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Overview of the Libyan aggression:

The area of Libya, one of the largest countries in Africa, is 1,757,000 sq km (678,400 sqmi). Arabic is the official language, although Berber is sometimes spoken and English andItalian are used in trade .Arabic must be used for official purposes. Islam is the statereligion, and about 97 percent of all Libyans are Sunni Muslim. A small number are RomanCatholic. At the 1984 census, Libya had a population of 3,637,488. The 1997 estimatedpopulation was 5,484,202, giving the country an overall population density of 3 persons persq km (8 per sq mi). On the sidelines of the terror attacks on Libya we saw France holdinga summit it dubbed the Friends of Libya conference. The sole purpose of this summit wasto legitimize the so-called National Transitional Council and to give the false impression thatthe war in Libya is over and done with, that the rebels are the new authority in that country.The hopelessly useless African Union temporarily woke up from its slumber and refused tobe party to this sham conference, complaining that fighting had not ended, and that UNResolution 1973 was about protecting civilians and not attacking them, as the case is withthe situation in Sirte and other cities still controlled by supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. TheAU argues that there should be a ceasefire to allow.

He said that what the United States and European powers want is Libyan oil. Regardless ofits internal situation, nothing justifies this aggression, he said in a press conference inMiraflores Palace, at the end of a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister SergeiLavrovAccording to Chavez, the United States and the forces of the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization have destroyed Libya, and he felt that the drama will start after the collapse ofleader Muammar Gaddafi.He said that those actions are part of the new US strategy ofmaking people fight one against the other and later bombard and destroy them.Since March17, 2011, Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault inits modern history. Thousands of bombs and missiles, launched from American andEuropean submarines, warships and fighter planes, are destroying Libyan military bases,airports, roads, ports, oil depots, artillery emplacements, tanks, armored carriers, planesand troop concentrations. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in this bombardment.Dozens of CIA and SAS special forces have been training, advising and mapping targets forthe anti-Gaddafi forces. The US-NATO forces are effectively leading the civil war against the

Gaddafi government.

The key military leaders of the rebel forces are well known to the US government and arelong standing CIA operatives. Khalifa Haftar was appointed chief rebel commander on March17 on the eve of the beginning of US NATO bombing of Libya. The imperialist media madeout that the rebel forces were indigenous forces whom they didnt know much about.However a US think On the sidelines of the terror attacks on Libya we saw France holding asummit it dubbed the Friends of Libya conference. The sole purpose of this summit was to


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legitimise the so-called National Transitional Council and to give the false impression thatthe war in Libya is over and done with, that the rebels are the new authority in that country.

The hopelessly useless African Union temporarily woke up from its slumber and refused tobe party to this sham conference, complaining that fighting had not ended, and that UNResolution 1973 was about protecting civilians and not attacking them, as the case is withthe situation in Sirte and other cities still controlled by supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. TheAU argues that there should be a ceasefire to allow

Geography of the Libyan nation:

The Sahara is diagonally split into a western and an eastern half by a series of highlands. Inthe West one seldom needs to travel more than 100 kilometers between areas with waterand vegetation, and the whole area is well crises-crossed by desert tracks. The eastern halfis triangular in shape, bordered on the west by the highlands, the Mediterranean on thenorth, and the river Nile to the east, it roughly resembles India both in shape and size. Thiswhole vast area, the Libyan Desert, is totally unfit for human habitation. Its central part is aplace of extreme aridity, there are periods of 20-30 years with no rainfall. This region wasselected by NASA as the earthly region most similar to conditions on Mars during the Vikinglender projects. There is no permanent human habitation, no roads or tracks, just the great

open void.

Capital: Tripoli

Area: The area of Libya, one of the largest countries in Africa, is 1,757,000 sq km (678,400sq mi).

Language: Arabic is the official language, although Berber is sometimes spoken and Englishand Italian are used in trade .Arabic must be used for official purposes.

Religion: Islam is the state religion, and about 97 percent of all Libyans are Sunni Muslim. Asmall number are Roman Catholic.

Population: At the 1984 census, Libya had a population of 3,637,488. The 1997 estimatedpopulation was 5,484,202, giving the country an overall population density of 3 persons persq km (8 per sq mi).

Dust storm over the Tripolitania region of Libya. Over 90% of the country is desert.

Area:total: 1 759 540 kmland: 1 759 540 kmwater: 0 km


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Area comparative:

Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, seven times the size of the United Kingdom,and slightly larger than Alaska

Land boundaries: total: 4383 km

border countries: Algeria 982 km, Chad 1 055 km, Egypt 1 150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan383 km, Tunisia 459 km

Coastline: 1770 km

Maritime claims:territorial sea: 12 nmi (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) note: Gulf of Sidra closing line 32 degrees 30minutes north.

Climate and hydrology

Coastline of Benghazi in the Cyrenaica, Libyas east. Libya has the longest Mediterraneancoastline among African nations with mostly unspoilt beaches.

Within Libya as many as five different climatic zones have been recognized, but thedominant climatic influences are Mediterranean and Saharan. In most of the coastallowland, the climate is Mediterranean, with warm summers and mild winters. Rainfall isscanty. The weather is cooler in the highlands, and frosts occur at maximum elevations. Inthe desert interior the climate has very hot summers and extreme diurnal temperatureranges. The highest official temperature ever recorded was on 13 September 1922 at

Aziziya, Libya,but that reading is queried.

Background of the history of Libya:

When France launched Operation Odyssey five months ago, which was immediately to be joined by Britain and the United States, the zeal to implement an ill-secured UN.

Resolution 1973 was seen by many peace-loving people as brazen aggression targeted at

Libyas Muammar Gaddafi, regardless of the mixed feelings about the man.Resolution 1973was supposedly about protecting Libyan civilian s from what the West said was a pendinggenocide, undoubtedly pending in the minds of Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama, but neveras apparent in Libya itself.

Surprisingly, the propaganda line that Gaddafi was about to carry out a gruesome genocidein Benghazi was bought by the likes of Noam Chomsky even, a veteran who should knowbetter about what comes from the lips of US presidents, especially when they arepronouncing a war. Before long, Operation Odyssey was unsurprisingly taken over by NATO,and what many regarded as crude aggression by two rogue states was elevated to anoutright terror campaign With the help of NATO aerial firepower, the small group ofBenghazi rebels began to gather courage and began capturing Libyan cities, coercing manycivilians to join their cause or be shot dead; in fact killing as many as 50 000 they accused

of either supporting Muammar Gaddafi or being his spies or mercenaries, especially the darkskinned citizens of Libya.The statistics are estimates from various independent sources.

Now NATO and the rebels are at the doorstep of Sirte, ready to commit a genocide biggerthan what they said Gaddafi was about to carry out on Benghazi, the very pretext thatallowed Western elite murderers to invite themselves into Libya. If it was Gaddafi at thedoorstep of Benghazi, telling the people in the city to allow him to come in and arrest theleaders of the insurgence, there is no doubt the US, France and the UK would be bluntlyopposed to such an eventuality arguing that the will of the pe ople of Libya must berespected.


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Of course the will of the people of Sirte deserves no respect for its foolishness of opposingthe Western position. But why is it that the will of the people of Sirte is not important to themurderous Westerners? Why is it that the people of Bani Walid and other cities to the Southof Libya have no right to have their will respected? NATO bombs Tripolians to impose thewill of Benghazi rebels and we are told that is victory for democracy. And the African Unionwatches like a kid robbed of his favourite toy by a tormenting bully.

The hopelessly useless African Union temporarily woke up from its slumber and refused tobe party to this sham conference, complaining that fighting had not ended, and that UNResolution 1973 was about protecting civilians and not attacking them, as the case is withthe situation in Sirte and other cities still controlled by supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. TheAU argues that there should be a ceasefire to allow negotiations for a peaceful resolution ofthe crisis.Jacob Zuma, Goodluck Jonathan and Gabons Ali Bongo Ondimba are thetriumvirate gang of traitors that first betrayed the African cause by rashly voting forResolution 1973 without due consideration for possible ramifications, even ignoring theagreed position of the African Union.

Result of this aggression:

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for

themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code thatglorifies it. Frederic Bastiat, French thinker (1801 -1850).The U.S. and its allies arepreparing for aggression against Syria as part of the U.S.-Israel destabilisation agenda inthe region. The pretext is, as usual, the protection of civilians and installing of Western-style democracy. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is to topplethe current Syrian government and replace it with a puppet government subservient toU.S.-Israel Zionist interests.It should be noted that because of Syria s support for thePalestinian and Lebanese resistance to Israels terror and Syrias ties with Iran, the Syriangovernment of President Bashar al- Assad is deemed a threat to U.S. and Israel interests.Hence, a Syrian regime subservient to U.S.-Israel dictates is vital to isolate Iran. It ignoresIsraels Zionist expansion.The ongoing foreign interference in Syrias internal affairs is areminder of the recent criminal foreign interference in Libya, which began with theimposition of a no - fly zone over Libya that was an illegal military invasion of Libya. Mediareports show that the U.S. and Israel have hired Saudi and Lebanese elements to fomentunrest in Syria, and to create a rift between the government and the Syrian people basedon sectarian divisions.

Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. None of these countries are model states,let alone democracies. Their U.S.-installed leaders have betrayed the Palestinians, helpedattack Iraq, support Israel against Lebanon, demolished Libya, and now they conspireagainst Syria and its regional allies. He added [The Arab League] has been hijacked andserves Washington and its NATO allies instead of any genuinely Arab interests. Like theGCC, the Arab league is a tool of U.S. imperialism. Its shameful act against Syria (a repriseof its shameful act against Libya) is an act of war against another Arab nation.The mostshameful of all of this is the role of the U.S.-backed Arab despots led by Saudi Arabia,Qatar, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.

Opinion of the Libyan people:

When France launched Operation Odyssey five months ago, which was immediately to be joined by Britain and the United States, the zeal to implement an ill-secured UN Resolution1973 was seen by many peace-loving people as brazen aggression targeted at LibyasMuammar Gaddafi, regardless of the mixed feelings about the man.

Resolution 1973 was supposedly about protecting Libyan civilians from what the West saidwas a pending genocide, undoubtedly pending in the minds of Sarkozy, Cameron and


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Obama, but never as apparent in Libya itself. Surprisingly, the propaganda line that Gaddafiwas about to carry out a gruesome genocide in Benghazi was bought by the likes of NoamChomsky even, a veteran who should know better about what comes from the lips of USpresidents, especially when they are pronouncing a war. Before long, Operation Odysseywas unsurprisingly taken over by NATO, and what many regarded as crude aggression bytwo rogue states was elevated to an outright terror campaign.With the help of NATO aerial

firepower, the small group of Benghazi rebels began to gather courage and began capturingLibyan cities, coercing many civilians to join their cause or be shot dead; in fact killing asmany as 50 000 they accused of either supporting Muammar Gaddafi or being his spies ormercenaries, especially the dark skinned citizens of Libya.The statistics are estimates fromvarious independent sources.

After the rebels entered and rampaged Tripoli, of course following in the footsteps of adevastating NATO team of murderous warplanes, the massive crowds that had earlier beenseen turning out in their hundreds of thousands in support of Gaddafi, defiantly wavingLibyas green flag; were all but intimidated into silence by NATOs indiscriminate terrorbombings, strategically followed by a newly-assembled group of heavily armed rebelsbrandishing brand new high-tech military hardware fresh from American militarywarehouses. The rag tag rebels even masqueraded as trained soldiers in their brand new

military fatigues.We hear the people of Libya want a new dispensation without Gaddafi and one would hopethat the rebels would meet celebrating masses at the gates of Sirte, Tripoli and the othercities to the West and South of Libya. What we saw were marauding gun trotting goons andan entirely intimidated population.All we have seen are brutalising NATO terror planes and alegion of Western armed thugs waiting to destroy the civilians of the cities of the so-called

Gaddafi loyalists, should they fail to denounce Gaddafi and support the Benghazicause.ionionon But I object to the patronizing assertion that it was all a NATO victory. It isthe old colonialist attitude in a new guise. Of course, these poor, primitive Arabs could notdo anything without the White Man shouldering his burden and rushing to the rescue.

21st century humanity cannot tolerate acts of genocide and mass-murder, wherever theyoccur. It cannot look on while dictators butcher their own peoples. The doctrine of

noninterference in the internal affairs of sovereign states belongs to the past. We Jews,who have accused mankind of standing idly by while millions of Jews, including Germancitizens, were exterminated by the legitimate German government, certainly owe the worldan answer.I have mentioned in the past that I advocate some form of effective worldgovernance and expect it to be in place by the end of this century. This would include ademocratically elected world executive that would have military forces at its disposal andthat could intervene, if a world parliament so decides.For this to happen, the United Nationsmust be revamped entirely. The veto power must be abolished. It is intolerable that the UScan veto the acceptance of Palestine as a member state, or that Russia and China can vetointervention in Syria.

Impact on Libyan aggression:

The Libyan aggression has great impact Libyan nation .beside this Parts of the borderbetween Algeria and Libya have reportedly been closed after Muammar Gaddafis closestfamily members were confirmed to have fled to the country.Especially for Hannibal, if hefled to Algiers and the A lgerian authorities allowed him to do that, well consider this as anaggressive act against the Libyan peoples wish, Mahmud Shammam, NTC informationminister, said. Were going to use all the means to get him back and try him, put him in acourt and try him. This is our aim. We would give everybody of the Gaddafi family a fair trialand we can guarantee that.But Algerias envoy to the United Nations defended the decisionto take in the Gaddafis saying it was a holy rule of hospitality to provide assi stance.


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Mourad Benmehidi told the BBC World Service that his nation had a duty to provideassistance.

Relations between Algeria and the NTC were strained before the Gaddafi family fled. TheNTC previously accused Algeria of sending mercenaries to fight for Gaddafi, while Algeriasautocratic regime has resisted calls to recognise the legitimacy of the NTC and repressedprotests within its own country. Elsewhere in Libya senior rebel commanders reported thatanother of Gaddafis sons, Khamis, had been killed. We have almost certain informationthat Khamis Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi (his intelligence chief) were killed on Saturdayby a unit of the national liberation army during clashes in Tarhouna, spokesman AhmedBani told Al Arabiya television.Khamis Gaddafi has been reported dead twice before sincethe uprisings began earlierthis year, however, and the deaths remain unconfirmed.Nato saidthat it hit 35 targets in airstrikes on Monday, including four radar sites and 22 armedvehicles in Sirte alone.An ammunition storage facility and two command centres near toBani Walid were also hit, as were five anti-aircraft artillery sites and other militaryinstallations close to Hun.Sky News reporter Neal Mann said via Twitter that Nato jets werealso seen in the skies above Libya on Tuesday.In other parts of the country the Libyanpeople were working to recover from the fighting. In Tripoli, fireworks replaced celebratorygunfire in Martyrs Square on Monday evening.

Libyas leader Muammar Qaddafi has managed to survive and put up fierce resistance fornow half a year against NATO aggression and their Al Qaeda led rebel forces on the ground.Tripoli is still unsecured, and entire cities still stand firmly in defiance against constant NATObombing and multiple att empts by thousands of rebels to surround and starve out cities.Libyans have also now fended off several full fledged assaults by an increasinglydisorganized rebel army on the cities of Sirte and Bani Walid.The cracks are beginning toshow in NATOs pro xy army, the so- called Libyan rebels hailing from Libyas easternCyrenaica region, notorious as the most concentrated recruiting ground for internationalterrorism on earth and the home of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), listed as aforeign terrorist organization by both the US State Department and the UK Home Office. Inrecent weeks, it has become impossible for the corporate media and NATO to hide the factthat the rebels are being led by LIFG commanders. It is also increasingly impossible to hide

these terrorists atrocities as they literally exile or exterminate entire cities. Conclusion:

We conclude that As the Libyan opposition struggles to take full control of the country, alleyes are now on the Friends of Libya conference in Paris, wher e delegates from 60countries, many with various vested interests, will congregate. Even while the dust has yetto settle, the haste with which companies from NATO countries are scrambling to grab ashare of the dividends of war has caused many to question the true intentions of themilitary intervention in Libya. Just days after the capture of the Bab al-Azizya compound inTripoli officials of major European countries were reportedly lining up for talks with thefledgling National Transitional Council to s ecure lucrative contracts. What matters now isthe speed, said Antonio De Capoa, chairman of the Italian -Libyan Chamber of Commerce,representing Italian companies eager to return to invest in the country as soon as possible.

But for the Libyan people the first priority is for life to return to normal. What they need ispolitical and social stability, not foreign companies fighting over lucrative contracts. Libyais an independent nation- state as well as a member of the UN and Libyas future belongs toits people. Therefore, the UN, whose Security Council adopted Resolution 1973 on Libya inMarch, has the responsibility to take a leading role in the rebuilding process.

It is good to hear that the UN has prepared a plan for bringing an integrated, politically ledmission to Libya and its first aim is to get UN personnel on the ground as quickly aspossible, under a robust Security Council mandate. It should coordinate international efforts


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in providing humanitarian aid and other support necessary to the Libyan people, whileguaranteeing Libya against any foreign interference in its sovereignty and territorialintegrity. After the six- month bloodbath, its time for Libya to restore its stability and put alegitimate and inclusive

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