Old, but I only learned of this recently:
"At the beginning of the Lybian conflict, authorities discovered and seized roughly $67 billion of Gaddafi's wealth hidden in bank accounts around the globe. England, France, Italy and Germany seized another $30 billion and the Obama administration found a staggering $37 billion in the United States. Investigators suspect that Gaddafi hid an additional $30 billion around the world."
fucking murder people so you can steal their money, brehs
They murdered Gadaffi to get elected (Sarkozy and Clinton did). Sid Blumenthal was frothing at the mouth at the thought of being her secretary of state after he made her 'own' Libya.
It basically went like this:
- The Europeans led by Sarkozy wanted to attack Gadaffi because oil, him trying to create a new African currency backed by his vast gold reserves and reasons
- The Europeans didn't have the firepower to sustain a bombing campaign for more than 2 days.
- Obama was opposed to acting in Libya as he feared another Iraq or worse, Afghanistan
- Sid Blumenthal told Clinton it was a great idea to tie her wagon to the Libyan cause. After all it would improve Obama's poll numbers and her stature
- Clinton convinced Obama into taking action in Libya. Military assured Obama it would be an easy victory
- Watered down UN resolution condemning Gadaffi and calling for a no fly zone passes with Russian and Chinese support
- US and EU (basically NATO) used the ambigious UN resolution to bomb Libya
- Russia protests
- Gadaffi flees, is spotted by NATO and bombed
- Rebels catch up with his bombed convoy and rape him on live TV and then murder him and throw him in a ditch
- "We came we saw he died" - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Also the western powers armed the 'popular uprising' much like they would in Syria.