Sunday, May 15, 2011

Analyst: USA Orders Italy to Send More Arms to Libyan Rebels

Interview with former Assistant Secretary to US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts


Following Libya's National Transitional Council's announcement that Italy has agreed to supply revolutionary forces with weapons, former Assistant Secretary to US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts told Press TV that Rome's decision was made on behalf of Washington.

The following is the transcript of the interview:

Press TV: What do you think of Italy's role in the ongoing war in Libya?

Roberts: Well Italy is an American puppet state and will do whatever Washington tells them to do , I don't think Italy has a role as an independent country and so I don't really pay any attention to what Italy says.

Press TV: The National Transitional Council spokesman has said they are going to receive arms from Italy shortly, but the head of the council has said they have not received anything yet. What is your take on any agreement between them?

Roberts: No its not, what the UN security council issued is a no-fly zone that means to stop Libyan air force planes from flying in the air it doesn't mean that NATO countries can come to the military aid of the rebels.

You see in my opinion, and I may be mistaking but my opinion is that there is no legitimate rebellion in Libya it's a CIA operation and the US government is trying to get China out of Libya because China has extensive energy investments in Libya and also in two other North African countries and the US is very disturbed by the recent reports from the International Monetary Fund that China will surpass the US as the number one economic power within 5 years.

So Washington is trying to evict China from the Mediterranean and that is why the Libyan so called rebellion is unique, it did not take place in the capital city and it is also an armed rebellion which is not previously characterized in the Arab protest.

It originates in the east where china's oil investments are located and so what this is an effort to evict China from Libya.

Press TV: If the situation that's going on in Libya as you say is the US with ulterior motives to the humanitarian intervention that it initially claimed to happen what will constitute an end game for what's going on in Libya right now?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Well the end of the game would be probably to petition the country and eject China from the east which would be under the new CIA operation.

It's possible that Washington would go further and send troops and overthrow Gaddafi but it would meet Washington's objectives simply to separate the oil regions in order to get rid of China out of the Mediterranean.

For the same reason Washington is focused on Syria because in Syria the Russians have a very large naval base in which they intend to keep aircraft carriers and Washington does not want the Russians with the navy in the Mediterranean.

And so what has happened is while Washington was caught off guard by the Arab protests in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain they quickly learned that they could use Arab protests as a cloak behind which to hide while China and Russia are evicted from the Mediterranean

And in my opinion that's what all this is about its certainly not about humanitarian concerns, I mean how can the Americans or Washington be concerned about humanitarian issues when they are continually murdering people in Pakistan and in Afghanistan and wherever else.

So it has nothing to do with humanitarian concerns it has to do with evicting to other world powers from the Mediterranean region. 
source-mathaba.net

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