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murdered by Western-backed rebels on October 20, 2011, planned to create a gold-backed African currency to compete with the dollar and euro. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt/US Navy)
But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails:
Hillary's Death Squads
A March 27, 2011, intelligence brief (archived here) on Libya, sent by long time close adviser to the Clintons and Hillary's unofficial intelligence gatherer, Sidney Blumenthal, contains clear evidence of war crimes on the part of NATO-backed rebels.
Citing a rebel commander source "speaking in strict confidence" Blumenthal reports to Hillary:
While the illegality of extra-judicial killings is easy to recognize (groups engaged in such are conventionally termed "death squads"), the sinister reality behind the "foreign mercenaries" reference might not be as immediately evident to most.
While over the decades Gaddafi was known to make use of European and other international security and infrastructural contractors, there is no evidence to suggest that these were targeted by the Libyan rebels.
There is, however, ample documentation by journalists, academics, and human rights groups demonstrating that black Libyan civilians and sub-Saharan contract workers, a population favored by Gaddafi in his pro-African Union policies, were targets of "racial cleansing" by rebels who saw black Libyans as tied closely with the regime. (1)
Black Libyans were commonly branded as "foreign mercenaries" by the rebel opposition for their perceived general loyalty to Gaddafi as a community and subjected to torture, executions, and their towns "liberated" by ethnic cleansing.
This is demonstrated in the most well-documented example of Tawergha, an entire town of 30,000 black and "dark-skinned" Libyans which vanished by August 2011 after its takeover by NATO-backed NTC-Misratan brigades.
These attacks were well-known as late as 2012 and often filmed, as this report from The Telegraph confirms:
It appears that Clinton was getting personally briefed on the battlefield crimes of her beloved anti-Gaddafi fighters long before some of the worst of these genocidal crimes took place.
Al-Qaeda and Western Special Forces Inside Libya
The same intelligence email (archived here) from Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well-known theme of Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East:
Blumenthal relates that "an extremely sensitive source" confirmed that British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in Benghazi suburbs.
While analysts have long speculated as to the "when and where" of Western ground troop presence in the Libyan War, this email serves as definitive proof that special forces were on the ground only within a month of the earliest protests which broke out in the middle to end of February 2011 in Benghazi.
By March 27 of what was commonly assumed a simple "popular uprising" external special operatives were already,
Yet only a few paragraphs after this admission, caution is voiced about the very militias these Western special forces were training because of concern that,
The Threat of Libya's Oil and Gold to French Interests
Though the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April 2011 email (archived here) sent to Hillary with the subject line "France's client and Qaddafi's gold" tells of less noble ambitions.
The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind:
Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi's gold and silver reserves, estimated at "143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver," posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency.
In place of the noble sounding "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this "confidential" explanation of what was really driving the war:
Though this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving France's (and by implication NATO's) intervention in Libya, it is interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously absent from the briefing.
Instead, the great fear reported is that Libya might lead North Africa into a high degree of economic independence with a new pan-African currency.
French intelligence "discovered" a Libyan initiative to freely compete with European currency through a local alternative, and this had to be subverted through military aggression.
The Ease of Floating Crude Propaganda
Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war.
Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media.
It seemed no matter how bizarre the conspiracy theory, as long as it painted Gaddafi and his supporters as monsters, and so long as it served the cause of prolonged military action in Libya, it was deemed credible by network news.
Two foremost examples are referenced in the latest batch of emails:
In a late March 2011 email (archived here), Blumenthal confesses to Hillary that,
Not only did Defense Secretary Robert Gates promote his bizarre "staged bodies" theory on CBS News' "Face The Nation," but the even stranger Viagra rape fiction made international headlines as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice made a formal charge against Libya in front of the UN Security Council.
What this new email confirms is that not only was the State Department aware of the spurious nature of what Blumenthal calls "rumors" originating solely with the rebels, but did nothing to stop false information from rising to top officials who then gave them "credence."
It appears, furthermore, that the Viagra mass rape hoax likely originated with Sidney Blumenthal himself.
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