• MPs attack Cameron [and Sarkozy] over Libya ’collapse’ - BBC News
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37356873

    the criticism is weighty: the government’s poor intelligence about the threat to civilians in Benghazi, its lack of awareness of Islamist elements among the rebels, the policy drift from saving lives to getting rid of Gaddafi, and David Cameron’s lack of strategy for what should happen next.

    The subtext is that the lessons of Iraq were ignored.

    (...)

    Crispin Blunt, chairman of the committee, told the BBC: "We were dragged along by a French enthusiasm to intervene, and the mission then moved from protecting people in Benghazi, who arguably were not at the kind of threat that was then being presented...

    “Indeed, on the basis of the evidence we took, the threat to the people of Benghazi was grossly overstated.”

    The committee said “political options” were available once Benghazi had been secured - including through ex-PM Tony Blair’s contacts with Gaddafi - but the UK government “focused exclusively on military intervention”.

    #Libye #crimes #ISIS #Sarkozy #Cameron

    • Pour mémoire, le prénom Crispin, soit en français Crépin n’est pas exactement un prénom neutre. En effet le saint se fête, avec son copain co-martyr Crépinien, le 25 octobre.

      Sa popularité, à partir de 1415, doit beaucoup au fait que la bataille d’Azincourt s’est déroulée le jour des Saints Crépin et Crépinien…