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March 19, 2013 by Libya 360°
NATO Proxies Using “Libyan” WMD’s in Syria?
Editor’s Comment:
Yesterday I published an article by Alexander Mezyaev, “Libya: Two Years After Imperialist Military Intervention“, where he states,“On March 14 a special United Nations session marked the two year anniversary of NATO’s aggression, a new resolution was adopted. The authors were Australia, Luxemburg, Morocco, Ruanda, Great Britain, France and the United States.“
The same UN-NATO agenda that destroyed Libya is now attempting to repeat that scenario in Syria. These weapons are not flooding into Syria from Libya due to any negligence on NATO’s part. They are destined for Syria. Libya had no chemical weapons until NATO’s “intervention”.
Please read it carefully because these revelations are critical to understanding the scope of the agenda and the role of the UN in perpetrating these crimes. I quote:
“[S]ignificant steps taken aimed at liberalization of arms supplies. In important adjustments to the arms embargo, the Council lifted the requirement that the Sanctions Committee approve supplies of non-lethal military equipment and assistance for humanitarian or protective use.(3) It also removed the need for notification to the Committee of non-lethal military equipment being supplied to the Libyan Government for security or disarmament assistance, and urged the Government to improve the monitoring of arms supplied to it, including through the issuance of end-user certificates.(4)
At that the resolution concedes there are constant breeches of the rules according to which the measures are to be implemented. The arms from Libya are spreading out across the whole continent. On December 16 the government announced the closure of borders with Algeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan. The southern areas of the country were declared “closed military zones”. By the way, Mali is not the only victim of arms supplies coming from Libya. The Darfur conflict may get sparked again: Sudan says the arms supplies to the rebels have significantly increased. Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, acknowledged he supplied with the Libyan “revolutionaries” with weapons in 2011 to topple Gaddafi.(5)“
NATO has an arms smuggling center established in Benghazi. The use of WMDs against civilians in Libya (most recently in Bani Walid) and in Syria, is not new either.See the following articles as evidence:
Alexandra Valiente
Editor of Syria 360°
After a 10 year war and occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million
people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of
the nation possessing “weapons of mass destruction,” (WMDs), it is outrageous
hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in
Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the
Syrian people.
At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting
Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city
of Aleppo.
Aleppo is located near the Syrian-Turkish border. Had Libya’s looted
stockpiles of chemical weapons been shipped to Syria, they would have passed
through Turkey along with weapons sent from Libya by the US and thousands of
Libyan terrorists who are admittedly operating inside Syria, and would most
likely be used to target cities like Aleppo.
Worse yet, any chemical weapons imported into the country would implicate
NATO either directly or through gross negligence, as the weapons would have
passed through NATO-member Turkey, past US CIA agents admittedly operating along
the border and alongside Western-backed terrorists inside Syria.
Libya’s WMD’s are in Terrorist Hands
Libya’s arsenal had fallen into the hands of sectarian extremists with NATO
assistance in 2011 during the culmination of efforts to overthrow the North
African nation. Since then, Libya’s militants led by commanders of Al-Qaeda’s
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) have armed sectarian extremists across the
Arab World, from as far West as Mali, to as far East as Syria.
In addition to small arms, heavier weapons are also making their way through
this extensive network. The Washington Post in their article, “Libyan missiles
on the loose,” reported:
“Two former CIA counterterrorism officers told me last week that technicians
recently refurbished 800 of these man-portable air-defense systems (known as
MANPADS) – some for an African jihadist group called Boko Haram that is often
seen as an ally of al-Qaeda – for possible use against commercial jets flying
into Niger, Chad and perhaps Nigeria.”
While undoubtedly these weapons are also headed to Niger, Chad, and perhaps
Nigeria, they are veritably headed to Syria. Libyan LIFG terrorists are
confirmed to be flooding into Syria from Libya. In November 2011, the Telegraph
in their article, “Leading Libyan Islamist met Free Syrian Army opposition
group,” would report:
Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former
leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, “met with Free Syrian Army leaders
in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey,” said a military official working
with Mr. Belhadj. “Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim Libyan president) sent him
there.”
Another Telegraph article, “Libya’s new rulers offer weapons to Syrian
rebels,” would admit
Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya’s new authorities on Friday,
aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against President Bashar
al-Assad’s regime, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials,
the Syrians requested “assistance” from the Libyan representatives and were
offered arms, and potentially volunteers.
“There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan fighters to
Syria,” said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of anonymity. “There is a
military intervention on the way. Within a few weeks you will see.”
Later that month, some 600 Libyan terrorists would be reported to have
entered Syria to begin combat operations and have been flooding into the country
ever since.
Washington Post’s reported “loose missiles” in Libya are now turning up on
the battlefield in Syria. While outfits like the Guardian, in their article
“Arms and the Manpads: Syrian rebels get anti-aircraft missiles,” are reporting
the missiles as being deployed across Syria, they have attempted to downplay any
connection to Libya’s looted arsenal and the Al-Qaeda terrorists that have
imported them. In contrast, Times has published open admissions from terrorists
themselves admitting they are receiving heavy weapons including surface-to-air
missiles from Libya.
In Time’s article, “Libya’s Fighters Export Their Revolution to Syria,” it is
reported:
Some Syrians are more frank about the assistance the Libyans are providing.
“They have heavier weapons than we do,” notes Firas Tamim, who has traveled in
rebel-controlled areas to keep tabs on foreign fighters. “They brought these
weapons to Syria, and they are being used on the front lines.” Among the arms
Tamim has seen are Russian-made surface-to-air missiles, known as the SAM 7.
Libyan fighters largely brush off questions about weapon transfers, but in
December they claimed they were doing just that. “We are in the process of
collecting arms in Libya,” a Libyan fighter in Syria told the French daily Le
Figaro. “Once this is done, we will have to find a way to bring them here.”
Clearly NATO’s intervention in Libya has left a vast, devastating arsenal in
the hands of sectarian extremists, led by US State Department, United Nations,
and the UK Home Office listed terrorist organization LIFG, that is now exporting
these weapons and militants to NATO’s other front in Syria. It is confirmed that
both Libyan terrorists and weapons are crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, with
NATO assistance, and it is now clear that heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft
weapons have crossed the border too.
The Guardian reported in their November 2011 article, “Libyan chemical
weapons stockpiles intact, say inspectors,” that:
Libya’s stockpiles of mustard gas and chemicals used to make weapons are
intact and were not stolen during the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi,
weapons inspectors have said.
But also reported that:
The abandonment or disappearance of some Gaddafi-era weapons has prompted
concerns that such firepower could erode regional security if it falls into the
hands of Islamist militants or rebels active in north Africa. Some fear they
could be used by Gaddafi loyalists to spread instability in Libya.
Last month Human Rights Watch urged Libya’s ruling national transitional
council to take action over large numbers of heavy weapons, including
surface-to-air missiles, it said were lying unguarded more than two months after
Gaddafi was overthrown.
On Wednesday the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said the UN would send
experts to Libya to help ensure nuclear material and chemical weapons did not
fall into the wrong hands.
And while inspectors claim that Libya’s chemical weapons are in the
“government’s” hands and not “extremists’,” it is clear by the Libyan
government’s own admission, that they themselves are involved in sending
fighters and weapons into Syria.
It remains to be seen where these chemical weapons came from. Should they
appear to be from Libya’s arsenal, NATO, especially the US and Turkey, would be
implicated in supplying Al-Qaeda terrorists with WMDs, the very scenario the
West has been paralyzed in fear over for the past 10 years, has given up its
liberties, and spilled the blood of thousands of its soldiers to prevent.
The implications of Western-backed terrorists using chemical weapons,
regardless of their origin, have cost the West its already floundering
legitimacy, jeopardized its institutions, and have further shaken the confidence
of the many shareholders invested in them – politically, financially,
industrially, and strategically.
Such shareholders would be wise to begin looking for exits and cultivating
alternatives outside the Wall Street-London international order.
TC/SL
Use of chemical weapons, “first act” by opposition interim government
Residents and medics transport a Syrian soldier,
wounded in Aleppo chemical attack to a hospital on march 19, 2013.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi has described militants’ use of
chemical weapons as the “first act” by the so-called opposition interim
government.
The Syrian minister also said that Turkey and Qatar, which support militants
fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, bore “legal, moral
and political responsibility” for the chemical attack in the northern city of
Aleppo on Tuesday.
At least 25 people were killed and 86 others were injured after militants
fired rocks containing “poisonous gases” into Aleppo’s Khan al-Assal village.
Women and children are reported to be among the victims.
According to a Reuters photographer in Aleppo, victims of attack were
suffering breathing problems.
“I saw mostly women and children. They (witnesses) said that people were
suffocating in the streets and the air smelt strongly of chlorine,” he said
adding that “people were dying in the streets and in their houses.”
Foreign-backed militants, who had threatened to use chemical weapons against
the army government forces and Assad supporters a few months ago, have denied
using chemical weapons and have accused government forces of being behind the
attack.
The attack comes hours after Syria’s opposition National Coalition elected
Ghassan Hitto, a former US-based IT executive, as prime minister for what it
called an interim government.
HM/JR/SL
‘Syrians snub opposition deadly agenda’
Published
on 19 Mar 2013
A political commentator says the opposition in Syria does not have a
parliament to support a PM, but is merely paid personnel doing the bidding of
the US imperial agenda.
He also added that the foreign-backed militants were pursuing a deadly agenda
across the Arab country.
In the background of this Syria’s foreign-backed opposition has picked a
prime minister with a grand total of 35 votes. The people of Syria had no say in
the matter. The new prime minister Ghassan Hito is an American citizen of Syrian
descent having lived in the US for decades and worked apparently as an IT
Manager. The appointment of Opposition PM comes as militants have for the first
time used chemical weapons against Syrian forces with fatal consequences and
also at a time when Britain and France are pushing the EU to lift an arms
embargo on Syria to allow major weapons to be imported into the hands of
insurgents.
Press TV has interviewed Ralph Schoenman, political commentator, Berkeley
about this issue.
Chemical Weapons Attack On Aleppo by Rebels Syria
Uprooted Palestinian
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