The "situation" in Libya was created by arming Jihadi cut-throats to the teeth, then when those were opposed by the legitimate government making up ridiculous lies like Gaddafi feeding his army Viagra so they could better rape the civilians, then abusing a UN resolution to bomb the richest country in Africa back into the stone age. A monstrous crime which was perpetrated in cold blood and led to consequences Europe today is immensely suffering from (not to speak of the Libyans left in a Mad Max reality), just like the good colonel has predicted. You are screaming in the wrong direction, pal. Wake up.
Seriously? What sort of alternative world do you live it? It had absolutely nothing to do with any of this. It started with protests over house projects being too slow, and when the protesters were poorly treated it sparked civil rights protests based on the Egypt and Tunisia protests. When many of those protesters were arrested and following the arrest of a prominent Civil Rights Lawyer who was pushing for recompense for relatives of a jail massacre in 1996, more Civil Rights protests erupted all over Benghazi and Tripoli. Gaddafi called in the Military, which was to result in the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition calling for the Day of Rage protests on the 17th Feb 2011. Before that happened a protest to free Civil Rights Lawyer Fathi Terbil turned violent with rocks and molotov cocktails being thrown at the police and military.
Gaddafi clamped down on protests announcing a curfew and placing limits of the number of people that could meet. It didn't work and the Arab Spring protesters violently took over Zawiya and Zintan, burning Government buildings and now calling for Gaddafi to step down because of his human right violations.
That lead to the Day of Rage (Feb 17th) with massive human rights protests in cities across Libya. The protesters came under fire from the Libyan armed forces and proceeded to go on a rampage, capturing and burning Government buildings throughout Benghazi and Tripoli. Then on Feb 18th the Protesters stormed the Military positions and forced them to retreat. Some of the Police and Military in Benghazi joined the Protesters, while the rest withdrew and left the area. Over the next few days the protests grew across the country, and there were reports of Libyan troops firing on the crowds from Helicopters which just sparked more protests driving the Military from more towns,
it wasn't until the 27th, ten days after the Day of Rage, that those that would become the Rebels, actually got organised and brought forces together, most of them just ordinary protesters and those that had defected from the military. While there were some Islamists, at the start they weren't outsiders, they were Libyans, but those that joined with the rest of the people, and they didn't have control either.
The war started from there.
