Three weeks before a general election set for June 25, Libya is at the point of disintegration. Militias supporting rival interim prime ministers are battling it out for control of Libya’s energy resources in the east of the country and its huge currency reserves based on oil and gas. There is the very real possibility of a military coup and civil war in a country already devastated by the NATO-led war to overthrow Col. Muammar Gaddafi, followed by three years of infighting among hundreds of rival militias... The private intelligence firm Stratfor in a March 19 analysis noted that “France, the US and NATO had sent small groups of technical experts to help with military and intelligence organisation and structuring, including some military training in Libya.” In other words, under the guise of “training”, the major powers already have boots on the ground in Libya. Statfor noted that at the same time, Western intelligence agencies were “actively monitoring Libyan territory and collecting data on militant movements, including surveillance with unarmed, unmanned aerial vehicles.” It said that US special operations forces in a covert operation had captured suspected Al Qaeda member Anas al-Libi. Warning that such covert operations had only limited usefulness, Stratfor said that “A much more coordinated, comprehensive security plan for the region needs to be in place to constrain regional militias such as Al Qaeda affiliates.”
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:35:59 +0000
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