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The Libya Conspiracy THE LIBYA CONSPIRACY A Definitive Guide to the Lies of the Libya ‘Intervention’ & the Crime of the Century By S. Awan This work is dedicated to Muammar Gaddafi, to the true people of Libya, and to all the victims of an immoral conspiracy. ‘The Libya Conspiracy’ By S. Awan ‘The Burning Blogger of Bedlam’ Copyright, S. Awan 2015 All rights reserved 4 CONTENTS Introduction Gaddafi’s Libya: Before the Crisis The Obama Letters February 2011: The Beginning of the End Gaddafi Faces the Media\ Collapse of a Nation: How it (Really) Started The 'Day of Rage' Ultra-Violence & the State of Terror Peaceful, Pro-Democracy’ Protesters Bernard Levy Mass Deception: Enter the Corporate Media The Media Deception Campaign Saif Gaddafi The Russian Satellite Data Utilising Social Media: The Propaganda Masterstroke Persona Management Software The You-Tube Strategy A Nation 'Destabilised by Al-Jazeera' The Brink of the Abyss: “We are the People of Libya!” Rebels, Mercenaries, Terrorists, Proxy Militias 'Everyone is Terrified' Al-Qaeda's Day in the Sun 'Until the Judgement Day Comes...' Billion-Dollar Mercenaries “Drugged and Supporting the Devil”: A Word About ‘Captagon’… The Psychology of Youth/Guantanamo Bay The UN Resolution and NATO’s Imperialist War UN Resolution 1973 The UN Charter The War on Libya Begins ‘Disguised as Arabs’ – The ‘Fifth Element’ in Libya Boots on the Ground Special Forces, MI6, Qatar & Criminal Warfare The 2010 Unconventional Warfare Manual of the US Military The Corporate Media Fiction & the ‘Crimes of the Regime’ The Benghazi Narrative The Viagra Stories The African Mercenaries Amnesty International & International Crisis Group BBC, Al-Jazeera, CNN & co Go to Town The Information War Timeline of Destruction: March – October 2011 Operation Destroy Libya NATO War Crimes ‘Criminals and Barbarians’ – NATO’s Civilian Casualties 'Piles of Bodies...' The Fall of Tripoli Operation Target Gaddafi The Osama bin Laden Ruse The 'Nazi-Fascist Role' 5 Gaddafi's Last Stand The End of Gaddafi & the End of Libya The ‘Largest Demonstration in World History’ Sirte & the Brutal Murder of Gaddafi End-Game: The Gaddafi Check-Mate Citizens Commission on Benghazi Report Further Information to Convict Hilary Clinton, Sarkosy & Possibly Others of Murder... The 'White-Flag' Convoy The 'Return to Barbarism' Sarkozy and the French Connection ‘Too Dangerous’ For a Trial Three Decades of 'Operation Assassinate Gaddafi' After Gaddafi: The ‘National Transitional Council’ Ethnic Cleansing, Torture, Persecution & Murder Who the 'Opposition' Leaders Really Were Revolution or 'Counter-Revolution? Jalil's Confession The War in Syria Libya NOW: A ‘Failed State’ Warlords, Terrorists, Rival Militias, & No Government Black Libyans, Christians & Minorities ‘Islamic State’, Sharia Law, the Persecution of Women 2011 'Civil War' as 'Battle of the Sexes' Mass Migration & the Mediterranean The Case for the Prosecution: The Crime & the Criminals Obama, Hilary, David Cameron & the Whole Mafia The Mass Media Warfare The Pentagon Tapes Decades of Propaganda Lockerbie The Berlin Disco Bombing The Failure of the UN The Motive: Why Libya Was Targeted Libyan Oil Gaddafi’s ‘Great Man-Made River’ The Gold Dinar & African Development The Gold Heist of the Century The Lockerbie Reimbursements The ‘World Revolution’ Gaddafi, the Liability The ‘Islamic State’, the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ & the ‘Perpetual War’ CONCLUSIONS We Have ‘Become the Devil’ Dangerous Precedents for the Future of the World What We Can Do: Our Only Real Power… The Final Word – ‘Here’s to the Good Guys’ Gaddafi’s 2009 Speech to the UN Full list of Links/References __________________ 6 “Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. Even if we do not win immediately, we will give a lesson to future generations that choosing to protect the nation is an honour and selling it out is the greatest betrayal that history will remember forever despite the attempts of the others to tell you otherwise.” Muammar Gaddafi Introduction First an introduction: I have been working on compiling this piece for well over a year. I had, in fact, been researching and studying all the available information since 2011 when the crisis in Libya, the collapse of the country, the murder of Muammar Gaddafi and the role played by our governments, NATO, the UN and the corporate media all made it painfully, vividly evident that we are the collective victims of a vast and immoral deception that has major implications for every one of us and the entire world. The postscript to the NATO intervention in Libya is still going on now. Europe is facing a mass migration crisis, while thousands of desperate people are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. Terrorists and extremist militias are flourishing like never before in history and are using the fallen Libya as a staging area to wage terror on multiple nations. We are being drawn towards the brink of a continent-spanning crisis and sectarian 'Clash of Civilisations' that may eventually engulf the entire world. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed amid several collapsing nations, with Libya itself now declared 'a failed state' in mainstream commentary. And most of it goes back to 2011, the NATO-led 'humanitarian intervention' in Libya and the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi. 7 All of this, coupled with the lies *still* being told even now by our political leaders about the 2011 intervention, convinced me that a thorough, comprehensive and clear chronicle of what really did happen in Libya in 2011 still needs to be laid down. We need to see through the fog of confusion and misinformation; need to understand what happened, how it happened, and *why* it happened; who caused it, who planned it and what the intention was. This text you are now reading is an attempt to accomplish that in clear, unambiguous terms. Why, you might ask, do you need to understand what happened in Libya in 2011? Because understanding what happened in Libya means understanding the nature of the world; it means understanding who the criminals are, understanding what the forces and alliances are, and most of all understanding how the criminal conspiracy works, the reality of how the world now works, how our governments operate, how the media and information works, what our nations stand for, and who and what it is you validate when you vote our leaders and officials into office. Because this isn't just about Libya; it was Syria after that, and it could be any of us in any society at any time, even tomorrow. And we all need to know how. Please consider this document therefore a comprehensive resource for understanding what happened in Libya in its true, full context and what it means. Needless to say, this is a very comprehensive, very detailed text: it had to be. Because there should be no ambiguity, no room for doubt and no space for the deliberate lies and propaganda of the conspirators and their mass-media accomplices to continue to hold any weight. Some of you may already be well versed in some of the information, but will nevertheless come across information in this document that may be new to you. Meanwhile those of you who aren't so versed in the information yet are the main reason this has been compiled. Please read and share this text far and wide. This text will demonstrate clearly that; (1) the NATO powers are War Criminals that need to be brought to account for their actions in 2011, (2) that key officials of the governments of the US, the UK, France, several European nations and the Gulf States need to be tried in an international court for these crimes, including Hilary Clinton, Nicolas Sarkosy, and David Cameron, (3) that the alliance of governments, corporations and military agencies that currently control the Western world are morally bankrupt and need to be thoroughly investigated as criminals. And (4) that the mainstream/corporate media and news broadcasters are entirely complicit in aiding and abetting an international criminal conspiracy and should also be either investigated or boycotted. 8 In doing so, this article will also demonstrate; (1) that there was no 'Civil War' in Libya in 2011, (2) that there were no civilian 'demonstrations' against Gaddafi or the Libyan government in 2011, (3) that wholesale lies and fabrications were concocted by our governments and by the corporate news-media and that neither Gaddafi nor the Libyan regime was guilty of any of the 'crimes' it was accused of, (4) that NATO and the Western governments deliberately murdered Muammar Gaddafi and installed Al-Qaeda into Libyan cities, (5) that the entire operation was illegal under international law, and (6) that NATO, France, Britain and America, committed mass murder in Libya. This document will also clearly demonstrate *how* it was all done; how the corporate/mainstream media organisations operate to service the illegal agendas of the immoral and criminal international conspirators, how the relatively modern mediums of social-media and the Internet are manipulated to play their part, and how the UN is used to validate illegal and immoral conspiracies on behalf of its dictatorial controllers. In order to present this comprehensive case, I have structured this analysis like a presentation in a court of law, in which I will briefly act as both defense lawyer for the late Muammar Gaddafi (who himself was never allowed a trial) and the former Libyan government and as prosecution lawyer against the criminals responsible for what has been the crime of the century; a crime for which they will never stand trial or be held to account for.
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