Human Wrongs Watch
By Jean Shaoul*
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5 August 2015 (WSWS)* – A joint US-European mission to Libya involving soldiers from six countries is being hatched under the pretext of combating Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and with the aim of establishing a pliant pro-Western government and “stabilizing” the country.

**Oil is the major natural resource of Libya, with estimated reserves of 43.6 billion barrels | Libyan oil fields and pipelines, 2011. | Author: NordNordWest, Yug | Wikimedia Commons
On August 1, the London Times reported, “Hundreds of British troops are being lined up to go to Libya as part of a major new international mission.”
It stated that the UK soldiers would join “Military personnel from Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United States…in an operation that looks set to be activated once the rival warring factions inside Libya agree to form a single government of national unity.”