{"id":272326,"date":"2023-08-17T07:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272326"},"modified":"2023-08-19T05:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:51:01","slug":"killing-gaddafi-was-a-serious-mistake-italian-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272326","title":{"rendered":"Killing Gaddafi was a \u2018serious mistake\u2019 \u2013 Italian FM"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Aug 17, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Western powers committed a major blunder by helping to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in a 2011 regime change operation, Italy\u2019s top diplomat said, admitting his death unleashed years of chaos and conflict in the African country.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Tuscany on Wednesday, Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Antonio Tajani described Libya\u2019s troubles since Gaddafi was overthrown and murdered, saying he was \u201ccertainly better than those who arrived later.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very serious mistake to let Gaddafi be killed. He may not have been the champion of democracy, but once he was finished, political instability arrived in Libya and Africa,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/a>. The official noted that Rome had kept an agreement with the leader which \u201cblocked the migratory flows and the situation was much more stable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Gaddafi was brutally executed by rebel fighters amid a NATO bombing campaign, conducted under the pretext of imposing a no-fly zone\u00a0during Libya\u2019s 2011 civil war. Though Washington and its allies described the mission as a \u201chumanitarian\u201d<\/em> effort to end government attacks on civilians, a probe by the UK House of Commons<\/a> later found that the \u201cthreat to civilians was overstated,\u201d<\/em> and that Western powers had ignored a \u201csignificant Islamist element\u201d<\/em> among the anti-Gaddafi militants.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the regime change operation, Libya was divided between several competing governments, each claiming legitimacy to rule. The factions have continued to fight in the years since, eventually consolidating under two camps led by the UN-backed Government of National Accord, and forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar and the Libyan House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Terrorism also saw a resurgence across North Africa following Gaddafi\u2019s death, with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and groups linked to Al-Qaeda establishing strongholds in Libya and beyond. By July 2014, an estimated 1,600 militant factions were active in the country, a major increase from the 300 tallied in 2011, according to the US Institute of Peace.<\/p>\n

Though the two warring governments have been locked in a stalemate in recent years, Libya continues to face periodic bouts of violence, with clashes between rival armed groups<\/a> leaving 27 dead and over 100 injured earlier this week. Echoing previous statements, the United Nations voiced concern over the \u201csecurity incidents and developments\u201d<\/em> in Libya, while Washington called for \u201cde-escalation\u201d<\/em> to \u201csustain recent Libyan gains toward stability.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Also see:<\/p>\n

Libya fighting leaves 55 dead, dozens injured: Medics<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Fighting between rival groups left 55 dead and dozens injured in Tripoli on Monday.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani admits that the Western-backed overthrow and murder of the Libyan leader has created huge problems. As fighting between rival factions in Tripoli on Monday leaves 55 dead and dozens injured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272327,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272326\/revisions\/272327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}