“After me, the Deluge.” That actually was Napoleon who said it.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting! > > I'm not a big Michael Scheuer fan, and I question the veracity of "some" > of the information in Dan Sanchez's article, but even assuming that only a > small portion of Sanchez's info is accurate and correct; it makes you > wonder; especially about the train of thought a couple of years ago within > the White House; the State Department, and theJoint Chiefs of Staff.... > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> *After Me, the Jihad: Gaddafi Tried to Warn the West, but Nobody Listened >> *Dan Sanchez >> January 15, 2016 >> >> *(ANTIMEDIA <http://theantimedia.org/>)* Before the French Revolution >> and its Reign of Terror, Louis XV predicted >> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apr%C3%A8s%20moi%20le%20d%C3%A9luge>, >> “After me, the Deluge.” Before being overthrown, Libya’s secular dictator >> tried to warn the West of a new Reign of Terror, essentially foretelling, >> “After me, the Jihad.” >> >> This was disclosed with the recent release of phone conversations >> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12086505/Tony-Blairs-phone-conversations-with-Colonel-Gaddafi-revealed.html> >> from early 2011 between Muammar Gaddafi and former British Prime Minister >> Tony Blair. >> >> The West was then gearing up to use unrest in Libya as a pretext for >> military intervention and regime change. Gaddafi desperately tried to >> convey through Blair the folly of such a war, pleading that he was trying >> to defend Libya from Al Qaeda, which had set up base in the country. He >> said: >> >> >> >> *“They have managed to get arms and terrify people. people can’t leave >> their homes… It’s a jihad situation. They have arms and are terrorising >> people in the street.” *Gaddafi’s warning went unheeded, and NATO, led >> by the U.S. and France, launched an air war that toppled Libya’s >> government. Later that year, Gaddafi (himself a brutal oppressor, like all >> heads of state) was forced out of a drainage pipe, and then beaten, >> sodomized, and shot in the street by a mob. His corpse was then draped over >> the hood of a car. >> >> U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had done more than any >> single person to advance the Libya War >> <http://scotthorton.org/stress/2015/12/04/washington-times-series-on-libya-february-2015/>, >> was informed of Gaddafi’s death while on camera. Fancying herself a modern >> Caesar, she chortled, “ We came, we saw, he died! >> <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/19/flashback_2011_hillary_clinton_laughs_about_killing_moammar_gaddafi_we_came_we_saw_he_died.html> >> ” >> >> Since then, Gaddafi has been proven tragically right. As Libya descended >> into civil war and failed-state chaos, jihadi groups connected to Al Qaeda >> conquered much of the country. Libya underwent the same American >> “liberation” that had already befallen Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia and >> would soon be visited on Syria and Yemen. >> >> Shortly after Gaddafi’s overthrow, some of the now-rampant jihadis helped >> the CIA run guns from Benghazi >> <http://www.salon.com/2015/05/28/the_benghazi_outrage_we_actually_should_be_talking_about/> >> to fellow jihadis in Syria. >> >> Benghazi had been a rebel stronghold. The Obama administration claimed a >> Gaddafi-perpetrated “genocide” was imminent in that city, using that claim >> as the chief justification for the war. There was zero indication of such >> an impending atrocity. But there *was* ample evidence of an Al Qaeda >> presence in Benghazi, as Gaddafi tried to tell Blair, saying that members >> had >> >> *“…managed to set up local stations and in Benghazi have spread the >> thoughts and ideas of al Qaeda.” *After the regime change, on September >> 11, 2012, the jihadis turned on their U.S. allies in Benghazi, sacked the >> U.S. diplomatic compound, and murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens. >> >> Now ISIS has spread throughout Libya. Just days ago, ISIS perpetrated a >> truck bombing that killed dozens at a Libyan police academy >> <http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/gaddafis-warnings-to-blair-have-been-proven-by-todays-attack-on-libyan-police-training-centre/> >> in Sirte, a former Gaddafi stronghold. Indeed, Gaddafi informed Blair that >> jihadis had “*attacked police stations*” back in 2011. >> >> Gaddafi further warned Blair: >> >> >> >> *“They want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack >> Europe.” *And ISIS has, indeed, been battling to take control of Libya’s >> main oil ports >> <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-port-idUSKBN0UI18D20160104> >> in recent weeks. The group has also long been planning to use Libya as a >> base >> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11418966/Islamic-State-planning-to-use-Libya-as-gateway-to-Europe.html> >> from which to launch attacks on nearby southern Europe. ISIS did strike >> Europe recently, most famously in Paris. >> >> And it was not just Gaddafi personally who had been ringing such alarms >> to the Western powers thirsting for his blood. His intelligence officers >> produced reports >> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/1/hillary-clinton-libya-war-push-armed-benghazi-rebe/?page=all> >> demonstrating that heavy weapons being sent to the Libyan opposition, with >> NATO approval and Qatari financing, were being funneled to militants with >> ties to Al Qaeda. At least one of those reports was even prepared in >> English to facilitate its transmission to key members of Congress via U.S. >> intelligence. >> >> Yet, there was no need for the West to rely on the Libyan regime for >> information about the jihadi threat. Indeed, as emails >> <http://levantreport.com/2016/01/04/new-hillary-emails-reveal-propaganda-executions-coveting-libyan-oil-and-gold/> >> recently released by the State Department reveal, Hillary Clinton’s own >> right-hand man had informed her before Gaddafi’s overthrow that rebels were >> committing war crimes >> <http://theantimedia.org/emails-prove-hillary-knew-libyan-rebels-were-conducting-ethnic-cleansing-supported-them-anyway/>, >> and that >> >> *“…radical/terrorist groups such as the Libyan Fighting Groups and Al >> Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are infiltrating the NLC and its >> military command.” *As Brad Hoff reports >> <http://levantreport.com/2016/01/04/new-hillary-emails-reveal-propaganda-executions-coveting-libyan-oil-and-gold/>, >> that same email discloses that, very early in the Libyan crisis, >> >> *“British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training >> Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in Benghazi >> suburbs.” *They would soon be joined by U.S. special forces >> <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/30/america-s-secret-libya-war-u-s-spent-1-billion-on-covert-ops-helping-nato.html> >> and the CIA <https://youtu.be/IMOtC9zGQHI>. >> >> The war in Libya that Hillary Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and >> Samantha Power of the National Security Council were driving toward was so >> predictably a fiasco-to-come that, behind the backs of the Amazon Warriors >> Three, America’s top generals conspired >> <http://scotthorton.org/stress/2015/12/04/washington-times-series-on-libya-february-2015/> >> with leftie peacenik Congressman Dennis Kucinich to try to arrange a >> peaceful resolution to the crisis. But the war-making diplomats triumphed >> over the diplomacy-making soldiers. Hillary buffaloed the brass and got her >> war. >> >> Abundant warnings of a Jihadi Deluge continued after the regime change, >> as well. As Nancy Youssef wrote at *The Daily Beast* >> <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/20/hillary-s-libya-post-war-plan-was-play-it-by-ear-gates-says.html> >> : >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *“…many celebrated Libya as a success story of limited U.S. intervention >> despite obvious signs there of looming instability. The British consulate >> in Benghazi came under an attempted assassination attack the previous >> summer and other nations pulled out amid rising violence. The U.S. >> consulate in Benghazi suffered an improvised bomb attack around the time of >> the strike on the British. And there were early signs of a rising jihadist >> presence in the eastern city. In Tripoli, Sufi shrines were destroyed. (…) >> “In the months leading up to the [2012 Benghazi] attack, flags belonging to >> a jihadist group, Ansar al Sharia, appeared in Benghazi. Ansar al Sharia >> members also controlled security around certain government buildings, >> including the hospital that would try to save Stevens. “In that ensuing >> power vacuum, jihadists began claiming territory, making it difficult for >> the moderate government to control the country. By 2013, Libya’s oil >> production all but stopped as the nation plunged toward civil war and a >> state led by two rival governments on opposite ends of the country. Efforts >> to create a unity government have so far faltered. Benghazi, the birthplace >> of the 2011 uprising, became a terrorist haven. And today, many Libyans >> yearn for the return of Gaddafi, however dictatorial his regime was, >> because of the security that came with him.” *Conservative politicos >> have long strained to use Benghazi to torpedo Hillary’s bid for the >> presidency. But their efforts are crippled by their own fundamental >> agreement with Hillary’s militarism. They support the general policy of >> employing jihadis to overthrow secular dictators (not only in Libya, but >> Syria >> too >> <http://theantimedia.org/isis-israel-iraq-and-syria-its-all-part-of-the-plan/>). >> So they limit themselves to whining about Hillary’s security measures. >> >> The true Benghazi scandal indicts not just Hillary, but the entire >> Western power elite, whose wars have, as Gaddafi warned, flooded the >> world <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-long-game-for-the-long-war> >> with a Jihadi Deluge and installed a postdiluvian Reign of Terror over >> us all >> <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/nothing-to-fear-but-the-fearful-themselves> >> . >> >> >> >> http://theantimedia.org/after-me-the-jihad-gaddafi-tried-to-warn-the-west-but-nobody-listened/ >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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