The incident is being portrayed by the establishment
media as a reaction to a film produced in the United States that
purportedly ridicules Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
However, the wider issue of how the 2011 bombardment of
Libya paved the way for gangs of militant Islamic extremists, once
backed by NATO powers with heavy weapons, to fill the power vacuum left
by Colonel Gaddafi, has been largely ignored.
Indeed, it’s a horrific irony that Hillary Clinton’s infamous gloating about Gaddafi’s execution - “We came, we saw, he died” - has now come full circle, with Stevens paying for such despicable arrogance with his life.
After NATO-backed insurgents with links to Al-Qaeda helped topple Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, they proudly flew the distinctive black Al-Qaeda flag over courthouses in Benghazi and other centers of power. That same flag flew over the Consulate today after the U.S. flag was torn down and burned.
In the aftermath of last year’s “no fly zone,” which
turned into an incessant bombardment almost overnight, Libya, once one
of the richest countries in Africa, is now run by brutal armed gangs who have rounded up black people in huge numbers, subjecting them to torture, incarceration in concentration camps and execution.
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