In These New Times

Allain Jules

2nd October, 2011

Translated by Cailean Bochanan

Now that the Franco-Libanese Zied Takieddine is getting upset  and hitting out wildly before his appearance before Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke, he says that the Elysee have abandoned him and that his Libyan trips were official not officious. Worse, he claims to have been sent by the terrible two, Nicolas Sarkozy and Claude Gueant, on behalf of the French state. Does this explain everything? Failure to sell Rafales? Now, Total paid for this mission. All that for the death of 70,000 Libyans, including 2,300 renegades, killed for nothing. The truth about this war risks then  revealing the dark motivation and misjudgement of Nicolas Sarkozy in this aggression against Libya and, in particular, against Gaddafi.

According to General Carter Ham, head of AFRICOM, in an interview with AP, the mission in Libya is practically over and NATO could begin to disengage after a meeting in Brussels next week. It could, he says. Conditional. It isn’t then a certainty. On the other hand, there isn’t any more money, in spite of the financing of this conflict by the Qatari and Emirates criminals.

As pro-Gaddafi demonstrations proliferate in Tripoli, one can say unequivocably that NATO has failed. Whilst the Benghazi renegades complain that NATO isn’t bombing enough any more, NATO has gone beyond its mission. In Sirte, notably, in boldly bombing a hospital. Very noble! ‘Libya doesn’t belong to Sarkozy” the Libyan guide has said. According to Jean Paul Pougala regarding the renegades and I quote:[…] What they don’t know is that NATO is out of money. France’s leading bank has lost 65% of its share value in 3 months and the other two risk bankruptcy, 7 italian banks have been downgraded, the greek bailout will last a month and what then?etc…. they’re really in the shit…tell that to the TNC”

It has to be admitted that the our  engagement in a conflict with goals that none admit but which everyone, in fact, knows is beginning to have a boomerang effect. The question is what will become of the CNT if NATO goes, since they can’t continue the war without them. Ibrahim Moussa, spokesman for the legitimate Libyan government, says they have sufficient arms to go on fighting. We know now that nearly 5000 anti-aircraft, SAM-7 missiles from their arsenal have gone missing. They’re not all in the hands of Al qaeda, nothing like. A worry for NATO who want out by the look of it..but anyway.

Listening to the  the arguments advanced by the predators, the phrase “wild imaginings’ comes to mind? The future, their future in Libya looks dark. What will it mean for the renegades? Probably exile, but where? Paris should have the decency to receive them, just what they refuse to do for the victims of this pernicious war.