Western Imperialism use of Human Rights in Libya’s Revolution

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Western Imperialism use of Human Rights in Libyas Revolution

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 would

appear 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 but

of one almost beside itself through misfortunes. [6] Nevertheless it is by no means so untimely asare those senseless, misplaced tears of yours. [7] The time for us to weep was when our armswere taken from us, our ships burned, foreign wars forbidden; for that wound was fatal to us.And you have no reason to believe that the Romans had regard for your domestic peace. No greatstate can long be in peace. [8] If it lacks an enemy abroad it finds one at home, just as powerfulbodies seem protected against infection from without, but are of themselves weighed down bytheir very strength. [9] Of course we feel only so much of the public misfortunes as bears uponour private concerns, and in these nothing has so painful a sting as the loss of money. [10] Hencewhen the spoils were being stripped from vanquished Carthage, although you saw her placed,now unarmed and naked, in the midst of so many armed tribes of Africa, no one moaned, [p.537] while now because tribute must be raised from private6 property you are mourners, as itwere, at a public funeral. [11] How much I fear you will very soon be aware that today you havewept over a very slight 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 it will also become most helpful as a lens with which analysis of theinformation gathered positions the given facts against a human rights framework. For with thisspecificity such is the design that provides a holistic context of the narrativebehind Libyasrevolution. And hopefully, if this research is successful it will bring a certain transparency sodesperately needed in telling a story that is now clouted beneath the fog of war. Thus it shall beargued herein that the human rights regime and its discourse were co-opted on behest of the

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Britain, France and America for the purpose of securing their hegemonic interests in theMaghreb 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 overallhegemonic ruse, a narrative that is created by mainstream media, political leaders and militaryofficials.

4Moreover, this letter of writ that had no legal authority within the international system

was taken as such and then promulgated by the behest of these two NGOs that had in factfabricated the threat of an impending bloodbath in the city of Benghazi by pro-Qaddafi forces.5These lies - outlined in the letter - provided the pre-text needed for NATOs intervention intoLibya.

6For as we delve into the context of the revolutions narrative the words of one Libyan

doctor and activist, by the name Odei- ring ever so true,I wanted the world to see the truth, the other side of the story that has not been invented

by 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 wasindeed a guise to cover NATO member states true imperatives in Libya, as well as the rest of

2http://www.fundacionfaes.org/record_file/filename/3053/NATO_AN_ALLIANCE_FOR_FREEDOM.pdf(See pages 15 -22 for in-depth examination of NATOs new 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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the 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 theAfghani and Iraqi peoples, particularly in regards to employing human rights as a means to

justify 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. Probably even funding and supplying the entireendeavor in Libya, as well as the current covert operations against Assads regime in Syria.

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with such gruesome business one obviously needs an alibi and unfortunately western hegemonyhas modified both the human rights regime and its discourse to do just that. This is a direct result

of the structural changes in the UN security councils apparatus that decreased the members -who have been innately opposed to Western hegemony in the past - power to veto the U.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.11 The irony will become more apparent as this tragiccomedy 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 theimperialist agenda of a state versus its actual rhetoric of promoting human rights, which exists ascareful balancing act. (Mohktari, Abu Grahgeb)

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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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 - humanitarianintervention 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-ranking

international 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 human

rights 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 outrighthostility the west, particularly in the direct funneling of weapons to the IRA (Omagh bombing)among others and the Lockerbie Bombing in Scotland, which is now being re-investigated. Overthe course of the past two decades colonel Qaddafi began to cooperate with western powers andadhere to international HR laws, but Western European leaders were severely alarmed whenQaddafis regime attempted to systematize his entire assists back to the gold dinar and thenencourage other African states to do so as well. Additionally, the NATO member states backedincreasing economic ties with Libya by providing a human rights discourse to cover his terribleHR record, even as they used Libyan soil to violate domestic and international human rightslaws.

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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.htm15www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16session/A-HRC-16-15.pdf
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Obviously, Qaddafi faced western diplomatic pressure to adhere to international HRlaws, especially following U.S. led invasion into Iraq.16Hence, Libyas response to internationalhuman rights framework was to evolve and adapt to its standards, as it was originally solidifiedinto 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 provide

reparation 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. 17 All of the human rights dialogue between Jamahiriyaand 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 asexchanging 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 MI6

of torture with the use of extrajudicial rendition. Furthermore, one document found in MussaKoussas office ex-chief of Libyan intelligencewho had apparently developed specialrelations with MI6 agentsstated the following, I am glad to propose that our services take anadditional step in cooperation with the establishment of a permanent CIA presence in Libya. Wehave talked about this move for quite some time and Libyas cooperation on WMD and otherissues, as well as our recent intelligence cooperation, mean that now is the right moment to moveahead.18

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 monthsprior to the revolution. The blatant hypocrisy is angering to say the least. Nevertheless a paradox

16www.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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emerges 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. Themany Wikileaks documents between these intelligence agencies make clear through their

superficial 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 NATOmember states turns into a sadistically nauseating satire as one delves further into the clouted

Libyan 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. However,many of the meaningless duplicitous rhetoric made by HRW and other HR organizations cannotall be seen as part of this Hegemonic ruse. Whereby, a month later HRW started to unveil howthe U.K. and U.S. transferred leaders of LIFG to Libya, and they even hint that westernintelligence agencies pre-planned the ousting of Qaddafi.25

By taking up HR rhetoric the western hegemonic powers become, unequivocally boundto their 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 wasthe 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 relationship

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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between 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 a Mr. Belhaj a.k.a. Adu (abu) Abdallah Al-Sadek, a leader of theAQIM, a former U.S Guantanamo detainee and known terrorist member with ties throughout theMaghreb; suddenly he became a key military leader in the current NTC that he acquiesced

through the integral role which he played in overthrowing forces loyal to Qaddafi.

26

This couldof course be just a random twist of fate but it appears that it is rather a strategic military move bythe U.S. in securing its hegemonic imperative in Libya. And if we start connecting the dottedlines the bigger picture comes into focus but so does the reality of which is far more terrifyingthan we can even begin to imagine.

For Mr. Belhaj was not alone, he and another 210 Al-Qaeda linked prisoners werereleased 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.

27Interestingly enough, the

release 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.

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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 February26th 2011 vote by U.N. Security Council to authorize resolution 1970 which imposed sanctionson 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 heldaround the world, which further imparts the certainty that Western powers indeed havehegemonic imperatives in the Libyan Jamahiriya and beyond.

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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 fightersorties 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 of

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Versailles 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 acts

30. Ultimately, these allegations made Both of the human rights NGOs wereinstrumental in garnering the international community and human rights regime support for a

humanitarian 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.31Interestingly enough, the NCLO (National Conference for the Libyan Opposition, and IslamicMovement for Change are HRO fronts for LIFG.

32And on March 9

th, 2011 Carnegie

endowment for international peace printed an article that illuminated the joint U.S.-Libyanterrorist rehabilitation program that, Based on my initial impressions, it seemed as though fewof the former detainees had truly renounced their previous beliefs. Instead, they were told thatthey would get unspecified help with jobs, a one-time cash payment, and that Libya wasbecoming more Islamic and tolerant of dawa, or preaching Islam. In fact, one released LIFGmember statedbluntly that if we dont get what we were promised from the regime, we will

start shooting again. These were not the only detainees released by the regime. Over 350Islamist fighters were set free in the past twelve months. According to some accounts, more than700 detainees have been released in total. Now the key questions are, where are they and whatare they doing?33

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 of the 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.34

These NGOs have strong ties to LIFG leaders including Belhaj and Saami al-Saadi,whose former Islamic militant connections span the entire Middle Eastern region.35 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.

36Historically, this area has been a major recruiting ground

for Global Jihadists particularly in both Iraq and Afghanistan wars with coalition forces.Perhaps this is why the rebel militias or rather global Jihadists have indiscriminately killed,

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tortured, and displaced many the many ethnic and religious minorities in Libya37. Precisely dueto their strict interpretation of Saudi Wahhabism and the same Islamic school of thought Bin-Laden endorsed. Interestingly enough, another Guantanamo bay detainee by the name of ImamAbdelkarim Al-Hasdi, mentioned today in the Senates Council of Investigation of HillaryClinton, is in fact responsible for the notion that Al-Qaeda has established an emirate in Derna

led by Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, a former Guantanamo detainee.

38

Furthermore, the research I have conducted shows that Saami al-Saadi is none other than,disappeared Guantanamo bay ghost detainee, Abu Munthir, who was arrested in Hong Kongon March 2004 by authorities and then handed over to U.S. intelligence agents.3940 What is notmentioned is that the same Abu Munthir had helped Omar Khyam, obtain the informationneeded to build a bomb but was then arrested.41 Recently, Abu Munthir has stepped down fromhis position as the head of NTCs Martyrs and Missing, claiming that the many leaders from theold regime are now leading the new government, and that elections allowed many of them totake office.

42Needless to say that history has shown how violent democracys roots can be, but

there is clearly evidence here 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, thatwere first taken from Maos campaign, and have thus developed into modern warfare strategywhich employs Urban Insurgency with the intention to force a repressive military responsethat in turn will alienate the volatile mass of the urban poor and move them to revolt. The mediawill be used to generate an air of panic. Violence is therefore a catalyst for political change.43ii

Hopefully it is clear that deception and secrecy are now the rules to which the game ofworld politics is being played as mentioned above. And behind this veil of secrecy these two HRNGOs are just the start of an intricate trail of HR violations committed against the Libyanpeople. A trail that not only points in the direction of international oil conglomerates such as,(but also Western leaders at the highest level of governance. So could it be such a farfetched ideathat Libya is, and always has been, of strategic importance to Western powers, especially whenconsidering the Natural Gas line to Italy took over $170 Billion to construct I think not,wherefore the Western hegemonic imperative over Libya has been secured, NATO forces haveescalated their neo-colonial war in the resource rich Maghreb.44

Seemingly the presence of Islamic radical groups in the Maghreb region has proliferatedsince the fall of Qaddafi. And so as French and other U.N. nations in Africa are actively sendingtroops into Mali and Algeria it seems that the entire de-stabilization of the entire Maghreb canonly be understood in terms of Neo-colonization by NATO forces

4546. This notion becomes even

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more apparent as the fascinating article from FP journal which states, Allied intelligenceanalysts wonder whether these stocks [weapons depots], valued at $12 billion, are intended bythe Soviets as prepositioned equipment for a war in the Middle East, Europe, or even World WarIII.47 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."48

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 as

Qatar 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.Furthermore, as many turn a blind eye to lessons in history it shall not be done so here.

This will not be another mitigated narrative, just as the medias international conglomerate sooften do. It is only an attempt to shed some light unto the atrocious human rights violationscommitted against the Libyan people by NATO powers in their divide and conquer ruse to oustthe Qaddafis regime that now has created a power vacuum in the entire Maghreb region, whichAl-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 regimeand discourse. There is more than enough information to provide further evidence about howwestern hegemonic imperatives have become embedded within the HR regime and its discourse.However Libyas narrative tells how these imperatives are implemented, and thus helps torecapture the integrity inherent in the Human Rights experiment. The narrative of violence,which has been created by Western hegemony, as a catalyst for change in the region may becompared to the Roman invasion of Libya, which became their geo-political base to extendfurther into Africa.49 And like the Roman generals one will find retired U.S. NATO generalWesley Clarks discussion with an anonymous high-ranking Pentagon commander, So I cameback to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said,Are we still going to war with Iraq? and he said, Oh its worse than that. He reached over onhis desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, I just got this down from upstairs meaning the Secretary ofDefenses officetoday. And he said, This is a memo that describes

46http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/mali-islamists-should-free-child-soldiers(The recent Frenchcampaign against Islamists in northern Mali affirms many of the claims and speculations made mostnotably made by ex-congresswomen Cynthia McKinney, sociologist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, andDartmouth professor Dirk Vandewallean)47 John K. Cooley, Libyan Menace 1974. Foreign Policy, No. 42 (Spring, 1981) pg. 77:http://www.jstor.org/stable/114822148http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/OA15Aa01.html49http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1259759_-letters-to-stratfor-re-libya-the-west-and-the-narrative-of.html
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how were going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria,Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran. 50

Hopefully, this western imperative will be exposed before its too late, whereby, thehuman rights regime and its discourse can be taken back by the people through the means grassroots movements to protect the freedoms that are self-evident, not just for the elite, for every

single human being on planet Earth. However securing them remains to be the challenge. Oncethe plundering of Carthage had brought Hannibal to the doorstep of Rome itself, and although hewas ultimately defeated. His words, somewhat prophesizing Romes downfall, tell how theRoman Empires strength, in military might, in its pursuit of wealth, eventually lead to itscollapse. For during the third Punic war, when Rome was again over-stretched and to busycontrolling North Africa, was it then overtaken and pillaged by barbarians from Europe.51 So toomay American leaders take a page from Livys history of the Punic wars, before U.S. militarystrength drags this great nation down from its lofty. Hypothetically speaking, if and when, aninvasion of Iran occurs it might easily spell the capitulation of this great nation that has been abeacon for Humans Right for so long. Perhaps we, as Americans, whose diverse roots spread farand wide across the globe could band together and once again take back our basic human rights

that have eroded in wake of 9/11- and to demand an end to tyranny. This is to say that violencecan never be a means to justify an end and will inevitably led to more violence. For the wisdomHannibal proclaimed to his troops that, indeed, resonates across time to the words of MartinLuther King Jr. words, and to end such a abysmal subject on a positive note one particular quotecomes to mind that captures, Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture therevolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition topoverty, racism and militarism.52

iIn my research the ICCs website contained a wanted profile page of Abu Munthir, but has now

been 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 be

fought 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)

50http://www.manchesterstopwar.org/comment/171-libya-is-washington-pushing-for-civil-war-to-justify-a-us-nato-military-intervention.pdf51Birley, Anthony. Septimius Severus; The African Emperor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. N.Page 4 of 292 [Location 237 of 9214]. Kindle Edition. Print.52 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Martin%20Luther%20King/MLKing_quotes.html
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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, whose

Eastern 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
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_Counter_Insurgency_Operations_Doctrine_2007http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_Counter_Insurgency_Operations_Doctrine_2007http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/02/world/la-fg-libya-migrants-20110902http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/02/world/la-fg-libya-migrants-20110902http://wikileaks.cabledrum.net/cable/2006/12/06DAMASCUS5399.htmlhttp://wikileaks.cabledrum.net/cable/2006/12/06DAMASCUS5399.htmlhttp://wikileaks.cabledrum.net/cable/2006/12/06DAMASCUS5399.htmlhttp://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/02/world/la-fg-libya-migrants-20110902http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_Counter_Insurgency_Operations_Doctrine_2007

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