{"id":33305,"date":"2013-05-14T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/iraqi-scenario-repeating-in-libya\/33305\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:27:00","slug":"iraqi-scenario-repeating-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/iraqi-scenario-repeating-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iraqi scenario repeating in Libya\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/libya-iraq-us-syria-231\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/opinionpost\/1f\/0f\/f0\/00\/000_nic6215582.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-op_edge_authors\">\n<p>Patrick Henningsen is a writer, investigative journalist, and filmmaker and founder of the news website 21stCentury Wire.com.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cont-wp-mid max_width\">\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- time --><br \/>\n            <span class=\"time\"><br \/>\n                Published time: May 14, 2013 00:27                            <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<!--\/\/ time -->\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"i-video\">\n\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"video-link-autoprocess\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/episode\/1f\/0f\/f0\/00\/henningsen_on_benghazi_may_14.flv\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBystanders and residents gather next to the wreckage of a car at the site of a car bomb that exploded in the parking lot of a Benghazi hospital in Libya, on May 13, 2013. (AFP Photo \/ Abdullah Doma)\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"download-video\">\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/libya-iraq-us-syria-231\/\" class=\"embed\">Embed<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-embed_code\">\n<p>Code<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Involvement by Western intelligence services has turned Libya into a terrorist playground, the way Iraq has become after the US invasion, geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen told RT.<\/p>\n<p>A car bomb has exploded in a crowded area outside a hospital in<br \/>\nLibya&#8217;s second largest city, Benghazi, with the blast claiming at<br \/>\nleast 15 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Henningsen, from the 21st Century Wire website, believes that US<br \/>\nstrategy for the Middle East region is the main reason behind the<br \/>\ndisintegration of the countries there. When asked about Syria, he<br \/>\nsays one only has to look at Libya and Iraq to picture what would<br \/>\nhappen in the event of Bashar Assad\u2019s fall.<\/p>\n<p><b>RT<\/b>: <i>There have been a string of attacks in Libya over the<br \/>\npast month &#8211; Is there anything the government there can do to<br \/>\nimprove the security situation?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Patrick Henningsen<\/b>: It looks very similar to the situation<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve grown used to seeing in Iraq what we\u2019re seeing now in Libya.<br \/>\nJust by the nature of this car bombing where there\u2019s a crowded<br \/>\nhospital area designed to create the most casualties and also<br \/>\nattacks on police stations. There\u2019s a sort of strategy of<br \/>\ninstability that we\u2019ve seen in Iraq over the years. So, looking at<br \/>\nIraq how long the stability took to achieve there and it\u2019s not safe<br \/>\nthere a decade onwards. I think we\u2019re looking at the same situation<br \/>\nhere in Libya. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bystanders and residents gather at the site of a car bomb that exploded in the parking lot of a Benghazi hospital in Libya, on May 13, 2013. (AFP Photo \/ Abdullah Doma)\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/opinionpost\/1f\/0f\/f0\/00\/000_nic6215579.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>RT<\/b>: <i>Armed mobs recently surrounded government<br \/>\nministries in Tripoli. Is there a danger that  <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/libya-iraq-us-syria-231\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Iraqi scenario repeating in Libya\u2019\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Henningsen is a writer, investigative journalist, and filmmaker and founder of the news website 21stCentury Wire.com. Published time: May 14, 2013 00:27 Bystanders and residents gather next to the wreckage of a car at the site of a car bomb that exploded in the parking lot of a Benghazi hospital in Libya, on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}