Stephen Lendman: Libya's Great Man-Made River

America's NATO war on Libya was long planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including strategy and conflict objectives, enlisting coalition partners, selecting targets, promoting political and public support, deploying troops, recruiting, funding, and arming so-called "rebels", and post-conflict "imperial plans". As always, Washington wants one despot replaced with another, a useful puppet to salute and obey orders, "not independent-minded ones" like Gaddafi, who went along most often, but not always on all issues, some major enough to want him ousted. Other objectives are to colonize Libya, balkanize it like Yugoslavia and Iraq, prevent democracy from emerging, privatize its state enterprises, exploit its people, establish new Pentagon bases, and control its oil, gas and other resources, a key one getting little attention - Libya's Great Man-Made River: The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System lies beneath four North African countries - Chad, Egypt, Sudan and Libya, called the world's largest fossil water system because it's ancient and non-renewable. In fact, the Koran - Surah 2, Verse 74 says: "For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send forth water." In fact, three major aquifers lie beneath the Sahara, NSAS the largest, containing an estimated 375,000 cubic km of water.