You are right, Libya is also not about oil, but methinks it is more than just banking:
Other things worth looting: 1. Libyan water from GMMR is approx. 30cents/quart. Supply is 200 years' worth of Nile discharge.
2. Libya has huge sovereign wealth. 144 tons of gold is petty cash (approx $1 trillion vs. $6B in gold). They were shrewd investors in Europe and elsewhere
3. Europe owes Libya approx. $200B and can not pay.
4. IMF chokes whole Africa with $25B of cash. (Africa owes only $400B, less than Greece) Daffy plans to put IMF out of business in Africa.
Unlike Mubarak, Daffy and sons own nothing, it is all state property. Who controls state, controls it sovereign wealth. I'd put a price tag on it at $5T
Why doesn’t French Foreign Legionaries land and march on Tripoli—with the rebels and turn back the Libyan forces? The capital could be taken—Gadaffi will flee and that will be that. Where is the French Navy? Where is the British? Could they not take the capital? This should be an easy fight-—
Thanks. Between you and Ellen Brown, that just about nails it.
THAT basically sums it up.