Schwarzenegger Reveals He Had Child With Staffer By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple's home before they announced their separation last week.

Schwarzenegger and Shriver jointly announced May 9 that they were splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Yet, Shriver moved out of the family's Brentwood mansion earlier in the year after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the child is his, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

"After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzenegger told the Times in a statement that also was sent to The Associated Press early Tuesday. "I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.

"I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time," the statement concluded. "While I deserve your attention and criticism, my family does not."

Schwarzenegger's representatives did not comment further. A spokesman for the former first lady told the Times she had no comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/17/arts/AP-US-Schwarzenegger-Shriver-Separation.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

"I'm a New York Times bestselling author," he [Halperin] told The Independent yesterday. "Normally, when my books come out, I get invited on all the major TV networks. This time, no one wanted me, except a couple of small radio stations. It was incredible: I'd turned up amazing stuff, but Schwarzenegger seemed to have shut me down. There was total news blackout."

Halperin adds that in his original manuscript, he detailed Arnie's affair with Mildred "Patty" Baena, the housekeeper said to have given birth to his illegitimate son roughly 10 years ago. But the entire passage revealing their relationship was expunged by his publisher, Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins.

"It seems funny now," he said. "I actually identified Baena in the original manuscript, and went into detail about their affair and her child. But the lawyers struck it out. They were worried about a libel suit."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/from-hero-to-predator-how-the-fall-of-arnie-was-predicted-by-one-man-2285918.html

The French, for their part, stigmatise America as a puritanical, omnipotent imperial police state, capable of any infamy. But even as they charge that Strauss-Kahn was set up, the French press is rather weak on identifying or even suggesting the precise mastermind or group working to destroy a man who might have been the French Socialist Party's triumphant candidate, evicting Sarkozy from the Elysee Palace.

In Parisian financial circles, some charge that this is an attack on "les juifs". Following this line, they suggest it's a plot by the Muslims, presumptively eager to contrive any embarrassment to a well-known Jew, and indeed ardent Zionist, also perhaps because the agent of Strauss-Kahn's downfall, the 32-year maid accusing him of serious sexual assault, is a Muslim from the west African nation of Guinea.

Americans suggesting a conspiracy contain the usual percentage of citizens who routinely disbelieve the official account of any event, and whose current energies are primarily devoted to proving that Osama bin Laden was dead by 2001.

But there have also been speculations about conspiracy from economists who admired Strauss-Kahn's attempts to shake up the IMF. They quote his words in an address at George Washington University last week: "Globalisation has delivered a lot... but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor. Clearly we need a new form of globalisation to prevent the 'invisible hand' of loosely regulated markets from becoming 'an invisible fist'."

The dean of progressive US economists, Joseph Stiglitz, recently remarked: "It appears that a new IMF has gradually, and cautiously, emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn." (This view of Strauss-Kahn as the tribune of the oppressed is not shared by Greece which has been groaning under typical IMF conditions attached to bailout money. Greek newspapers have offered unsparing assessments. One newspaper carried the headline "The maid resisted IMF's... rapist," its description for what the IMF chief has inflicted on Greece.)

Such cavils notwithstanding, Paul Craig Roberts, assistant secretary of the US Treasury in Reagan's time, stated flatly in a syndicated column earlier this week that "Strauss-Kahn is being framed up because the IMF recently announced that 'the age of America is over', that China will be the number one economy within five years. This was a massive blow to Washington, and they are taking their revenge."

On the conspiracy-oriented Global Research site, Michael Bucci drew parallels with the downfall of Eliott Spitzer, ousted from the governorship of New York because of his patronage of prostitutes. "Farther behind the curtain," Bucci writes, "might be found investment bankers and international financiers (the Spitzer 'soft assassins')."

Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/79159,news-comment,news-politics,was-dominique-strauss-kahn-set-up-by-vengeful-americans-dsk-conspiracy#ixzz1MnQ93xHY

Gus: one can smell a double-cross in this affair, and conspiracy theorists beat me to it... When people are hired in high places, there are files and dossiers exposing their weak points. To some extend since the internet's evolution into a tentacular way to spy on people, we all are on record, subterranean record, and our weak points are noted. In the case of a Strauss-Khan one can speculate he pissed off someone in Yamerika and a discreet set up was arrange to undermine his standing using his "weakness". Far fetched? I don't think so... even at some ordinary folk level, I sometimes fight some of these set ups from some bureaucrats... As if I was not aware of the con... I am an old dog... Even foresic analysis of DNA can be tempered with to suit an outcome... 
In the case of Assange — we've not heard boo from this quarter recently — all due to allow time to process the application of the law according to the submarine torpedo.
have a good day.... 

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But in any event, the arrest of Strauss-Kahn in New York City for allegedly trying to rape a hotel maid has ignited a fierce debate over sex, law, power and privilege. And it is only just beginning. The night of Strauss-Kahn's arraignment, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted that the reason his wife Maria Shriver walked out earlier this year was the discovery that he had fathered a child more than a decade ago with a former member of the household staff. The two cases are far apart: only one man was hauled off to jail. But both suggest an abuse of power and a betrayal of trust. And both involve men whose long-standing reputations for behaving badly toward women did not derail their rise to power. Which raises the question: How can it be, in this ostensibly enlightened age, when men and women live and work as peers and are schooled regularly in what conduct is acceptable and what is actionable, that anyone with so little judgment, so little honor, could rise to such heights?

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Let's note first that Strauss-Kahn is innocent until proved guilty and, second, that if he is guilty, he is not a player — he's a predator. This was not just a French version of an American classic, the Family Values Virtuecrat, who preaches by day and trysts by night

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2072527,00.html#ixzz1Mnqh0bDs

see article above... and toon at top...

We all have different views regarding the hotly debated issue. The head of the IMF, Strauss-Kahn, has been denied bail when arraigned on sexual assault charges. He allegedly tried to rape a maid in his hotel room, and was arrested and booked before he left on a flight to France. He is in custody at Riker's Island. Here is the proof: Dominique Strauss-Kahn denied bail in IMF sex scandal case, newstype.com. And it is true that caution is considered when judging a person because all of us have this inherent dignity.

from some yourpean correspondent email:

 

 

Sloppy traduction:

at top: It was an unfortunate accident

 The maid: "careful, it's slippery when wet..."

 

After the original shock to the French psyche, these cartoons are actually playing down what happened. One toon actually suggested that at 3000 dollars a night, one could be mistaken that the maid was part of the "service"... another shows Angela Merkel breathing a sigh of relief as she was supposed to have a meeting with DSK a few days after the unfortunate event...

and so on... quite poor really...

 

 

The ex-husband of Arnold Schwarzenegger's lover told a Colombian magazine on Sunday he plans to sue the former governor, alleging the birth certificate of the couple's love child was falsified.

Rogelio Baena, a Colombian native, was married to Mildred Patricia Baena, who was a housekeeper to the Hollywood star-turned California governor and his celebrity wife Maria Shriver.

Rogelio Baena only recently learned his 13-year-old son with Mildred Baena was actually the love child of Schwarzenegger and his ex-wife.

Yet Rogelio Baena's name appears on the birth certificate as the boy's father, and attorneys have told him if Schwarzenegger and Mildred Baena knew this was not true, they engaged in conspiracy to falsify a public document - a serious crime in California.

Rogelio Baena separated from his then-wife after 10 years of marriage in October 1997, just weeks after the boy was born.

The couple however did not file for divorce until February 2008, according to US entertainment media

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/30/3230312.htm?section=justin

The criminal case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, is on the verge of collapsing, the New York Times reports.

Citing two unnamed law enforcement officials close to the case, the NY Times said prosecutors did not believe much of the story told by the French politician's Guinea-born accuser.

The sources say officials believe she has repeatedly lied to them since she claimed to have been attacked in a New York hotel six weeks ago.

"It is a mess, a mess on both sides," one official told the daily.

Prosecutors will likely tell the court on Friday, when Strauss-Kahn is set to make an unexpected reappearance ahead of the next scheduled hearing on July 18, that they "have problems with the case," in contrast to their once steel confidence in the evidence against him, according to the Times.

At the hearing, Justice Michael Obus was expected to consider a change in the bail conditions under which Strauss-Kahn was released to house arrest - including 24-hour security monitoring and an ankle bracelet.

The revelations could prove an extraordinary turnaround for the former IMF director, as the newspaper said he could be released from house arrest due to questions surrounding his accuser.

Strauss-Kahn, a French national, has denied all seven charges including trying to rape the woman and sexually assaulting her when she came to clean his hotel suite in a luxury Manhattan hotel.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/01/3258708.htm?section=justin

 

 

Read my conspiracy theory at http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/12522#comment-15809

Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Call Alarmed Prosecutors

By JIM DWYER and MICHAEL WILSON

Twenty-eight hours after a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, she spoke by phone to a boyfriend in an immigration jail in Arizona.

Investigators with the Manhattan district attorney’s office learned the call had been recorded and had it translated from a “unique dialect of Fulani,” a language from the woman’s native country, Guinea, according to a well-placed law enforcement official.

When the conversation was translated — a job completed only this Wednesday — investigators were alarmed: “She says words to the effect of, ‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing,’ ” the official said.

It was another ground-shifting revelation in a continuing series of troubling statements, fabrications and associations that unraveled the case and upended prosecutors’ view of the woman. Once, in the hours after she said she was attacked on May 14, she’d been a “very pious, devout Muslim woman, shattered by this experience,” the official said — a seemingly ideal witness.

Little by little, her credibility as a witness crumbled — she had lied about her immigration, about being gang raped in Guinea, about her experiences in her homeland and about her finances, according to two law enforcement officials. She had been linked to people suspected of crimes. She changed her account of what she did immediately after the encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Sit-downs with prosecutors became tense, even angry. Initially composed, she later collapsed in tears and got down on the floor during questioning. She became unavailable to investigators from the district attorney’s office for days at a time.

Now the phone call raised yet another problem: it seemed as if she hoped to profit from whatever occurred in Suite 2806.

The story of the woman’s six-week journey from seemingly credible victim, in the eyes of prosecutors, to a deeply unreliable witness, is drawn from interviews with law enforcement officials, statements from the woman’s lawyer and a letter from prosecutors to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s defense team released in court on Friday. Some of the events were confirmed by both law enforcement officials and the women’s lawyer; others rely solely on law enforcement officials. In the end, it was the prosecutors’ assessment of the housekeeper’s credibility that led them to downgrade their confidence in the case and agree on Friday that Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be freed from house arrest. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/nyregion/one-revelation-after-another-undercut-strauss-kahn-accusers-credibility.html?_r=1&ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=print

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Last Tuesday prosecutors confronted her with bank deposits showing multiple cash deposits totalling $US100,000 ($93,000) into an account in her name. She had consistently told investigators her job at the Sofitel was her only source of income.

They also asked her why there were several mobile phones registered in her name, running up hundreds of dollars in charges each month, when she said she had only one.

Her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, has said his client will take the unusual step of appearing before media cameras in coming days to recount what she claims occurred at the hotel.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/more-claims-against-maid-as-guests-say-she-sold-sex-20110703-1gx3q.html#ixzz1R7Suca00

PARIS — The stunning reversals in the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a putative French presidential candidate, have reawakened a dormant anti-Americanism here, fueled by a sense that the raw, media-driven culture of the United States has undermined justice and fair play.

There was shock in France after the arrest of Mr. Strauss-Kahn in May and intense criticism of the manner in which he was displayed in handcuffs, pulled unshaven into a televised court session and stuffed into a Rikers Island cell under suicide watch. There was confusion and criticism over the glee with which the New York tabloids in particular highlighted every humiliation and turned to clichés about the French — “Chez Perv” and “Frog Legs It” — in the coverage. And there was a sense that it was not just Mr. Strauss-Kahn who was being so jauntily humiliated, but France itself.

Now, with the case appearing to collapse over questions about the credibility of the hotel housekeeper from Guinea who accused him, and Mr. Strauss-Kahn freed from house arrest, the French are feeling a kind of bitter jubilation of their own, and renewing their criticisms about the rush to judgment, the public relations concerns of elected prosecutors and the somehow uncivilized, brutal and carnival nature of American society, democracy and justice.

Former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said Friday that “he was thrown to the wolves” in the American system; a former justice minister, Robert Badinter, called Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s treatment “a lynching, a murder by media.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/world/europe/04france.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

 

Why am I paying so much attention to what would only be a 5th class sordid saga in someone's history... Well, the history of humanity is controlled by self-inflated scribes referring to individuals, rarely to the importance of the intrinsic thoughts and motivations of our limited knowledge... Why? Because individuals' actions and controversies are at the source of what we think... We think of Kark Marx and of Adam Smith... and of Jesus Christ. Individualism requires heros and demons personally defined. In the case of Adam Smith, his ideas would have been common place at a Cathar's table... Most of these heroes are defined by whatever historical accident, but most would not "exist" in our mind should the historians and the media not record their existence for posterity and only paid attention to the value of the philosophy... The media, history and sacred books are only machines to make us swallow whatever... And in their framework, it is up to us to define whether the machines appear to be right or wrong — not that the machines are right or wrong.

The leap between knowledge and illusion is very small...

It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks.

Of course, the heightened technological ability nowadays to expose private behavior is part of the reason for this change. But that is precisely the point: so many of the men caught up in sex-tinged scandals of late have exposed themselves - sometimes literally - through their own willing embrace of text messages, Twitter, and other indiscreet media.

What is driving this weirdly disinhibited decision-making? Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain, affecting men's judgment about sex and causing them to have more difficulty controlling their impulses?

There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea. Six years ago, I wrote an essay called "The Porn Myth," which pointed out that therapists and sexual counselors were anecdotally connecting the rise in pornography consumption among young men with an increase in impotence and premature ejaculation among the same population. These were healthy young men who had no organic or psychological pathology that would disrupt normal sexual function.

The hypothesis among the experts was that pornography was progressively desensitising these men sexually. Indeed, hardcore pornography's effectiveness in achieving rapid desensitisation in subjects has led to its frequent use in training doctors and military teams to deal with very shocking or sensitive situations.

Given the desensitisation effect on most male subjects, researchers found that they quickly required higher levels of stimulation to achieve the same level of arousal. The experts I interviewed at the time were speculating that porn use was desensitising healthy young men to the erotic appeal of their own partners.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/2011630143536779660.html

 

see also: http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/10045#comment-16201

The Fox Mulder Theme: The French press is currently buzzing with stories about staunch DSK backers repeating their earlier (and evidence-free) charges their hero was the victim of a conspiracy. (Sorry, most links in this section are to French texts.) Over the weekend, two Socialist politicians restated their belief that Strauss-Kahn had been undone by a nefarious cabal--and pointed an accusing finger at top management of Accor, the French hotel group the owns and operates Sofitel. They not only claim someone at the New York Sofitel alerted the Elysée barely an hour after Strauss-Kahn's May 14 arrest for sexual assault, but allege Accor assisted “certain French cloak-and-dagger services” afterward with whatever it was those evil spooks had up their sleeves.

Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/04/the-dominique-strauss-kahn-story-a-cottage-industry-for-theme-seeking-journalists/#ixzz1RHTDDtnf
Meanwhile another Murdoch wonder (NYP — News Corporation: 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036) is being sued:
The hotel maid at the center of the now-teetering sex assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn filed a libel lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Post after the tabloid reported she was a prostitute.

The woman's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, filed the claim in Bronx state Supreme Court after the Post, relying on anonymous sources, referred to the 32-year-old as a "prostitute" and a "hooker." The paper also reported that she "traded sex for money" and turned tricks at a Brooklyn hotel while she was being housed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

All of those statements are false, according to the lawsuit, and have subjected the woman to humiliation and ridicule. "We filed the suit because rape victims should not be called prostitutes," Thompson said.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2081520,00.html#ixzz1RHUh34UE

Prosecutors are expected to drop sexual assault and other charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund director, at a court hearing on Tuesday.

Lawyers representing Strauss-Kahn's accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, say she has been summoned to a meeting with prosecutors in New York on Monday which they believe to be a sign that at least some of the charges, including the most serious, will be abandoned.

Diallo alleged that Strauss-Kahn, 62, attempted to rape her after she went to clean his hotel suite. The former IMF chief has said that the sexual encounter with Diallo was consensual and has accused her of attempting to extort money.

Diallo's lawyers believe the Manhattan district attorney's office will ask the court to drop the charges because her credibility as a witness was eroded after it was revealed she lied on an application for asylum in the US about being raped by soldiers in her native Guinea.

"My interpretation of that letter is they are going to announce they are dismissing the case entirely, or some of the charges," Diallo's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, told the New York Times. "If they were not going to dismiss the charges there would be no need to meet her. They would just go to court the next day to say, 'We're going to proceed with the case.'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/21/dominique-strauss-kahn-charges

 

LILLE, France (AP) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges Monday alleging he was involved in a French prostitution ring, his lawyer said. The former International Monetary Fund chief is denying wrongdoing.

It was a stunning blow on the home front for Strauss-Kahn, a onetime French presidential hopeful whose sexual behavior has been in the international spotlight over the past year.

The French charges come two days before a New York court takes up a civil case in which a hotel maid accuses Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/03/26/business/ap-eu-france-strauss...      

 

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has accused political enemies linked to Nicolas Sarkozy and his ruling UMP party of destroying his bid for the French presidency by choreographing the scandal that erupted last year when he was accused of assaulting a New York hotel maid.

In an exclusive interview published by the Guardian, Strauss-Kahn stated that he believes the highly public undoing that followed his encounter with the housekeeper in the Sofitel hotel's presidential suite, and his imprisonment on charges of attempted rape, were orchestrated by his political opponents.

While he does not believe the incident with Nafissatou Diallo was a setup, he said the subsequent escalation of the events on 14 May into a criminal investigation that destroyed his chances of winning the presidency had been "shaped by those with a political agenda" and that "more was involved here than mere coincidence".

Strauss-Kahn, 63, alleges that he was put under surveillance by French intelligence weeks before he was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting Diallo. He accuses operatives linked to Sarkozy of intercepting phone calls and making sure Diallo went to the New York police, thus sparking an international scandal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/dsk-sex-scandal-political-opponents

A California judge has issued a 90-day time-out in Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit in which she seeks to wiggle out of the $130,000 non-disclosure agreement that bars her from discussing her alleged 2006 affair with President Trump.

Judge S. James Otero granted the three-month stay Friday, handing a small victory to Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Cohen, the president’s longtime personal “fixer,” had sought to stay the lawsuit this week, arguing through his own lawyer that mounting a defense has become difficult since New York agents, who are also probing the NDA, seized cell phones, computers and documents from Cohen’s office, apartment and hotel room on April 9.

The delay allows the feds’ probe to continue for three months without Cohen being called to testify in a deposition or hearing in Daniels’ lawsuit, where he’d be forced to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — or risk swearing a statement that could potentially fuel the feds’ case.

On Wednesday, Cohen had said if he was called as a witness in the lawsuit he would invoke the Fifth.

Cohen has insisted that he paid the porn star $130,000 out of his own pocket and out of personal loyalty to Trump.

The feds are reportedly investigating whether Cohen’s payments to Daniels – and American Media Inc.’s payment to another Trump accuser, ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal – constitute campaign finance fraud.

Trump, through the White House, has denied having affairs with either woman.

 

Read more:

https://nypost.com/2018/04/27/judge-issues-90-day-pause-on-stormy-daniel...

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The financial institution has the power to tackle the climate crisis yet it excludes applicants from the global south

Mon 5 Aug 2019 15.00 AEST

It may not be widely known, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has always been headed by a European, and the World Bank by a US citizen. This is the unwritten convention, or gentlemen’s agreement, that has held since these twin global financial institutions were established in the aftermath of the second world war.

Yet those with an interest in how, and for whom, the global economy is run have long been deeply unhappy about this cosy arrangement. And these concerns have once again been brought into sharp focus after Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, announced she is stepping down next month.

An all-European shortlist was once again drawn up by the EU. But the European establishment has struggled to agree on who it wants to fill the role ahead of a 6 September deadline for nominations, with the Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva chosen to be the EU’s nominee after a divisive round of voting on Friday.

 

“The truth is that there is no readily available tried-and-tested European all-rounder,” a European minister told CNBC.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/international-mone...

 

Yoohoo! What this writer if forgetting is that the agreement is that the EUROPEANS RUN THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and that the USA run the WORLD BANK. No ifs and buts... Change the ruler of one and you cannot accept the ruler of the other. This won't cut with the Yanks...

 

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FAKE WARS AND BIG LIES (11/25)

The Two Frances

by Thierry Meyssan

We continue the episodic publication of Thierry Meyssan’s book, Before Our Eyes. In this episode, France appears divided: on the one hand, the President plays into the hands of the Anglo-Saxons and his Gaullist rival into the hands of Qatar, while two very right-wing ministers rely on former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi to defend the Libyan people. In this moment of truth, each actor must position himself with fear in his stomach. Few will remain true to themselves.

22- The fall of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Let’s go back to the war. France is the country most involved in military operations against Libya, accounting for a third of them, while the United States itself carries out only a fifth and the United Kingdom only a tenth.

Initially, the Allied armies were simply coordinated with each other. However, as of March 31. 2011, Washington [Hillary and Obama] would impose NATO’s sole command. The French army came under the command of the American admiral James G. Stavridis and his deputies, Canadian General Charles Bouchard, US General Ralph J. Jodice II and Italian Vice-Admiral Rinaldo Veri. Other non-Alliance member states are involved in the new "à la carte" coalition.

As a result, the French general staff only knew about the general strategy of the war, that which they have been ordered to do and which NATO has condescended to reveal to them. Moreover, the French forces involved were largely under-equipped and non-homogeneous, so they were extremely dependent on NATO.

At the beginning of the war, France participated in the carnage of the 40,000 Libyan army men gathered next to Benghazi, perhaps believing that they were preparing to massacre the population. For the next five months, it simply bombarded the objectives assigned to it. However, it had a few ground troops in charge of coordinating with the insurgents. It must therefore face the facts and admit the real reasons for the mess of the initial command: there are few armed insurgents and they are mainly from the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya (ICGL), i.e. al-Qaida.

The Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, and the Minister of Defence, Gérard Longuet, are the only ones concerned about the French drift and ask the Council of Ministers for France’s withdrawal from the Libyan and Syrian wars. They conduct secret negotiations behind the back of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The Minister of Defence, Gérard Longuet, is informed precisely of the gigantic demonstrations organised by Muammar Gaddafi in Tripolitania and Fezzan against NATO. From then on, he privately explained to President Sarkozy his opposition to this war [1]. He is joined by the Minister of the Interior and former Secretary General of the Elysée, Claude Guéant, who knows much more than he does. A third man, the Central Director of Homeland Security, Bernard Squarcini, is helping them.

On March 29th, the United Kingdom and France hold a meeting in London with their main allies. It is agreed that the salaries paid to CNTL members will be paid with frozen Libyan funds through the Libyan Information Exchange Mechanism (LIEM). This decision is doubly contrary to international law which prohibits interference in a national conflict by employing opponents - who must then be considered as spies - and it is of course prohibited to misappropriate frozen funds for its own benefit.

It was only during this period that Nicolas Sarkozy became aware of Libya’s treasure: 150 billion dollars, including 143 tons of gold and almost as many tons of silver. Claude Guéant is authorized to send the former director of the National Police, Prefect Édouard Lacroix, to negotiate with Gaddafi for a French withdrawal in exchange for a portion of this treasure.

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of France, was arrested in New York on the plane that was to take him to Berlin, from where he was to travel to Tripoli. The American prosecutor would later drop the charges against him.

Things became more complicated on May 14 with the arrest in New York of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of France. If the neutralisation of his socialist rival was good news for Nicolas Sarkozy, what he learned on this occasion reinforced his desire to make the most of the war against Libya. Strauss-Kahn was arrested while travelling to Tripoli via Berlin and was due to meet Muammar Gaddafi with a colleague of Angela Merkel. The interview was to focus on Libya’s monetary experiences (how to do without the US dollar and the CFA franc?). The results were to be reported to the G8 in Deauville a few days later. Strauss-Kahn obviously fell into a trap set by people who knew his background well. Though his lawyers rushed to Tel Aviv to seek help, none was forthcoming. Once again, the supporters of the military-industrial complex overtook the proponents of borderless money [2].

As the secret Franco-Libyan negotiations progressed, Under-Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman intervened from Washington and ordered Paris to stop them immediately.

Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron and Emir Al-Thani created a new Libyan central bank and a new oil company to work with Total and BP. The CNTL was allowed to sell Libyan oil itself on the international market, under Qatar’s control, and to keep the profits. The lure of profit was too strong and no one was able to wait until the end of the conflict. In a letter to the Emir, the CNTL confirmed that it allocated 35% of the crude oil to France; a proportion that corresponds to the proportion of French bombardments in relation to all those of the Coalition.

Once Cyrenaica was separated from the rest of Libya and its oil again exploited, nothing significant happened on the battlefield. The inhabitants of Benghazi, who regained their independence, no longer considered themselves interested in the future of Tripolitania and Fezzan.

During the next five months, several French personalities travelled to Libya. This was particularly the case for lawyers Roland Dumas and Jacques Vergès. The two men proposed to the Libyans to defend their interests and have the illegal freezing of 400 million euros of their assets in France lifted. They demanded to be paid in proportion to the sums at stake and left Tripoli with 4 million euros in cash, as an advance. They then sent a handwritten fax to Alain Juppé asking him to specify in what capacity this freeze took place. As the Jamahiriya collapsed in August, they would never do the work for which they were heavily paid.

Another lawyer, Marcel Ceccaldi, agreed to defend Khaled Al-Hamedi - the son of Gaddafi’s comrade in arms - after his wife and children were targeted and killed by NATO to put pressure on him [3]. It also launched several proceedings before African international tribunals in order to provide the United Nations with favourable case law. After the defeat, this old friend of Gérard Longuet became the advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Guide and negotiated the lifting of the proceedings against him in exchange for the non-publication of the recordings of the conversations with Ziad Takieddine during the negotiations and the payment of Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign. Although Ceccaldi was also an adventurer, he scrupulously respected his commitments, even after the fall of the Jamahiriya.

Even Dominique de Villepin was for sale: he and his friend Alexandre Djouhri tried to meet Muammar Kaddafi, not in his capacity as former French Prime Minister, but on behalf of the Emir of Qatar.

The former Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, came to Djerba (Tunisia) and requested an audience in Tripoli. He had become a lawyer again and represented the Emir of Qatar. He was accompanied by a friend of President Sarkozy, Alexander Djouhri, who had already acted as an intermediary with Libya. He was the bearer of a proposal to surrender in exchange for a safe conduct for Gaddafi and his family. They received emissaries who came to ask about the meaning of their travel, but were finally not allowed to enter Libya.

For my part, invited by the Guide’s daughter, Aïcha Gaddafi, I came to see what was happening on the spot. I had the feeling that I had been manipulated since Fidel Castro had spoken to me with admiration for Muammar Gaddafi because the "Commander" did not speak lightly. I noted that the districts of Tripoli which the United Nations Human Rights Council announced had been razed to the ground by Libyan aircraft had never been bombed. I noted that international law was favourable to the Jamahiriya and I drafted a plan to restore the truth and save the country diplomatically. However, the head of the secret service, Abdullah Senussi, was convinced that I was a spy. So I was put on hold until I could check my resume. France then sent a pseudo delegation of support to Libya composed of "militants", all of who were appointed by General Intelligence. They filed a file attesting to my opposition to the agreement between Libya and the Bush administration; harsh statements from which I had never concealed myself and which had led Aisha Gaddafi to bring me to Tripoli to verify the facts for myself. This approach had the opposite result to that expected: while the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Moussa Koussa, defected and joined the British, Muammar Khadafi had me join the government, charged me with negotiating various alliances and preparing the UN General Assembly in September in New York. As I did not want to be paid for political action, it was agreed that, if I succeeded in having NATO’s intervention declared illegal by the UN, I would head the editorial staff of an English-language television channel for which studios were purchased in Malta under the chairmanship of Khaled Bazelya. However, I was only to have relative power because Muammar Gaddafi would continue to negotiate through another channel with Israel, France and the United States.

The government had largely deserted. There were only six ministers left in place, two of whom were incapacitated. However, despite appearances, their positions remained unclear. Some, such as the oil company, Choukri Ghanem, claimed to defection to regain the right to travel in Europe and to release Libyan funds. Everyone was suspicious of everyone. Suspected of having passed to the enemy, Minister Abdul Ati Al-Obeidi was arrested and tortured by Abdullah Senussi for a day. It was a misunderstanding. Aware that he could still save his people, limping, he heroically continued his work without saying anything.

Like its Guide, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya had no alliance policy. From the beginning of the war, she had only a few African states as friends, including South Africa, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela. Dmitry Medvedev’s Russia betrayed her, provoking a strong reaction from Ambassador Vladimir Shamov - who was dismissed - and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - who bided his time [4]. China, with which it had a strong dispute in the Horn of Africa, refused to take a stand. Worse, pushed by the wind, some of her former allies turned their backs on her. This is particularly the case of President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. After having been particularly pampered by Gaddafi for a long time, he was the first to condemn him and make it known.

I feared that the case of Imam Moussa Sader, who disappeared in Libya or Italy in 1978, would make it difficult to get closer to the Shiites. This was not the case. It seems that, despite the public statements of the Lebanese leaders, there was a doubt about his true personality. He founded Amal, the Movement of the Disinherited (now chaired by billionaire Nabih Berri) and brought the Lebanese Shiites out of their situation. But for some, he would have been a Shah’s spy, who would have played a role in the split of Hezbollah from his party.

I attached great importance to renewing ties with Iran, which agreed to receive a delegation at a very high level, and with the Lebanese Resistance. I recognized, among the journalists present in Tripoli, the American photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill, whose role I knew she played for Mossad during the assassination of Rafik Hariri. I therefore proposed to hold her in Tripoli, inform Lebanon and prepare her extradition as a sign of good will. My mistake: Muammar Gaddafi continued his contacts with the Israelis and sent one of his children to Tel Aviv to negotiate. Abdallah Senussi hesitated once again to arrest me. Todras-Whitehill challenged me when we met again.

The famous New York photojournalist Tara Todras-Whitehill is reportedly a Mossad agent. According to the investigation of former East German judicial police inspector Jürgen Cain Kulbel, she played a central role in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Guide sank into the irrational. He hosted a Bedouin woman who entered into a trance. Through her voice, angels spoke to him. She convinced him that all this would end well. At some point, the United States would withdraw as it pushed for conflict: without explanation. This woman and her family carried a heavy obscurantism. No discussion was possible. When I asked ingenious questions, her father answered that he "agrees to talk to the infidel" - me in this case - that "it doesn’t bother him".

On June 27th, the French army bombed the Libyan television station at the precise moment when Youssef Shakir, a star journalist and former member of al-Qaeda, gave me the floor.

Believing it could take public opinion as a witness, the Jamahiriya allowed the foreign press to cover the conflict. Hundreds of journalists from all over the world came to see the traces of NATO bombings. Sometimes they missed their target, hit one building and left another intact. It appears that, in each of these cases, a second strike immediately followed the journalists’ passage.

Unable to identify which journalist was in contact with NATO, Muammar Gaddafi decided to gather them all at the Rixos Hotel and only allow them to leave with police officers. The offices of the government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, were also located there. While his team was working as a team, all computers were suddenly hacked. The data scrolled at full speed on the screens and the keyboards no longer responded. The power had to be cut off to stop the hacking. Again, it is impossible to know which "journalists" organized this operation. Abdullah Senussi then decided to use software he had bought from a French company. This allowed one to hack all the emails in an account since its creation, by entering the memory of the server that stores them. The results were staggering. Almost all of the journalists present, including the French, except for the Russians, South Americans and the AFP correspondent, are spies working mainly for the CIA and MI6. Before coming to Libya and from computers they did not carry with them, they exchanged either application files or mission orders by e-mail with their headquarters.

Generally speaking, television teams are composed of three or four people. The war journalist who appears on the screen is a correspondent of the central office who provides him with information on all the theatres of operation. Most of them covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq before coming to Libya - despite appearances, they are not many. Two technicians ensure the recording of images and sound. They are usually undercover Special Forces members. Finally, the American teams also include a producer who is in fact an operative agent on mission.

Daily bombardments, although generally extremely targeted, wound or kill their share of "collateral victims". In addition, some targets are only chosen criminally, as racketeers do, to make an impression and force submission.

Politics takes place in three buildings: all political leaders, except the Guide, have been gathered for their safety at the Radisson Blue Hotel; foreign guests are received at the Corinthia, which will house the provisional government; while journalists are monitored at the Rixos Hotel, which will be partially destroyed.

Gérard Longuet, Minister of Defence, and Alain Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The two men hate each other cordially. The first - a former militant of the far-right political party in the West - tried, in vain, to oppose the war against Libya, the second - allegedly "Gaullist" - organised the French engagement.

A secret meeting is being held at the Joint Force Command in Naples by NATO. France is represented by its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Juppé, and not by its Minister of Defence, Gérard Longuet, who is against the war. In 2004, Juppé, former Prime Minister, was sentenced by the Nanterre Court of Appeal to 14 months’ suspended imprisonment and one year’s ineligibility for illegal taking of interest. This particularly lenient decision - he had been sentenced to 10 years’ ineligibility at first instance - had led him to leave France and settle in Quebec for a year. In fact, he spent many weeks in Washington and, out of ambition, became a neo-conservative. When asked about his presence at the Naples meeting, Alain Juppé’s cabinet will reply that he was unable to attend because he was on holiday on that date.

To form the National Liberation Army, France chose Generals Abdelfattah Younès and Khalifa Haftar. The first was until February one of Gaddafi’s companions. It is not known how DGSE managed to return him. However, he continues to maintain relations with Saïf el-Islam Gaddafi. Haftar betrayed his country during the Chad war. He worked for France and the United States before being forced to flee and settle in Langley (USA), near the CIA headquarters. However, Younes was arrested, tortured, mutilated and murdered at the end of July. His body is partially burned and eaten. Although everyone pretends to ignore what happened, he was executed - following a trap set by Mustafa Abdel-Jalil - by the men of Abdelhakim Belhadj (Al Qaeda), gathered in the Brigade on February 17.

Former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi was conducting secret negotiations with French Defence Minister Gérard Longuet. He was extremely loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, but denounced the thuggish behaviour of several of his children. After the war, he was sentenced to death and finally released thanks to his lawyer, Me Marcel Ceccaldi, in July 2019.

Just before the start of the Naples meeting, a negotiator secretly dispatched by Nicolas Sarkozy left Tripoli on a speedboat. The decision had already been made to end it all. The trap was closing. It would now be impossible to enter and leave Tripoli by air, land and sea. Meanwhile, the French Parliament allows the attack on Libya. At the National Assembly, where we know nothing about what is going on behind the scenes, the president of the Sarkozy group, Christian Jacob, does not hesitate to pay a hypocritical tribute to the soldiers on mission. "These soldiers, often very young, have committed themselves to defend our country and our values, risking their lives. We know what we owe them and the whole of France is aware of the value of their sacrifice. While revealing that they were sent exclusively as part of a colonial conquest war, very far from republican values: "The French flag flies in Benghazi and it is for us a source of immense pride," he shouts to the applause of his colleagues.

While I explain to my friends that the Atlantic Council will never allow NATO to ignore the mandate of the UN Security Council and bomb Tripoli, Washington is trampling on the Alliance’s statutes. Forming a conspiracy, it convened a secret "Defence Committee" in Naples. Only the closest States are invited (France, Italy, Turkey, United Kingdom) and some friends from the region (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar). Together, they define how they will use NATO assets and present the Atlantic Council with a fait accompli.

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Luther King’s former companion, Walter E. Fauntroy, will testify that he himself saw regular French and Danish soldiers behead Libyans alongside jihadists. In his country, he was immediately accused of fraud and forced to flee to Dubai. The case was closed a few years later.

The record of decisions of this meeting specifies the targets for each unit. Among them, French Special Forces are given the mission to eliminate me. Search notices - concerning about fifteen Libyans and myself - were distributed in Tripoli the day after its fall. However, I and my companions are falling through the cracks thanks to states and people - including Walter E. Fauntroy, a former member of the United States Congress and former assistant to Martin Luther King Jr. - including French and Russian television crews who have just arrived. Back in his country, Fauntroy will testify that he himself saw regular French and Danish soldiers alongside Al Qaeda beheading Libyans.

The capture of Tripoli was a deluge of fire for three days. About 40,000 people were killed without distinguishing between soldiers and civilians, reproducing the massacre committed by Italian troops in 1911. All the roadblocks at the main intersections of the city were bombed, then British helicopters took to the streets to indiscriminately machine gun all those in the streets. The city was not properly defended because its military governor had been corrupted by NATO and sent his soldiers home just before the attack.

During the battle, Muammar Gaddafi took refuge in a bunker located under the Rixos hotel where foreign "journalists" had previously been gathered. Their presence prevents the Coalition from using air weapons. The park is therefore surrounded by the Al Qaeda brigade commanded by the Irish Mehdi Al-Harati - the CIA agent who participated in the Turkish Freedom Flotilla operation for Gaza - and supervised by French Special Forces. The hotel is defended by Khamis Gaddafi and his men.

When defeat is certain, the Gaddafi flee to Sirte. For my part, I will first find the Revolutionary Guards that the Islamic Republic of Iran sent to save me, and then I will flee to Malta on a small ship chartered by the Czech Republic for the International Organization for Migration. Before we leave, my companions and I will be successively searched by NATO, the Senussi, the Muslim Brotherhood and its al-Qaeda branch in Libya. The passengers were selected by mutual agreement between NATO - which has just changed its mind about me - and the Kadhafists so that the two groups could let them cross the battle lines. On board, I find myself with both the former mistress of Saef el-Islam and the Italian Special Forces who provoked the war by firing from the rooftops at demonstrators and police officers in Benghazi on 16 February 2011.

Finally in Sirte, the Guide negotiated with Israelis for his departure for Chad. It was a trap. On October 20, he was arrested by the French Forces and Al Qaeda, raped, tortured and murdered.

Far from surrendering their weapons, the Libyan "revolutionaries", i. e. Al Qaeda, find themselves as in Afghanistan, then in Yugoslavia, with the wind in their sails.

23- The transfer of Libyan fighters to Syria

Even before the final fall of Tripoli, the United States is converging its employees of the Libyan National Transitional Council and the Al Qaeda command at the Corinthia Hotel. The building was placed under the protection of the British services, while fighting continued in the city and the deserted streets were littered with corpses. Abdelhakim Belhadj, former world number 3 of Al Qaeda, is appointed military governor of the capital. Alain Juppé told the Parisian on 26 August: "When asked about the cost of the operation - the Ministry of Defence talks about one million euros a day - I point out that it is also an investment in the future. The country’s resources were confiscated by Gaddafi who accumulated gold stocks. This money must be used for Libya’s development; a prosperous Libya will be a balancing factor for the region. On September 1st, an international conference in Paris confirmed the "regime change". Less than one-tenth of the Libyan $50 billion blocked is released. We do not know what happened to the remaining 100 billion dollars of the Libyan Treasury.

120,000 dead later, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron celebrate their victory in Benghazi. But is it against Muammar Gaddafi, against the Tripolitan or against the Libyans?

On September 15, Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppé and BHL travelled with David Cameron to Benghazi, escorted by hundreds of French and British police and military officers. They are triumphantly acclaimed by 1,500 handpicked people. They come to take possession of the oil they have conquered. In a brief speech, President Sarkozy announced that France stands not only alongside Libya but also with "all Arab peoples who will want to free themselves from their leader". All he can think about now is attacking Syria and seizing its colossal gas reserves.

 

Emir Al-Thani can rub his hands. The international press celebrates him as a defender of democracy, as he practices slavery in his country (Kafala). The conquest of Libya cost him only 20,000 tons of weapons and $400 million.

Precisely, as soon as the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was overthrown in Tripoli, Bengahzi residents arrested the blacks who had not been able to escape. They are put in cages and exhibited like animals. The ancient slavery tradition of nomadic Bedouin populations over sedentary Blacks is reappearing.

After transforming Amnesty International into a lucrative fundraising company, Ian Martin became the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Libya. Vitali Tchourkine, Russian ambassador to the Security Council, revealed that Ian Martin had transferred Al Qaeda fighters in Libya to Turkey and then Syria by presenting them as "refugees".

In November 2011, Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative and former Secretary General of Amnesty International, Ian Martin, organized the boat transfer of 1,500 jihadists from Al Qaeda to Turkey [5]. Officially these men, single and armed, are "refugees". They are under the authority of Abdelhakim Belhadj - who has not left office in Tripoli - and Mehdi Al-Harati. They land in Turkey and are transported by buses chartered by MIT (Turkish Secret Service) to Jabal Al-Zouia in Syria. They constitute the first unit of the Free Syrian Army (ASL) under French command. Belhadj will return to Libya at Christmas, after being recognized in Syria by a Spanish journalist from ABC. Mehdi Al-Harati will then create another group, Liwaa Al-Umma (the Islamic Nation Brigade), to train Syrian fighters. In September 2012, this group will return to the free Syrian army.

(To be continued...)

Thierry Meyssan

Translation 
Pete Kimberley
Roger Lagassé

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Ian Martin has had his dirty mitts in creating and "solving" (through the destruction of countries and his "bleeding heart" about refugees) problems that did not exist in the first place. The massive refugee problems into Europe and Turkey have been mostly induced by Martin's hypocrisy... Here is an article by Ian Martin, written in 2013... Read between the lines by referring it to the article above.

 

By Ian Martin...

Two years ago it was not Syria but Libya in the headlines, with the transitional council which had led the struggle to depose Muammar Gaddafi seated at the United Nations as the country's new government. This week Libya's prime minister, Ali Zeidan, met David Cameron while in London for an investment conference, and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's trial was adjourned to December; but today Libya is largely absent from the media. When it is referenced, it is most often because a commentator cites it to score a point regarding Syria. At the extreme, Libya is mentioned in the same breath as Iraq and Afghanistan as a self-evident disaster of western intervention.

But those of us who worked with Libyans, as I did while head of the UN mission there after the end of the Gaddafi regime, know that Libya deserves continuing attention for its own sake, especially for the courageous men and women who took peacefully to its streets in protest at the regime's repression, only to face its further violence. The country is indeed going through a period of great difficulty: armed groupsbeyond state authority sometimes intimidating legislators and judicial authorities; assassinations, bombings and abductions; torture in detention; regional and ethnic divisions; political and ideological tensions exacerbated by events in neighbouring countries; terrorist groups straddling uncontrolled borders; and now a drastic slump in the flow of oil as well as the general inhibition which insecurity causes to investment.

Libya's travails must be understood in its own terms, not through superficial generalisations about the Arab spring turning to winter. If analysts of Egypt talk today of the "deep state", in which its army has a leading role, Libya has aptly been called the "stateless state", not only lacking security forces but left by Gaddafi devoid of almost every institution of modern governance.

It was moving to witness the elation of most Libyans as they voted in its first election for 50 years in July last year. This election – an extraordinary achievement – was necessary to address post-conflict challenges and the overwhelming demand to exercise long-denied democratic rights, together with the frailty of interim authorities. But it was far from being a sufficient condition, as events have shown.

The elected General National Congress and its government suffer from inexperience and divisions. Disagreements persist about the role of political parties, whether new or founded on the long-underground Muslim Brotherhood, and about the eligibility for office of those who served the Gaddafi regime. Attempts to establish a body to draft a new constitution face problems that go back to the emergence of independent Libya from three former provinces of the Ottoman empire, brokered by the UN in 1951. Above all, authorities struggle to manage a transition from today's militias to an army and police force which can establish a state monopoly of force.

Despite this, surveys show Libya's people remain remarkably optimistic as they experience freedoms they were so long denied. Their desire for a state which can provide the rule of law is expressed through a vibrant civil society, sometimes challenging the lawlessness of militia. Tribes are a source of local conflict, but their elders are also a means of conflict resolution, and Libya is largely free of the sectarian divisions that plague Iraq and Syria. Oil wealth offers a better future for a small population, if the dangers of corruption and dependency on handouts can be held in check and it is invested to create employment.

What should be the response of those whose concern is for Libya itself? A group of American experts has just written to John Kerry, the US secretary of state, advising him to increase Washington's engagement in the country. International actors should indeed stay engaged, as the UK has consistently sought to do. But any over-assertive western approach will provoke a backlash in Libya, signs of which can already be seen.

A framework for increased international support to the all-important security sector has been agreed between the government and UN, the European Union and bilateral partners. The UN is supporting Libyan efforts to launch a national dialogue among authorities and revolutionaries, regions and tribes. An understanding is required of the legacy of the Gaddafi era, together with a realistic sense of the pace at which democratic institutions, security and rule of law can be established. And this should contribute not to disillusion, but to a sustained commitment to assist.

 

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