AND SO IT BEGINS

19th MARCH 2011

Leaders of the Arab League and their advisers above.

On the 19th March 2003, United States President George W. Bush ordered the start of the invasion of Iraq. It was called by him Operation Iraqi Freedom. A combined force of mainly U.S. and United Kingdom troops, together with contingents of Australian and Polish forces invaded Iraq. 148,000 US troops, 45,000 UK, 2000 Australian, 183 Poles. Included in the invading army were 620 Iraqi soldiers representing the Iraqi National Congress and 70,000 Peshmerga (Kurdish fighters - The Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan). That's 25,000 more troops than the UK. We have heard very little about them, or indeed the 620 INC troops.

The 19th March was the official start of the invasion; however, the Peshmerga linked up with the CIA's Special Activities Division (SAD) and the U.S. Military 10th Special Forces Group and prepared the battle space for conventional U.S. Military forces throughout Iraq. The first step was evicting the Ansar Al Islam from their enclave around the village of Biyara, this battle happened prior to the official invasion and was carried out with officers from SAD and the U.S. Army Special Forces Group. The Ansar Al Islam were a Kurdish Sunni Islamic group and most of them were killed during the initial operation.

As to the Iraqi National Congress (INC), this is or was an umbrella Iraqi opposition group formed with the aid and direction of the United States government following the initial Gulf War (1990/91), for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Given this track record of United States interference in other sovereign countries' affairs, what is the CIA or SAD or the 10th Special Forces Group up to in Libya? What steps have been taken to foment the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi?

It is a simple question and one which we are unlikely to have an answer, until a few years down the line, or someone leaks the information sooner.

Today the Europeans meet to discuss sending planes into Libya. On what information are they basing their decisions.

In any event the 19th March 2011, eight years on from 2003 is hardly going to be a great day for peace or humanity. At present everything is being blamed on Gaddafi