"WHY DID THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES BOMB LIBYA? CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST SARKOZY SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON OUSTING OF GADDAFI." - Joe Penney

SEVEN YEARS AFTER the popular uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and the NATO intervention that removed him from power, Libya is extremely fractured and a source of regional instability. But while Congress has heavily scrutinized the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi a year after Gaddafi’s overthrow and death, there has been no U.S. investigation into the broader question of what led the U.S. and its allies to intervene so disastrously in Libya.

"The slave auction in Libya" - Haythem Guesmi

The lingering problem of racism in Libya and in the Maghreb generally is old news.

"The Age of Blowback Terror" - Brahma Chellaney

World powers have often been known to intervene, overtly and covertly, to overthrow other countries’ governments, install pliant regimes, and then prop up those regimes, even with military action. But, more often than not, what seems like a good idea in the short term often brings about disastrous unintended consequences, with intervention causing countries to dissolve into conflict, and intervening powers emerging as targets of violence. That sequence is starkly apparent today, as countries that have meddled in the Middle East face a surge in terrorist attacks.

"Why Libya is still a global terror threat" - Alia Brahimi

After the Manchester attack, fingers are being pointed at the state whose collapse after the fall of Gaddafi has allowed radicalisation to become entrenched.

"Can Libya’s new government balance international, domestic duties?"

Now that the UN and the Tobruk-based government of Libya have endorsed a new agreement to form a united government, the latter must juggle conflicting priorities both inside and outside the war-torn country.

"Libya's people smugglers: military action won't stop this multifaceted trade"

In the small Libyan port of Zuwara, one of the main points of departure for migrants seeking to reach Italy, dozens if not hundreds of fishing boats line the quay. It’s an innocuous sight: blue wooden skiffs knocking against each other in the breeze. But if Europe wants to use military force to smash Libya’s smuggling trade, these are the boats they will have to destroy.

"Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya"

In the summer of 2012, American Green Berets began refurbishing a Libyan military base 27 kilometers west of Tripoli in order to hone the skills of Libya’s first Western-trained special operations counter-terrorism fighters. Less than two years later, that training camp is now being used by groups with direct links to al Qaeda to foment chaos in post-Qaddafi Libya.

"Libya: Seize Chance to Protect Women’s Rights"

Historic Time to Entrench Rights through Participation, New Laws and Constitution

"The west must be honest about its role in Libya's violent chaos"

The violent attack on the US consulate in Benghazi leading to the death of ambassador Chris Stevens and three aides, and subsequent assaults on western diplomatic offices in Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere are evidence of a wilting of the Arab spring, for which the west bears considerable responsibility. To blame are the west's impatience, its belief that democracy can be imposed in a hurry from the outside, and its insistence that resistance to democracy must be the consequence of a few aberrant actors and isolated terrorists.

Indignada!

Evidentemente que a queda de um ditador é sempre para mim um motivo de alegria. É o caso da Líbia.

No entanto, assisti ontem a um triste "espetáculo": o assassinato de Kadafi. As televisões superaram as expectativas: as imagens de um bando de "vampiros" a assassinar um homem. Para a posteridade.

Aqueles que, como eu, se indignaram com o assassinato de Bin Laden há bem pouco tempo, não podem deixar de condenar os atos perpetrados por este bando de assassinos.

A Amnistia Internacional pediu um inquérito e bem. A ONU já acionou um. Nada justifica os atos abomináveis destes selvagens. Nem os carrascos nazis tiveram semelhante tratamento.

Perde-se uma excelente oportunidade de julgar um ditador. Um carrasco. Possivelmente para os melhores "interesses" da Líbia (que se vê livre de um processo que só iria criar entropias) e daqueles que se tornaram grandes amigos do ex-líder líbio a bem de interesses meramente económicos.

Já tínhamos tido conhecimento de sevícias cometidas pelas forças rebeldes. O que aconteceu ontem deixa muitas interrogações e receios. É este o futuro da Líbia?

Morreu Khadafi

Forças líbias anunciam "ao mundo" que Khadafi "está morto"

Veja aqui a fantástica reportagem de Moises Saman sobre os últimos dias da Líbia com o ditador.

A colaboração dos EUA e Reino Unido com Kadhafi ou Como um ditador pode manter o regime

Os jornais The Wall Street Journal e The Independent citam documentos encontrados num edifício da secreta líbia onde são reveladas estreitas ligações entre EUA, Reino Unido e Líbia de Kadhafi. Norte-americanos e britânicos colaboraram no passado de forma estreita com os serviços de informação líbios, revelam documentos a que os jornais The Wall Street Journal e The Indepent tiveram acesso. De acordo com documentos revelados pelo The Wall Street Journal e que foram encontrados num edifício que pertencia aos serviços secretos líbios, a CIA estabeleceu uma «presença permanente» na Líbia em 2004.

Fonte: TSF 

Artigos originais: Moussa Koussa's secret letters betray Britain's Libyan connection e Tripoli Files Show CIA Working With Libya

Líbia - "Detainees left to suffocate in crowded metal containers"

Pro al-Gaddafi forces left 19 detainees to die of suffocation while locked inside metal containers in the sweltering June heat in north-western Libya, Amnesty International has discovered.

Dossier África - "Bandeira rebelde hasteada no quartel-general de Khadafi"

Os rebeldes líbios invadiram hoje o complexo fortificado de Muammar Khadafi, em Trípoli, e conseguiram entrar na casa do líder líbio.

Tribunal Internacional ordena prisão de Muamar Kadhafi

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity.

Prendê-lo é quase impossível, mas fica a condenação. Pergunto quando será a condenação do assassino Bashar al-Assad.

"Kadhafi investiu no BES e no BCP "

Este monstro já tem interesses em Portugal

Assim vai a Europa! - "France’s goals in Libya hit a little closer to home"

The French Socialist Party triumphed in local elections last weekend. The Libyan rebels triumphed in Brega and Ras Lanouf. In France, attention turned to the presidential election of 2012. In Libya, the rebels set their sights on Tripoli. You may not think all of these things are connected. But they are.

um artigo de Anne Applebaum no The Washington Post

Ataque à Líbia

Kadhafi diz que derrotará forças ocidentais

O ataque à Líbia começou. Não sou a favor da guerra. Contudo, este ataque resulta de uma resolução das Nações Unidas com o objetivo de proteger o povo líbio dos ataques de Kadhafi. O presidente da Líbia atacou o seu próprio povo em luta pela democracia. É um ditador implacável.

A minha esperança é que a coligação internacional não transforme aquilo que pode ser uma causa pelos direitos de um povo noutra guerra sem solução.

Um monstro!

Sete prisioneiros enterrados vivos na Líbia

Ainda não percebi porque não há uma intervenção militar.

"UN rights council recommends Libya exclusion"

The UN Human Rights Council unanimously called Friday for Libya to be suspended from the body and for a probe into violations by the regime, in a dramatic session which witnessed the defection of Tripoli's envoy.