Cablegate: Regime Change American Style -- DD20

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The underlying significance of the Cablegate releases is that this more than anything is why the US Dept. of Justice is going after Julian Assange with such vehemence. I also have to admit that on a personal level I find these to be the most compelling as they remove the mask from American foreign policy and the State Department who for decades have been forcing compliance through bullying, blackmail and other dirty deeds. Although it is impossible to cover all 250,000 cables there is certainly enough to shine a light into the murky corners of America empire building.


The Wikileaks Cablegate drops show the complicity of the Obama White House and Clinton State Departments role in the globalists’ efforts to preserve the corrupt central banking system. Along with SecDef Gates they targeted Muamaar Qaddafi of Libya, an existential threat to the corrupt banking system not a threat to his own people or anyone else as the propaganda from the CIA Mockingbird media suggested. However, Qaddafi was targeted long before Obama took office. During the Reagan years he was blamed for the Lockerbie bombing and other terrorist acts around the globe, not because he was involved, but because he was a threat.


This cable from Jan. 1985 shows that Tripoli was a safe haven for Christians, a center of religious tolerance not a nexus for radical Islamists. On January 8-9 four Christain churches were bombed, something unheard of in Tripoli -- likely a CIA sponsored attack.


ISLAMIC UNIFICATION MOVEMENT (TAWHIID) 

HAS ISSUED TWO CONSECUTIVE CONDEMNATIONS OF THE 

ATTACKS, NOTING THAT TRIPOLI HAS TRADITIONALLY 

BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF RELIGIOUS UNITY, AND DEPLORING 

EFFORTS "TO FRIGHTEN THE CHRISTIANS OUT OF THE 

CITY."  WEEKLY MEETING OF ISLAMIC DAR AL-FATWA 

WEDNESDAY ALSO CONDEMNED THE BOMBINGS, AS DID 

BRIG. OTHMAN OTHMAN, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF 

INTERNAL SECURITY FORCES DURING A VISIT TO 

TRIPOLI WEDNESDAY.


https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/85BEIRUT172_a.html


In 1986, after the bombing of a German disco, Reagan ordered airstrikes against Libya who neither took credit for the bombing or was involved. The propaganda at the time described the event thus:


“After the fall of Nasser, a petro-dollar empowered strongman, Muamar Qaddafi, sought Libya’s day in the sun as leader of the Arab world. To prove his bona-fides Qaddafi became the leading source for state supported terrorism against the west. As Iran provided a new model for antiwestern resistance, Qaddafi took on an increasingly religious piety in his defamations of the West. Following earlier show-downs involving the Gulf of Sidra, the United States took swift retribution for Libya’s apparent involvement in a West German discotheque bombing that killed an American serviceman. Targeting was heavily focused on killing Qaddafi, and his personal residences were targeted. While he escaped death, Qaddafi’s international prestige was much tarnished.”


https://twilightstrategy.com/2012/12/04/reagan-bombs-libya/


The wording is most revealing, “apparent involvement” is impetus enough to bomb a sovereign country because one American was killed. The handwriting was on the wall, for Qaddafi it was just a matter of time.


Killing Qaddafi


The fact is Qaddafi was never the bad guy that the CIA run Mockingbird media made him out to be. It was all a propaganda campaign to justify military action against Libya and the theft of their assets. At the same time a covert operation was launched against him. During the Obama administration the Clinton State Department and CIA launched a disinformation campaign. This is from an article from the Guardian:


“Hours after the international criminal court chief prosecutor called for the arrest of Muammar Gaddafiand his closet advisers for mass murder, Britain stepped up its strikes on what military officials described as secret police compounds in Tripoli.”

"Major General John Lorimer, chief military spokesman at the Ministry of Defence, said the bombed targets ‘lay at the heart of the apparatus used by the regime to brutalise the civilian population’. He added: ‘One of the intelligence facilities which was hit is known to play a significant role in the collection of information by Colonel Gaddafi's secret police, while the other was a headquarters for the external security organisation, commanded by Abdullah Senussi.’"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/17/uk-steps-up-bombing-gaddafi-targets


The truth is the “civilian population” were Al Qaeda operatives, insurgents planted by the CIA. “WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and make contacts with rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces, according to American officials.”

“While President Obama has insisted that no American ground troops join in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks and are part of a shadow force of Westerners that the Obama administration hopes can help set back Colonel Qaddafi's military, the officials said.”

“The C.I.A. presence comprises an unknown number of American officers who had worked at the spy agency's station in Tripoli and those who arrived more recently. In addition, current and former British officials said, dozens of British special forces and MI6 intelligence officers are working inside Libya. The British operatives have been directing airstrikes from British Tornado jets and gathering intelligence about the whereabouts of Libyan government tank columns, artillery pieces, and missile installations, the officials said.”


https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1739549_re-april-04-1000-cdt-list-of-alliance-operating-air-bases.html


Obama continued the propaganda attack ins a speech in March of 2011 (from the Clinton emails):


“Libya sits directly between Tunisia and Egypt - two nations that inspired the world when their people rose up to take control of their own destiny. For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.”


“Last month, Gaddafi's grip of fear appeared to give way to the promise of freedom. In cities and towns across the country, Libyans took to the streets to claim their basic human rights. As one Libyan said, ‘For the first time we finally have hope that our nightmare of 40 years will soon be over.’"


https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/5660


This is the truth about the Qaddafi regime in Libya:


“I would like to note that the Libyan people were not in any way extremist Muslims. The part of the Koran that was added by the Ayatollah Khomeini talking about killing infidels was thrown out of Libya by Ghadafi because he said it was not part of the Koran. For this there was a fatwa or death order put on Ghadafi for over 20 years by the radical extremist Muslims. All religions with a book were allowed in Libya. Women were emancipated in the 1970s by Ghadafi. No special clothing was required and all women were highly educated if they chose to be. They were doctors, lawyers, ministers, business owners, or just housewives whatever they decided.”


http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/06/the-truth-about-gaddafis-libya-natos-bombing-and-the-benghazi-consulate-attack/


The extremist Muslims were inserted by the CIA and MI-6 to topple the Qaddafi administration because he posed a threat to the international bankers by taking Libya off petro-dollars and going on the gold standard. He was a visionary with plans to run a pipeline to bring water to the drought stricken countries of sub-saharan Africa. But his greatest crime was standing against American and European imperialism.


“What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.”


“US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding a lack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring.”


“Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world's largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa.”


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


For centuries Africa has been exploited for its vast natural resources, first by colonial powers and later by multinational corporations in a form of neocolonialism imposed by the uber-corrupt UN. One of the very first and key targets by NATO bombers was the irrigation system put in place by Qaddafi, not military targets. Truly a humanitarian gesture by the US and their allies.


The Clinton Doctrine, which she gleefully cackled on nationwide TV: “We came, We saw, He died,” has left Libya in ruins to serve as a reminder that independence in Africa will not be tolerated. The oil industry has been decimated and now the only viable industry in Libya is the slave trade -- Showing beyond any shadow of a doubt that America is indeed the “good guys.” 


Another reason for the attack was Qaddafi’s gold and silver reserves valued at over $7 billion -- most likely earmarked as an involuntary donation to the Clinton Foundation. From the Clinton emails Apr. 2011: "Qaddafi's government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver ... This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA)."


"According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:


1. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,

2. Increase French influence in North Africa,

3. Improve his internal political situation in France,

4. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,

5. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi's long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa."


“Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns. The objectives are money, power and oil.”


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


Sarkozy is now in prison at least in part for his involvement in this debacle. Qaddafi’s biggest threat, however, was to the international banking cabal. “Qaddafi's threatened attempt to establish an independent African currency was not taken lightly by Western interests. In 2011, Sarkozy reportedly called the Libyan leader a threat to the financial security of the world. How could this tiny country of six million people pose such a threat? First some background.”


“A money supply created privately as debt at interest requires a continual supply of debtors; and over the next half century, most developing countries wound up in debt to the IMF. The loans came with strings attached, including 'structural adjustment' policies involving austerity measures and privatization of public assets.”


“In 2001, dissatisfied with the shrinking value of the dollars that OPEC was getting for its oil, Iraq's Saddam Hussein broke the pact and sold oil in euros. Regime change swiftly followed, accompanied by widespread destruction of the country. In Libya, Qaddafi also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency. As these developments are detailed by blogger Denise Rhyne: "For decades, Libya and other African countries had been attempting to create a pan-African gold standard. Libya's al-Qadhafi and other heads of African States had wanted an independent, pan-African, 'hard currency'. "Under al-Qadhafi's leadership, African nations had convened at least twice for monetary unification. The countries discussed the possibility of using the Libyan dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money to buy African oil.”


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


In 2009 Qaddafi was elected president of the Pan-African Congress, a position through which his vision for an independent Africa could be realized -- he had to go for obvious reasons. The propaganda campaign was ramped up by the Clinton State Department. “ABU DHABI/TRIPOLI: Libya’s cash-starved rebels on Thursday won more than $1.1 billion of aid at a conference of Western and Arab powers that focused on the end-game for Muammar Gadhafi and the country’s civil war. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up pressure on the Libyan leader saying she was aware of talks between people close to Gadhafi that had raised the potential for a transition of power. At the United Nations, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said its investigators had found evidence linking Gadhafi to a policy of raping opponents.”


https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/31/3153146_-os-fwd-osac-ksa-osac-early-bird-11-june-11-.html


The raping of opponents was UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s contribution in a speech where she suggested that Qadaffi gave Viagra to his soldiers believing it to be more plausible than the French wanting to steal Libya’s wealth. 


“Key propaganda themes for violent intervention are acknowledged to be mere rumors. Parry suggests they may have originated with Blumenthal himself. They include the bizarre claim that Qaddafi had a "rape policy" involving passing Viagra out to his troops, a charge later raised by UN Ambassador Susan Rice in a UN presentation. Parry asks rhetorically: "So do you think it would it be easier for the Obama administration to rally American support behind this 'regime change' by explaining how the French wanted to steal Libya's wealth and maintain French neocolonial influence over Africa - or would Americans respond better to propaganda themes about Gaddafi passing out Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women while his snipers targeted innocent children? Bingo!"


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


In politics no lie is too big or too small. It was the same Susan Rice that made the Sunday talk show circuit pushing the fiction that the attack on our embassy in Benghazi was because of a video mocking Muhammad.


The truth is that Qaddafi was beloved by the Libyan people and the “demonstrators” were not Libyan at all, they were Al Qaeda: “9:00 PM Muammar Gaddafi tells BBC that no one is protesting against him, no one is against him, all the Libyan people love him and would die for him. He says the people protesting are Al Qaeda.”


https://wlcentral.org/node/1312


The Al Qaeda “rebels” were armed by the CIA and MI-6 and were a part of the military campaign against Qaddafi -- they were not protestors or demonstrators but insurgents hostile to the Qaddafi administration, nor were they the “libyan opposition.”


“11:00 PM The US Treasury has said that US$30 billion in Libyan assets have been blocked [read: stolen] and US naval ships and planes are being moved closer to Libya, "planning and preparing" for missions, "whether humanitarian or otherwise". Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, would not discuss military options but said that the US would consider a range of responses against Gaddafi if he continued to attack his own people. David Cameron said the UK did not rule out the use of force against Muammar Gaddafi and he has asked colleagues to work on plans for a no-fly zone and would consider arming the Libyan opposition.”


https://wlcentral.org/node/1312


Muammar Qaddafi, like Dr. Martin Luther King, had a dream, a vision and for that dream he, like Dr. King would pay with his life. Gaddafi’s dream was of an Africa independent of the neocolonialism imposed by American and European multinational corporations. He wanted to expand his irrigation system beyond Libya's borders to the drought-stricken nations of saharan and sub-saharan Africa. More than that, he wanted to fat African nations away from IMF debt and the petro-dollar.


"Libya's Qadhafi (African Union 2009 Chair) conceived and financed a plan to unify the sovereign States of Africa with one gold currency (United States of Africa). In 2004, a pan-African Parliament (53 nations) laid plans for the African Economic Community - with a single gold currency by 2023.”


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


This could not be tolerated so a massive propaganda campaign was launched against the Qaddafi administration. CIA insurgents from Al Qaeda were sent in posing as Libyan rebels and “freedom fighters.” Their biggest point of contention was that they, unlike native Libyans, were ineligible for the benefits everyone enjoyed. The Mockingbird media launched a vicious campaign painting Qaddafi as a dictator and a bloodthirsty warlord when in fact he was a benevolent ruler who took over from a corrupt king -- King Idris a western puppet -- in 1969. It wasn’t until the 1980s when he threatened the central banks that he became a threat.


“Qaddafi had done more than organize an African monetary coup. He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. His greatest infrastructure project, the Great Man-made River, was turning arid regions into a breadbasket for Libya; and the $33 billion project was being funded interest-free without foreign debt, through Libya's own state-owned bank.”


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


A message had to be sent that the international banking system was not to be challenged. As a humanitarian gesture his irrigation system that served 70% of Libya was destroyed first. “That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in 2011. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it.”


“Crippling a civilian irrigation system serving up to 70% of the population hardly looks like humanitarian intervention. Rather, as Canadian Professor Maximilian Forte put it in his heavily researched book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa, ‘the goal of US military intervention was to disrupt an emerging pattern of independence and a network of collaboration within Africa that would facilitate increased African self-reliance. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental European powers, namely the US.’"


https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism


Makes you proud to be an American doesn’t it. Of course it was never reported in American newspapers or reported by CNN. In the Empire of Lies, there’s no place for the truth. That’s why people like Julian Assange are such a threat. Under Qaddafi “...The average salary in Libya was the highest in Africa, higher than China or India at $15,800 a year. If you had a college education and could not find a job you received that money until you found a job. If you were hungry and had no money they had huge stores of food where you could get rice, milk, cheese, flour and money to buy meat.”


http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/06/the-truth-about-gaddafis-libya-natos-bombing-and-the-benghazi-consulate-attack/


Gasoline was $0.44 per gallon. America and her allies attacked one of the most prosperous and stable governments, not only in Africa, but the world -- all to send a message -- you cannot be prosperous without permission from the international banking cabal. If you are, you will be destroyed along with your country. Muammar Qadaffi was a hero, not only in Libya, but throughout Africa.


“The Libyan people were happy, there was no tax, only businesses had some tax but it was minimal. The government shared the wealth of Libya with its people, there was no taxing of the people to support the state. There was no reason for a revolution, there were some disgruntled radical Islamists who had tried to enforce Sharia law and radical Islam upon Libya to no avail because they only made up about 3 to 5%. These are the people NATO and the US joined hands with to take over Libya.”


http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/06/the-truth-about-gaddafis-libya-natos-bombing-and-the-benghazi-consulate-attack/


The Wikileaks Cablegate drops ripped the mask off of American foreign policy and showed the hideous face underneath -- the face of Barack Obama, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton and scores of criminals both foreign and domestic. Criminals that will never face a jury for their crimes because, after all, we’re the good guys. (Cue Stars and Stripes Forever)




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Excellent contribution @richq11 !

Agreed, that the Cablegate records released by Wikileaks laid bare the motivations of empire. The propaganda machine did its part to guide the narrative with claims of "terrorism" / "Muslim extremists" / "Rapists" and a threat to stability in the region.

Most people in the West know very little about Libya and the high quality of life in the oil rich country. They even had free healthcare, something the US continues to deny its own people!

The point about the Gaddaffi's plans to develop a gold backed Dinar for African nations being one of the impetuses for the invasion is certainly more believable than Gaddaffi bombing his own people in one of the most prosperous nations in Africa and feeding troops dick pills to mass-rape Libyan women. It is far more likely that Libya represented a prosperous, non-western, alternative model that could not be tolerated by the global political powers and financial institutions such as he IMF as you point out. The threat to stability in the region was the emergence of any wealthy independent African nations operating outside of the established order. With the destruction of Libya neocolonialism would be free to continue on unmolested.

This was the time of the Arab Spring and in the wake of the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt and the unrest in Tunisia. It's interesting how the citizen lead revolutions that were taking place to oust neighboring dictators was used by NATO allies as a cover to invade Libya.

Over time it becomes more and more clear how Al Qaeda is really a proxy army for the US and its allies in the Middle East.

We need to ask ourselves: If Al Qaeda really was the crazed Muslim extremists that we are told they are - why have they not attacked Israel or Saudi Arabia? It's a question worth exploring.

Great piece Rich!
AND congratulations on diving into the Wikileaks archives!
We're happy you took the plunge and thanks for all your great research.
Keep Digging!

Thank you, high praise indeed.

Super writeup and fascinating read 👏👏 ...thank you for this high quality piece.

Thank you!

In 2009 Qaddafi was elected president of the Pan-African Congress, a position through which his vision for an independent Africa could be realized . . .

He was well on his way and Africa would be a much different place today.

We know who did the dirty work, but besides the banking cabal, who really benefitted most? Hint: a big country with the world's largest population that now completely controls (behind the scenes, in practice) several African nations, a myriad of organizations, along with outright ownership of countless raw material related concerns, etc., etc.

The dupes (often called "useful idiots") did the dirty work (paid for it too) and look who's 'reaping the rewards'! Never before in history has one group of people got another group of people to invade a 3rd group of people on their behalf. Now, that's some serious outsourcing!

Absolutely! Bill Clinton sold the Dem party to the Chicoms lock, stock, and barrel. Now that they have their agent in the White House we're really screwed.

In the end the American people are no more able to stop these corrupt assholes like Hillary Clinton than anyone else has been, our elections are rigged. We didn't vote for these people.

America was bought in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act. The international bankers got the prize.

Seems like the Chicoms getting the last laugh here over a hundred years later.