Why do people want gaddafi out

But the convoy carrying the dictator appears to have been missed. For his escape, Gaddafi had only one highway to travel — leading south of the capital to Beni Walid, 90 miles from Tripoli, the only highway not in rebel hands.

A further detour would then have been necessary to avoid the rebels who were pushing in all directions out of the coastal city of Misrata, involving the convoy driving south-east, deeper into the Libyan desert, to the only traffic junction leading to Sirte at Waddan. The rebels were deeply divided over where Gaddafi was. Some believed he had fled on one of the convoys carrying his wife and other sons that were spotted crossing south to Niger and east to Algeria.

Still others thought he had driven to the fabled Bunker, a possibly mythical concrete complex constructed deep in the desert by the dictator for such an emergency. They were all wrong. And like Gaddafi, Dhao was not supposed to be in Sirte. Instead, it was widely reported that Dhao had fled Libya in a convoy of cars heading for Niger. But as the weeks of the siege of Sirte went on, it became clear this was not true.

A day later Dhao was interviewed by a television crew. The rebels were surrounding the whole area, so we had heavy clashes with them and tried to escape towards Jarif and break out of the siege. After that the rebels surrounded us outside the area and prevented us from reaching the road to Jarif. They launched heavy raids on us which led to the destruction of the cars and the death of many individuals who were with us.

I do not know what happened in the final moments, because I was unconscious after I was hit on my back. Some things do not ring true. According to Dhao, Gaddafi was moving from place to place and apartment to apartment until last week, but given the state of the siege of Sirte at that stage it seems unlikely that he could have entered the city from outside.

The net was closing around the last loyalists who were squeezed into a pocket, surrounded on all sides, that was becoming ever smaller by the day. Dhao made no mention either of the attack on the Gaddafi convoy by a US Predator drone and a French Rafale jet as it tried to break out of Sirte, attempting to drive three kilometres through hostile territory before it was scattered and brought to a halt by rebel fighters.

It is possible that Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it tried to flee came from the air. What is clear is that at around 8am on Thursday, as National Transitional Council fighters launched a final assault to capture the last remaining buildings in Sirte, in an area about metres square, the pro-Gaddafi forces had also readied a large convoy to break out.

These armed vehicles were leaving Sirte at high speed and were attempting to force their way around the outskirts of the city. The vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and ammunition, posing a significant threat to the local civilian population. At the end of last year Haftar was close to seizing Tripoli after a months-long campaign that killed more than 3, people and displaced up to , civilians from their homes.

The bold move paid off: in the space of a few months, Turkey turned the tide of the war, and Haftar was forced to retreat from much of western Libya. This article is more than 1 year old. During the term of President Obama, the situation on the ground in Libya was so bad that he asked his advisors to draw up options including a new military front in Libya. The Defense Department was reportedly standing ready with "the full spectrum of military operations required. The Secretary of State's victory lap was indeed premature, if what we're talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention.

Of the 3, emails released from Hillary Clinton's private email server in late December , about a third were from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal. One of these emails, dated April 2, , read in part:. 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.

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:. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,. 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. Other explosive confirmations were detailed by investigative journalist Robert Parry. They included admissions of rebel war crimes, of special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, and of Al Qaeda embedded in the US-backed opposition. Gaddafi's threatened attempt to establish an independent African currency was not taken lightly by Western interests. In , 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: It is banks, not governments, that create most of the money in Western economies. This has been going on for centuries, through the process called 'fractional reserve' lending.

Originally, the reserves were in gold. In , President Franklin Roosevelt replaced gold domestically with central bank-created reserves, but gold remained the reserve currency internationally.

An IMF ruling said that no paper money could have gold backing. Effectively this meant that the money supply was now created privately as debt at interest. This system 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.

After , the US dollar traded interchangeably with gold as global reserve currency. When the US was no longer able to maintain the dollar's gold backing, in the s it made a deal with OPEC to 'back' the dollar with oil, creating the 'petro-dollar'.

Oil would be sold only in US dollars, which would be deposited in Wall Street and other international banks. In , 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. Violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people. It was about money and oil and the security of global banking.

In Libya, Gaddafi also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency. As these developments were detailed by blogger Denise Rhyne :. In , a pan-African Parliament 53 nations laid plans for the African Economic Community - with a single gold currency by Gaddafi had done more than organize an African monetary coup.

He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in