Arriving in Tripoli today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised an additional $11 million in US aid to fund the National Transitional Council (NTC) as it moves to establish itself as the new government in Libya.
The aid included medical care for rebel fighters wounded in the conquest of the nation, as well as pledges to help the NTC secure weaponry. The weaponry effort may be too late, however, as large amounts of the Libyan weapons caches have already been looted and shipped abroad for sale at arms markets.
The latest influx of aid brings the total in funding to the NTC from the Obama Administration to $135 million, according to officials. The US is also planning to restart some of its Gadhafi-era aid programs.
A large portion of that funding has gone to a handful of State Department officials deployed to look for the looted weapons. Officials say that there are 14 officials on the ground, and that this program alone has cost $40 million. It is unclear if they found any of the weapons.
And of course the US hangs on to the $35 billion it seized from the previous Libyan government.
Yes that's correct backblow, they will give Libya US tax dollars and keep the 35 Billion to bribe and pay the CIA to start another war somewhere else.
I am glad Shillary is going to give millions of her own dough to Libya.Ol Bent Dick can spare it,he's loaded with all that cash from oligarch monsters.
A recurring nightmare those two.
And the banksters will hold onto those billions of stolen Libyan dough to balance their fraudulent activities.
Oh, good heaven, if we're the champions of liberty and justice, God help the world.
There's a new evil empire on the block, and it's us.
yeah she is the equivalent of human garbage…it was bad when Libya was independent and wasn't on the US payroll. Now they can be yet another recipient of taxpayer dollars…while Americans go without jobs, without food, crumbling infrastructure…etc
The only way America's priorities seem in order is if the Pentagon is running the government…otherwise it makes no sense
Usually, it's buy first and bomb second. This time, they've reversed the order: bomb first and buy second. The poor Libyans are so very screwed. Wait till they get a poodle posing as "president" – What a travesty!