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Libya: Another Lost Nato War

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Another credited German intelligence. Whatever account's most accurate (if any), US, UK, French, and perhaps other NATO intelligence and Special Forces played a decisive role in locating and killing Gaddafi. 

Rebel rats followed orders throughout NATO's aggression. From inception, trained commandos, CIA operatives, and Western intelligence elements led them. Even with air cover, they'd have floundered on their own.

On October 25, Stratfor's George Friedman said NATO's war "involved far more than airstrikes, including special operations forces on the ground targeting for airstrikes, training (rebel) troops, managing logistics, overseeing communications and both planning and at times organizing and leading....insurgents in battle."

In fact, highly trained commandos ran all ground operations. Otherwise it would have floundered and failed. On their own, rebel rats were incompetent.

Friedman added that TNC elements are "in no position to govern Libya by any ideology, let alone through constitutional democracy." 

Guerrilla war lies ahead. Libyans are enraged by NATO's intervention. "The universal congratulations on the death of (Gaddafi) are as ominous as all victory celebrations (real or hollow) because they ignore the critical question: Now what?"

DEBKAfile added more, saying:

US and NATO "allies have no compunctions about eradicating (regimes) one way or another....A primary objective of the Arab Spring as promoted by the United States and the Western Alliance is (installing puppet) fundamental(ist) Muslim regimes" under Sharia law.

On October 21, DEBKA also said:

"....(M)ilitary sources report mounting indications that a NATO special forces unit....located and captured (Gaddafi in Sirte). They apparently shot him in both legs to prevent his escape and informed (rebel rats) of his whereabouts, knowing they would kill him...."

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