London – Five years after Gaddafi’s death, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former head of NATO and former Danish prime minister, spoke to Al Jazeera English’s current affairs show, Upfront, about the 2011 Libyan intervention. “It was really a model intervention,” he told host Medhi Hasan. “A precision operation with a minimum of civilian casualties, a minimum of collateral damage.”Rasmussen was the secretary-general of NATO during the 2011 military intervention in Libya and helped organise the international coalition. A recent report by the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee found that, as a result of NATO’s intervention, Libya has seen political and economic collapse, internal warfare, humanitarian and refugee crisis, the growth of ISIL, and the spread of Gaddafi’s weapons across the region. “She doesn’t bear responsibility for the mess in Libya today,” said Rasmussen.

Source: Libya Today October 24, 2016 09:11 UTC