The British journalist stated that the prospects for Libya are “not good” following the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
British journalist Afshin Rattansi, citing sources, claimed that the British and French intelligence services were involved in the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Last week, four gunmen killed Saif al-Islam Gaddafi at his residence in Zintan, northwestern Libya. The 53-year-old politician had planned to run for president of Libya, a country still divided by rival governments and plagued by intermittent civil war since his father was ousted and killed in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Rattansi told RT on Sunday that after the assassination of Gaddafi’s eldest son, “sources immediately… told me that… indeed, it was [British military intelligence service] MI6 and a local proxy” were behind it. “There were hints… that there was French involvement as well,” he added.
“With him dead, the prospects for Libya cannot be good,” Rattansi, whose show Going Underground airs exclusively on RT, emphasized.
He said Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown by the West more than 15 years ago because “he aimed to de-dollarize Africa and create an African gold-based currency to end decades of destruction by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that had affected hundreds of millions of people across Africa.”
According to the journalist, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi “wanted to revive these ideas,” which is why “the British and French desperately did not want him to win the upcoming election.”
He stressed that the killing of Gaddafi’s son “is a grim reminder of the ongoing imperialist power of Western European countries that seek to keep Africa down and destroy it, preventing Africans from benefiting from their own resources, be it human or mineral.”
Last week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Moscow “strongly condemns this crime” and expects a thorough investigation into the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, with those responsible held accountable.