The Illegal War on Libya

No military campaign in recent years has been undertaken under as near total a media blackout as the Libya war. For that reason alone, any book that sheds light on the Libya war is welcome.This book is particularly distinguished by the fact that it includes essays from a large number of writers who were observing what was happening in Libya in 2011. In many cases, the writers were actually in Libya observing first hand what was happening, and can describe events in graphic detail.But in addition to reportage, the book contains several essays on the political and historical background to the NATO attack. The book also covers the media blackout during the attack.The writers in this book are not affiliated with major media organisations or with well funded think tanks. Nor can it be argued that they are funded by Gaddafi as he was dead and his administration destroyed when the book was published. This means that the writers in this book are independent in a way that few other journalists or commentators on this subject are. Indeed, one cannot claim to know what actually happened in Libya in 2011 unless one is familiar with the work of the writers in this book.All the above make this book the definitive publication on the 2011 Libya war. It is an essential addition to the libraries of those who are interested in international relations, history or the media. Furthermore, it is required reading for those who are concerned for their own country's safety, as the events in Libya could happen elsewhere.My one complaint is that there are many typographical errors in the book. I would recommend better proofreading prior to issuing a reprint.

"This book will open Your eyes, it will drive Your soul mad on how much we are blinded on daily basis by fools from CNN to BCC, from Blairs, Camarons to Obama and Sarkozy.

Analysed from a multitude of perspectives, this is required reading for anyone researching Libya in trying to understand the events leading to its destruction and the west' silence in the associated war crimes. Also obtain The Green Book free online.

This book is essential reading for those who want to know why Libya was destroyed and Colonel Gaddafi and his family assassinated and by whom. I along with many others knew something was seriously wrong with what the MSM was telling us when I first saw film of a black man being horrifically lynched in Benghazi in May 2011 by people the BBC described as `doctors, dentists and students'.The contrast between what we were being told by the government, NATO, the MSM and what was being revealed on the internet could not have been starker. Virtually everything we were told about Libya and Gaddafi were lies and the MSM is as complicit in the destruction of Libya and the genocide of so many of its people as are David Cameron, Nikolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama.In a nutshell, Colonel Gaddafi would not play ball and his pan-African policies could not be tolerated by those who see Africa as a vast source of wealth for themselves. Gaddafi was set up by the people who control the West and who was it they used to deliver the Judas kiss? none other than the war criminal and traitor Tony Blair.I express great thanks to Cynthia McKinney and all the contributors to this book.

Ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has produced a splendid study of the illegal NATO assault on Libya. In 2011 she took a delegation to Libya to monitor NATO's so-called humanitarian intervention. This collection includes personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO attack on the civilian population. Many of the contributors examine the huge NATO propaganda campaign to persuade us that the war was just. All Libyans got free health care, education, electricity, water, training, rehabilitation, housing assistance, disability and old-age benefits, and interest-free state loans. They also got generous subsidies to study abroad, buy a new car, practically free petrol, and help when they married. Literacy rose from 20 per cent to 80 per cent. Libya's hospitals were some of the region's best.Colonel Gaddafi proposed to create a gold-backed dinar, a new all-African currency to challenge the euro and the dollar, and a new development bank to free Africa from IMF domination.The USA, Britain and France sent in `special forces' to start the `rising'. The NATO attack on Libya was not the result of a revolt but intended to cause a revolt. The intent was always to destroy an independent-minded government, destroy its exemplary achievements, and steal Libya's oil and gold reserves. The US government's Biden Plan aimed to attack and divide Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Somalia.NATO set up, not a no-fly zone, but a NATO-fly zone. Seven months of NATO bombing, from March to October 2011, 26,500 sorties, by British, US, French, Norwegian, Danish and Canadian planes, destroyed everything the people of Libya had built in the previous 40 years - the highest standard of living in Africa, the water supply, the electricity grid, its national health service, and tens of thousands of modern apartment buildings. The bombing also killed at least 2,000 civilians.The NATO powers abused international law, and created the legal fiction of a `Responsibility to Protect'. They used compliant, US-funded `human rights' NGOs to back their assault.The NATO powers had used Al-Qaeda, the CIA-run network of Arab and Afghan mercenaries, against Serbia. They used it against Libya and now they are using it against Syria. They ran the terrorist Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, relabelling it `the rebels', and then the `Tripoli Military Council'.The NATO powers still want to achieve the same destruction in Syria. They are still using the same tactics of arming militias, including Al-Qaeda fanatics, sending in CIA sabotage teams, and creating social chaos.Popular opposition to another illegal war has, for now, stopped an overt NATO aggression against Syria. But the Cameron, Obama and Hollande governments are still waging covert war against Syria, still backing the Al-Qaeda terrorists.