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Rape in Libya: America's recent major wars have all been accompanied by memorable falsehoods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Peter Dale Scott
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It is a troubled Time for NATO's campaign against Libya. President Obama has seen a near-revolt in Congress against the costly war, while Defense Secretary Gates in Brussels has warned his European allies that their tepid response “is putting the Libya mission and the alliance's very future at risk.” Back home, according to the London Daily Mail, “Mr Gates has requested extra funds for Libya operations, but has been rebuffed by the White House.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 24 , June 2011 , e4
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1 “Gates rebukes NATO allies, warns of ‘dismal’ future,” Agence France-Presse, June 10, 2011.

2 “The billion dollar war? Libyan campaign breaks Pentagon estimates costing U.S. taxpayers $2 million a day,” London Daily Mail, June 9, 2011.

3 “No Casus Belli? Invent One,” Guardian (London), February 5, 2003.

4 Ted Rowse, “Kuwaitgate - killing of Kuwaiti babies by Iraqi soldiers exaggerated,” Washington Monthly, September 1992.

5 Scott, American War Machine, 195-201.

6 Terry H. Anderson, Bush's Wars, 97.

7 Consider the following story in the London Daily Mail by Simon Reeve: Iraq has been identified as the most likely source of the anthrax used to terrorise America during recent weeks. New plans are now being considered for retalia tory military strikes against Saddam Hussein, according to American government officials. Although studies of the anthrax spores sent through the mail are continuing, American scientists have discovered “hallmarks” that point to Iraqi involvement. American investigators are increasingly convinced that the anthrax was smuggled into the US and mailed to a number of targets by unidentified “sleeper” supporters of Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization. (Simon Reeve, “Scientists Link Iraq to Anthrax Terror Attacks,” Sunday Mail, [London], October 28, 2001; discussed in Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine, 194-95). [The example is also interesting in its fusing of Saddam and Al Qaeda, in fact bitter rivals]

8 Karen Leigh, “Rape in Libya: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” Time, June 9, 2011.

9 Eric Garris, “Susan Rice's Viagra Hoax: The New Incubator Babies,” AntiWar.com, April 30, 2011; “US intel: No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya,” MSNBC, April 29, 2011.

10 Washington Post Blogpost, March 29, 2011.

11 Agence France-Presse, June 9, 2011.

12 “UN investigator casts doubt over Libya mass rape claims,” Agence France Presse, June 9, 2011.

13 Toby Hamden, “CIA give Afghan warlords Viagra in exchange for information on Taliban,” Telegraph [London], December 26, 2008.