09 April 2011 By Wayne Madsen Another, this time an Israeli
source alleges that 50,000 African mercenaries have
been hired by Ghadafi through an Israeli company,
Global CST. Watch the PressTV video
here.
But one would have thought that were this story true
it would be headline news?Experts on Africa who have
traveled extensively in Libya contend that the stories
emanating from the Western media that portray Libya's
leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as engaging the services of
black mercenaries from Sahara and sub-Sahara Africa is
a disinformation ploy by the CIA to stoke racist
fervor among Libyans rebelling against Gaddafi. After Western news sources
‘reported' that Gaddafi had hired black African
mercenaries to fight against Libyan rebels, thousand
of black African workers in Libya were set upon by
angry mobs who believed the Western propaganda that
the black workers were fighting for Gaddafi. The role of President Obama in
stoking a CIA-engineered racist response by Libyan
rebels has not been lost on a number of
African-Americans. One leading African-American
activist in Washington, DC wrote in an email: ‘Not
demanding the accountability of a black president will
garner us the same things as not holding a white
President accountable – nothing.' Western news organization
reported that Libyan rebels were ‘hunting down' black
African mercenaries but many of these were merely
workers who came to Libya from their
economically-depressed nations to seek employment in
mainly the Libyan oil services, agricultural, and
construction sectors. Ironically, a number of the
Africans targeted by angry mobs spurred on by CIA and
other Western intelligence planted news stories are
from Kenya, the land that Obama claims as his paternal
ancestral home. Other Africans, stranded in Libya
and subjected to the racial onslaught of Libyan Arabs,
hailed from South Sudan, Uganda, Sierra Leone,
Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Burundi,
Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Nigeria. A million and a half
black African guest workers were in Libya at the
outbreak of the fighting between Gaddafi and rebel
forces. Only a few of the Africans were evacuated with
many being forced to hide in their homes and flee
without the support of their governments to squalid
refugee camps in Egypt, Tunisia, and Sudan. Even
dark-skinned non-African workers from Bangladesh could
not escape the wrath of the Libyan rebels. Other Africans, notably those
from Niger, Mali, Gabon, and Chad, recalled how
Gaddafi funded development projects in their nations
and they responded by travelling to Libya as
volunteers to support Gaddafi. However, these
volunteers were branded as mercenaries by the Western
media and their intelligence agency overseers. Algeria
rejected charges that its nationals were being sent to
Libya to fight as mercenaries for Gaddafi. London's
Sunday Mirror
ran a dubious story on March 27 that Gaddafi's son,
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, had fled to Zimbabwe where he
was trying to enlist an African army to assist his
father's forces. The report stated that Zimbabwe's
aging dictator, Robert Mugabe, was prepared to send
Zimbabwean army troops to Libya to fight alongside
Gaddafi's army. The CIA's propaganda war against
black Africans in Libya was not limited to the
editorial offices and television news bureaus of
Washington, London, Paris, and New York. A Liberian
presidential candidate, T. Q. Harris, blamed Gaddafi
for the forced conscription of young men and boys into
his army. The statement was picked up by Liberia's
longtime CIA-influenced newspapers. On March 16,
The Guardian of
the UK printed a clarification of a previous report
that intimated that Gaddafi had recruited mercenaries
from the Zaghawa tribe living in Darfur and Chad. The
Guardian
wrote that there was ‘no evidence that members of the
Zaghawa are involved in the present conflict.' Not only were workers from Chad,
Ethiopia, and Somalia hunted down by Libyan rebels and
hanged from lamp posts and hacked to death with axes
and machetes, but black Libyans, mostly from the
southern province of Fezzan, received the same
treatment. The neo-conservatives in the Washington and
New York media centers ignored the plight of the black
workers and continued to echo the charge that any
blacks in Libya were Gaddafi mercenaries. The fact
that many of the black Africans massacred by the
Libyan rebels had Libyan worker documentation was lost
on the Western media. The
New York Times,
in a March 16 article titled ‘Libyan Oil Buys Loyal
African Allies for Qaddafi,' wrote that Gaddafi
recruiters were enlisting ‘about 200' young men in
Mali to fight in Libya.
The Times
repeated the CIA-engineered disinformation story that
3,000 to 4,000 mercenaries had been recruited by
Gaddafi's government from Mali, Darfur, and Niger at a
salary of $1000 per day. However, in a March 11 story
in the Times,
it was reported that U.S. intelligence officials were
unable to confirm the report that between 4,000 and
5,000 mercenaries from Niger, Mali, and Darfur's
Justice and Equality Movement had been hired by
Gaddafi for $1000 a day. In an era of information
warfare, even the CIA cannot keep its planted news
stories straight. The U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations, Susan Rice, in a March 17 statement on the UN
Security Council's adoption of the resolution creating
a no-fly zone over Libya stated that one of the
reasons was to prevent planes carrying ‘mercenaries'
into Libya to support Gaddafi. It has also been reported that
Saudi Wahabi-linked groups among the rebels, including
the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, have specifically
targeted and executed Christian black African workers
as ‘infidels' who support Gaddafi. Adding to the psychological
warfare operations that trumpeted the presence of
‘African mercenaries' among the Gaddafi forces was a
‘made-in-Israel' report that Gaddafi, with the support
of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, and Aman intelligence chief Aviv Kokhavi had
arranged, through the Israeli security firm Global
CST, the secret transport of 50,000 African
mercenaries into Libya. Gaddafi was said to have paid
Israel $5 billion to the Israelis for the mercenaries.
The report of an Israeli connection to blacks in Libya
fueled the anger of radical Islamists among the Libyan
rebels who were convinced that Gaddafi not only had a
secret deal with Israel but that he was a ‘crypto Jew'
because his grandmother was Jewish. The charge was
broadcast on Israeli national television by a Libyan
Jewish woman who claimed she was related to Gaddafi.
Other Zionist-influenced media sources reported that
Gaddafi was relying on Serbian, Ukrainian, and Syrian
pilots and a group of fierce Tuareg tribal warriors
recruited from across the Saharan Desert. The
Washington Times,
a right-wing fringe newspaper owned by self-proclaimed
Korean ‘Messiah' Sun Myung Moon, ran an op-ed on March
21 by Prince Mohamed Hilal al Senussi, a member of the
former Libyan royal family Gaddafiousted in a 1969
coup. Senussi likened the Libyan rebels to members of
the Republican ‘Tea Party' in the United States and he
repeated the charge that Qaddafi was using black
African mercenaries: ‘In Baida, over 100 perished in
the hands of Gaddafi-employed African mercenaries from
Chad, Niger and Mali, prompting local police forces
and members of the army to break ranks from the regime
to protect their unarmed countrymen.' The connivance of Western
intelligence agencies, in concert with Israeli
elements and Western corporate media, laid the
groundwork for the massacre of black Libyans and
blacks from other parts of Africa, has enraged
African-Americans who previously supported Obama in
his political campaigns in Illinois and
nationally.Obama, America's first African-American
president, now has the distinction of being the only
American president to launch a bloody war on an
African nation. In the eyes of many African-American
political activists, Obama has revealed himself to be
as much a tool of the CIA, Wall Street, the oil
companies as past white American presidents. Comments 💬 التعليقات |