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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 04:40 PM Apr 2016

Hillary sees Gaddafi's ouster as feather in her cap but it unleashed terror

Hillary Clinton still sees the 2011 Libyan “regime change” as a feather in her cap as Secretary of State, but the violent ouster of Muammar Gaddafi turned Libya into a badlands for Islamic terrorists who have spread their killing sprees far and wide, just as Gaddafi warned

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Since Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, Libya has exported thousands of its own extremists to support jihad in other countries. In Syria, one group of Libyan supporters of ISIS went by the name of Katibat al-Battar al Libi. One of its leaders was none other than Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected organizer of the recent Paris attacks.


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With the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails, we now know that she had learned from an adviser that France was stoking the uprising to impose a “new government of Libya to favor French firms and national interests, particularly regarding the oil industry in Libya.” France used humanitarian flights to shuttle executives from leading oil, construction and aerospace firms into the country to negotiate with the opposition so they could profit from the new order.

To this day, Clinton remains unapologetic about her strong advocacy of U.S. intervention. Yet Libya has become a lawless land fought over by 1,700 armed groups and militias. At least a third of the country’s population has been affected by the fighting and lacks adequate access to health services, according to the United Nations.

“Libya today — in spite of the expectations we had at the time of the revolution — it’s much, much worse,” one Mideast expert told PBS Frontline. “Criminality is skyrocketing. Insecurity is pervasive. There are no jobs. It’s hard to get food and electricity. There’s fighting, there’s fear. … I see very few bright spots.”




http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/01/how-gaddafis-ouster-unleashed-terror






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Hillary sees Gaddafi's ouster as feather in her cap but it unleashed terror (Original Post) snagglepuss Apr 2016 OP
yes, the torture and assassination of a captive quaddafi is something to be proud of restorefreedom Apr 2016 #1

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
1. yes, the torture and assassination of a captive quaddafi is something to be proud of
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 05:04 PM
Apr 2016

not to mention opening the door to isis and all their murdering rampages.

thank goodness she used good judgement to persuade a reluctant obama to go ahead with it and laughed about it afterwards.

just in case anyone is confused,
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