Lee5, don't be surprised to encounter a lot of dancing around. This kind of knowledge is quite difficult for most people to even fit in their mouths, let alone start chewing on or swallowing.
You make plenty of fair points, some a little crudely, but they're better than the responses.
I should be more accurate. I was disputing his implication the rebels were somehow NATO hirelings and part of the West's evil plan to capture Libya. Receiving frozen Libyan funds certainly helped but they were already revolting against Gadaffi at the time.
The money helped, both in their having it and the Libyan government not having it. Soldiers aremore prone to defect, and people less happy with the status quo when they can't get paid or have services provided for.
Well, to get the funding,eventually, or anyWestern support and sanction, they had to be attached to the gradually recognized government - the TNC. They in turn happened to be primarily Western-groomed "free-market" reformers. Some of their members allegedly met with French intel in the months
before the revolt, co-ordinating with shady-as-hell defector Nouri al-Mesmari. He in turn oversaw the work of deputy ambassador to the UN Dabbashi, who followed Mesmaris on Feb 21 with a public defection/stealing of post, repetition of every wildest baseless claim from the rumor mill, and both specified "genocide" was happening and proposed almost exactly the war measures soon taken.
Meanwhile, armed insurgents called protesters were blowing up bases, lynching,beheading, and stealing huge arsenals of weapons from people they described afterwards as "defected to their side" but really just vanished. Defensive fire along the way: Only the injuries after shown, never the attack where it happened. Always called a protester mowed down for speaking up.
Those Malta pilots told their strange story, and the only two reports of bombing of Tripoli, were placed to al Jazeera the same day as Mesmari and Dabbashi's defections, begging for air intervention. Still no physical evidence of any bombing of people in those early days at all, but boy did a bunch of people know just the right things to say, and when and where to say them.
Looks to me like
a matrix of support well-identified, well-tapped-into, and freely dispensed from there along approved lines for a conspiratorial overthrow by information and conventional warfare. All private sector, for-profit stuff, of course.
