Nato 'overkill' in Libya will backfire, says Christian peace activist http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30317177&SRCH=1

The American-led military intervention in Libya will backfire and end in divisions and recriminations, according to the director of Christians against Nato aggression (CANAUK) William Spring. The problems for the coalition attacks, launched by the US, UK and France, is a Ware without end”, it is what is called “overkill”, the veteran peace campaigner said. “They haven’t learned anything and will end up in recriminations. As soon as things start to go wrong Nato will be out of it and they will all be blaming each other,” he said. In an interview with IRNA, Spring said that his experience goes back to the Suez crisis in 1956 when there was a similar conference in London to the one held this week on Libya to discuss Egypt and dividing the Middle East. 

“The Americans don't liberate Muslims; they don't liberate Christians, they are only after their own strategic interests,” he said, recalling their involvement in the break up of Yugoslavia, posing as liberators of Muslims when CANAUK was set up. “Why are they in Libya, when they not bothering with Ivory Coast, or with Zimbabwe where I lived for many years in central London. It was only because of oil.” “Bahrain is another case in point. The invasion was not really a Saudi invasion, it was an American invasion using the Saudis as surrogates. (US Defence Secretary) Robert Gates went there only two days before,” Spring said. 

“The fact that Bahrain should suddenly come under the control of Saudi Arabia, who have effectively annexed the territory is disgraceful. There have been consistent wars from the EU, from Nato,” he told IRNA.With regard to the situation in Libya, the veteran peace activist believed that the people will coalesce when they “see this consistent imperialist, Western aggression.” “They will turn to support not (Muammar) Gaddafi but Libya. They will support their country which is under attack by the West,” he said, expressing regret that the rebels in Benghazi have “shot themselves in the foot by taking American support in this way and British support.”