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NATO’s covert hand crucial in rebel advance on Tripoli
Published: 23 August, 2011, 03:52
Libyans inspect the damage at a factory targeted by NATO air strikes (AFP Photo / Colin Summers)
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Though NATO provided only air support and instruction for the rebels’ attack on the Libyan capital, Russia’s envoy to the alliance says that despite no direct involvement in the ground fighting, NATO’s role cannot be underestimated.
During the months of fighting in Libya, NATO provided crucial assistance to the rebels far beyond air strikes on Gaddafi's key communications and weapons facilities. Surveillance, private contractors and military instructors have helped to turn rebel groups into a force able to storm Tripoli.
Moreover, the aid included logistic technicians, security advisers and forward air controllers for the rebel army, as well as intelligence operatives, damage assessment analysts and other experts, the Associated Press news agency reported, citing a diplomat at NATO headquarters in Brussels who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Russia’s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also says that though NATO forces were not involved in the storming of Tripoli and other Libyan cities, it was done with the help of military instructors and so-called “soldiers of fortune” – former NATO soldiers who are now working with some unofficial security forces and security firms.
“But if you ask a direct question, whether NATO takes part in the ground operation, or whether major Western forces have taken part in storming Libyan cities, the answer you will get is of course 'no,' which is no surprise,” Rogozin said. “They'll never confirm what is becoming evident to everyone else.”
Russia’s envoy to NATO insisted that the alliance twisted its UN mandate in Libya to pursue its agenda.
“UN Security Council resolution 1973 gave quite broad possibilities to international organizations, and countries,” he declared. “The power to execute the resolution wasn't given to any sole organization. NATO for all intents and purposes usurped this right. So if there is a mandate, they will execute it as they see fit. If there isn't one, they'll grant it to themselves.”
“Or on the request of Libya's democratic government, they'll ensure their military presence in this country,” he warned. “They are quite shrewd and experienced people, and they'll always find a way to ensure at least a fig leaf of legitimacy for their presence in Libya.”
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Ghaddáfi is in position as black people of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) who in 1936 faced with bows and javelins Mussolini´s tanks. Simillarly Ghaddáfi´s tanks and troops are quite powerless against Rasmussen´s airstrickes and so-called rebels can easily drive with their some pick-ups towards Tripoli. On the other hand it means, that Rasmussen is neo-Duce and NATO is neo-Wehrmacht...
NATO's deep involvement on the ground was obvious to any intelligent person from the beginning, both by reading between the lines of any (flawed or non-flawed) news source, and by watching rebel videos where obscure masked man looked way out of place. They accused the regime of using mercenaries (which was never proved) but they were the real mercenaries: fighting for big money and contracts, with no moral. Too bad the majority of western people are stupid and did not understand. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers, in this case of millions of westerners demonstrating in the streets showing solidarity to unknown so-called rebels: it's the "peaceful & stupid" western demonstrators who legitimated killings and plunder by the foreign rebels and the international community (AKA the US-NATO axis).
Talking of NATO: I bet they are using their "social network hacking army" to vote down this piece of news.
It's a NATO war on Lybia. The French mainstream media even don't hide it. I wonder why does the Anglo-Saxon propaganda try to devert the information. And a little bit of information. There are actually hudreds of Bulgarian workers in Tripoli, who decided to stay there as they considered the warfare is less genocidal than the International Monetary Funds "humanitarian aid". While the Bulgarian regime, totally submitted to the US, has no explanation about being rejected by its own people.