[lbo-talk] Libya

[Chuck Grimes]

``You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, 
is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and 
the House of Saud. Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations 
independently confirm that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary 
Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the 
pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a "yes" vote by the 
Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya - the main rationale that led to 
United Nations Security Council resolution 1973...''  Pepe Escobar

http://www.counterpunch.org/escobar04042011.html

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Sounds about right. There are several other explanations in the article that 
help make sense of the goings on.

CG