The government’s hogwash oil deal with Libya has to be put into this context by anyone with half a brain
The Independent (London) reported yesterday:
A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources.
Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.
Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market.
Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on–it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html
It seems problems in Libya are on more fronts.
http://www.ted.com/talks/zahra_langhi_why_libya_s_revolution_didn_t_work_and_what_might.html
Worry not, comrades. These anti-Islamist strikers will be defeated, especially now that the Libyan government has enrolled the support of the Maltese government.
It’s now up to us. The US-led coalition has done its job. The subversion of Libya has been a success and the Islamists are now in control, ensuring division, conflict and strife for many years to come. That’s one country that had been doing fine, too fine to our purposes, knocked out for good.
Let us hope the US-led coalition of Hollande and his hounds – minus poor Cameron, who’s been thwarted by traitors in the Commons – succeed in feeding the gullible public at large that Syria’s Assad is mad enough to justify a strike by gassing his own people. Let us hope the evidence outing al-Qaeda’s stage managers who supplied the weapons by proxy will not go viral. We all need to oust the secular Assad for the benefit of freedom-loving Islamists who have for so long been suppressed from burning Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. We need to hit hard and rub Putin’s nose in it so as to ignite his nationalist, anti-globalist fervour and hopefully set the region alight.
Finally, comrades, we have to remain vigilant. For look what happened to our Muslim Brotherhood allies in Egypt. Let us hope, however, that the strife in Egypt continues long enough to coincide with our final crusade in the name of global hegemny and peace.
It all now depends on Joseph.
Correction: “..too fine for our purposes…”
Mutinying security men vying to sell crude oil on the black market. What a very Arabo-Mediterranean thing to do, this whole wetting one’s beak business.