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September 2011: Sensing victory in Libya, corporate-financier-funded think-tanks began preparing for the rebuilding and despoiling of the Libyan economy. "Globalists to Rebuild Libya" commented on NATO's Atlantic Council's report detailing just how they would go about doing this. Also, as violence in Libya spiralled out of control and atrocities carried out by the rebels and their NATO backers became more obscene, the fraudulent nature of the "War on Terror" became clear. "Libyan Rebels Listed by US State Department as Terrorists" illustrated how NATO members are guilty of violating anti-terrorist laws by providing material support for listed terrorist organisations. proxy assault, raised serious suspicions that an escalation, not a retreat, was to follow. Rhetoric for war with Iran had been steadily increasing and the beginning of what looked like a covert war was being fought inside and along Iran's borders. A disastrous ploy of framing Iran for the alleged planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador in Washington, DC, fell apart when Iranians linked the plot to the US- backed terrorist organisation Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). It is more than likely that the withdrawal of troops rom Iraq would simply provide the US "plausible deniability" for an Israeli airstrike on Iran. November 2011: Syria's "peaceful protesters", who all along had been fully armed and attempting to stoke a Libyan-style civil war, were finally acknowledged as such by the corporate media and more importantly by the corporate-funded think-tanks that supply them with their talking points. In "ISS: Syria's Opposition is Armed", it is stated that a report out of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) by Emile Hokayem, Senior Fellow for Regional Security at IISS-Middle East, openly admitted that Syria's opposition is armed and prepared to drag Syria's violence into even bloodier depths. Also in November, Wall Street and London's assault on Libya came full circle with the installation of Abdurrahim El-Keib as Prime Minister. El-Keib, who spent decades in exile in the US, was previously employed by The Petroleum Institute, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and sponsored by British Petroleum (BP), Shell, France's Total, the Japan Oil Development Company and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Joining El-Keib was US-funded activist Moncef Marzouki, named as President of Tunisia. Marzouki spent two decades in exile in Paris, France, and as noted previouly [16 January 2011] was the head [and is now on | [ENT FL A screenshot taken directly from the US Department of State website showing the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) clearly listed as a foreign terrorist organisation. This is important, as US Code prohibits providing material support to isted terrorist organisations. Listed below LIFG is MEK, an lraqi-lranian group also being armed and supported by the US. (Source: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm) Senator John McCain landed in Libya, this time in Tripoli to celebrate the destruction of the country and shake hands once again with members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that delivered Qaddafi's Libya into the hands of the Wall Street-London elite. The farce that is western “democracy”: one corporate-fascist puppet, Mahmoud Jibril, steps down and another, Abdurrahim El-Keib, takes his place. In reality, it is NATO states and their corporate sponsors that now determine Libya’s fate. Pictured above, El-Keib (left) poses with Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, Chairman of the unelected NATO-backed National Transitional Council of Libya. October 2011: While Tunisia and Egypt had fallen and Libya, too, was being seized by proxy forces fuelled by the West, the Obama administration began withdrawing troops from Iraq. This suspicious withdrawal, when otherwise the rest of the Middle East was under US 16 * NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com