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‘US want share of Libya success’
Published: 18 October, 2011, 22:27
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with Libyan interim premier Mahmud Jibril (unseen) in Tripoli on October 18, 2011, as Libya's new rulers try to crush the last pockets of resistance by fighters loyal to ousted leader Moamer Kadhaf (AFP Photo / Mahmud Turkia)
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US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says Washington wants to see the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi captured or killed. Professor Paul Sheldon Foote says that the Obama administration believes this killing would be a justified one.
The statement came during her surprise visit to Libya at a meeting with senior members of the country's National Transitional Council.
She has also pledged millions of dollars in new aid, including medical care for wounded fighters and additional assistance to secure weaponry, which many fear could fall into the hands of extremists.
Most of the new aid money will go toward finding and destroying thousands of Gaddafi-era shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles that are unaccounted for since the fighting began.
"The United States was proud to stand for you in your fight for freedom and we will continue to stand with you as you continue this journey," Clinton proclaimed during talks with National Transitional Council Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril and interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.
Addressing leaders of the interim body, Clinton noted that the fighting wasn't over yet but vowed that NATO would continue to protect civilians as long as the threat continues.
Clinton is the most senior American official to visit Libya since the uprising against Gaddafi began in February and only the second secretary of state to visit in the past 50 years.
Speaking of the legitimacy of killing Colonel Gaddafi, Professor Paul Sheldon Foote from California State University says that if it is okay for Americans to kill current leaders, they will not have any problems with killing former ones.
“Warmongers in the Obama administration will argue that he [Gaddafi] is a former leader and therefore he’s fair game,” he declared. “Don’t forget who Hilary Clinton is. In 2008 as a candidate for president she threatened to kill every man, woman and child and turn Iran into a waste basket.”
Foote believes that behind this unannounced visit there is the desire of the Obama administration to put some American ‘fingerprints’ on the success.
“In addition to saying that they’ve killed Bin Laden, they want to say next year in Obama’s campaign for re-election that they’ve brought a great victory in Libya,” he said.
Keith Harmon Snow, a war correspondent and independent investigator, believes that killing Gaddafi would be an illegal targeted assassination and that there is obviously a hidden agenda behind Hilary Clinton’s apparently spontaneous visit.
“There is a lot of fighting in Libya at present and almost everything we’ve been told, everything we’ve seen, is false. We are getting just a complete propaganda story of what’s going on in Libya,” he said. “Why is she there? Clearly to make it look to the American public like we are in absolute control of Libya. Cover up the atrocities, put a white, clean, shiny, happy, lovely face on the death and destruction.”
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I hear they wanted to carve Hillary's image on Mt Rushmore but they couldn't find two faces.
Where are the feminists now?
It makes no difference which sex or race is in power. Hilary Clinton is a war criminals just like her counter part Susan Rice, US Amb. to the U.N.
Same with Obama. Many thought that cause of his African heritage he would have been more attentive to the cries of African countries and other colonial victims. Instead his conduct is just as criminal as his white predecessors.
We need good people such as MLK, Indira Gandhi, Aldo Moro, Patrice Lumumba,Mother Theresa, Tecumseh,Salvador Allende, etc...regardless of their sex and race.
Surely, these monsters are no ones friends, not even to themselves, just look at how evil they are treating each other, their sick greed and selfishness will not even allow them to help one another when in trouble, yet they are ready to bomb away Billions if not Trillions to destroy. Greece are not 'civilians' so until they need to be bombed then ‘UN’ can pass resolution 'bomb them all' to surrender.
That woman Clinton, is totally INSANE like many of his bloodthirsty hawks gangs, the Cheneys, McCains, Bushs, Rumsfelds, in fact the ‘War Street’ and Banks that cash in weapon sell. Else what normal human will rejoice at killing unarmed person that few months earlier was doing all they asked him to.
America is already finished as a super power or empire... They should now face their own revolution coming.