Like in a classic Hollywood movie, the Libyan ‘good guys’ are winning, the information support by the Western media was incredible. The only missing element is an American secret agent saying something like “I’m damn hungry” in front of Gaddafi’s residence. A happy end is coming. The only question is what we’ll see instead of the credits...
The rebels’ flag has already been raised over Gaddafi’s residence. He himself remains missing, so the rebels started to destroy everything left by the former leader of the country. The terror is so enormous that even Russia’s 90s seem less dramatic. According to the Western media, special mission units from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates took part in the operation. “Here in Tripoli we are fighting NATO troops and mercenaries rather than Libyan rebels,” Mohammed Gaddafi, Colonel Gaddafi’s son, told FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in a phone conversation. Robert Fox, a British security expert, told the BBC that Qatari and UAE troops did in fact take part in the attack on Tripoli.
It’s not clear on what legal basis these foreign troops interfered in Libyan affairs, taking into consideration that the UN Security Council prohibited any military interference, apart from imposing a no-fly zone. Perhaps on the same basis the rebels sacked Gaddafi’s residence.
The whole campaign was started in order to protect Libyan civilians. Military intervention, air attacks and enforced regime change indeed protected civilians. Human rights, gender equality and democracy will indeed be achieved by a society ruled by Islamists that have links to al-Qaeda. If only Libya remains doesn’t disintegrate and break into several territories ruled by tribal chiefs.
The end is coming. It will only take some time to find Gaddafi, to kill him on the order of some unbiased court (or without it), and then to divide the $1.5 million reward. After that they will be able to start dividing the plundered oil wells. The countries that will receive the greatest reward have already been announced, these are the UK, Italy and France. Russia, China and Brazil will be punished for hesitation. Indeed we shouldn’t have hesitated! We should’ve voted against the UN resolution!
Now it’s all over for Gaddafi. Western leaders now don’t have to shake his hands, as Berlusconi did, or tolerate his tent in the center of Paris, as Sarkozy had to. It’s high time to muse on human rights violations (suppressing the uprising in London) and prepare for the same campaign in Syria.
Orkhan Satarov, head of VK's European office
