Destroying Liby Political Science International Law a an I D Wor t took three decades for the United States governmentspanning andworking assiduously over five different presidential administrations(reagan, Bush i, clinton, Bush ii, and obama)to terminate the 1969 LD Qaddafi revolution, seize control over libyas oil fields, and dismantle o its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why r it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with that from the perspective Der of an international law professor and lawyer who tried for over three decades tostop it.francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of americanTerminaTheforeign policy toward libya from when the reagan administration came to powerin January of 1981 up to the 2011 naTo war on libya that ultimately achievedThree-Decathe US goal of regime change, and beyond. he sets the record straight on theseries of military conflicts and crises between the United States and libya over theTegulf of Sidra, exposing the reagan administrations fraudulent claims of libyanThinstigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office.e Qa DBoyle reveals the inside story behind the lockerbie bombing cases against thee U.S.DDUnited States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World court for colonelafiQaddafi acting upon his adviceand the unjust resolution of those disputes.cr ampDeploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunksevothe Un r2p responsibility to protect doctrine and its immediate predecessor,aignlUThumanitarian intervention. he addresses how r2p served as the basis for theionnaTo assault on libya in 2011, overriding the Un charter commitment toTostate sovereignty and prevention of aggression. The purported naTo protection Francis in actuality led to 50,000 libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of lawand order. and this is just the beginning.
Boyle lays out the ramifications: thedestabilization of the maghreb and Sahel, and the french intervention in maliwith the USa/naTo/europe starting a new imperial scramble for the naturalresources of africa. a. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy b as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived oy r2p doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries. Le ISBN 13: 978-0-9853353-7-3 ISBN 10: 0-9853353-7-3 51895 Destroying Libya anD WorLD orDer 9 780985 335373 The Three-DecaDe U.S. campaign To 978-0-9853353-7-3 $18.95 TerminaTe The QaDDafi revolUTion Francis a. boyLe Destroying Libya and World Order spread01.indd 1 2/6/2013 10:51:29 PM Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. Even if we do not win immediately, we will give a lesson to future generations that choosing to protect the nation is an honour and selling it out is the greatest betrayal that history will remember forever despite the attempts of the others to tell you otherwise.
Muammar Qaddafi* Qaddafi website publishes last will of Libyan ex-leader, BBC News, 23/10/2011
DESTROYING LIBYA AND WORLD ORDER THE THREE-DECADE U.S. CAMPAIGN TO TERMINATE THE QADDAFI REVOLUTION BYFRANCIS A. BOYLECLARITY PRESS, INC. 2013 Francis A. Boyle ISBN: 0-9853353-7-8 978-0-9853353-7-3 E-book: 978-0-9860362-0-0 In-house editor: Diana G. Collier Cover: R. Jordan P.
Santos ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: Except for purposes of review, this book may not be copied, or stored in any information retrieval system, in whole or in part, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clarity Press, Inc. Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE Atlanta, GA. 30305 , USA http://www.claritypress.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Last Will and Testament Muammar Qaddafi Introduction / 11
Chapter 1
Using International Law to Analyze
American Foreign Policy Decision-Making / 16
Chapter 2
The Confrontation Between
the Reagan Administration and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra and Terrorism / 38
Chapter 3
The Reagan Administrations Criminal Bombings
of Tripoli and Benghazi / 66
Chapter 4
Resolving the Lockerbie Dispute
by Means of International Law / 106
Chapter 5
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
versus International Law / 154
Chapter 6
The 2011 U.S./NATO War Against Libya / 173
Conclusion / 201 Index / 207

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IntroductionINTRODUCTION
I have unique experience in Libya.
To the best of my knowledge,
during the 1980s I was perhaps the only American professor to spend a significant amount of time in Libya because of the serial armed hostilities and the imposition of draconian travel prohibitions and economic sanctions inflicted by the Reagan administration. I spent a sum total of four weeks in Libya on three different trips. In 1985 Libya invited me to conduct a week-long lecture tour and visit. I lectured at universities in Tripoli and Benghazi. I also lectured live on Libyan national television from their studio in Tripoli, and some of my public lectures were broadcasted by Libyan television. During my first trip to Libya, I spent an entire day visiting their museum dedicated to the documentation of the Holocaust that had been perpetrated upon them by Italy.
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