Libya is now central to Manchester bombing that killed 22 people and
wounded scores of others. Since the bombers’ identification as a Libyan,
the country has been making headlines
as the exporter of terrorism, providing man-power to jihadi groups like
ISIS. Little, however, has been written or spoken about the condition
that Libya is in today and how it became such a mess. In one of my
previous articles published by NEO, I had pointed out the British
parliament’s foreign affairs committee’s report that acknowledged what a
drastic failure Libya was; how NATO intervention was based upon flawed
intelligence, and how it led to the mushrooming of jihadi groups in the
country, groups which are now directly attacking the West. Still, the
Western media continues to present a picture of Libya that says nothing
about the hegemonic pursuits of the West itself, which included control
over Libya’s oil and use the country as the base for facilitating
Western overreach in Africa.
