British, French agents undercover in Libya to get Gaddafi: Report

[jakeXT]

London, June 19 (ANI): A team of 130 British and French agents are reportedly on a one-million-pound-a-week, do-or-die deep undercover mission in Libya to get Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The British security service MI6 and France's Directorate-General for External Security agents will hunt for the dictator in Operation Fire And Forget, the Daily Star reports.

According to a senior security source, these agents are personally sanctioned by UK PM David Cameron and French President Sarkozy, the paper said.

Members of the team speak the language, have lived in the country for years, and have made good contacts or landed jobs in key areas.

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http://in.news.yahoo.com/british-french-agents-undercover-libya-gaddafi-report-124708307.html

that's nearly 7700 pounds per assassin.

[amborin]

1. you mean to get that light sweet crude

granted, Ghadaffi is evil but let's admit what this is really about

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Open public assassinations, the new policy, sounds like.

Who else we got on the hit list?

[Distant Observer]

7. But dare any brown-skin try to do the same in their countries and WHOA -- TERRORISTS

[Distant Observer]

8. This was the usual MO in the good old colonial days -- almost every leader not bought was killed

[malaise]

3. Remember when the imperialists used to have

covert operations. Now they invade sovereign, independent countries (to steal resources), violate international law and tell legitimate leaders that they have come to kill them.
:puke:

[Distant Observer]

9. Interesting which ones don't have to go: Emir of Bahrain, Dictator of Syria, Junta of Burma, etc

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Calling Qaddafi a "legitimate leader" is a bit of a stretch...

We're definitely playing wicked games of would-be conquest, but he seized power in a coup.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. And the USA supported him, in a fashion.

"the United States government judged that Gaddafi was sufficiently anti-Marxist and thus acceptable."
despite Britain's plan to support an overthrow of him.

So he was "legitimatized" until he wasn't anymore. ( not denying that he has done awful things, just saying USA DID support him early after the coup)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

[Distant Observer]

15. by that definition, which of the Emirs, Kings, dictators the US supports are ligitimate?

[Fool Count]

4. Those pathetic fuck-ups Sarkozi and Cameron

couldn't mount anything of that magnitude if their lives depended on it. This is just a psyop-type disinformation to scare Qaddafi into
resigning and people around him into defecting. Sarkozi and Cameron must be getting really desperate.

[Distant Observer]

11. MI6 et al has been planning Gaddafi assassination w Libyan allies for year. No luck so far

[PurityOfEssence]

13. Don't be so sure.

The French and British militaries and intelligence agencies aren't to be dismissed lightly.

This has been a pathetic on-the-cheap operation, and I'll bet they're both rather pissed at us for not doing more of the heavy lifting. They're all also probably annoyed that their arrogant assumption that Qaddafi would fall immediately just didn't come to pass.

What an ugly escapade this is.

[mazzarro]

5. So this shit has moved from being "civilian protection" to being "assassination" trip?

And those in support of this still have the gall to call it a humanitarian crap? Shame on United Nations and their continued silence of this massive neo-colonial mistake the organization has been suckered into!

[Distant Observer]

6. " . . .the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history,"

George Will. I he should know, being often on the side of the imperialists.

[Distant Observer]

10. kick, for the "humanitarianism" of it all

[ikri]

16. the Daily Star reports...

The Daily Fucking Star.

A newspaper about as reliable as a chocolate fireguard. It makes the Daily Mail look like a paragon of journalistic virtue. Today's front page has a headline about Prince Harry apparently falling for a reality TV show "star", 6 of the last 7 days headlines about been about footballer Ryan Giggs. I've no doubt they've been running crap stories urging the government to "send the boys in" or some shit and this is their own follow-up.

It's a right-wing rag owned by a right-wing pornographer (Richard Desmond) and frankly, I wouldn't use it to wipe my arse.

[Distant Observer]

17. OH you mean like the New York Times endless reports regarding WMD all over Iraq

[ikri]

18. No

I mean an absolutely unreliable, bullshit-mongering rag.

No one, and I mean absolutely no one takes the paper seriously. It's a kids comic for grown-ups complete with soft-core porn on page 3. People buy it because it's funny.

[Distant Observer]

22. And that determines the validity of the report and their sources. N. Equirer said Edwards cheated

Other rags told the truth about WMD and Iraq.

None of the MSM dared print stories that are really taboo in officialdom
because they don't want to be excluded from
the access they have as part of the ruling system.

I have never posted a story from National Enquirer or Daily star etc, but that does
not mean they are not more likely to print taboo but true stories than the NYT

[ikri]

23. I'm not arguing the validity of other papers

The Daily Star is a comic. It isn't news. It isn't a real newspaper.

[bluestate10]

19. I hope they find him and put several bullets through his skull. nt

[Poll_Blind]

20. I must presume the shipment of LSD-soaked Ukrainian nurses were left untouched?

PB

[backscatter712]

21. Explain why assassinating that butcher Gaddafi is a bad thing?

OK, it's technically illegal.

But other than that, why is allowing him to stay alive and in power after all the murdering he's done desirable? As far as I'm concerned, the world would be a better place with him not in it.