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The worst-kept secret of the Libyan campaign is out - the SAS are busily hunting down Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, having orchestrated the rebels' stunning advance on Tripoli. So much for David Cameron s insistence that there would be no British boots on the ground in this conflict.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100102068/libya-is-the-new-afghanistan/



Call To Probe NATO Commanders For War Crimes

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged the International Criminal Court to investigate Nato commanders for possible crimes against humanity during the organisation s bombing operations in Libya.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/25/probe-nato-commanders-motlanthe-urges-court



'Gaddafi switching to guerrilla mode':

Strategically speaking, some analysts find the rebels advance has left them spread thinly and therefore vulnerable to a counter-attack by loyalist forces.

http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-guerrilla-tripoli-strategy-093/



World powers rush in to loot Libya

By unfreezing assets and offering loans, governments from London to Beijing are extending 'help' to the 'new' Libya.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/08/2011824133818320979.html



Special Operations Clear Paths For Rebel Forces Attack On Sirte

By Christopher Stephen at Kilometre 60, eastern Libya

British and French special forces are on the ground in eastern Libya, calling in air strikes and helping co-ordinate rebel units as they prepare to assault Sirte, according to a rebel officer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28950.htm



NATO Destroys Yet Another Country

By M D Nalapat

The use of military power for commercial advantage ought to have vanished when the 19th century did. Its reappearance in Iraq and Libya is a worrisome sign that NATO has not learnt the lessons of history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28952.htm



NATO Nations Set to Reap Spoils of Libya War

By Rachel Shabi

In the context of responsibility for what happens next in Libya, an anonymous British official told the Economist that NATO s involvement in the Libyan uprising means that: 'Now we own it.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28955.htm



In hunt for Kadhafi, US has crucial, low-profile role

US intelligence agencies have a crucial role to play in tracking down Libya s Moamer Kadhafi but are anxious to keep a low profile, current and former officials said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/hunt-kadhafi-us-crucial-low-profile-role-141528552.html


From Information Clearing House

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Getting Libya 'governed right'

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

08/24/11

All of the rhetoric about opening Libya to 'free trade' and aiding in its 'development,' in the rebuilding process, will amount to big government contracts and access to a fresh cache of resources for privileged, Western multinationals. That framework is decidedly opposite what market anarchists mean by free markets. For the political class, with its banking cartel financing the whole enterprise of occupation, there nothing to do but cheerlead while people die. After all, Gadhafi is such a bad guy...

http://c4ss.org/content/8133



Crude analysis of Libyan liberation

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

08/25/11

And guess what? It turns out that companies from the Western countries that eagerly rained tons of death-metal on the Libyan people are being given the inside track to the post-Gaddafi gusher. Meanwhile, countries that had urged caution in humanely intervening with thousands upon thousands of bombs, drones and missiles to, er, protect human life now face relegation to the outer darkness.'

http://tinyurl.com/3eu9mvm



About that war

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

08/26/11

The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history s greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America s Constitution...

http://bit.ly/oH6iGI


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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