US orchestrates regime change in Libya, using social media

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US orchestrates regime change in Libya, using social media
This video confirms what Mathaba investigations have shown in the case of Iran "Green Revolution" before, and now Libya, that Twitter accounts are fake. Twitter knows this, has all the IP addresses, but is in partnership with the U.S. State Department.

Mathaba is the English language news service with some of the highest numbers of readers in Libya. Because all Libyans only surf the news in Arabic language, most of our readers of the years have been those in government departments, Libyan media, and the government, tasked with monitoring international news media coverage.

Because of our extensive statistical analysis and log keeping, with several million hits each month to pages on the Mathaba network, we have been able to see that not one single hit has come via any Twitter account in Libya. In fact, what does not surprise us since a long time but may surprise the many users of Twitter who believe they are changing the world and influencing things via Twitter, a tiny fraction of 1% of visits come via Twitter anywhere in the world.
Facebook also hardly registers on the radar of referrals. The truth of the matter is, from the small minority of Twitter users who are not fake or "marketing spammers", almost none of them ever click on links to actually open up and read what they are re-tweeting. We have log records going back several years that prove this point, as well as much other data concerning Twitter and Facebook usage that shows they are not at all tools for change.

Where all the real change comes from, is "credible" media networks such as Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, which are in effect owned by Arab Gulf dictatorships, and CNN, the BBC (British Government owned) and others, which give ample coverage to large volume of Tweets, in the mistaken belief that it is a representation of public opinion. In fact, as the video below shows as well as much other research and published data, most such accounts are fake.

Is the media thus just being misled and dishonest, at best quoting "unsubstantiated reports", or do the editors actually know what is going on. The latter is the case, and they edit reports, censor out all those that do not suit the objectives of their sponsors, owners or advertisers, whilst giving coverage to fake news in the pretence that they are not aware that it is fake. Yet, even children know that setting up a Twitter account requires not even an email, let alone any verification of identity.

Twitter is so blatantly anti-democracy, anti-freedom and pro-U.S. regime that they refuse to even give a verified status to the Mathaba News Agency official Twitter account, but will verify accounts of "celebrities" and lesser western politicians, but not the prominent son of Colonel Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam who also has a Twitter account. Further, we have data showing Twitter censors some accounts from appearing in hash tag search results, and also prevents undesirable tags from appearing in it's top trending reports.

It is for this reason, that some countries have actually blocked "social networking" sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, because it is well known among intelligence circles that these companies, ostensibly owned by Americans or Israeli-Americans, in fact work closely with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department. Again, articles available in the Mathaba Gold and Silver archives, have covered these facts over many years.

It is also for this reason, that Mathaba embraces Open Source Freedom Software initiatives which have created products actually much superior to Twitter, and one that is developing superiority to Facebook, and has made these social networking and media services available to our readers free of charge.

http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
 
 

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C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels
New York Times
March 30, 2011

 WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and contact rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials.

While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners that the Obama administration hopes can help bleed Colonel Qaddafi’s military, the officials said.

In addition to the C.I.A. presence, composed of an unknown number of Americans who had worked at the spy agency’s station in Tripoli and others who arrived more recently, current and former British officials said that dozens of British special forces and MI6 intelligence officers are working inside Libya. The British operatives have been directing airstrikes from British jets and gathering intelligence about the whereabouts of Libyan government tank columns, artillery pieces and missile installations, the officials said.

United States officials hope that similar information gathered by American intelligence officers — from the location of Colonel Qaddafi’s munitions depots to the clusters of government troops inside towns — might help weaken Libya’s military enough to encourage defections within its ranks.

In addition, the American spies are meeting with rebels to try to fill in gaps in understanding who their leaders are and the allegiances of the groups opposed to Colonel Qaddafi, according to United States government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the activities. American officials cautioned, though, that the Western operatives are not directing the actions of rebel forces.A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment.

The United States and its allies have been scrambling to gather detailed information on the location and abilities of Libyan infantry and armored forces that normally takes months of painstaking analysis.

“We didn’t have great data,” Gen. Carter F. Ham, who handed over control of the Libya mission to NATO on Wednesday, said in an e-mail earlier this week. “Libya hasn’t been a country we focused on a lot over past few years.”

Several weeks ago, President Obama signed a secret finding authorizing the C.I.A. to provide arms and other support to Libyan rebels, American officials said Wednesday. But weapons have not yet been shipped into Libya, as Obama administration officials debate the effects of giving them to the rebel groups. The presidential finding was first reported by Reuters. In a statement released Wednesday evening, Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, declined to comment “on intelligence matters,” but he said that no decision had yet been made to provide give arms to the rebels.

Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who heads the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that he opposed arming the rebels. “We need to understand more about the opposition before I would support passing out guns and advanced weapons to them,” Mr. Rogers said in a statement.

Because the publicly stated goal of the Libyan campaign is not explicitly to overthrow Colonel Qaddafi’s government, the clandestine war now going on is significantly different from the Afghan campaign to drive the Taliban from power in 2001. Back then, American C.I.A. and Special Forces troops worked alongside Afghan militias, armed them and called in airstrikes that paved the rebel advances on strategically important cities like Kabul and Kandahar.

In recent weeks, the American military has been monitoring Libyan troops with U-2 spy planes and a high altitude Global Hawk drone, as well as a special aircraft, JSTARS, that tracks the movements of large groups of troops. Military officials said that the Air Force also has Predator drones, similar to those now operating in Afghanistan, in reserve.

Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint eavesdropping planes intercept communications from Libyan commanders and troops and relay that information to the Global Hawk, which zooms in on the location of armored forces and determines rough coordinates. The Global Hawk sends the coordinates to analysts at a ground station, which passes the information to command centers for targeting. The command center beams the coordinates to an E-3 Sentry Awacs command-and-control plane, which in turn directs warplanes to their targets.

Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, who recently retired as the Air Force’s top intelligence official, said that Libya’s flat desert terrain and clear weather have allowed warplanes with advanced sensors to hunt Libyan armored columns with relative ease, day or night, without the need for extensive direction from American troops on the ground.

But if government troops advance into or near cities in along the country’s eastern coast, which so far have been off-limits to coalition aircraft for fear of causing civilian casualties, General Deptula said that ground operatives would be particularly helpful in providing target coordinates or point them out to pilots with hand-held laser designators.

The C.I.A. and British intelligence services were intensely focused on Libya eight years ago, before and during the successful effort to get Mr. Qaddafi to give up his nuclear weapons program. He agreed to do so in the fall of 2003, and allowed both C.I.A. and other American nuclear experts into the country to assess Libya’s equipment and bomb designs and to arrange for their transfer out of the country.

Once the weapons program was eliminated, a former American official said, intelligence agencies shifted their focus shifted away from Libya. But as Mr. Qaddafi began his recent crackdown on the rebel groups, the American spy agencies have worked to rekindle ties to Libya informants, and learn more about the country’s military leaders.

A former British government official who is briefed on current operations confirmed media reports that dozens of British Special Forces soldiers, from the elite Special Air Service and Special Boat Service units, are on the ground across Libya. The British soldiers have been particularly focused on finding the locations of Colonel Qaddafi’s Russian-made surface to air missiles.

A spokesman for Britain’s Ministry of Defense declined to comment, citing an ongoing policy not to discuss the operations of British Special Forces.

Ravi Somaiya contributed reporting from London, and David Sanger from Washington.