W.E.B. Du Bois
07-15-2011, 06:08 PM
newser.com/story/123532/us-recognizes-rebels-as-libyas-government.html
The US will officially recognize the Libyan rebels’ Transitional National Council as the country’s legitimate government, Hillary Clinton announced today at a meeting in Turkey of nations intent on resolving the country's chaos. All 30 members of the International Contact Group gathered there will ultimately recognize the TNC as well, Italy’s foreign minister tells the AP. Italy and France already do so.
The recognition isn’t just lip service—it will allow countries to unfreeze more than $30 billion in Libyan assets, money the rebels badly need as their stalemate with Moammar Gadhafi’s forces drags on, the Washington Post reports. The US was on the fence because it wasn’t sure how well the TNC would govern, but was won over by its presentation at the summit.
This is huge. This could give them access to all those funds that Gaddafi had, potentially enabling them to buy huge amounts of weapons that would let them win the war. I think I heard Wolf Blitzer say that the rebel government (the TNC) would even be open to reimbursing NATO for the costs of bombing Gaddafi's forces.
They need artillery and tanks. Then they can wrap this shit up.
This also changes things on the domestic US front as well. Now Obama can really say he is not engaged in a war any more, since Gaddafi is now the insurgent forces, and the US is technically no longer at war with Libya.
The US will officially recognize the Libyan rebels’ Transitional National Council as the country’s legitimate government, Hillary Clinton announced today at a meeting in Turkey of nations intent on resolving the country's chaos. All 30 members of the International Contact Group gathered there will ultimately recognize the TNC as well, Italy’s foreign minister tells the AP. Italy and France already do so.
The recognition isn’t just lip service—it will allow countries to unfreeze more than $30 billion in Libyan assets, money the rebels badly need as their stalemate with Moammar Gadhafi’s forces drags on, the Washington Post reports. The US was on the fence because it wasn’t sure how well the TNC would govern, but was won over by its presentation at the summit.
This is huge. This could give them access to all those funds that Gaddafi had, potentially enabling them to buy huge amounts of weapons that would let them win the war. I think I heard Wolf Blitzer say that the rebel government (the TNC) would even be open to reimbursing NATO for the costs of bombing Gaddafi's forces.
They need artillery and tanks. Then they can wrap this shit up.
This also changes things on the domestic US front as well. Now Obama can really say he is not engaged in a war any more, since Gaddafi is now the insurgent forces, and the US is technically no longer at war with Libya.