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It
is the OIL, Stupid!
G.
E. Gorfu
There
is no absurdity we may not witness in world politics these days,
and this time it seems to have escaped the notice of those who
should have screamed loud and cried foul. Khadafy, a onetime
“premier terrorist” and “sponsor of world terrorism” who
funded and mastermind the downing of Boeing 747 in Lockerbie,
Scotland, causing the death of 270 people, and then harbored the
criminals who carried it out in Libya for many years, was inducted
into UN Security Council. Regan, who attempted to kill Khadafy and
bombed his residence and succeeded in killing his daughter, must
be turning in his grave.
There is a long
history of
Libya
’s involvement in terrorism from the early days of Carlos the
Jackal to the downing of the Pan Am flight 103. So, how does one
rehabilitate such a criminal and make him a high priest in the
Security Council? Khadafy paid sacrificial lambs, not only his
daughter, but also in extraditing the two culprits: Mohmed
al-Megrahi and Khalifa Fhimah, the men who carried out the downing
of the Boeing 747.
Three sacrificial
lambs rehabilitated Khadafy, but there still was a fee before he
could be admitted into the Security Council. What fee? Let us
remember the
Sudan
was accused of being a terrorist heaven and bombed during
Clinton
’s presidency, without much of real evidence. Khadafy paid his
dues by accusing the Sudanese government of genocide, while he
himself was the main culprit who got the Janjaweed militia out of
Chad
, armed them, indoctrinated them in phony Arab Nationalism, and
sent them into
Darfur
.
So, the west
allowed all the genocide in Darfur to go to on, because of the oil
in southern
Sudan
which is still contracted to the Chinese. They had hoped these
killings would help overthrow/destabilize the Sudanese government,
and expel the Chinese. It did not work!
Khadafy is
accountable to no one and has been in power since the coup d’état
of 1969. Was there
ever a general election in
Libya
? How many independent political parties does
Libya
have? Is there a parliament with an opposition party? Does Khadafy
have transparency in government? Why are Donald Payne and Chris
Smith not demanding “transparency” or “accountability”
from
Libya
? Where is their HR Bill against Khadafy? And have our educated
elites asked any of these questions when helping draft HR2003?
But questions
like this only fall on deaf ears of Donald Payne and Chris Smith,
and some paid traitors of our beloved
Ethiopia
. Many media journalists in the west failed to ask these
questions, but seem to watch quietly as the circuses of events
overtook them and they sat as demure onlookers at the UN in
New York
. So, the world witnessed the incredible and sad event of
Libya
getting a seat in the Security Council. How sad!
How could they
turn a blind eye to all these atrocities over all these years? Is
there a conspiracy? There may be no conspiracy, but they all seem
to have a common interest, Need. And the simple answer is: need
for – Oil! If there was no oil in
Libya
, the result would be quite another matter. Khadafy would have
remained the pariah that he really is.
Now, one may
begin to understand why the
UK
allows the ONLF, a terrorist organization responsible for killing
76 people in cold blood in the Ogaden, to freely reside and give
press release from
London
. Is it not because the Chinese have oil drilling contracts with
Ethiopia
? Let our educated elites who helped to draft HR 2003 wake up to
reality.
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