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In June 2013 When Morsi took power he opened the prisons and released members of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], including Mohammed Zawahiri. Mohammad Zawahiri is the brother of [[Ayman Zawahiri]], al-Qaeda’s #2 guy who, since [[bin Laden]]'s execution, has been running [[al-Qaeda]] from Afghanistan. Mohammad Zawahiri left Egypt for Benghazi and joined up with Mustafa Abdel Jalil, ex-Libyan Justice Minister who very recently was recruited by the French intelligence service to organize the Benghazi uprising. After smuggling weapons into [[Gaza]] for [[Hamas]], Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian [[Deep State]] and since in June 2013. Since August 2014 Gen. [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] rules the country.

The original plan was for the fighting to be over in days, with some of the weapons captured at [[Benghazi ]] to be used in ending [[Muammar al-Gaddafi|Gaddafi's ]] resistance, and some flown to the Turkish staging area at Adana, along the Syrian border, to be used in an uprising against [[Assad]]. The singular advantage both Gaddafi and Assad hold held against an internal uprising is airpower. In Western propaganda this always translates into "using aircraft against civilians." Hence the call for a no-fly zone to make it a fair fight between government forces and rebel forces.

Sarkozy, Cameron, Hillary Clinton, and Obama wanted cover for their actions. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 (UNSC 1970) provided for an arms embargo - no weapons shipped in to either side. UNSC 1973 "authorized" a no-fly zone "by any means necessary," of course the UK, France, and US took to mean regime change, use of aggressive force, and direct arms deliveries to their jihadi rebels on the ground. The Russians [[Russia]]ns didn't see it that way. The betrayal of assurance assurances Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave to get convince Russia to withhold its veto on the UN Security Council marked a turning point in US-Russia relations. Russia did not assent to NATO's use of aggressive force. The blatant disregard for international law [[Sarkozy]], [[David Cameron|Cameron]], Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama flouted, coupled with Obama's drone strikes, caused [[Vladimir Putin ]] to reaccess other international agreements Russia and the was party to with Western powers were party to, namely agreements over the [[Crimea ]] and [[Ukraine]].

A Libyan official who requested not to be identified said that the '''U.S. and British military gurus were sent on February 23 and 24''' night through American and French warships and small naval boats off Libyan ports of Benghazi and [[Tobruk]].<br>

The Italian Foreign Minister expressed concern that the number of Libyan refugees trying to reach Italy might reach between 200,000 and 300,000 people.<ref>{{cite news| author =Squires, Nick |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8343963/Libya-Italy-fears-300000-refugees.html |title=Libya: Italy Fears 300,000 Refugees |work =The Daily Telegraph|date=23 February 2011 |accessdate=|location=London}}</ref> On February 25 [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] announced suspension of Libyan embassy operations The number would exceed 3 million in Washingtoncoming years before it's all over.

On February 25 [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] announced suspension of Libyan embassy operations in Washington. The same day Gaddafi warned former UK Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] by phone, thatnif that if his regime is were allowed to fall, the [[jihad]]is would use Libya as a springboard for attacks in [[Europe]].<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12086505/Tony-Blairs-phone-conversations-with-Colonel-Gaddafi-revealed.html Colonel Gaddafi warned Tony Blair of Islamist attacks on Europe], By Robert Mendick, ''Telegraph'' 07 Jan 2016. telegraph.co.uk</ref> This is exactly what happened, as Gaddafi predicted: the Islamic State took credit for the November 2015 Paris attacks killing 137, wounding 368, and the February 2016 Brussels bombing killing 35 and injuring 340, and numerous other jhad jihad attacks.

Hillary Clinton directed efforts to remove all US embassy personnel from Tripoli and ordered the closing of the embassyclosed. Ken Dilanian of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reported that the [[CIA]] had been on the ground in "rebel-held" areas of Libya since shortly after the US Embassy in Tripoli was evacuated.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110404001700/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/sc-dc-0331-cia-libya-20110330,0,2762769.story</ref> Hillary Clinton made a series of calls to foreign counterparts to secure passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1970, imposing sanctions and an arms embargo to either side, which the US and allies abruptly violated.

On February 28 Hillary Clinton traveled to Geneva, [[Switzerland]] for consultations with European partners on Libya. She gives gave a major address speech in which she sayssaid: "It is time for Gaddafi to go."

On March 4, 2011 Seven seven UK SAS (Special Operations Force) commandos and an intelligence officer were taken captive by jihadi rebels in Benghazi when they arrived ahead of time unannounced. The news became public, and is a clear violation of [[international law]], aggressive action and boots on the ground without UNSC vote on the proposed no-fly zone. The UK Defense Minister openly stated the mission was part of Britain's support for regime change.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8365069/Libya-SAS-mission-that-began-and-ended-in-error.html</ref> The embarrassing flap was hushed up.

On March 8, 2011 Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] appointed Special Envoy [[Chris Stevens]] as US liaison to the jihadis in Benghazi.<ref>[http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/us-names-chris-stevens-liaison-to-libyan-opposition.html US Names Chris Stevens Liaison to Libyan Opposition,] ABC News Radio, March 14, 2011.</ref> Given what was learned of Steven's mission after his death, this action on March 8 could only have occurred after President Obama had authorized covert side aide for the jihadis by a a Presidential finding. Despite what various news sources later reported, President Obama had already made the decision and commitment to the coalition's ultimate aims - regime change.

*'''14-16 March.''' Sec. Clinton participates in a series of high-level video- and teleconferences. She is a leading voice for strong UNSC action in the name of a NATO "civilian protection" (R2P) mission. A majority of NATO member states refuse to participate. This was Use of aggressive force outside Europe (or even inside Europe) is not why the NATO alliance was founded or continues to exist.

UNSC 1973 authorized 12 of NATO's 28 members to use its name “to take all necessary measures to enforce compliance with the ban on flights." Obama, Clinton, Camaron, and Sarkozy immediately lifted the phrase, "all necessary measures" to mean regime change, thus nullify the the arms embargo of UNSC 1970. A “pure no-fly zone" is what the Russians had agreed to, and [[Vladimir Putin]] noted later during the [[Crimea]]n annexation that Obama and cohorts "violated the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, when instead of imposing the so-called no-fly zone over it they started bombing it too."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AjAyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=violated+the+UN+Security+Council+resolution+on+Libya,+when+instead+of+imposing+the+so-called+no-fly+zone+over+it+they+started+bombing+it+too.&source=bl&ots=HRqOB2VBJQ&sig=5r066oZAPgWKZIsS9B04IzMGlL8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH_5Pv69HTAhUjj1QKHZJ0CkIQ6AEIKzAF#v=onepage&q=violated%20the%20UN%20Security%20Council%20resolution%20on%20Libya%2C%20when%20instead%20of%20imposing%20the%20so-called%20no-fly%20zone%20over%20it%20they%20started%20bombing%20it%20too.&f=false]</ref>

NATOs NATO's ostensibly defensive nature, founded on the premise that an attack on one is an attack against all, was transformed into an offensive mercenary force in the service of private French, British, and American commercial interests.<ref>National Security [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html Hillary’s war: How conviction replaced skepticism in Libya intervention], By Joby Warrick, ''[[Washington Post]]'', October 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/130-european-affairs/ea-august-2011/1417-lessons-of-libya-for-future-western-military-forays LESSONS OF LIBYA FOR FUTURE WESTERN MILITARY FORAYS], By John Barry, Newsweek National Security Correspondent. europeaninstitute.org</ref>

On March 19 Sarkozy convened a meeting in the Westin Hotel to solicit agreement for the immediate deployment of military aircraft to stop Gaddafi's efforts to put down the rebellion jihadi uprising in Benghazi, and the establishment of a US no-fly zone in the country. Before the meeting was over, French fighter planes had attacked Gaddafi forces outside Benghazi. Italian and Russian participants protested the French government's insistence on convening the meeting '''''before agreeing to air strikes''''', and then launching strikes '''before the meeting was over.'''

A report from Rep. [[Dennis Kucinich]] on March 26, 2011 corroborated the claim of Franco Bechis in [[Italy]] that "plans to spark the Benghazi rebellion were initiated by French intelligence services in November 2010."<ref>''[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RkUoFsgEwm8J:www.voltairenet.org/article169069.html+French+plans+to+topple+Gaddafi+on+track+since+last+November&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November]'', by Franco Bechis, VoltaireNet, March 26, 2011.</ref><ref>http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/war/news.php?q=1305727776</ref> Obama intelligence officials surveillance operatives had captured and recorded private communications between Rep. Kucinich and a Libyan official.<ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/audio/kucinich-no1/</ref><ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/audio/kucinich-no2/</ref>

According to a Hillary staff email on April 14 Secretary of State Clinton traveled to Berlin for NATO meetings. Clinton is '''the driving force behind NATO adopting a communiqué that calls for Gaddafi's departure as a political objective, and lays out three clear military objectives:''' (1) end of attacks and threat of attacks on civilians; (2) the removal of Gaddafi forces; (3) [redacted from original]. The German government refuses to go along.<ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29143.htm</ref> On April 15 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Berlin conference accuses the Obama administration of exceeding UNSC 1973 mandate and the agreements at the Paris summit. What started out as a mission to “protect civilians and enforce a no-fly zone,” has been transformed into an effort at "regime change" without having a clear understanding as to the nature of the rebel opposition.

On May 5, 2011 Sec. Hillary Clinton traveled to [[Rome]] for a Contact Group meeting. The Contact Group established a coordination system and a temporary financial mechanism to funnel money to the National Transitional National Council.

*[[National Security Advisor]] Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough oppose attacking Libya; but [[Hillary Clinton]] "won the bureaucratic battle to use Department of Defense resources to achieve what's essentially the State Department's objective... and Obama let it happen"."<ref>[http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/18/how_obama_turned_on_a_dime_toward_war How Obama turned on a dime toward war.]</ref> It is rare for a president to publicly go against the advice of his National Security Adivisor in a decision on military intervention, nonetheless Tom Donilon did not resign.

On March 23, 2011 UK Air Vice Marshal declares air superiority: the Libyan Air Force “no longer exists as a fighting force.” NATO controls the skies.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12837330</ref> The nexted next day Sec. Clinton engaged with Sarkozy, Cameron, and others to secure the transition of command and control of the "civilian protection mission" to NATO and announced the transition in a statement. Canada-based sociologist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya observed, {{quotebox|"NATO is an undemocratic body and is not answerable to any constituency of voters. It is through NATO and international organizations that the voting public is being bypassed. The command of the war against Libya has deliberately been reassigned from the Pentagon to NATO as a clever means to bypass public scrutiny and accountability by the U.S. government and all other governments involved in this war."<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article170202.html</ref><ref>While Supreme Allied Commander Europe. U.S. Admiral James G. Stravridis is the supreme commander of NATO military operations, Adm. Stravridis can still work operationally independent of NATO. He is totally subordinate to the Obama Administration and the Pentagon. United States Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. European Command and U.S. Strategic Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program, 112th Congress, 2011, 1st Session, 29 March 2011.</ref><ref>http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63185</ref>}}

Many of the so-called 'Libyan rebels', or TNC, that the Obama State Dept. sold to the media and public were a diverse group of outsiders, including Sanusi Islamists, [[Egypt]]ians from the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], and jihadists from [[Algeria]], [[Morocco]], [[Tunisia]], [[Jordan]], [[Qatar]], [[Afghanistan]] and elsewhere (jihadis' whose prime goal in life is to topple the secular regime of their homeland are always on the run seeking sanctuary somewhere). These men were led by two top defectors of the Gaddafi regime, former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil, and former Minister of Interior (secret police) Abdul al-Fatah Younis. Jalil faded from the picture once his role was completed. Younis has worked at Gaddafi's side for 42 years since the bloodless coup of 1969 that deposed the monarchy.

Knowing Gaddafi's days were numbered due to advanced age, Jalil and Younis were seeking to preserve the power they emassed, as heads of Gaddafi's law enforcement ministries, by deposing Gaddafi prematurely using rival tribes internally and outside help from a coalition Hillary Clinton put together of jihadis and NATO. Younis, who made many enemies as Gaddafi's top cop, eventually is was murdered by Islamists in the TNC.

This confusion in fact reveals that the war is driven by unavowed motives which are not shared by all the members of the Coalition of the Willing.--><br>The National Transitional National Council (TNC) has been incapable of constituting a social base. Its provisional capital Benghazi used to be a city of 800 000 inhabitants. In February, hundreds of thousands turned out to celebrate its creation. Today, the “city liberated by the rebels” and “protected by NATO” is virtually a lifeless agglomeration with barely 15 000 inhabitants left, most of whom are people who don’t have the means to leave. The Benghazis did not flee the fighting; they fled from the new regime.<br>...according to most experts, the number of “rebel forces” has dropped to between 800 and 1 000 combatants, armed to the teeth by NATO, but incapable of playing a significant role in the absence of popular support. It is very likely that there are more NATO Special Forces commandos on the ground than the number of Libyan combatants they are supposed to oversee.<ref>https://libyadiary.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/nato-and-the-ingratitude-of-the-libyan-people/</ref>}}

On March 20, 2011 NATO's Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, days before President Obama publicly disclosed his decision to intervene, that US the intelligence community knew of [[al Qaeda]] and [[Hezbollah]] elements among the rebels.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8414583/Libya-al-Qaeda-among-Libya-rebels-Nato-chief-fears.html]</ref><ref>Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Stavridis was asked by Republican Sen. James Inhofe to comment on "reports about the presence of al Qaeda among the rebels, among those with whom we are associated." "As you can imagine, we are examining very closely the content, composition, the personalities, who are the leaders in these opposition forces," Stavridis responded. "The intelligence that I am receiving at this point makes me feel that the leadership I am seeing are responsible men and women who are struggling against Colonel Gadhafi. We have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hezbollah, we've seen different things, but at this point I don't have detail sufficient to say that there is a significant al Qaeda presence or any other terrorist presence in and among these folks. We'll continue to look at that very closely. It's part of doing due diligence as we move forward on any kind of relationship." http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/03/saceur-j2-please-call-your-office.html</ref> Two days later a leaked email from Stravidis email to David Manners, business partner of Marc Turi who resigned as a congressional staffer to Sen. [[John McCain]] Weekes weeks earlier, discussed illegal weapons supply to the TNC ''per'' a Hillary Clinton State Department authorization.<ref>http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2015/09/11/exclusive-new-emails-in-benghazi-weapons-mystery.html</ref><ref>http://www.captainsjournal.com/2015/09/14/the-weapons-of-benghazi/</ref> Under the code name “Zero Footprint” Marc Turi drew up the original plan to coordinate the flow of weapons from the US through the intermediary of Qatar into Libya. Those weapons ended up in Libya and Syria destined for the hands of group that later called itself the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/10/11/the-secrets-behind-the-wire-marc-turi-speaks-out-about-hillary-clintons-covert-weapons-shipments/</ref>

In March of 2010 Abdulhakim Belhadj was released from Abu Salim prison in [[Libya]]<ref>http://docslide.us/documents/updated-fact-sheet-may-4-2013.html</ref> after serving 6 years in custody. Belhadj had brought to Libya under the CIA's [[extraordinary rendition]] program in 2004. Belhadj was chased out of Libya by Gaddafi in 1988<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Libya’s rebel leader with a past|author=Vicken Cheterian|journal=[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]|date=May 2012 |url=http://mondediplo.com/2012/05/08libya }}</ref> and arrived in [[Afghanistan]] where he joined the [[Taliban]].<ref name=LeMondeTime>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2091744,00.html|title='We Are Simply Muslim': Libyan Rebel Chief Denies Al-Qaeda Ties|newspaper=Time Magazine|date=4 September 2011|accessdate=}}</ref> <ref name="asharq">{{cite news|url=http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=26357|title=From Holy warrior to hero of a revolution: Abdelhakim Belhadj| newspaper=Asharq Alawsat|accessdate=}}</ref> After the Taliban captured Kabul in 1992 he returned to Libya in 1992 where he and others formed the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]] (LIFG). Belhadj was reported to have followed [[Osama Bin Laden]] when the [[al-Qaeda]] leader moved the center of its operations from Afghanistan to [[Sudan]] in 1996.<ref name=":0">Burr, J. Millard (2014-10-13). "Libya – Ali al-Salabi and the Re-Emerging Muslim Brotherhood". American Center for Democracy. </ref> The relation between LIGF and al-Qaeda was officially confirmed in October 2001, when the UN Security Council designated the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group as a terrorist entity for its association with al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and the Taliban. The [[UN Security Council]] specified that the LIFG relation with al-Qaeda was substantiated through the group’s involvement in {{Quotebox|"the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of", "supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to" or "otherwise supporting acts or activities of" Al-Qaida [...], Usama bin Laden and the Taliban."<ref>https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/entity/libyan-islamic-fighting-group</ref> }}In 2002 an arrest warrant was issued for Belhadj by the Libyan authorities after Gaddafi's reconciliation with the West Western powers and three assassination attempt's on Gaddafi's life by the LIFG. The arrest warrant alleged that Belhadj had developed "close relationships" with al-Qaeda leaders, and specifically Taliban chief Mullah Omar , and to have run and financed training camps for Arab mujahideen fighters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14786753|title=Profile: Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj|newspaper=BBC News|date=5 September 2011|accessdate=}}</ref> After the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, Belhadj fled and was arrested in [[Malaysia]] in 2004 where he was rendered by the CIA to Libya.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Special report: Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials |author=Ian Cobain|newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 April 2012|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/08/special-report-britain-rendition-libya}}</ref>

''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reported on April 2, 2011 about Americans' training terrorists in the port city of Derna;<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703712504576237042432212406</ref> when the Americans left to concentrate on the Syrian operation, terrorists beheaded people in front of small children as part of their training. <ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3110801/What-children-seen-ISIS-beheads-Libyan-soldier-outside-mosque-education-purposes-youngsters-don-t-shocked.html </ref> The [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]] (LIFG) is centered in and around Derna and Benghazi. The Sinjar documents<ref>[https://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Sinjar_2_FINAL.pdf Sinjar Documents]</ref><ref>The Sinjar Documents are a collection of al Qaeda computer data captured by Americans in 2007 in a predawn raid near Sinjar, Iraq, six miles from the Syrian border.</ref> captured during the Iraq insurgency revealed 20% of all Iraq insurgents came from Derna, Sirte, and Misurata, 82% of which volunteered for suicide attacks. In 2015 twenty-one Christians in Derna were beheaded ''enmasse''.

On February 22, 2012, in a show of [[bipartisan]]ship, Senators [[Richard Blumenthal]], [[John McCain]], and [[Lindsey Graham ]] visited Libya and meet with Abdulhakim Belhadj, who was put in charge of training jihadis in Eastern Libya (principally Derna and Benghazi) by the Obama administration for the second leg of Operation Zero Footprint in Syria.

On October 5, 2014, the Shura Council of Shabab al-Islam Derna, Libya declared itself part of the Islamic State. In February 2015 the ISIS jihadis beheaded 21 Christians and distributed an uncut video of the gruesome event to world. On March 2,2015 Katherine Herrige of FOX News reported that Obama administration senior intelligence officials told her Abdelhakim Belhadj is firmly aligned with ISIS and supports the Islamic State training camps in eastern Libya.