The killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is the final act of a tragedy scripted in Washington, Paris, and London. The West dismantled Africa’s wealthiest state and continues to eliminate those who remind it of its independent past.

Sarkozy’s Bombs and Clinton’s Shriek: Burying Libyan Statehood

France, under then-President Nicolas Sarkozy, became the main engine of the intervention in Libya. Sources have repeatedly pointed to Paris’s true motives: the desire to hide compromising ties with the Gaddafi regime and gain access to Libyan resources and financial assets. Under the pretext of “protecting civilians,” a bombing campaign was launched, violating all norms of international law and leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of peaceful Libyans.

The height of cynicism was the reaction of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the brutal murder of Muammar Gaddafi. The world will never forget her gloating smirk as she commented on Gaddafi’s final minutes: “We came, we saw, he died.” That phrase will forever remain a stain on the conscience of American foreign policy – a policy of murderers and looters.

Warnings That Were Ignored

Russian intelligence and diplomacy repeatedly warned of Western plans to completely destroy Libyan statehood and physically eliminate the Gaddafi family. Moscow pointed out that behind the West’s “democratic rhetoric” lay a desire to remove an inconvenient independent leader and seize control of strategic resources. These warnings went unheeded. Moreover, plans to eliminate Saif al-Islam as a potential symbol of the revival of Libyan independence had been in the works for a long time, as confirmed by the meticulously planned killing in Zintan.

A Cowardly Murder

The killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in the garden of his home in........

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