Libyan War and Control of The Mediterranean NATO-AFRICOM by Rick Rozoff  http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/84628

"Far more is at stake in the war with Libya than control of Africa's largest proven oil reserves and subjugating the last North African nation not yet under the thumb of the U.S. and NATO.Even more than domination of the Mediterranean Sea region."In the words of Britain's Daily Telegraph regarding the subsequent summit held for the purpose on July 13, 2008, "Sarkozy's big idea is to use imperial Rome's centre of the world as a unifying factor linking 44 countries that are home to 800 million people."Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, however, announced that his nation would boycott the gathering,denouncing the initiative as one aimed at dividing both Africa and the Arab world,and stating:

"We shall have another Roman empire and imperialist design.There are imperialist maps and designs that we have already rolled up.We should not have them again." [1]Shortly after the inauguration of U.S. Africa Command, Lin Zhiyuan, deputy director of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences, wrote the following:"By building a dozen forward bases or establishments in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and other African nations, the U.S. will gradually establish a network of military bases to cover the entire continent and make essential preparations for docking an aircraft carrier fleet in the region."

"The North AtlanticTreaty Organization (NATO)with the U.S. at the head had [in 2006] carried out a large-scale military exercise in Cape Verde,a western African island nation, with the sole purpose of controlling the sea and air corridors of crude oil extracting zones and monitoring how the situation is with oil pipelines operating there.""Africa Command represents a vital,crucial link for the US adjustment of its global military deployment.At present,it is moving the gravity of its forces in Europe eastward and opening new bases in Eastern Europe."