- Remember when the Bush Ministry of Disinformation made
such a big deal out of Qaddafi's reported deal to stop working on nuclear
weapons? Mu'ammar's so-called "renunciation" had neocons and
Bush warmongers strutting around declaring the invasion of Iraq -- and
the murder of 11,000 innocent Iraqis -- was a good and righteous thing
because it scared the heck out of Arab dictators and will force them to
the table to negotiate their emasculation.
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- Of course, since al-Qaddafi will always be an Arab --
and neocons instinctively loathe Arabs and want to destroy them (neocons
love Israel more than anything, even their own country) -- it stands to
reason Mu'ammar will backslide on his agreement, so far as the neocons
are concerned. "So long as Qaddafi alone determines what are Libya's
policies, we can never be certain whether he will stick with his renunciation
of WMD or change his mind tomorrow. In other words, the key threat to the
Libya WMD agreement is that Qaddafi will renounce it," warns Patrick
Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
a neocon operation where the Islamophove Daniel Pipes is an adjunct scholar.
The neocons really don't want Mu'ammar's cooperation. Instead, they want
to bomb Libya like the now dead Reagan did in 1986, killing the adopted
daughter of Qaddafi and 37 civilians (see William Blum, Ronald Reagan's
Legacy: Eight Years of CIA Covert Action, Covert Action Quarterly, Winter
1990).
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- It does not help the neocon cause of humiliating everything
Arab that Bush's sidekick Tony Blair rushed off to Tripoli and shook hands
with Mu'ammar at the behest of Shell Oil. Shell desperately needs access
to Libya's oil and gas fields after the multinational revised down estimates
of its reserves in response to the fact it was caught partaking in that
most popular of corporate pastimes, cooking the books. The revisions prompted
investigations by London's Financial Services Authority and the Securities
and Exchange Commission, the Sunday Times reported in March.
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- It is one thing for Shell to make billion dollar gas
and oil deals with Libya after Mu'ammar threw them out in the early 1970s,
but quite another to rehabilitate an old adversary, especially now that
the neocons and their neolib fellow travelers need Arab demons to shake
a big stick at in Bush's war on terr'ism.
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- Just in the nick of time surfaces a report that Qaddafi
"ordered a covert operation to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia
last year and throw the oil-rich kingdom into disarray," as the ever
dutiful neocon tool, Fox News, reports. Naturally, the neocons spare no
love for the Saudi monarchy, but apparently they are unable to ignore this
too-good-to-pass-up information; word of the plot allegedly comes from
Col. Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan intelligence officer in Saudi custody. Ismael
apparently gave separate statements to American and Saudi officials, according
to the New York Times, a less than reliable source considering it now admits
to selling Bush's lies to the American people (and it continues to employ
the liar par excellence, Judith Miller).
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- Of course, US lies about Libya and Qaddafi are nothing
new. In 2000, the Clinton administration threatened Dr. Richard Fuisz,
a former CIA agent, with ten years in prison if he revealed what he knew
about the Lockerbie bombing, the Sunday Herald wrote at the time. But what
the Herald did not mention is that Charles McKee, a US intelligence captain
in the DIA, was on the doomed flight and he allegedly had in his possession
a briefcase containing "files on [a] CIA-Hizbullah-Mossad drugs ring,"
the Guardian reported in 1999. The Guardian article also mentions Victor
Ostrovsky, a Canadian former intelligence colonel with Israel's Mossad,
who says Mossad commandos planted a transmitter in Tripoli that generated
false telex signals implicating Libya in the April 6, 1986 La Belle discotheque
bombing in Berlin that killed three US soldiers. Reagan used this bombing
as a pretext for retaliation against Libya.
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- For the Bush neocons, it is essential that Qaddafi remain
unrepentant and untrustworthy, regardless of his overtures and allowing
Shell Oil to make piles of money on Libyan oil and gas after all these
years. Murdering his daughter and pinning Lockerbie on him is hardly enough.
Qaddafi, the Iranian mullahs, and Syria's Bashar al-Assad are targeted
for "regime change," a plan to likely remain on the neoliberal
drawingboard even if John Kerry happens to win in November.
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- Israel, after all, has declared: Make it so.
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- http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20o
pinions/June/15%20o/Going%20After%20Qaddafi,%20Again%20Kurtnimmo.com.htm
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- http://kurtnimmo.com/archives/00000159.html
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