Towards a Renewed Imperialist Intervention in Libya? Anti-NATO Forces Retake Areas in Southern Libya | Global Research

Towards a Renewed Imperialist Intervention in Libya? Anti-NATO Forces Retake Areas in Southern Libya | Global Research

For nearly seven months
in 2011, NATO planes — particularly from the U.S., France, Britain and
Canada — carried out a massive bombing campaign in Libya intended to
overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

After getting the U.N.
Security Council to pass a resolution imposing an arms embargo on Libya
and then another authorizing a so-called “no-fly zone” in which only
their planes could fly, the imperialists succeeded in having Gaddafi
captured and brutally killed, opening the way for the establishment of a
new regime that would further their interests in that oil-rich North
African country.

Now, just two and a half
years later, this puppet government is losing ground in southern and
western Libya to pro-Gaddafi forces, who have taken back several towns
and an air base.

These developments have
prompted French Admiral Edouard Guillard to appeal for a renewed
imperialist intervention in Libya, claiming that developments on the
southern border could lead to a “terrorist threat.” (Washington Post,
Jan. 27)

Guillard claimed that any
intervention would require the “consent” of the neocolonial regime that
these same imperialists set up in Tripoli. It is headed by Prime
Minister Ali Zeidan and the General National Congress.