Ten years ago today…
1. In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi—the deposed leader of Libya—fled Tripoli after the capital fell to NTC forces. He was soon captured by the rebels, beaten and sodomized with a bayonet, and then shot several times...
2. Gaddafi’s death wasn’t immediate. Later videos would show him with a gunshot wound to the head, slowly dying in a pool of his own blood
The nature of Gaddafi’s death was concealed from the American public, and Western involvement was repeatedly denied until videos surfaced
3. The Obama Administration justified US involvement in the toppling of the Gaddafi regime as an effort to “protect Libyan civilians.”
“We had a unique ability to stop the violence.” Obama said.
4. “We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi…could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.”
Later, Hillary Clinton would coldly revel in Gaddafi’s killing, “We came, we saw, he died.”
5. After Gaddafi’s removal Libya descended into anarchy, and the Administration’s dreams of a liberal democratic Libya would collapse in widespread violence and corruption. One year later rebels belonging to Ansar al-Sharia would attack the US Embassy in Benghazi...
6. The attack claimed the lives of the US Ambassador there and three other Americans—an event riddled with lies and obfuscations typical of the Obama years.
*Eleven years ago today.
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