On Friday, Pentagon officials were loudly championing their airstrikes in Libya, reporting 49 people killed in a strike near Tripoli, and speculating that a Tunisian man that they really wanted to kill was “likely” among them.
We still don’t have confirmation on the Tunisian, Noureddine Chouchane, but the Serbian government has confirmed that a pair of kidnapped Serbs from a diplomatic convoy were among the slain. Serbia was in the process of trying to secure their release.
The Pentagon says it had “no information” that there were Serbs or any other civilians present at the airstrike, and reiterated that they believed the people at the camp were plotting against “Western interests in the region.”
Western interests in Libya almost certainly means the oil industry, and ISIS has repeatedly tried to capture key oil ports along the coast. After the NATO-imposed regime change, Western companies invested heavily in Libyan oil, and has seen very little return on that as the country has been in a state of constant warfare ever since.
Whatever the pretext for the strike, Libya’s recognized government didn’t take too kindly to it, saying the US launched the attack without any advanced coordination with them, and that it amounted to a violation of Libyan sovereignty. The recognized (Tobruk) government only has territory in the far east, and the US likely didn’t consider them worth consulting on the strike in the west.
Intentionally killed the Serbs as a threatening message to Serbia.
The Pentagon or the CIA don’t really know who they kill in general but then crow about how they never kill any civilians.
NATO regime change, Western companies invested heavily in Libyan oil,
and has seen very little return on that as the country has been in a
state of constant warfare ever since…
The USG and EU imperialists are responsible for the unrest and
carnage happening in the Near East and Africa.
It’s a joke listening to idiots like Trump and Billary Clinton
harping about the refugee (problem) which is the result of
USG-backed regime change, and wars for profit.
Full and perfect justice, for the corporate rich ordered Obama to destroy Lydia so they could plunder the oil, so now their corruption yields them nothing but grief.
Being allowed to murder the leaders of all those who oppose our Empire, rationalizing this to it’s ultimate conclusion, this can only cause all people to detest government to the point that only terrorist groups end up having a monopoly on the use of force and violence. Trump being the vanguard of such a kill or be killed existence.
If there were US citizens held hostage by these groups (as opposed to Serbs), does anyone think that the USG would have launched such a raid?
Non-Uh’murican life seems to be worthless in the eyes of the accursed USG.
The USG doesn’t give a rat’s ass about American lives either.