« The Art of War »
A
crescent moon (a symbol of Islamism) designed like a stylised hemisphere which,
flanked by a star and the words “for/with Libya”, represents a world which
« wants to be on Libya's side » - this is the logo of the
« Conference for Libya » organised by the Italian government, a fact illustrated by the three-coloured flag
in the lower section of the crescent moon/hemisphere.
The
International Conference is taking place on 12-13 November in Palermo, on the
island of Sicily, which only seven years ago was the principal base from which
NATO, under US command, launched its war to demolish the State of Libya. The
war was prepared by financing and arming certain tribal sectors and Islamist
groups in Libya which were hostile to the government of Tripoli, and by
infiltrating special forces into the country, among whom were thousands of
Qatari commandos camouflaged as « Libyan rebels ». Then, in March
2011, the US and NATO aero-naval attack
was launched – it lasted seven months. The aviation flew 30,000 missions, of
which 10,000 were attack missions, and used more than 40,000 bombs and
missiles.
By the
will of a vast political group stretching from left to right, Italy also took
part in the war, not only by deploying
its aviation and its navy, but also by offering the USA and NATO the use of
seven air bases - Trapani, Sigonella,
Pantelleria, Gioia del Colle, Amendola, Decimomannu and Aviano.
With
this war in 2011, NATO demolished the State of Libya, situated on the Southern
shore of the Mediterraean facing Italy, a State which had achieved – admittedly
with certain notable internal disparities - « high levels of economic
growth and human development » (as the World Bank itself declared in
2010), « superior to that of the other African countries ». The proof
of this is that almost two million immigrants, most of them Africans, had found
work in Libya. At the same time, using its own sovereign treasury, Libya had
made possible the development in Africa of independent economic organisations
and an African currency.
As the
emails from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prove, the USA and France came
to an agreement to block, at whatever the cost, Kadhafi's plan to create an
African currency, an alternative to the dollar and the CFA Franc imposed by
France on 14 African ex-colonies.
After
the demolition of the State and the murder of Mouamar Kadhafi, in the chaotic
situation which followed, a vicious fight began, both internal and
international, to share out the loot - the enormous oil and natural gas
reserves; the immense underground Nubian reserves of fossil water; this white gold, in perspective
more valuable than the black gold; the Libyan territory itself, of primary
geostrategic importance; the sovereign treasure, approximately 150 billion
dollars invested overseas by the Libyan State, and « frozen » in 2011
in the most important European and US banks, or in other words – stolen. For
example, of the 16 billion Euros of Libyan wealth blocked by the Euroclear Bank
in Belgium and Luxembourg, more than 10 billion have disappeared. « Since
2013 », according to the RTBF (RadioTelevision Francophone Belge - « hundreds
of millions of Euros, taken from this treasure, were sent to Libya to finance
the civil war which triggered a serious migrant crisis ».
Many
African immigrants in Libya were imprisoned and tortured by Islamic militias.
Now in the hands of traffickers and international manipulators, Libya became
the main land of transit for a chaotic migratory flood, which, each year in the
Mediterranean caused more victims than NATO bombs in 2011.
We can
not keep silent, as even the organisers of the counter-summit in Palermo did –
the truth is that at the origins of this human tragedy are the wars waged by
the USA and NATO which, seven years ago,
demolished an entire State in Africa.
il manifesto, November 13, 2018
Translation: Pete Kimberley
Source: Réseau Voltaire
NO WAR NO NATO
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
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