Early Tuesday morning NATO launched new attacks against Libya's capital:
NATO increased its bombing operations against Tripoli on Tuesday, carrying out the largest attacks in weeks as rebels appeared to make advances in their efforts to break the siege of the key western city of Misurata.
The attacks on Tripoli occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Jets could be heard booming over the city. Several large explosions followed, and NATO said its warplanes hit three “command-and-control” targets in the capital. NATO said its airstrikes also hit targets in Mizdah, a town 114 miles south of Tripoli; Sirte, a stronghold of Moammar Gaddafi on the Gulf of Sidra; and Misurata, a port 131 miles east of Tripoli and the only rebel-held city in the western part of the country.
The High Commission for Children was destroyed in the bombing
The humanitarian situation has worsened in Libya. 58,000 people have been displaced from their homes, including children who have sustained injuries:
Libyan officials said that four children were injured by flying glass shards as a result of the apparent NATO air strikes, including two who were seriously hurt and had been put in intensive care in the hospital.
A government building which had been previously bombed was destroyed. A guard at the scene said that the structure housed a number of civil society organizations, including the High Commission for Children.
A 9 year old child was injured in Misurata
The officially stated reason by the UN war council for the invasion of Libya is to protect its people. However, they were put in harm's way when the U.S. facilitated an insurrection against the country's ledership. Then, the oil fields were seized denying a critical revenue stream. Additionally, $30 billion in assets were captured, increasing instability and escalating the war.
The war's rationale was questioned by a British fact-finding group which found no evidence of violence by Gaddafi's forces in western Libya:
It also follows the surprise finding of a British campaign group who claimed they had seen 'no evidence' that Colonel Gaddafi's forces had attacked, bombed or killed any civilians in western Libya...
The mission, from British Civilians For Peace in Libya, led by Dave Roberts, of the Socialist Labour Party, spent a week touring Tripoli and a number of other towns in the west of Libya.
The militaristic interventionist approach towards the Libyan government has marked a departure from recent years, when Western leaders were happily exploiting its economy:
Renaissance Group (RNCG) fund manager Justin Farr-Jones flew to Tripoli last May with a British investment delegation that promised to give “unique access” to Libya’s financial leadership.
The economy was opening up after Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had both met Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, whose son Saif completed a doctorate at the London School of Economics. Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, was freed in 2009.
“It was actually a must-visit economy,” said London-based Farr-Jones, whose firm focuses on emerging markets. “I really did feel that Libya was on the brink of reform.”
Just a short while ago the Federal Reserve was providing billions in credit to the Central Bank of Libya, which turned around and purchased millions of dollars worth of American and British weapons.
One characteristic of Libya which may be threatening the West is its self-controlled banking system:
One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned ... Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability.