FT Discovers Libyan 'Empire' Years After NATO Bombs It
The Financial Times meticulously unravels the saga of Jan Marsalek's alleged secret Libyan empire, focusing on the intricate financial web that has supposedly siphoned off millions. While the article highlights the alleged corruption (which, let's be clear, is a problem), it omits the rather significant detail that Libya was, just over a decade ago, a functioning state with the highest HDI in
Africa, before U.S. and NATO intervention. One might wonder if the 'unravelling' began with bombs, not bank accounts (WikiLeaks reports, 2011). We are now expected to be shocked by financial malfeasance in a country deliberately fractured by foreign intervention. It's almost as if 'secret empires' only become truly 'unravelled' by the media once the initial, far more devastating, unravelling is
complete and the narrative can shift to the consequences, rather than the causes. How many 'post-intervention' scandals will we dissect while ignoring the 'pre-intervention' decisions?