{"id":281745,"date":"2016-10-20T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281745"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:12:17","slug":"post-gaddafi-libya-in-chaos-as-plan-b-was-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/post-gaddafi-libya-in-chaos-as-plan-b-was-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPost-Gaddafi Libya in chaos as Plan B was missing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Libya is a name given by colonialist Italians, the country should be renamed Gaddafia in memory of this great pan-African hero.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Muammar Gaddafi was a stabilizing force in Libya and the civil war there is continuing causing deaths and suffering for people because the masterminds of his removal from power had no plan on what to do after his death, experts say.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re seeing now is the Arabic Spring has turned into an \u2018Arabic Winter\u2019, because there was no Plan B on what to do after Gaddafi, and we have a civil war in Libya now. That is one of the problems, or the biggest problem.<\/p>\n

October 20 marks five years since the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.<\/p>\n

The civil war in Libya is continuing as rival Islamist groups engage in bitter fighting with the internationally-recognized government for control.<\/p>\n

RT asked experts what were the causes of the Arab Spring in Libya and eventual civil war.<\/p>\n

\u201cLibya is just another one of those countries with too much interference from outside sources. In my opinion Gaddafi should have remained in power, because he was some kind of a stabilizing force. The problem today is we have these diplomats that don\u2019t understand world affairs \u2013 they\u2019re really not good at it. That is in many different countries. That was one of the biggest problems in Benghazi, as our State Department is getting involved in things they should not have been involved in,\u201d\u00a0retired US Army General\u00a0Paul Vallely\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Obama and the State Department that created the weapon sale over there, basically arming the Muslim Brotherhood, backed Al-Qaeda radical Islamic elements over there \u2013 that created the problem in the first place,\u201d\u00a0Vallely said.<\/p>\n

Those who masterminded the overthrow of Gaddafi could have prevented the current chaos in Libya had they thought of a plan for after the Libyan leader\u2019s removal, says European Parliament member Georg Mayer.<\/p>\n

RT:\u00a0Libya’s been through a very rough patch since its leader was killed in 2011. In your opinion, will we see the situation in the country improve any time soon?<\/p>\n

Georg Mayer:\u2026 Gaddafi was a dictator and the people had to suffer under his power. That is quite clear for us. The other thing is, like Obama said, the Plan B was missing. There was Arabic Spring starting and what we\u2019re seeing now is that the Arabic Spring – sad enough turned – into Arabic Winter. Because of a missing Plan B \u2013 meaning not to know what to do after Gaddafi, we have the civil war here now. That is one of the problems, or the biggest problems.<\/p>\n

RT:\u00a0People in Libya are in a worse state now, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

GM:.. What we see and what we saw in the past is that a lot of people died in the civil war; a lot of people suffer under the civil war; a lot of people suffer under ISIS; and they of course are searching for ways out of the warzone. And that is what we see in Europe \u2013 people are coming or want to come to Europe to get a safer place.<\/p>\n

RT:\u00a0As it often happens when the government is overthrown, various terrorist groups and military factions come to the country creating a power vacuum. The powers that masterminded the current situation in Libya could have seen this coming, couldn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

GM:\u00a0Of course they could have seen this coming. I think we even said that at that time that you have to have the Plan B, because otherwise it is chaos and that is what it is at the moment\u2026 people suffer and people die there.<\/p>\n

RT:\u00a0So are you appalled by the way it was carried out and handled generally?<\/p>\n

GM:\u00a0Yes, I think that\u2019s it. You had Obama before who said the same more or less. He said that they didn\u2019t plan anything for the period after Gaddafi. You have the vacuum there, you have the people fighting in between; you have the problem with oil, because everybody wants to get to that resource. That is the situation.<\/p>\n

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