Libya: not just oil and gas to plunder. The alleged slave trade covers anything else?

(To Andrea Cucco)
23/11/17

Various media campaigns are being dropped on the rubble of Libyan institutions. Old and well-known readers Online Defense, you will agree that not even four protesters with a flag or a sign activate "spontaneously" ...

The last case that has been affecting Libya today concerns a presumed "slave trade": an unacceptable trade for any human being.

Reliable and well-founded cases of overseas readers have raised doubts and perplexities (see letter to Online Defense).

But what could possibly lead to a humanitarian attack in a country already devastated, one failed state?

Let's think about it.

Next spring in Libya, after years of rhetoric, elections will take place. After more than a shine of substantial anarchy, it could see the light of a real national government. We say "could" because after the clamorous reckoning of Afghan elections (v.articolo), everything is also possible - but it should be said "above all" - in the presence of peacekeepers foreigners. And in the end, we Italian children and grandchildren of the '46 referendum what do we want to teach others?

Future protagonists (we support him for a long time) will be General Haftar and Saif al-Islam Mu'ammar Gaddafi, the second son of the deceased (and assassinated) Saddam. The first one for military strength and the credibility gained in years, even decades, of international contacts (in addition to the recent change of government party in the States ...), the second for the simple reason that if they were reduced in our postwar period today's Libya (instead of taking off our economy, v. Marshall Plan) after a few years we would have all over again Fez. And only those who make a few hundred meters from our embassy in Tripoli know how long the nostalgia of the past is so strong and inexorable.

Therefore, in six months Libya is seriously in danger of returning to the Libyans. And with it the control of resources. Will official and unofficial agreements with puppet authorities or local leaders still apply?

We're on the point. For some time, France is extracting gold from rich 70 kilometers south of Sebha, in Fezzan. Without too much publicity. An area rich in uranium ...

Sebha's "Families" would have been courting for a long time by "cousins" with gifts and granting European citizenship in exchange for their free hand to the extraction. Similar dynamics would also have occurred over and over in Chad and Niger. Guess what the Nigerian president is supposed to support the media attack against Libya ... (v.articolo)

The presence of gold reserves in the south of the country is poorly known but real (more). A theme that in the recent past has not gone unnoticed by some analysts ... (v.articolo)

What no one seems to have asked so far is whether the ongoing campaign against the intolerable "slave trade" does not have a second end?

From Libya we receive testimonies of cargo helicopters shuttling between a French military base not far from the fields (inaccessible to the Libyans themselves) and the southern borders of the country ...

According to you, in case of intervention and its mandate of the UN - because this is obviously what is to be expected - which country will be the blue helmets sent to Fezzan?