False Flag operation predicted for Libya

Photo of the USS Liberty after experiencing a pre-planned attack by Israeli fighter jets that used napalm and resulted in 34 American deaths was designed to get America to attack Egypt.

If the US follows its historical playbook of Iraq hunting for Saddam and Afghanistan as well, their next step is a false flag catastrophe to substantiate NATO troops on the ground in Libya.

Press TV talks with Mark Glenn, a writer and political commentator in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho who expands on his analysis that the US is using uprisings across the Middle East to pave the way for intervention on humanitarian grounds to gain greater imperialist dominance.

Press TV: What do you think about the situation now occurring in Libya right now after 24 hours of aerial bombardment by the UN no fly zone resolution?

Mark Glenn: Military action being instigated by the West against Libya should remove any doubts that anyone had as to Western involvement in the revolutions that have been taking place beginning with Tunisia.

If this had been the same situation — if Ben Ali had not stepped aside quietly as he did; if Mubarak had not stepped aside quietly as he did we would have seen military action being brought against those regimes, of course, under the auspices of humanitarian concerns. So it is time now for people worldwide and particularly those from the Middle East to bone up and face the fact that the US and these other Western powers are up to their eyebrows in this.

They are not going to allow anyone to challenge the military and economic superiority of the Western powers who seek to dominate the region and this latest military adventure against Libya is just proof of that; that the US is going to make sure things remain business as usual, even if they do manage to affect cosmetic changes on the surface, things will stay as they are.

To underscore a main point for your viewers — Where was this no fly zone? Where was this military intervention when Israel was busy slaughtering thousands of innocent men, women and children in Gaza known as Operation Cast Lead? The US might as well have been a corpse for all the noise it was making against these operations. If anything, this latest military intervention should underscore the absolute hypocrisy of not just the US, but the entire Western world when it comes to who really are the thugs and the dictators and the oppressors of the Middle East.

Press TV: Viewing this entire situation through the eyes of the revolutionaries – what do you think they should be doing? I was talking to an analyst an hour ago and he advised that it is not a moment for being lax for the revolutionaries; they should just sit back and watch; that this is the moment they should come back and hit back at Gaddafi — what do you think about this?

Mark Glenn: The revolutionaries, first of all, need to stop taking their money and their training and their direction from these Western powers that are using these revolutionaries to topple another Middle Eastern governments. That’s the first thing — the rebels need to understand that they are being used as pawns for Western interests.

Now, they may think that they are fighting for their freedom and I certainly believe that they genuinely believe that as they are risking life and limb, but they need to understand they are being used as pawns on a chessboard and at the end of the day after they have sacrificed everything they have to make this change they hope is going to take place in Libya — no change is going to take place.

Whoever comes to power in Libya will wind up doing the bidding of these Western powers and of Israel. As I said at the beginning, if these movements were organized and if they understood the stakes that really were at play here they would be making friends with some other powerful players such as Russia, China, or Iran. If they want to have an effective successful revolution, they should base their revolution on what the Iranians did in 1979.

Press TV: Mark, we really don’t know what is coming next. According to some analysts, this is a sort of stalemate for Libya as no one knows how long Gaddafi will hang on. How long, under current circumstances, do you think Gaddafi will remain in office? And if he goes and is replaced by another regime, what will be the shape of that? If the Americans are investing with their fighter jets they are thinking of the future of this movement — of their own benefits and the say they will have after Gaddafi goes.

Mark Glenn: Absolutely. There is no stalemate. What is going on is that the US and the other Western countries are posturing; they are painting a picture for not just the American people, but for the world, you know — we’re only here to help the Libyan people, we’re not waging war against another Middle Eastern country no no no. This is the picture they are trying to paint because the US and these other Western countries have made pariahs of themselves as a result of having gone in and killed over two million innocent Iraqis and who knows how many Afghanis. This is just another Hollywood production.

What concerns me is that what we will see take place in the near future is some attack on American military interest such as a ship or something like that. And it’s going to be done big. Something along the lines of the USS Liberty that Israel attacked in June of 1967 that killed 34 Americans, or possibly something along the lines of the attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors (Yemen, 2000). So an attack on an American vessel, which Gaddafi more than likely would not be responsible for doing because he realizes that if he were to do something like that all bets are off. However, you cannot discount rogue elements within the US intelligence community, and Israel itself from pulling something off like this and then blaming it on Libya.

Once some attack on an American military interest takes place that results in the loss of life or any American service men or women, then you will see the America people calling for blood and there will be no more talk of a no fly zone. All of a sudden we will have boots on the ground and we will be hunting for Gaddafi in the same way we were hunting for Saddam Hussein.

Press TV: In the last sentence you said, Mark that eventually there is going to be troops on the ground. This more and more to me resembles the situation in 2003 with Iraq.

Mark Glenn: Absolutely, this is Iraq part II. It may not be as bloody and as catastrophic in terms of the humanitarian suffering that takes place. Libya has a much smaller population; however, at the same time we are seeing a repeat of what took place when these advisors who were yanking George Bush around like a poodle on a leash telling him that he had to go into Iraq and destroy that country for Israel’s benefit. Libya is no different in that regard. It is another recalcitrant leader in the Middle East that will not bend the knee to Israel and the US and therefore he has to go.