UK: Hillary Clinton used destruction of Libya to run in election - Assange on emails

SOT, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder (English): "Libya more that anyone else's war was Hillary Clinton's war. Barack Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person who was championing it? Hillary Clinton. That's documented throughout her emails. She had … She put her favored agent in effect, Sidney Blumenthal, onto that. There's more than 1,700 emails out of the 33,000 Hillary Clinton emails we published just about Libya. It's not about that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state as something that she would use to run in the general election, for president. So late 2011, there's an internal document called the 'Libya Tick Tock' that is produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's all the ... it's a chronological description of how Hillary Clinton was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state. As a result, there are around 40,000 deaths within Libya. Jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in. That led to the European refugee and migrant crisis, because not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people then fleeing Syria, destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows. The Libyan state itself was no longer able to control movement of people through it. So, Libya faces on to the Mediterranean. So, it had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So, all problems, all economic problems, civil war in Africa ... Previously, the people fleeing those problems didn’t end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. And that was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011, by Gaddafi: what do these Europeans think they are doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan state? There’s going to be floods of migrants out of Africa, and jihadists into Europe. And that is exactly what happened."
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was the central architect of the Libyan war, while speaking on the John Pilger Special show that is to be exclusively broadcast by RT, courtesy of Dartmouth Films. The interview took place in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where Assange has been residing since August 2012. The footage was released on Thursday.
Assange also stated that Clinton "perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state as something that she would use to run in the general election, for president."
According to Assange, the participation of Clinton in the Libyan conflict helped lead to 40,000 deaths within Libya and led to the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State and other radical groups in the country. He underlined that the war also led to "the European refugee and migrant crisis, because not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people then fleeing Syria, [but also] destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows." He added that "the Libyan state itself was no longer able to control movement of people through it. So, Libya faces on to the Mediterranean; so it had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa."
Mandatory credit: Dartmouth Films