Declassified Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gold-Backed Currency
Washington, D.C. – In spite of French-led U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 creating a no-fly zone over Libya with the express intent of protecting civilians, one of the over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve, contain damning evidence of Western nations using NATO as a tool to topple Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. The NATO overthrow was not for the protection of the people, but instead it was to thwart Gaddafi’s attempt to create a gold-backed African currency to compete with the Western central banking monopoly.
The emails indicate the French-led NATO military initiative in Libya was also driven by a desire to gain access to a greater share of Libyan oil production, and to undermine a long term plan by Gaddafi to supplant France as the dominant power in the Francophone Africa region.
The April 2011 email, sent to the Secretary of State Hillary by unofficial adviser and longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold,” reveals predatory Western intentions.
The Foreign Policy Journal reports :
The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”
Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency.
The email makes clear that intelligence sources indicate the impetus behind the French attack on Libya was a calculated move to consolidate greater power, using NATO as a tool for imperialist conquest, not a humanitarian intervention as the public was falsely led to believe.
According to the email :
This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
(Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.)
The email provides a peek behind the curtain to reveal how foreign policy is often carried out in practice. While reported in the media that the Western backed Libyan military intervention is necessary to save human lives, the real driving factor behind the intervention was shown to be the fact that Gaddafi planned to create a high degree of economic independence with a new pan-African currency, which would lessen French influence and power in the region.
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The keepers of fiat currencies will never let a gold backed currency come back again.
Well now this throws a whole new picture on the Libyan fiasco.
Kind of cracks me up when we get so outraged when a foreign power tries to interfere with us.
Are you speaking of Libya and their currency endeavors?
can we get a mainstream media source for this story from three or four months ago?
This is an email in search of a scandal.
Foreign Policy Journal
DailyKos (that one should satisfy you)
You should read the comments section in the Daily Kos link.
It was unusual, so I went to the comments section after reading the article. That explained it. This news originated on crank sites, not mainstream news sources.
So you admit the daily Kos is shit and should not be trusted? I will remind you of that next time you post their tripe. As far as it being true or not....Read the declassified emails yourself. The link spike posted for foreign policy journal has a lin k to them. Why would you call BS on a (correct) story reporting on emails you can read yourself?
In the comments section are people who are from Libya, telling the seeder that the Libyan government was a murderous regime. Your version of events wants to disqualify that detail and focus on anything that makes Clinton look bad. You're always "liberals are this" and "liberals are that", yet you are the most predictable and transparent anti-Hillary sycophant on this site.
SO you really think we attacked them because of a "murderous regime"? Give me a break. Why is Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt our "allies" then? Go ahead and Ignore the facts and Spin it the way that keeps you most comfortable as you always do.
BTW you may want to check the facts Aaon posted.
Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !
• There was no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free … for all its citizens.
• There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
• If a Libyan is unable to find employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
• Should Libyans want to take up a farming career, they receive farm land, a house, equipment, seed and livestock to kick start their farms –this was all for free.
• Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
• A home was considered a human right in Libya. (In Qaddafi’s Green Book it states: “The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others.”)
• All newlyweds in Libya would receive 60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start a family.
• A portion of Libyan oil sales is or was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
• A mother who gives birth to a child would receive US $5,000.
• When a Libyan buys a car, the government would subsidizes 50% of the price.
• The price of petrol in Libya was $0.14 per liter.
• For $ 0.15, a Libyan local could purchase 40 loaves of bread.
• Education and medical treatments was all free in Libya. Libya can boast one of the finest health care systems in the Arab and African World. All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines, completely free of charge.
• If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government would fund them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2,300/month accommodation and car allowance.
• 25% of Libyans have a university degree. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 87%.
• Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – though much of this is now frozen globally.
Yes it was the most prosperous country in South America until BO & Hillary turned it into a terrorist training ground.
It's a pity that the author of the seed... and then the seeder... used a red-meat / clickbait title for the article, rather than the more accurate title of the original Foreign Policy Journal article, "Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention"... because the FPJ version is pretty good. It is clickbait, too, but if it is read with appropriate skepticism, it is effectively informative.
The key passage is:
Though the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April 2011 email [archived here] sent to Hillary with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold” tells of less noble ambitions.
The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”
The article presents this as "new" information, and it may be for most Americans... but all of it was widely discussed in French media before the French airstrikes. It should be noted that the headline's "gold standard" is only a footnote, once we read the actual content.
Gaddafi and his regime were an oddball on the international scene. As Aeonpax demonstrates , the "bloody dictator" (which he was) was also a social progressive. He was a contradictory man who could blow up airliners and maintain a ton of social programs.
He had hairbrained schemes, so I would not be at all surprised if he imagined a gold-based currency. Gaddafi's $9 billion in gold and silver sounds like a lot, but the combined GDP of the CFA zones is about $170 billion, and the GDP of France (which guarantees the two francs CFA) is about $3 trillion ... That's a tough hill to climb, explaining that the Colonel's gold-coin gambit was not really a headliner...