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TEHRAN, December 17 -The United States and its allies are responsible for completely destroying Libya, the richest country with a highest standard of living in Africa, an American journalist and political analyst says.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The United States and its allies are responsible for completely destroying Libya, the richest country with a highest standard of living in Africa, an American journalist and political analyst says.
“Prior to the invasion of Libya in 2011, which resulted in the murder of Muammar Gaddafi and his country's destabilization, Libya had enjoyed one of the highest standards of living on the African continent,” Walt Peretto said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.
“Their major crime in the perception of the global financial elites was the announcement by Gaddafi that he planned on creating a new currency that would be backed by gold which would have potentially destabilized other currencies that are fiat based and lacking significant material foundation,” he added.
“While Libya had been openly targeted for invasion by the Western bloc nations, Gaddafi’s announcement put an invasion of Libya on the top of the priority list. Predicted chaos ensued which culminated in the infamous Benghazi incident where an American diplomat and three associated were brutally killed after the US State Department led by Hillary Clinton reacted in ways that seemed irresponsible at the very least. Since then there has been no official US diplomatic presence in Libya,” he stated.
A US military commander has declared that conditions are improving on the ground in Libya for the return of an American diplomatic post in the country, six years after the US envoy was killed there in an attack on the Benghazi consulate.
"There were indications that ... recent improvements in the landscape and the operating environment of Libya were suggestive that a reintroduction a diplomatic mission was on the near horizon," Commander of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response Africa, Col. Adam Chalkley, stated on Friday as quoted in the US-based military.com news website.
According to the report, the taskforce was established as a result of the September 11, 2012 attack on the Benghazi diplomatic post that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Peretto said, “In my opinion, based on recurring patterns of behavior by the military/media complex, I see this latest policy announcement as an official advertisement that Libya is stabilizing and the 2012 invasion is now bearing some positive fruit. In reality, the invasion of Libya ousted a leader who was independent of the looming one world order pathologically coveted by the Western-led financial elites.”
“The last thing they would have wanted is a new currency, backed by real value, in competition with the new world order's fiat currencies which are used primarily as a means of control over large swaths of the world's population instead of a convenient means of exchange backed by a more one-world agenda-free regulatory financial system,” he concluded.
More than 7 years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is still grappling with rising insecurity as the country has been witnessing numerous clashes between government forces and rival militia groups. The former rebels refuse to lay down arms despite efforts by the central government to impose law and order.
Source: presstv
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