Well written and well researched book about the US and European failures in helping Muslim terrorists, including Al-Quada, overthrow Quaddafi, the ruler of Libya for many decades.
Libya is a Muslim country and has been since the late 600s AD when North Africa was overrun by he Muslims from Arabia. The country boundaries are artificial and imposed by the west. Libya is a country of a collection of tribes, and there is not really an identity as a country first.
Muammar al-Qaddafi had been the ruler, essentially a dictator for decades, and managed to keep the lid on the country by understanding how to play off one group against the other in the country. The oil wealth allowed him to buy off different groups. Quaddafi sponsored terrorism, and was not a nice man.
In the past decade or so, he had calmed down and given up his pursuit of a nuclear weapon. All in all, he was not really a problem to the west or his people, certainly not in comparison with years past. Then in 2011, was a rebellion in Libya, which Quaddafi did not immediately and aggressively put down. The dissident forces go organized into a larger rebellion. The dissidents were hard line Muslims in general, and some were just plain Al-Quada. The hardlineers considered Quaddafi to be an apostate, and not a true Muslim. Thus Quaddafi deserved to be overthrown and to be killed in their minds.
The Europeans took this opportunity to provide air support to the rebels, and the US got sucked into having Obama agree, without a congressional resolution, or declaration of war. The help from the western air forces allowed the rebels to overcome Quaddafi and his army etc. Quaddafi was captured and killed. The rebels were brutal, and did a number of beheadings, and throat cuttings and execution of prisoners by a gun shot to the back of the head. All typical terrorism stuff from the Muslim terrorists.
The US and European governments especially the state departments or foreign offices really screwed in using the air forces to support radical muslims in overthrowing the most moderate ruled on Libya that we could reasonably expect to have at this time. If the US and European intelligence communities did not know who they were supporting and what Quadaffi was at this point in his life, they are incompetent.
This book lays out all of the relationships between the radical Muslim organizations involved in overthrowing Quaddafi. All of the information was available to any intelligence organization that would go look and assemble it into a comprehensive picture. This book makes it easy to understand how the west is screwed up in combatting radical Muslims.
Everyone who wants to understand what happened in Libya will find t his short book interesting and illuminating.
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