By
Larry Romanoff, March 22, 2023
On Nov. 14, 1969, Muammar Gaddafi greets the crowd for
the first time since the overthrow of the Libyan monarchy. Gamma-Keystone /
Getty Images. Source
This
is one of a long series of tragic tales involving US imperialism and media
disinformation. As with all the others, you need to put aside all the
rubbish you've read in the Western media about Libya and its President, Moammar
Khaddafi, and learn some truths.
Khaddafi
became the leader of Libya in a bloodless coup against the old King Idris,[1] who had been
installed by the Imperial powers after the last war, and who had been more than
willing to turn over all of Libya's oil resources to the Western multinationals
in return for his "kingdom". The West never forgave Kaddafi for that,
and constantly demonised him in the media, imposed many kinds of sanctions
against the country, and generally did their best to punish him for decades for
the loss of their Puppet King. The American media will tell you otherwise, but
this is the root cause of Western hostility against both Kaddafi and Libya.
"The
end of [King Idris'] rule came only a decade after the discovery of oil in
Libya, a development that changed the mostly barren desert nation from one of
the poorest of countries into one of the most potentially prosperous. . . the
Libyans seemed to settle down under a benign autocracy. The King steered his
country to a close alliance with Britain and the United States."[2] It was all
engineered from The City of London, with foreign oil
companies owning all Libya's petroleum assets - which was the cause of the
coup.
Libya
used to be a fine country, rich and prosperous, and easily one of the most
progressive nations in Africa. Today, it is a disaster zone of poverty, misery,
illness and lawlessness, thanks to the fabricated "humanitarian war"
of intervention by the US. The story is a simple one, as most are: a
nation's leader underestimated the savage brutality of the Jews when faced with
political disobedience and economic threats to their money and their
multinational corporations, and the entire nation paid the price.
As
well, Israel had always hated both Libya and Khaddafi but lacked the military
ability to inflict any particular damage on the country, so, as usual, they
used the US military to do their work for them. The international Jewish-owned
media and the compliant US government had for decades mounted a campaign of
negative propaganda against Libya, convincing much of the world's population
that this nation was part of an "axis of evil". It was never any such
thing.
In
1984 Libya was blamed for shooting a policewoman in London. There were numerous
problems with this version of events, and a British TV documentary linked the
death to the CIA, and likely also to the Jewish criminal organisation Mossad,
but to most people Libya was guilty simply because it was Libya. The power of
propaganda. The arrest was tainted, and the flood of anti-Libya propaganda in
the media was extreme, but the blame placed on Libya appeared to have no
supporting evidence whatever. According to the UK Guardian, "The
judge said that although the defendant was in police custody at the time of the
actual shooting . . ." [3] Then reports that
the UK would "reopen" the case. [4] But finally:
"A Libyan man who UK authorities suspected of killing a police officer
during protests against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi has been released as
evidence against him could have breached national security, say police. . .
although "enough material to identify those responsible" had
been gathered, it could not be presented in court. "The key material
has not been made available for use in court in evidential form for reasons of
national security," the Met said in a statement. But after a police
review, the statement said, prosecutors decided there was "insufficient
admissible evidence to charge the man"."[5]
Some
years back, a Libyan Airlines Flight was shot down in Egyptian airspace by Israeli
warplanes. [6][7][8] Upon learning of
the destruction of the Libyan airliner and the civilian deaths, Golda Meir,
then Prime Minister of Israel, praised her chief of staff on his success and
gushed, "I want to tell you that I don't just appreciate you, I admire
you!" [9] [9a]The Israelis called
it a case of mistaken identity. It is not clear whether U.S. journalists ever
asked why the Israeli soldiers along the Suez Canal were firing ground-to-air
missiles at a civilian airliner at all, regardless of its identity. [10]
Golda Meir: Source Haaretz
But
Libya's tragic story began in earnest in the 1990s, when US President Ronald
Reagan mounted a massive air campaign in conjunction with the UK, with the
approximate purpose of '. The facts leading to that aerial assault have never
received attention in the West; we were instead fed a totally fabricated
version that was in the interest of the US and Israel to promote. Briefly,
Libya was accused of bombing a bar in Germany and killing a US serviceman, the
reward for which was Reagan's violent bombing assault on Libya. Khaddafi
claimed innocence in that regard, and later facts proved him to have been
telling the truth. There was never any evidence connecting Libya to that
bombing. When the accused were finally brought to trial in 1997, there was
nothing to link them to Libya, but there was substantial evidence pointing in
other directions, and it appeared certain that Libya had been set up by
Israel's Mossad.
At
that time, Israel had been feeding grievances against Libya for some years, and
wanted to launch its own air assault but concluded Libya was too far away and
too well-defended to be worth the risk. That set the stage for a false flag
operation that proved to be eminently successful. Some Jews from Israel went to
Libya with false passports under the pretense of being carpet merchants, and
apparently rented quarters near Khaddafi's Palace. More importantly, the
quarters were in direct line from the palace to the Mediterranean where US
ships were constantly offshore, intercepting Libyan communications. The Jews
had brought with them some directional radio transmission equipment, and took
advantage of their position to transmit false information about a Libyan
intention to effect some kind of terrorist act against the Americans, to plant
a bomb somewhere. Details were cleverly fed to the Americans by means of these
broadcasts, and over a period of time the details of this plan were leaked and
the location was inferred to be Germany. Mossad then sent a couple of Jewish
agents to a German bar and detonated a bomb that succeeded in killing one US
serviceman.
Of
course, the blame was immediately laid on Khaddafi and Israel's plan succeeded
with Reagan bombing the hell out of Libya. The destruction was substantial,
with much of it intended to kill Khaddafi if possible. Most of the sites
targeted in the bombing were not military but civilian, including Khaddafi's
home and offices. He survived, but his children didn't.
“The
manner in which Israel’s Mossad tricked the U.S. into attacking Libya was
described in detail by former Mossad case worker Victor Ostrovsky in The
Other Side of Deception, the second of two revealing books he wrote after
he left Israel’s foreign intelligence service.”[11]
A
short time later, a US Pan American flight was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie,
Scotland and Libya was blamed. There was never
any proof that Libya was involved in that tragedy, and my guess is that it was
another Mossad false-flag operation. Some groups have accused the Palestinians
and others of responsibility, but I doubt they had the means to carry this one
off. We don't need to dwell on details of this event here, since the many
details can be easily checked online.
The
London Times was outspoken in accusing the government of a top-level
cover-up of the truth. One article stated that Christine Grahame, a member of
the Scottish Parliament, said: "There are a number of vested interests
who have been deeply opposed to this appeal because they know it would go a
considerable way towards exposing the truth behind Lockerbie".
A
law professor involved in the trial claimed there had been "strong
pressure" from the Justice Department to end the appeal process
because they didn't want the information to become public. These and many other
experts have long doubted the so-called 'evidence' presented at the original
trial, and claimed it was clearly impossible for one man to have carried out
such an attack.
Two
Libyans were arrested and charged with the crime. One was released for lack of
evidence; the other was convicted. The prosecution obtained a witness who
testified that the "guilty" Libyan was seen by several people
on a particular day buying clothing in a shop in Malta, the identical clothing
that was used to wrap the bomb that destroyed the Pan Am flight. But then the
accused Libyan provided positive proof that he had been in Europe, far from
Malta, on the days in question, and it was revealed that the US Government had
paid the witness $2 million for his testimony. As well, many observers were
convinced the CIA tampered with the remaining evidence. Experts had always
doubted the evidence used to convict al-Megrahi and the claims that a single
man could have carried out such a deadly attack. Even more serious was the
production of a new and perfectly intact circuit board produced as evidence of
the mechanism used to detonate the bomb; explosive experts unanimously
ridiculed the claim that a detonator attached to a bomb that destroyed an
entire aircraft, would itself survive the blast without apparent damage.
The
presiding judge acknowledged that these facts "presented a serious
problem" for the prosecution, but he nevertheless found the Libyan
guilty. The entire trial transcripts read in the same way; accusations made
that were proven false, evidence offered that was proven to have been
fabricated, the judge in each case admitting serious doubts about the veracity
of any claims, but producing a guilty verdict in spite of the facts. If you
haven't read these transcripts, you should do so; they will open your eyes in a
way that my words cannot. The determination of the Israelis and the Americans
to blame Libya will be obvious in all its stupidity, as will the political
biases of the court.
The
convicted prisoner demanded an appeal and retrial, which would have to be
granted under the law. Unfortunately, an appeal would have brought to light the
multiple injustices of the original trial as well as much new evidence that
would not only have proven the original court to have been under intense US and
Israeli political influence, but would also have opened the door to facts that
would have implicated countries other than Libya in the bombing. Thus, the
court, in an attempt to spare the US and Israel intense worldwide condemnation,
offered the man an alternative: they would free him, as a humanitarian gesture
under a pretense of having contracted cancer and having only a few months to
live, if he would forego his legal appeal process and return to Libya. And keep
his mouth shut. Unfortunately, he accepted the offer, and the truth now will
never be known. There was widespread agreement in Scotland that in return for
his repatriation al-Megrahi abandoned an appeal that would have exposed a grave
miscarriage of justice. [12]
Most
Americans bought the story and protested violently against the release of this
"bloody murderer", but then most Americans are ignorant about
the facts of most things involving their own government, and pitifully few ever
bother to do their own research and learn the truths. In this case, the truth
is that Libya was not responsible for the bombing. However, the country's image
had been irrevocably tarnished in this process, setting the stage for its later
destruction at the hands of these same people.
And,
let’s be serious. A mass murderer blows up an airplane and kills nearly 300
people but you quickly release him on “humanitarian” grounds because
he’s not feeling well. Not too likely.
According
to the UK Independent, Ms. Grahame of the Scottish Parliament said, "The
release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber was long overdue, for the case
against him was politically driven." [13][14]
Let's
return to Libya and Khaddafi. Under the West's King Idris, much of the
population of Libya lived in corrugated metal shacks. Khaddafi changed all
that, stating that a decent home was "a natural human right".
Libya had the only currency in the world that was fully backed by gold - the
Libyan dinar. After much argument, Khaddafi had convinced his government to
distribute $20 billion of the nation's $60 billion in cash reserves to the
people of the country, as a kind of "oil bonus". Under Khaddafi,
Libya was not only prosperous, it was progressive, by far the most enlightened
state in Africa. All education was universal and free, including university
and, as in Iraq, students received salaries and all expenses while studying
abroad. All health care was also universal and free, as were water and
electricity, with petrol for autos nearly free, and citizens could obtain
interest-free loans for housing and other purposes. Any Libyan wanting to begin
farming was given land, a home and all necessary supplies free of charge.
Electricity was free for all, and petrol for autos was nearly free. [15] Newlyweds received
U.S $50,000 from the government to purchase their first home. The country's
former very high rates of homelessness, poverty, and illiteracy were almost
erased under the first decades of Khadaffi's rule. In total, Libya's Human
Development Index was higher than 2/3 of the world's countries. Khaddafi took
over Libya's central bank, saved cash and gold reserves of $150 billion, and
the country was debt-free.[16]
Libya
was renowned for its gender equality, with no restrictions placed on women, who
were free to work and dress as they pleased. Women's rights were the most
advanced on the continent. Khaddafi instituted a "Ministry of
Women" to ensure gender equality and, in honor of women, he formed a
special cadre of female palace guards. It's true they were only ceremonial, but
they were indicative of the respect Khaddafi and Libyans generally held for
women, although the Jewish Western media reveled in presenting this as proof of
Khaddafi’s sexual perversions, and the UK Guardian published an
astonishingly stupid and perverted article claiming -with no supporting
evidence whatever - that these palace guards "reveal a picture of
ruthless control and shattered lives." [17] But in fact,
Khaddafi was so progressive a leader that the UN had planned to award him a
medal in a special sitting of the United Nations, specifically to recognise
Libya's enlightened social progress. This was only two weeks before the US
began their "humanitarian war" that destroyed the country -
the so-called "Arab Spring".
The
problem was that Khaddafi was a bit too "progressive", in
areas where the US and the International Jewish bankers disapproved. For one
thing, Africa was the only continent where the US had no military bases.
Khaddafi saw these bases for what they were, a creeping military colonisation
of the continent that would lead only to bloodshed. So, whenever the US offered
an African country $3 million for permission to build a military base, Khaddafi
offered them $5 million to refuse. And when the Jewish bankers at the IMF and
the World Bank wanted to lend money to assist in the Western colonisation of
Africa, Khaddafi set up an African Regional Bank, seeded with $30 billion of
his own money, specifically to keep these nations out of the clutches of the
vultures. These actions were bound to make powerful enemies.
But
there were two last acts that sealed Khaddafi's fate, and that of Libya as
well. One was that foreign interests, mostly American, British and French,
still controlled Libya's valuable oil reserves. Khaddafi made a public
statement that Libya would have to nationalise its oil industry, removing the
control from the foreigners and taking it into Libya's hands so the benefit of
the nation's resources would accrue to the citizens of Libya rather than to
foreign multinationals. Almost every country in the world that has taken this
step, has been destroyed by the US government and the Jewish bankers in The
City of London, and Libya would prove to be no exception. The last progressive
- and dangerous - act was a declaration that Libya would no longer price and
sell crude oil only in US dollars, that it would accept all currencies in
payment. And this, as we say, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Khaddafi had scarcely taken these actions when the CIA began to infiltrate
Libya, searching out "dissidents", "freedom-fighters" and
others, and launched an internal war against the Libyan government. Most of the
so-called freedom-fighters were not Libyan at all but were al-Qaeda prisoners
that the US released from its torture prisons in Iraq on condition they
participate in this fabricated guerilla war in Libya. Of course, the Libyan
government was forced to respond to these foreign-initiated terrorist attacks,
at which point the propaganda machine went into top gear, accusing Khaddafi of "waging
war on his own citizens". And of course, the US government, the friend
of the downtrodden everywhere, was compelled to respond and to defend the poor
citizens of Libya against their "madman dictator" President.
There
was little worldwide support for an all-out war, but the UN did agree
permission for the US to establish a no-fly zone, which would be intended to
prevent Libyan aircraft from bombing Libyan civilians. Of course, Libya was
doing no such thing; it was bombing the foreign rebel emplacements that were
committing terrorist acts in the country, but few people were aware of this at
the time. The only nations willing to participate in this unforgivable
injustice were England and France who both had huge investments in Libya's oil
industry and were loath to contemplate their nationalisation. But that was
enough for a beginning. And once begun, Libya suffered from what the US termed
"mission creep", which means the original no-fly activity very
quickly became an all-out war where Libya's entire civilian infrastructure was
almost totally destroyed and the country driven to anarchy.
The
US went far beyond the creation of a no-fly zone. It first destroyed all Libyan
aircraft and airbases in the entire country. It repeatedly bombed Khaddafi's
home and headquarters in clear attempts to kill the man. The US attacked the
entire military capability of Libya in every way, destroying armored vehicles,
ships, bases, fuel supplies, anything and everything that might make defense of
one's country possible. The US at first claimed there was no "mission creep",
but that is little more than a sick joke. Much of the world condemned the US
and UK actions, but the reason most general publics didn't strenuously object
was because of the effective demonisation propaganda that was carried out prior
to the invasion. The Jews invented war marketing, and have for decades
specialised in it. War is just another product. Of course, the attack on Libya
was illegal by all domestic and international laws.
Libya before and after the war. Photo: Twitter
President
Obama had no authority to wage war on Libya, not from the UN nor from his own
government. A US President requires an act of Congress to wage a
war, but Obama's White House claimed that months of all-out bombing did not
constitute "war", and that
providing foreign mercenaries with heavy guns, drones, missile launchers,
tanks, artillery and other weaponry didn’t collectively amount to "waging
hostilities". Therefore, there was no war, and no need to
bother with Congressional approval. Both the CIA and Israel's Mossad were
heavily involved in undermining Libya from the inside, supplying increasing
volumes not only of small arms but of artillery, missiles and heavy equipment
that could do serious damage. It was one of the best-equipped guerilla wars the
world has ever seen. The foreign rebels received training, instruction,
leadership, everything necessary to inflict the most damage from the inside
while the major powers were destroying Libya from the air. That little nation
never had a chance.
Today,
Libya is a complete disaster. Social services are non-existent, as are
education and health care. The Jewish bankers have taken full control of
Libya's oil sector, leaving the remaining portions of the country to anarchy.
The world isn’t aware of this because of the total news blackout covering
Libya, but the bankers have taken unto themselves all of Libya’s oil, leaving
nothing for the country – and taking it free. This is exactly the same as they
are doing in Iraq, simply stealing a nation’s entire natural resources.
After
the country was hijacked by the Jewish bankers in The City of London, Libya
became a humanitarian disaster. Even the education ceased, still being free but
inaccessible in what was essentially a permanent war zone. Everything has
disintegrated, with the nation's people back in poverty and living in chaos. [18] Even the gender
equality has been suspended.
As
a final touch, and to put the icing on the financial cake, we were informed
that one of the very first acts of "the rebels", after killing
Khaddafi, was to establish a new Jewish-owned Libyan Central Bank in the mirror
image of the US FED. These are some competent rebels; they fight a war by day,
and by night are planning a new world of international banking.[19][20] Maybe
the US won't make them return to Iraq's torture prisons after the war, and they
could all become financial consultants for Goldman Sachs. Sadly, Libya's new
"Central Bank" was in no way connected to the foreign rebels
but was set up by the same Jewish bankers that own the US FED - almost
certainly the Rothschilds, Warburgs and the usual gang of suspects. It should
not go unsaid that the "old" Libyan central bank
contained more than $60 billion in gold which has now been confiscated - stolen
- by these same bankers and will never be seen again. As well, the US had
confiscated more than $30 billion of Libyan deposits in US and other banks, and
that money has also disappeared forever. If you are powerful enough, and have
the right friends, war is very profitable indeed.
Libya
is just one more example of how the only real crime in the world is to go
against the US "national interest". Murder is fine, torture is
ok, genocide will be overlooked. But don't ever cross the empire's commercial
interests. It should be apparent to everyone now that what happened in Libya
was nothing less than a war of colonial conquest fought for oil, dressed up as
a crusade for Western life and liberty. Nobody believes that the US acted
because of a prospect of mass atrocities against the people in Libya. It was
only about the oil.
Just
so it doesn't go unsaid, Libya was bombarded with the same nuclear waste as was
Iraq, that will cause untold human suffering, producing cancer and birth
defects in the population for generations to come. In its tragic onslaught
against the Libyan people, the US fired hundreds of cruise missiles and
thousands of artillery shells containing depleted uranium warheads that have
covered much of Libya in a radioactive dust that is already displaying the
heart-rending results so apparent in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and
Palestine. The Tomahawk missiles each contain 360 Kgs. of enriched uranium and
plutonium, remnants from the US stockpile of nuclear waste. With a half-life of
4.5 billion years, these radioactive byproducts will cause misery forever. This is nuclear war under a different name.
Once
they entered the country officially, they captured Khaddafi and, in a
delightful celebration of hubris, they circulated a video of someone shooting
him in the head and killing him, much to the delight of Hillary Clinton who
later boasted (while laughing), "We came, we saw, he died".[21]
Charming woman. On hearing of Colonel Khaddafi’s death, President Obama, the
great American Christian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, declared it was "a
momentous day", and he paid tribute to "our men and women in
uniform", breathlessly telling the world that because of them "countless
lives have been saved." At the end, Hillary Clinton had even
more to say, so typical of American hypocrisy and lack of shame. Among her more
precious comments: "I am proud to stand here on the soil of a free
Libya. The United States was proud to stand for you in your fight for freedom
and we will continue to stand with you as you continue this journey. This is
Libya's moment. This is Libya's victory and the future belongs to you." When I see things
like this, I find myself hoping with all my heart that there is a God and that
there is a Hell, and that all these people go there.
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Featured image:
Libyan leader
Muammar Qaddafi walks past a painting in the office of European Commission
President Romano Prodi in Brussels in this April 27, 2004 file photo.
REUTERS/European Commission/Handout.
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NOTES
[1] King Idris I: The
forgotten first and last king of Libya
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/king-idris-i-the-forgotten-first-and-last-king-of-libya-37392
[2]
KING IDRIS, OUSTED IN '69 BY QADDAFI, DIES IN CAIRO
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/26/obituaries/king-idris-ousted-in-69-by-qaddafi-dies-in-cairo.html
[3]
Gaddafi minister found jointly liable for 1984 killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/16/gaddafi-minister-found-jointly-liable-for-1984-killing-of-pc-yvonne-fletcher
[4]
UK may reopen Libya embassy killing case
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/8/27/uk-may-reopen-libya-embassy-killing-case
[5]
Libyan freed over killing of Yvonne Fletcher 'for reasons of national security'
[6]
When Israel Shot Down a Libyan Passenger Plane, but Refused to Take
Responsibility
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-18/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/when-israel-shot-down-a-libyan-passenger-plane-but-refused-to-take-responsibility/00000186-f186-dd8e-a7d7-f7ef464e0000
[7]
ISRAELIS DOWN A LIBYAN AIRLINER IN THE SINAI, KILLING AT LEAST 74; SAY IT
IGNORED WARNINGS TO LAND
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/22/archives/israelis-down-a-libyan-airliner-in-the-sinai-killing-at-least-74.html
[8]
Forgotten History: The Case of Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
https://mediamonitors.net/forgotten-history-the-case-of-libyan-arab-airlines-flight-114/
[9]
I saved this original quote, but the Internet has been scrubbed of it and no
current links exist.
[9a]
Bad Lands: A Tourist on
the Axis of Evil by Tony Wheeler
https://books.google.com.br/books?id=OxcZU0ZX61UC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Who+told+and+when:+%22I+want+to+tell+you+that+I+don%27t+just+appreciate+you,+I+admire+you!%22&source=bl&ots=qS4jUlmhvf&sig=ACfU3U0TvZYWlisKBAXGkw4f8-51Z49rWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw8drWgO_9AhXXGLkGHanDAkcQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=Who%20told%20and%20when%3A%20%22I%20want%20to%20tell%20you%20that%20I%20don't%20just%20appreciate%20you%2C%20I%20admire%20you!%22&f=false
[10]
The Israeli Deception That Led to the Bombing of Pan American Flight 103 Over
Lockerbie
[11]
The Israeli Deception That Led to the Bombing of Pan American Flight 103 Over
Lockerbie
https://www.wrmea.org/1999-october-november/the-israeli-deception-that-led-to-the-bombing-of-pan-american-flight-103-over-lockerbie-scotland.html
[12]
Lockerbie Bombing Suspect Released and Controversy Grows
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/USsetFires.html#:~:text=The%20American%20Gulf%20War%20Veterans%20Association%2C%20led%20by,Kuwait%20at%20the%20end%20of%20Gulf%20War%20One
[13]
Christine Grahame: Al-Megrahi is home. And he is innocent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/christine-grahame-almegrahi-is-home-and-he-is-innocent-1776188.html
[14]
Christine Grahame: Lockerbie bomber Al-Megrahi is home. And he is innocent
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/christine-grahame-lockerbie-bomber-al-megrahi-is-home-and-he-is-innocent/28493784.html
[15]
Gaddafi's Libya
https://www.ayupp.com/social-viral/was-healthcare-electricity-free-in-libya-under-muammar-gaddafi-15268.html
[16]
Ten Reasons Libya Under Gaddafi Was a Great Place to Live
https://www.africanexponent.com/post/ten-reasons-libya-under-gaddafi-was-a-great-place-to-live-2746
[17]
Gaddafi's 'Amazonian' bodyguards' barracks quashes myth of glamour
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/07/gaddafis-amazonian-bodyguards-barracks
[18]
Education in Libya is free but inaccessible
https://mena.fes.de/blog/e/education-in-libya-is-free-but-inaccessible
[19]
Libyan Rebels Form Their Own Central Bank
https://www.cnbc.com/id/42308613
[20]
Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of
Libya
https://www.benzinga.com/11/03/958264/wow-that-was-fast-libyan-rebels-have-already-established-a-new-central-bank-of-libya
[21]
Hillary Clinton "We Came, We Saw, He Died" (Gaddafi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU
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