Living in the digital age, that is the 21st Century, there are numerous ways to contact someone, phone, email , twitter or even Facebook. However when you are a state attempting to subvert the affairs of another things get complicated. It all of sudden becomes a little more cloak and dagger, you have diplomats being escorted by elite SAS troops around the streets of Benghazi under the pretext of trying to make contact with the Libyan opposition.
All this is if you believe the official line coming from Foreign Secretary William Hauge and the likes, the mere suggestion that all is not what it seems is harked at. The repost is that Britain is not in the habit of interfering in the affairs of other lands.
However few are buying the official line as it has become abundantly clear that the words of Western governments and their actions are never in synch. It has been known for years, all 42 years of Gaddafi’s reign if you are counting, that the Western political machine will attempt to back the right horse at the right time. With hope of retaining Gaddafi in power disappearing, attempts are being made to hijack the revolution so that the West can gain as much leverage from the current situation as possible. No one really knows what the SAS were doing in downtown Benghazi, but they definitely weren’t sightseeing and they didn’t have the permission or the blessing of the people of Benghazi and the transition authority in Eastern Libya.
Under the guise of maintaining ‘national interests’ political speak for neo-colonialism the West is now clambering over itself to try and get a piece of the pie in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. So desperate are they to maintain any kind of footing they are even attempting to now out maneuver each other. The kind of secret undercover operation that was carried out by the SAS is nothing new. For many years now this has been the modus operandi of the West in the Muslim world. With secret under the table deals maintaining the dictators and their sons in power for decades.
Seeing their dictators fall one by one is beginning to take its toll on the Western political psyche. This won’t be the last attempt the West makes to mould the politics of Libya in protecting their own interests.
Quite possibly the most difficult step towards freeing themselves of dictatorship has been taken by the Muslims. They have after decades come to the streets and began to remove the figure heads of Western influence, the likes of Ben Ali and Mubarak.
They must maintain the same kind of determination and commitment when resisting Western interference in their affairs, just like the Muslims of Benghazi have done. (Ends)
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Rather, it is the huge and highly capable Egyptian army, as demanded by people in the region, that needs to immeditaely intervene and remove Gaddafi. The time has come to bring back the era where the Muslim world addresses its problems free from Western colonial interference.
Taji Mustafa, media representative for Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain commenting on calls for Western intervention said:”Western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan led to the killing of thousands of civilians, torture in Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo and chronic insecurity, yet we see Western governments having the audacity to intervene in yet another Muslim country.”
“As in the build up to the invasion of Iraq, arguments for intervention are being rehashed: saving people from a murderous dictator; helping the spread of ‘democracy’ in north Africa. Unsurprisingly, people in the region reject these arguments, having seen Britain selling Gaddafi’s regime the weapons currently being used against them. Only two years ago, the UK’s SAS was training Gadaffi’s special forces and now they talk about caring for people!”
“If the West was really concerned about the people of Libya they would have spoken up years ago rather than sending their business elite to gain access to Libya’s coveted oil fields. Whatever their stated reasons, Western governments only intervene to further their strategic interests, economic exploitation of the Muslim world and prevent the emergence of a truly independent Islamic power, the Islamic Caliphate state. All calls for intervention in Libya must be rejected and challenged.”
“Like many people in the region, we remind the 450,000 strong Egyptian army that it is their duty to ignore borders drawn up by the colonial powers and move to liberate their brothers and sisters in Libya. The people in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world are part of one Muslim ummah and lived side by side before the colonialists drew up borders to divide them. In conjuction with the forces that have liberated parts of Libya, the Egyptian army would help put an end to the ongoing carnage and remove the justification for western intervention.” (Ends)
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