Press, the killing was carried out by something called the February seventeenth martyrs brigade, which turns out to be a branch of the Libyan Islamic fighting group and that is a branch of al-Qaeda.
So here we have al-Qaeda killing one of the top two or three people in the entire Benghazi rebel council and alarmingly, (Mustafa Abdul) Jalil, who has emerged as a kind of primus inter pares – Jalil has been covering for al-Qaeda by telling a totally fantasy story about how this happened, that he had been brought to Benghazi for questioning and so forth. In reality he was massacred on the road between Braga and Benghazi.” Webster Tarpley
Is it possible that Younis had finally had enough of this illegal war-crime being committed against the people of Libya and was taken out by CIA linked factions because he threatened to destabilize the so-called “rebellion”? Could it be that the targeting of the people’s water supply was simply too much for Younis to take and he had a change of heart when he realized the kinds of people he had aligned himself with? We will probably never know what really happened, but the timing of his murder is quite odd, isn’t it?
According to Tarpley, at Younis’ funeral, his son cried out “We want Gaddafi back. We want the green flag back.”. If he rises in power due to his affiliation with his father, expect to read about his murder in the next week or so.
Filed under: Fake Libyan Revolution, Neoliberalizing Libya, Scott Creighton
I don’t doubt that NATO would stoop to bombing the water pipeline and the MSM would not report it but I can’t find any real verification of this, no PressTV, no RT. Unless I’ve missed something all the reports seem to come only from the Pravda source. You might think Gadhafi would be shouting this from the rooftops unless he’s afraid of panicking the population. Please keep us informed if you find anything else.
Kenny, this is a very thoroughly detailed website on the going ons in Lybia: http://libyasos.blogspot.com/p/news.html
You will find entries on the pipeline Issue from the 23rd of Juli at 6h and onwards.
No sources given, but the bombing by NATO of the water pipeline plant was reported in this Associated Press article by Frances D’emilio, dated 7/22/2011, and titled (at MSNBC online) “Rebels say Gadhafi must face trial as Tripoli hit”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43855009/ns/world_news-europe/
**NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega on Friday killing six guards, Libyan officials said.
The plant, located six miles (10 kilometers) south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.
“Major parts of the plant have been damaged,” said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. “There could be major setback for the future projects.”
At least 70 percent of Libyans survive on the water carried through the pipes to the coast in the project, according to government figures.
“Most Libyans drink from the Great Manmade River, most Libyan land is farmed from the water, so any harm against this vital project is a harm aginst all Libyans,” warned government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. “We believe this a very dangerous development in NATO’S attacks.”**
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43855009/ns/world_news-europe/
Actually there are sources cited, “Libyan officials” and one named individual, “Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project.” What I need to find out is if the AP report is somehow related to the PRAVDA report or if they are independent. ???
It does seem likely that the pipeline bombing occured even though no other sources have confirmed since the pipe factory bombing
has been corroberated by several sources. What value would that
strike have without a previous or subsequent strike on the pipeline.
Anyhow the aim is clear and sickening. This is what the militarists mean when they brag about the beauties of precision strikes and drones and actionable intelligence. Thanks willy for staying on this, another censored subject in the corporate media. Unspeakably sad how this war on Libya is tragically replicating the war on Iraq. The recent targeting of Libya’s water supply system (just the beginning, no doubt) is barbaric, alarming, and yes pure evil.
How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, Lord? How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?
Remember what is necessary and do not forget:
Again, “democracy” will never amount to anything until we have approval voting with three consecutive runoffs. (“Range voting” is merely a much more complicated method that is more “expressive,” yet less “effectual.”) Ranked voting, such as “IRV”, is a giant scam, sold to the Green Party by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, et al., and always devolves into duopoly because it forces voters to give first rank to the “least bad,” yet “electable” candidate. Approval voting with three consecutive runoffs is simple: The voters can give just one vote to as many candidates they find reasonably tolerable — And the six candidates that receive the most votes go to the second runoff (this number is arbitrary), where voters can give just one vote to as many of the six that suit their strategy — And then the two that receive the most votes go to the third and final runoff, and there can be no third candidate to act as a spoiler. It involves only simple arithmetic, requires no computers, can be controlled by small local communities, and the results can be publicly announced prior to being sent up to larger tabulations. It is the only method that gives the voters real power.
Actually us responders could stop right here – or rather camp out along this post, which is the most important post for willy so far as it entails the life line, namely water.
water and democracy should be viewed as unseperable and I am sure that any further post on this blog is in a way subservient to this issue and thus lets make this the last entry on this Blog ( symbolically, as I am gratefull to willy for his lead : ) – and start connecting everything back to this fatefull entry.
Lybia is basically a council republic (wikipedia incorporates material from the CIA World Factbook in its entry on Lybia and the term Jamahiriya is not clickable there, as the sole word Lybia is not clickable on the wiki entry for Jamahriya – a council republic entry cannot be found either, instead it uses the term soviet republic which might garner some emotional inhibition.)
Hannah Arendt (whatever your views about her) called out for a council republic in her work ¨ on revolution ¨ in the sense saying: that ¨the spirit of the american revolution should be taken up and that the People should have direct involvement in the state affairs.¨ ( this is a translation from german) this was said by her in direct reference to letters of Thomas Jefferson which she has at the time read.
So is this Nato Terror in direct violation to the visions of one of our founding fathers, – you bet – and worse than that it is propaganda for a nightmare, as bombing the perhaps freshest water reservoir on earth is as willy said – pure evil!
we going to have a sit-down protest right here, Brian?
How’s that going to fix that pipeline to the water? How can we do that?
Aaaaa … it just hit me… that’s what they are going to do….use the broken water pipeline as an excuse to land men to help fix it… and in reality, they will be ‘taking over’…… evil on top of evil ! a double serving of evil…
a mental camp out actually a democratic point of reference so to say – is it going to fix the pipes – lets see…
¨Gaddafi executed dissidents publicly and the executions were often rebroadcast on state television channels ¨
Claims the newly planted wikipedia page.
a section written by Brian Lee Davis (not me) in his book ¨ Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya ¨
favorably reviewed by … Daniel Pipes ( The Daniel Pipes which Norwegian Breivik quotes and the wikipedia which uses material from the cia factbook – as stated) so much for the pipes.
And yes, I do feel helpless.
Um no… you’re an asshole.
The U.N. decided to make the people of Libya die of thirst.
They did have complete socialized medicine before we destroyed their country.
The one in one thousand ultra-rich psychos who rule our supposed “country” decided this.
Arrest them now!
Thanks for the comment blues!
I have no reason to diss-agree with your assessement of the U.N. and the reason of them being in Lybia.
I just tried to point out some hidden forces in the war on our consciousness. Next time ask me to clarify before calling me an a-hole, as I dont even really understand what part of my text would give me this honourable mention.
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