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Bomb! Destroy! Loot!
We've seen this story over and over again. Bomb! Destroy! Loot! Protecting civilians? What a joke!
Flying its "humanitarian flag", the UK was the first to surround oil-rich Libya with a naval blockade before the US led NATO forces and their hired gun mercenaries bombed and looted it and murdered its defiant leader.
Libya is the largest oil producer in Africa with oil reserves larger than Saudi Arabia. Gaddafi was planning to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar and allow African nations to share the wealth.
Saddam Hussein tried to do the same in Iraq and he met with the same fate. BOMB. DESTROY. LOOT. The message is clear. Don't mess with the MAFIA.
As Gaddafi's mutilated corpse rots in an anonymous grave and the guns have been silenced, a new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on the shores of Tripoli.
Western security, construction and infrastructure companies that see profit-taking opportunities receding in Iraq and Afghanistan are now feasting on Libya.
HUMANITARIAN VULTURES
A week before Colonel Qaddafi’s death on Oct. 20, a delegation from 80 French companies arrived in Tripoli to meet officials of the Transitional National Council, the puppet interim government.
While Qaddafi’s body was still on public display in a shopping mall, a British venture, Trango Special Projects, pitched its support services to companies looking to cash in. “
The company offered rooms at its Tripoli villa and transport “by our discreet mixed British and Libyan security team.” Its discretion does not come cheaply. The price for a 10-minute ride from the airport, for which the ordinary cab fare is about $5, was listed at 500 British pounds, or about $800.
“There is a gold rush of sorts taking place right now,” said David Hamod, president and chief executive officer of the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce. “And the Europeans and Asians are way ahead of us. I’m getting calls daily from members of the business community in Libya.
Phil Dwyer, director of SCN Resources Group, a Virginia contracting company that opened an office in Tripoli said, “But my feeling is those who are in favor” with the transitional council “are going to get the nod from a business point of view.”
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