By Manuel E. Yepe

A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippman The US has sworn to ¨make
those responsible pay” for the death of their Ambassador in Libya.

But the truth is that those responsible for Christopher Stevens’ death had
been armed, funded, trained, and controlled by NATO Special Forces. And the
US is the leader of NATO.

In March 2011, before his posting as Ambassador to Libya, Stevens had been
appointed “Special Representative to the Libyan Transitional National
Council, (LTNC)” and sent to Benghazi to coordinate US military, diplomatic,
and financial support in the struggle to overthrow the legitimate government
of Libya. There he played a leading role in coordinating the violent
subversion with the support of local terrorist organizations. Benghazi,
located over 400 miles west of the capital Tripoli, is considered the 30
year epicenter of terrorist extremism and Al Qaeda in Libya.

Although the US Embassy, as are all other embassies in Libya, is in Tripoli,
Ambassador Stevens lost his life while he was in the US Consulate in
Benghazi

According to journalist Tony Cartalucci in an article published by the
digital journal Activist Post, behind the protests at the US diplomatic
representations is the goal of rescuing the street credibility of the
sectarian extremist organizations such as Al Qaeda which are increasingly
internationally seen as mercenaries serving Saudi-US-Israeli policy.

Thus, the violence is always limited in scope, designed simply to reduce the
legitimacy of the accusations of complicity with the US which discredits
these organizations.

Ambassador Stevens apparently was caught in smoke while escaping from the US
consulate in Benghazi, and died of asphyxiation – a victim of unforeseen
circumstances, not the victim of a targeted assassination.

However, the death of a high-ranking US diplomat in Libya, in Benghazi, the
very den in Libyan territory of Al Qaeda, leaves the United States and its
foreign policy, especially in regards to Syria, in tatters.

The concentration of international terrorism that presently has powerful
allies in the superpower and its European allies has a long history in
Libyan territory.

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), along with its affiliates and
predecessors, were armed, trained, its leaders coddled and supported by the
West for over 30 years. One of these predecessors, the US-CIA backed Front
for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) made multiple attempts to assassinate
Qaddafi and initiate armed rebellion throughout Libya during the 1980’s.

Many of these fighters would also line up with the US-Saudi created front,
Al Qaeda, when first it was conceived in the mountains of Afghanistan in the
1980s. Most of these fighters lived and operated from Libya’s eastern region
of Cyrenaica, and in particular, the cities of Benghazi and Darnah.

These same fighters, would then move on to fighting US troops in both
Afghanistan starting in 2001, and Iraq beginning in 2003,

The large number of Libyan Islamic recruits who travelled to Iraq kept a
close cooperative relationship with Al Qaeda, along whose forces they
fought. Their links were consolidated, and after the liberation of prisoners
of war, both organizations merged in 2007.

It would seem unthinkable then that the US would pick as an ally for its
wars in Libya and the Middle East that which had been the epicentre of
terrorism in Libyan territory for three decades and had even fought directly
with US troops across multiple theatres of war – especially after these
terrorists officially announced their merger with Al Qaeda –the organization
the US considers responsible for the monstrous terrorist attack of 9/11
against the Twin Towers in New York.

But that is exactly what the United States did.

“So who exactly will the US make “pay” for the death of Ambassador Stevens?”
Cartalucci asks, “Will they pull the funds and weapons they are using
currently to wage terror upon the people of Syria? Will they liquidate the
terror organizations and bases in Libya recruiting and training militants to
fight America’s proxy war in Syria?”

“Unlikely”, he answers.

September 2012.