western imperialism: using the human rights regime in the libyan revolution

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The Libyan Revolution: Americas Clandestine Link with Al-Qaeda

When trying to tell the story of the Libyan revolution one will inevitably find that it hasmany anomalies, and as much as the narrative seems to be clouted in the fog of war. It wouldappear likewise that in the ancient times, particularly the Punic wars between Carthage andRome historians also had difficultly, as Titus Livius, Appain and other historians of antiquity,once had. But the parallel being made here with the Libyan revolution and the Carthaginian warsare primarily the nature of their narratives to which it is hard to discern the reality of whatactually took place. Additionally, both narratives are historically reminiscent of the questionsmilitary and political leaders, alike, must face. When considering the use or threat of violence asa means to justify and achieve an ends. This sentiment falls along the lines of Hannibals speechto the Carthaginian Senate House, in regards to their issue of raising the revenues to pay Scipiostribute, as he exclaims,

If the mind within us could be seen, just as expression of face is seen by our eyes, itwould readily be clear to you that this laughter which you upbraid is not that of a happy spirit butof one almost beside itself through misfortunes. Nevertheless it is by no means so untimely asare those senseless, misplaced tears of yours. The time for us to weep was when our arms weretaken from us, our ships burned, foreign wars forbidden; for that wound was fatal to us. And youhave no reason to believe that the Romans had regard for your domestic peace. No great state canlong be in peace. If it lacks an enemy abroad it finds one at home, just as powerful bodies seemprotected against infection from without, but are of themselves weighed down by their verystrength. Of course we feel only so much of the public misfortunes as bears upon our privateconcerns, and in these nothing has so painful a sting as the loss of money. [10] Hence when thespoils were being stripped from vanquished Carthage, although you saw her placed, nowunarmed and naked, in the midst of so many armed tribes of Africa, no one moaned, while nowbecause tribute must be raised from private6 property you are mourners, as it were, at a public

funeral. How much I fear you will very soon be aware that today you have wept over a veryslight misfortune!1

This quote, as well as the entire narrative of the Punic wars relevancy also lays within theallusions it holds as a historical lesson in warfare and politics that which taken in context of theNATO humanitarian intervention. Opens up a plethora of parallels that help clear the fog of warfrom the Libyan revolutions narrative or more formidably termed by the U.S. as OperationDawn. In many ways the etic and emic approaches here will also become most helpful as a lenswith which analysis of the information gathered positions the given facts against a human rightsframework. For with this specificity such is the design that provides a holistic context of thenarrativebehind Libyas revolution. And hopefully, if this research is successful it will bring acertain transparency so desperately needed in telling a story that is now clouted beneath the fog

of war. Thus it shall be argued herein that the human rights regime and its discourse were co-

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opted on behest of the Britain, France and America for the purpose of securing their hegemonicinterests in the Maghreb region of Africa.2

These Western hegemonic interests take far more priority than the Libyan peoplesfreedom. This, of course, is as true of ancient Romes barbarous annihilation of Carthage as it istoday in the case of NATOs intervention in Libya, to which basic human rights are disregarded

in the name of imperialist agendas. If this argument holds up to scrutiny it would imply that animperialist states interests overshadow any concerns for human rights at the national andinternational legal basis; as all human rights institutional apparatuses - in place to check a statespower - are utilized as a means of soft power that blinds the eyes of the worlds from that states(or group of states) true objectives. Whereby in the proceeding texts one will observe exactlyhow and why Libyas narrative of revolution was distorted and twisted to fit within human rightsrhetoric and discourse of today.

Put more precisely, last years NATO led U.N. intervention into Libya was a by-productof a Western hegemonic imperative to secure the Maghreb states oil and natural has reserves,international assists, and thus establish a geopolitical base in the region. The Western powers ofBritain, America, Canada and France led the charge in this supposedly humanitarian war that

was propagated and justified under the auspices of the human rights regime. The justification formobilizing NATO forces against Libya was FIDH and LLHR, as well as others that spread falsereports of human right violations. This constructed narrative is based on HR rhetoric which is ofcourse explicit considering Western imperialism has co-opted the HR regime, as NATO wascompletely unable to protect any civilians in Libya let alone fulfill there promise of ensuring theHR of the Libyan people were upheld.3

Nevertheless their rhetoric still is essential in the overall hegemonic ruse, a narrative thatis created by mainstream media, political leaders and military officials.

4Moreover, this letter of

writ that had no legal authority within the international system was taken as such and thenpromulgated by the behest of these two NGOs that had in fact fabricated the threat of animpending bloodbath in the city of Benghazi by pro-Qaddafi forces.5 These lies - outlined in theletter - provided the pre-text needed for NATOs intervention into Libya.

6For as we delve into

the context of the revolutions narrative the words of one Libyan doctor and activist, by the nameOdei- ring ever so true,

I wanted the world to see the truth, the other side of the story that has not been inventedby those who care only about their interests and not how many people die. So I took manyjournalists into my hospital, to show them the number of people who were murdered, injured andaffected by the NATO aggression on my country. I was shocked that none of them cared orshowed it on their channels. They did not even mention one or two victims that theyencountered. 7

He and many others, such as ex-congresswomen Cynthia McKinney, in speaking outagainst NATOs intervention have supplied ample evidence that support the claim that it was

2http://www.fundacionfaes.org/record_file/filename/3053/NATO_AN_ALLIANCE_FOR_FREEDOM.pdf(See pages 15 -22 for in-depth examination of NATOs change and purpose in the Post 9/11 era.)3http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-and-the-big-lie-using-human-rights-organizations-to-launch-wars/268484http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1259759_-letters-to-stratfor-re-libya-the-west-and-the-narrative-of.html5http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/press/press-releases/news-2011-02-22-libya.html6http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=91351437 McKinney, Cynthia (2012-08-04). The Illegal War on Libya (p. 48). SCB Distributors. Kindle Edition.
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indeed a guise to cover NATO member states true imperatives in Libya, as well as the rest ofthe Maghreb region. As such, we will only uncover some of the truth behind the eventssurrounding Libyas civil war. Even so, what this paper starts to reveal is a trail of lies,deception, and a political clout that inevitably led to crimes against humanity. In lieu of thedouble standards with which U.S. has exported its brand of freedom and democracy to both the

Afghani and Iraqi peoples, particularly in regards to employing human rights as a means tojustify each invasion as well as lies about WMDs. It would seem that both the argument andsupporting evidence presented herein is not as implausible as one might think.8

Equivocally, Scipios victory against Hannibal and then the subsequent annihilation ofthe empire of Carthage some years later becomes paradoxically reminiscent of how and why theU.S. and others have systematically violated the human rights of the Libyan people duringNATOs Operation Dawn. For if killing is your business, than business is good as massivearsenal and vast amounts of Qaddafis international assetsmostly based in Europe- were frozenand subsequently vanished from public records. Even to the point of funding and supplying theentire endeavor in Libya, as well as the current covert operations against Assads regime inSyria.9 And with such gruesome business one obviously needs an alibi and unfortunately western

hegemony has modified both the human rights regime and its discourse to do just that. This is adirect result of the structural changes in the UN security councils apparatus that decreased themembers - who have been innately opposed to Western hegemony in the past - power to veto theU.S. Thereby allowing Western hegemonic imperatives to pass freely through the HR regime, nolonger held back by the likes of Russia or China. To sum up this point about recent developmentsin the HR regime the point must be made that,

A Russian draft Security Council resolution condemning the intervention was rejectedby twelve votes to three (Russia, China, and Namibia). While the failure of the Russian draft didnot constitute retrospective authorization, it does add credence to the idea that there is a moralconsensus among liberal states and some others about the right of intervention in supremehumanitarian emergencies.10

As the Security Councils definition of responsibility to protect has expanded over thelast two decades of U.N. humanitarian inventions to allow the violation of a states sovereignty.As in 2001, when Kofi Annan stated, The sovereignty of states must no longer be used as ashield for gross violations of human rights.

11The irony will become more apparent as this tragic

comedy in Libya exposes the blatant hypocrisy that exists on both a micro and macro scale ofHuman Rights regime in western civilization.

To this note human rights should not be taken for granted or perhaps thought of as certainvalue but as an internal sacred law that humanity should not transgress against, and this is whatHannibals seemed to be saying to some extent. As the Libyan narrative unfolds, in the precedingsections, it would also be best to locate the revolutions context in a framework that reconstructsthe most significant events and facets by situating Human Rights in the foreground. This will beachieved by means of using a HR framework that hinges on the dichotomy between the

8http://rt.com/usa/news/cia-gaddafi-rice-libya-936-087/9http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html?pagewanted=all&_r=010http://teachers.colonelby.com/krichardson/Grade%2012/Carleton%20-%20Int%20Law%20Course/Week%207/R2P%20or%20Trojan.pdf11 Ibid.
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imperialist agenda of a state versus its actual rhetoric of promoting human rights, which exists ascareful balancing act. (Mohktari, Abu Grahgeb)

Seemingly this appears on the world political stage as a murky line that can get quitemessy with the blood of innocents - to put it quite frankly. Yet this balance is leaning in favor ofan imperialist agenda, which is clearly evident in the case of U.N.led by nation - humanitarian

intervention and no fly-zone (that turned out to be a bombing campaign led by French andCanadian air-forces) throughout Libya. Moreover, what Francis Boyle, a high-rankinginternational Law professor, puts so elegantly, Clearly what we are seeing unfolding in Libya isa pre-existing war plan, by NATO, by the British, by the French, by the Americans to attackLibya.... This is one of the most brazen transgressions of rights of nation national sovereignty ininternational law we have seen in the post-WWII period.12

For what rises out of the ashes of the Libyan revolution is far from a stable, free andthriving democracy, which the U.N. and NATO had promised to the Libyan people. Rather it isNATO member states that have committed grave crimes against humanity as well as the currentNTC and various regional militias that have caused an unimaginable degree of human suffrage.So after following the trail of political intrigue and clout that came in the aftermath U.N.

humanitarian intervention in Libya. This research points towards a shadowy hegemonic game ofchess that is currently being played out on the sphere of world politics, and in this game humanrights of the Libya people are of no concern. One verse from the Quran comes to mind in regardsto their precarious nature of the events that unfolded in Libya over the past several years inwhich the Prophet Mohammed said, Believers, do not consume your wealth among yourselvesin vanity, but rather trade it by mutual consent. Do not kill yourselves. G-d is merciful to you, but

he that does that through wickedness and injustice shall be burned in the fire. That is easy

enough for G-d.13

Accordingly, most Muslims interpret this surah as strictly forbidding(Haram) vanity, killing and injustice. Therein lies the certain HR paradox that we are dealingwith, and the massive chaos invoked in Libya is unjustified in Quranic text, depending on yourinterpretation of course.

In the years preceding Libyas Civil War, Colonel Qaddafi appeared to mitigate many ofJamahiriyas repressive legislatures and laws, and integrate into the global community.14 Thisfacet is partly due because of Libyas enormous ability to accumulate state revenue from itsnatural petroleum resources and overseas assists in Europe. Previously, these natural resourceshad provided the Jamahiriyas state with insurmountable influence and power in theArab/African world. In so doing, Colonel Qaddafi continually challenged western influence andpower by supporting any radical group opposed to western power, including terrorist groups (e.g.IRA), military coups (e.g. Chuck Taylor, and other African dictators).

Despite its outright hostility the west, particularly in the direct funneling of weapons tothe IRA (Omagh bombing) among others and the Lockerbie Bombing in Scotland, which is nowbeing re-investigated. Over the course of the past two decades colonel Qaddafi began tocooperate with western powers and adhere to international HR laws, but Western Europeanleaders were severely alarmed when Qaddafis regime attempted to systematize his entire assistsback to the gold dinar and then encourage other African states to do so as well. Additionally, theNATO member states backed increasing economic ties with Libya by providing a human rights

12http://rt.com/news/nato-ground-operation-libya/13 Quran v. 4:28-30, Translation by N.J. Dawood14www.state.gov/r/pa.ei/bgn/5425.htm
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discourse to cover his terrible HR record, even as they used Libyan soil to violate domestic andinternational human rights laws. 15

Obviously, Qaddafi faced western diplomatic pressure to adhere to international HRlaws, especially following U.S. led invasion into Iraq.

16Hence, Libyas response to international

human rights framework was to evolve and adapt to its standards, as it was originally solidified

into the HR regime in January 2003. Following Libyas election to preside over the U.N. HumanRights Commission. A year later, they signed a 2.7 billion dollar deal that would providereparation to Lockerbie victimsfamilies. Two months later, Colonel Qaddafis Libya signed adeal with the U.S. renouncing its nuclear and biological weapons programone of the HRachievements of the Bush administration.

17All of the human rights dialogue between Jamahiriya

and the West were conveniently discarded as mainstream media outlets began propagating to theworld that Qaddafi was slaughtering Benghazi civilians on a massive scale. Ultimately, this wasa false statement made by two Libya human rights NGOs, and taken as fact, the letter becamethe Security Councils legal basis with which to enact the Responsibility to Protect clause.

Furthermore, classified documents have revealed that the Qaddafi regime assisted U.S.and U.K. intelligence agencies with vital information for its war on terror, as well as

exchanging terrorist suspects in an illegal practice known as extra-judicial rendition. Thedocuments found have provided the basis for Human Rights Watch to accuse the CIA and MI6of torture with the use of extrajudicial rendition. One document found in Mussa Koussas officeex-chief of Libyan intelligencewho had apparently developed special relations with MI6agentsstated the following, I am glad to propose that our services take an additional step incooperation with the establishment of a permanent CIA presence in Libya. We have talked aboutthis move for quite some time and Libyas cooperation on WMD and other issues, as well as ourrecent intelligence cooperation, mean that now is the right moment to move ahead.

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These documents, as well as others that have surfaced this over the past year reveal theinherent hypocrisy and duplicity in the western hegemonic powers use of human rights regimeand rhetoric. It also suggests the intelligence communities knowledge of Libya was vast whenplanning and executing NATO military operations during Operation Dawn. The uncoveredclassified documents have unleashed a furry of debate and allegations of HR abuses at the handsof British intelligence agents and officials. While Scotland Yard continues its investigation ofintelligence officials and parliamentary ministers, MI6 agents are also being questioned.Ultimately most of these documents were lost when NATO forces bombed Qaddafisintelligence infrastructure to oblivion, 910 targets to be exact.19

After Human Rights Watch uncovered a declassified document from the bombedheadquarters of Mussa Koussa, found by Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch EmergenciesDirector, stated that it was "a very dark chapter in American intelligence history, and it remains astain on the record of the American intelligence services that they cooperated with these veryabusive intelligence services".

20For these actions speak louder than the words of western leaders

HR rhetoric as they were praising Colonel Qaddafi for his human rights achievements in months

15www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16session/A-HRC-16-15.pdf16www.pchrgaza.org.files/2012/FFM_Libya-Report.pdf17www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1375544518www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1477453319http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/03/cia-libya-terror-suspect-renditions?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487(note: also bombed Libyas major irrigation system)20http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/09/liby-s05.html
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prior to the revolution. The blatant hypocrisy is angering to say the least. Nevertheless a paradoxemerges from the Libyan narrative and in doing so describes how hegemonic powers use the HRregime and its rhetoric to promote their self-interests.

What is particularly striking here is that these documents reveal close ties between theU.S., U.K., Libyan intelligence agencies that show all cooperated in violating HR laws. The

many Wikileaks documents between these intelligence agencies make clear through theirsuperficial use of HR rhetoric the double standards involved at the behest Western powers. Alsothe documents espouse the notion that Libya became a loophole or rather middleman for both theU.K. and U.S. to sideline both international and domestic HR laws and institutions, as theirrespective intelligence agencies knowingly tortured and carried out their extra-judiciaryrenditions of Al-Qaeda members, many of which are know formidably known as GhostDetainees.21

While these are clearly violations of the laws set forth in UNHR, it may even be evenmore substantive for the fact that British officials helpedwrite Qaddafis renouncement speechof his nuclear weapons program, which he infamously gave to the U.N. Security Councilwielding a 45 Caliber pistol at his hip.22 Hence the duplicity in the double standards that NATO

member states turns into a sadistically nauseating satire as one delves further into the cloutedLibyan revolution as Western powers hegemonic imperative unfolds in the Maghreb region.With its old colonial principality France appearing to take the reigns with the U.K. trailing closebehind, as of recent airstrikes in Mali and Algeria hint at.2324

Following president Bush and prime minister Blairs praise of the dictators commitmentto improve HR in Libya, it was both the leaders and their governments, whose intelligenceagencies, if not their immediate advisors or cabinet members, knowingly committed HRviolations in the name of justice, freedom and democracy- covering their true imperatives. Sowhen looking back at a January 2011 by the UNHRC whose member states internationallycommended Libya, as a state that had improved its overall standards of HR laws and practices,and at the same time actively participating in the rendition of terror suspects; again, the blatanthypocrisy involved within the HR regime begins to emerge. In the January of the following yeara report from HRW gave a vague six-page description of the Libyan revolution backed byrecommendations that anyone following the revolution might be able to ascertain.

Much of the duplicitous rhetoric made by HR regime and discourse cannot all be seen aspart of imperial agendas. Whereby, a month later HRW started to unveil how the U.K. and U.S.transferred leaders of LIFG to Libya, and they even hint that western intelligence agencies pre-planned the ousting of Qaddafi.

25Even the U.N. Security Council Committee resolution 1333

(2000), 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) show the LIFGs unmistakable connection to Al-Qaedanetwork, and categorizes the group and its affiliates, participating in the financing, planning,facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the nameof, on behalf or in support of, supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to or

21http://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/usa/us1004/22http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/03/cia-libya-terror-suspect-renditions?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT348723http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/201311413431010619.html24http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/defence/article3664320.ece25 http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/libya0912webwcover_1.pdf
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otherwise supporting acts or activities of. The affiliates of LIFG were transferred to Libyaunder the rehabilitation program, and many on the list are currently involved in the NTC.26

By taking up HR rhetoric the western hegemonic powers become unequivocally bound totheir words and more importantly their actions. This is particularly true when classifieddocuments are leaked into the public or when states, even their leaders, are caught in a lie, as was

the case above. And in such incidences, a multifacted east/west dichotomy emerges within thestates ability to balance its interests and to practice what it preaches in human rights discourse.And so there is much more than meets the eye when it comes to the previous relationshipbetween Col. Qaddafis Libya and Western powers, and it is here that we shall discover whatexactly is going on behind the scenes of the Libyan uprising.

One might figure how exactly a Mr. Belhaj a.k.a. Adu (abu) Abdallah Al-Sadek, a leaderof the AQIM - that was once LIFG - a former U.S Guantanamo detainee and known terroristmember with ties throughout the Maghreb; suddenly he became a key military leader in thecurrent NTC that he acquiesced through the integral role which he played in overthrowing forcesloyal to Qaddafi.27 This could of course be just a random twist of fate but it appears that it israther a strategic military move by the U.S. in securing its hegemonic imperative in Libya. And

if we start connecting the dotted lines the bigger picture comes into focus but so does the realityof which is far more terrifying than we can even begin to imagine.For Mr. Belhaj was not alone, he and another 210 Al-Qaeda linked prisoners were

released from Abu Salam prison, which is indeed reminiscent of the 1971 attempt - by Idris royalfamily - to free the political prisoners, and then attack Qaddafis barracks. Of course, operationwas foiled when CIA officials told Italian police about the plot.28 Interestingly enough, therelease of these prisoners were key to overthrowing Qaddafis regime, in which many of theprisoners, also being Al-Qaeda members, are connected to LLDH and other Islamic non-governmental organization that have ties to LIFG; an Islamic militant group - that in 2007 -openly declared its submission to the Al-Qaeda network joining the global Jihadist movementagainst the U.S. and its allies. Two years earlier on June 27th 2005 western intelligence agenciesheld a meeting in London with Libyan opposition leaders initiating the National Conference ofthe Libyan Opposition, bringing together three Islamic factions: the Muslim brothers, theSenoussi Brotherhood and the LIFG. Their manifesto set forth three objectives: to overthrowQaddafi; to exercise power for one year (under the name National Transitional Council); torestore the constitutional monarchy to its 1951 form and make Islam the state religion.29

All in all, a turn of events that altered benevolent rhetoric for the dictators HRimprovements by Western leaders all but disappeared and was replaced by one quite contrary toprior positions. This event transpired after HR Regime accused Qaddafi of gross violationsagainst humanity. Ultimately, these claims turned out to be just as unsubstantial, as the onesmade by the Security Council report a month earlier. These allegations followed the February26

th2011 vote by U.N. Security Council to authorize resolution 1970 which imposed sanctions

on Libya, referring Qaddafi and members of his family to the ICC. .iMoreover, it seems that the

most pivotal aspect of the U.N. sanctions came from the $34 billion in frozen Libyangovernment assets that are held by the US institutions and as much as $130 billion more held

26http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQE01101E.shtml27http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH30Ak01.html28 John K. Cooley, Libyan Menace 1974. Foreign Policy, No. 42 (Spring, 1981) p. 94.http://www.jstor.org/stable/114822129http://www.voltairenet.org/How-Al-Qaeda-men-came-to-power-in
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around the world, which further imparts the certainty that Western powers indeed havehegemonic imperatives in the Libyan Jamahiriya and beyond.30

On March 17th

2011, further U.N. resolution 1973 authorized NATO to establish a nofly-zone to protect civilians. However, promising no troops on the ground, turned out to be notonly a lie, but the legal basis for a full-scale military invasion of Libya, with thousands of fighter

sorties made by NATO forces, which devastated one of the most wealthiest countries in Africa.Clearly, this is a grave violation of a nations right to sovereignty outlined in the treaty ofVersailles and the Geneva convention, with which the U.N. has basically legalized state-building. Thus propelling the entire Libyan state into mass chaos that is proportional only to thatof the Roman legionnaires that had conquered the Maghreb region long ago protestors amongstother repressive acts31. Ultimately, these allegations made Both of the human rights NGOs wereinstrumental in garnering the international community and human rights regime support forahumanitarian intervention. Following this letter by LLHR and FIDH which included a cohort ofhuman rights NGOs and prominent politicians and influential persons - under the auspices of theresponsibility to protect clause - the letter becoming a harbinger of the chaos for years to come.32Interestingly enough, the NCLO (National Conference for the Libyan Opposition, and Islamic

Movement for Change are HRO fronts for LIFG.

33

On March 9th

, 2011 Carnegie endowment for international peace printed an article thatilluminated the joint U.S.-Libyan terrorist rehabilitation program that, Based on my initialimpressions, it seemed as though few of the former detainees had truly renounced their previousbeliefs. Instead, they were told that they would get unspecified help with jobs, a one-time cashpayment, and that Libya was becoming more Islamic and tolerant of dawa, or preaching Islam.In fact, one released LIFG member stated bluntly that if we dont get what we were promisedfrom the regime, we will start shooting again. These were not the only detainees released by theregime. Over 350 Islamist fighters were set free in the past twelve months. According to someaccounts, more than 700 detainees have been released in total. Now the key questions are, whereare they and what are they doing?34

The Carnegie Endowment article briefly mentions Sliman Bouchuiguir who might knowthe answers to these questions as he was in attendance when these opposition prisoners werereleased from Libyan rehabilitation centers, and it was through his role as head of LLHR wherewe begin to see the Hegemonic ruse emerge. For in his thesis dissertation entitled, The Use ofOil as a Political Weapon: A Case Study ofthe 1973 Arab oil Embargo under Bernard Reich atGWU, he outlines an interesting FP analysis of the Middle East, that maintaining a position ofdisparity through a constant multi-faced war between the U.S. and its allies on one hand and therest of the world on the other hand.35

These NGOs have strong ties to LIFG leaders including Belhaj and Saami al-Saadi,

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whose former Islamic militant connections span the entire Middle Eastern region.36 With thisin mind, it was reported that the CIA hired over 1,500 mercenaries from Mazar-eSharif to fightagainst pro-Qaddafi forces, these rebels are Uzbeks, Persians and Hazaras that made up theinitial fighting force needed to cause an uprising in Benghazi as well as the surroundingmountainous region of Eastern Libya.37

Historically, this area has been a major recruiting ground for Global Jihadistsparticularly in both Iraq and Afghanistan wars with coalition forces. Perhaps this is why the rebelmilitias or rather global Jihadists have indiscriminately killed, tortured, and displaced many themany ethnic and religious minorities in Libya38. Precisely due to their strict interpretation ofSaudi Wahhabism and the same Islamic school of thought Bin-Laden endorsed. Interestinglyenough, another Guantanamo bay detainee by the name of Imam Abdelkarim Al-Hasdi,mentioned today in the Senates Council of Investigation of Hillary Clinton, is in fact responsiblefor the notion that Al-Qaeda has established an emirate in Derna led by Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, aformer Guantanamo detainee.

39

The research I have conducted shows that Saami al-Saadi is none other than, disappearedGuantanamo bay ghost detainee, Abu Munthir, who was arrested in Hong Kong on March

2004 by authorities and then handed over to U.S. intelligence agents.

4041

What is not mentionedis that the same Abu Munthir had helped Omar Khyam, obtain the information needed to build abomb but was then arrested.42 Recently, Abu Munthir has stepped down from his position as thehead of NTCs Martyrs and Missing, claiming that the many leaders from the old regime are nowleading the new government, and that elections allowed many of them to take office.

43Needless

to say that history has shown how violent democracys roots can be, but there is clearly evidencehere of hegemonic meandering at the level of some degree.

In a 2007 U.K. military document entitled, Counter Insurgency Operations doctrine,uncovered by Wikileaks, analyzed the lessons learned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan,which were first taken from Maos campaign. Thus having developed into modern warfarestrategy that employs Urban Insurgency with the intention to force a repressive militaryresponse that in turn will alienate the volatile mass of the urban poor and move them to revolt.The media will be used to generate an air of panic. Violence is therefore a catalyst for politicalchange.44ii

Hopefully, if it is not clear by now, deception and secrecy are now the rules with whichthe game of world politics is being played. And behind this veil of secrecy these two HRNGOsare just the start of an intricate trail of HR violations committed against the Libyan people by

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NATO forces. Through which a co-opted narrative based on human rights leaves a trail that notonly points in the direction of international oil conglomerates such as, but also Western leaders atthe highest level of governance. So could it be such a farfetched idea that Libya is, and alwayshas been, of strategic importance to Western powers, especially when considering the NaturalGas line to Italy took over $150 Billion to construct? I think not, wherefore the Western

hegemonic imperative over Libya is secured, NATO forces have escalated their neo-colonial warinto other resource rich Maghreb states.45

The presence of Islamic radical groups in the Maghreb region has proliferated since the

fall of Qaddafi. And so as French and other U.N. nations in Africa are actively sending troopsinto Mali and Algeria it seems that the entire de-stabilization of the entire Maghreb can only beunderstood in terms of Neo-colonization by NATO forces4647. This notion becomes even moreapparent as the fascinating article from FP journal which states, Allied intelligence analystswonder whether these stocks [weapons depots], valued at $12 billion, are intended by the Sovietsas prepositioned equipment for a war in the Middle East, Europe, or even World War III.

48

However, the focus of U.S. weapons, over the past two decades, shows that they are beingamassed from the Persian Gulf to the wider the Middle East (extending as far West as Morocco

and Mali) in massive quantities, and potentially even rearming Al-Qaeda worldwide, and asHRW Peter Bouckaert stated in regards to issue of missing SA-7 and SA-24 Soviet missiles, Ifthese weapons fall into the wrong hands, all of North Africa could be a no-fly zone."49

Mr. Belhaj, only days before Qaddafis fall was found flew to Aleppo to met with FreeSyrian Army leaders in a meeting where he promised support. We now see the widespreadproliferation of small arms from Syria and the Sinai Peninsula to Mali, Algeria and Mauritania.To a similar degree, many of the sophisticated weapons systems used in the Libyan revolution byrebel forces were provided by the international community, which supplied these rebels with thefire power needed in combating loyalist troops. And when Qaddafi forces seemed to be takingback Benghazi, almost instantly Qaddafi began to be pushed back all the way to Masarata. Thefact that the international community sanctioned the sale of weapons through the re, such asQatar and UAE, to the rebel forces shows that the entire HR regime has been co-opted byimperialist interests in Libya as well as its bordering nations.

As many turn a blind eye to lessons in historys narrative it shall not be done so here.This will not be another mitigated narrative, just as the international media conglomerates sooften do. It is only an attempt in shedding some light unto the atrocious human rights violationscommitted against the Libyan people by NATO powers - in their divide and conquer ruse tooust the Qaddafis regime - that now has created a power vacuum in the entire Maghreb region,which Al-Qaeda seems to be filling. Most of the stories published by the media are just anotherexample of both the implicit and explicit hypocrisy that is now embedded within the HR regime

45John K. Cooley, Libyan Menace 1974. Foreign Policy, No. 42 (Spring, 1981) pg. 79:

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and discourse. There is more than enough information to provide further evidence about howwestern hegemonic imperatives that have become embedded within the HR regime and itsdiscourse.

However in Libyas narrative, it tells how these imperatives are implemented, and thushelps to recapture the integrity inherent to the Human Rights as an idea. The narrative of

violence, which has been created by Western hegemony, as a catalyst for change in the regionmay be compared to the Roman invasion of Libya, which became their geo-political base toextend further into Africa.50And like the Roman generals one will find retired U.S. NATOgeneral Wesley Clarks discussion with an anonymous high-ranking Pentagon commander, So Icame back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. Isaid, Are we still going to war with Iraq? and he said, Oh its worse than that. He reachedover on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, I just got this down from upstairsmeaning the Secretary ofDefenses officetoday. And he said, This is a memo thatdescribes how were going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and thenSyria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran. 51 Figuratively, this falsenarrative implemented through Western hegemonic propaganda that has now created an enemy

by throwing stones at a hornets nest. A journalist reported this past summer that, Abu Yahyaand al-Awlaki, I believe, were both creations of the US-led "war on terror". There wereopportunities in the case of the latter to enter into a meaningful dialogue to create understanding,while the former, who also spoke of the decent US soldiers he met, could have been givenhumane treatment, instead of yet another excuse to hate America.52

Hopefully, this western imperative and its false narrative willbe exposed before its toolate. Whereby, the human rights regime and its discourse can be taken back by the peoplethrough the means grass roots movements to protect the freedoms that are self-evident, not justfor the elite, for every single human being on planet Earth. However securing them remains to bethe challenge. Once the plundering of Carthage had brought Hannibal to the doorstep of Romeitself, and although he was ultimately defeated. His words, somewhat prophesizing Romesdownfall, tell how the Roman Empires strength, in military might, in its pursuit of wealth,eventually lead to its collapse. For during the third Punic war, when Rome was again over-stretched and to busy controlling North Africa, was it then overtaken and pillaged by barbariansfrom Europe.

53So too may American leaders take a page from Livys history of the Punic wars,

before U.S. military strength drags this great nation down from its lofty.Hypothetically speaking, if and when, an invasion of Iran occurs, it might easily spell the

capitulation of this great nation that has for so long been a beacon for Humans Rights unto theworld. Perhaps we, as Americans, whose diverse roots spread far and wide across the globecould band together and once again take back our basic human rightsthat have eroded in wakeof 9/11- and to demand an end to tyranny. This is to say that violence can never be a means tojustify an end and will inevitably led to more violence. Only love can conquer hate. For the

50http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1259759_-letters-to-stratfor-re-libya-the-west-and-the-narrative-of.html51http://www.manchesterstopwar.org/comment/171-libya-is-washington-pushing-for-civil-war-to-justify-a-us-nato-military-intervention.pdf52http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/07/abuyahyaallibi-perpetually-selfdefeating-war-on-terror53Birley, Anthony. Septimius Severus; The African Emperor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. N.Page 4 of 292 [Location 237 of 9214]. Kindle Edition. Print.
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wisdom Hannibal proclaimed to his troops that, indeed, resonates across time into the words ofMartin Luther King Jr. And so ending such a abysmal subject on a positive note one particularquote comes to mind that captures what Hannibal was trying to convey, I am convinced that ifwe are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radicalrevolution of values. We must rapidly beginwe must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-

oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives andproperty rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extremematerialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values willlay a hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." Thisbusiness of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nations homes with orphans andwidows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, ofsending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped andpsychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation thatcontinues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of socialuplift is approaching spiritual death.54

iIn my research the ICCs website contained a wanted profile page of Abu Munthir, but has nowbeen removed. There are said to be around 100 Ghost Detainees that are missing, but thenumber may be less considerable. Nevertheless 100s of extra-judicial renditions took place overthe past decade since the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them flying in and out ofPakistan and Libya.ii The document later exposes the ways in which Western hegemonic powers are carrying out

through the following recommendations in effectively combating Islamism, To the extent thatIslamism constitutes a danger to any state, the best way to counter it is to understand theintellectual and organizational mechanisms in which the Islamists operate. Effective countermeasures must begin at that point because ideas -even those that distort reality - can only befought by other ideas. Helping to eliminate the existing abuses and inequities is the price that hasto be paid for deflecting the danger of Islamism. (See following website for further details)http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_Counter_Insurgency_Operations_Doctrine_2007Additionally, in a 2006 Wikileaks document outlines the ways in which Bashar Assads regimecould be overthrown by exploiting racial, ethno-religious, and tribal divisions within anincreasingly instable civil society. This was clearly achieved when Libyan rebel forces, whoseEastern Libyan affiliations as racially Arab, more specifically Berber, have and continue toviolate the black or sub-Saharan African peoples of Libyas rights and freedoms.http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/02/world/la-fg-libya-migrants-20110902

Ultimately, the cable suggested playing on the fears of Al-Assad security forces aboutinternal threats, such as coup-plotting and thus provokes him into a the possibility of a self-defeating over-reaction. The article ends stating that one possible course of action to be takenagainst Assads regime is to employ Syrian Islamists to, If we are ready to capitalize, they willoffer us opportunities to disrupt his decision-making, keep him off-balance, and make him pay apremium for his mistakes. (See following website for further details)http://wikileaks.cabledrum.net/cable/2006/12/06DAMASCUS5399.html

54http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/21/dr_martin_luther_king_in_1967
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