Clinton, Sarkozy, Obama, eager to plunder Libya's resources

World leaders want to "map" Libya's future. And we see who they are, Hilary Clinton and Nikolas Sarkozy among others.  The struggle will now begin as the map they have in mind is privatization of the oil industry and the selling off of as much of the state assets as possible. Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator but much of the state wealth that wasn't syphoned off provided certain benefits that will no longer exist as western oil companies get their dirty hands on it. And when it comes to murder and mayhem, Gaddafi comes way behind, Rumsfeld, Bush, Blair, Obama, Clinton, Cheney and others. Goldman Sachs stole one billion dollars of the Libyan people's money.


Let's remind ourselves which elements within the National Transitional Council US capitalism is promoting and who it is handing over the Libyan people's money to:

One is Mahmoud Jibril who is chairman of the NTC. He served in the Gaddafi government before defecting and was head of the  NEDB (national economic development board) His role included projects to “pave the way” for private sector development, and to create a "strategic partnership between private companies and the government." A US State Department cable released by Wikileaks said of Jibril that "With a PhD in strategic planning from the University of Pittsburgh, Jibril is a serious interlocutor who “gets” the U.S. perspective." (My added emphasis)  

Vice Chairman is Dr Ali Al Issawi who is described on the NTC website as a "Holder of a Doctorate in privatisation. In 2005 he was appointed as Director General of the Ownership Expansion Program, (a government privatisation fund)."  He was Libyan Ambassador to India under Gaddafi when the revolution broke out and switched sides.  The doctorate of privatization will please Goldman Sachs and the whole Wall Street crowd.

Then there is Mahmoud Shammam. Shammam is the owner of Libya Al-Ahrar TV, a Libyan TV station headquartered in Doha. It is funded by Libyan capitalists in exile.  Shamman is also the editor of the Arabic language edition of Foreign Policy magazine.  Foreign policy is  major theoretical journal of the US bourgeois and is owned by the Washington Post. 

The struggle for change in Libyan society and against imperialism and religious extremism is about to begin.