Canadian military intelligence knew that NATO\u2019s March 2011 intervention in Libya would aid militant theocratic Islamists aligned with al-Qaeda and could create long-term chaos in the country, according to David Pugliese, a reporter with The Ottawa Citizen, who obtained Canadian intelligence documents.<\/p>\n
At the time, NATO military leader, U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, denied that opposition to the secular leftist Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi was dominated by fundamentalist Islamist theocrats, calling the bulk of the opposition forces \u201cresponsible men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Canadian intelligence was clear-eyed about the nature of the Libyan opposition.<\/p>\n
Pugliese revealed that \u201cA Canadian intelligence report written in late 2009 described the anti-Gadhafi stronghold of eastern Libya,\u201d from which the uprising against Gaddafi erupted, \u201cas an epicentre of Islamist extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Canadian pilots joked privately that they were part of al-Qaeda\u2019s air force, \u201csince their bombing runs helped to pave the way for rebels aligned with the terrorist group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pugliese reports that just days before NATO\u2019s intervention in Libya,<\/p>\n
Canadian intelligence specialists sent a briefing report shared with senior officers. \u2018There is the increasing possibility that the situation in Libya will transform into a long-term tribal\/civil war,\u2019 they wrote in their March 15, 2011 assessment. \u2018This is particularly probable if opposition forces receive military assistance from foreign militaries.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Stephen Harper later denied that NATO\u2019s intervention created the chaos that has paralyzed Libya, despite his own military\u2019s warning that there was a good chance it would.<\/p>\n
This reveals a dishonest attempt to manipulate public opinion through outright deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canadian military intelligence knew that NATO\u2019s March 2011 intervention in Libya would aid militant theocratic Islamists aligned with al-Qaeda and could create long-term chaos in the country, according to David Pugliese, a reporter with The Ottawa Citizen, who obtained Canadian intelligence documents. At the time, NATO military leader, U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, denied that opposition … Continue reading “Canada knew NATO would be aiding extremists in Libya”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[1017,1510,8880,1115,2376,1479,9828],"class_list":["post-18076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-canada","tag-chaos","tag-failed-state","tag-libya","tag-nato","tag-oil","tag-stephen-harper"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18085,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076\/revisions\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}