The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

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Britain forced apology from Libyans

The Libyan revolutionary Council said it has been pressured to sing an apology to Britain over the Gaddafi regime's role in the IRA attacks and the Lockerbie bombing.

The council said its chairman, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has signed a document on behalf of the nation to apologize for Gaddafi's provision of a powerful explosive, semtex, to IRA and his regime's implication in the bombing of Pan American flight over the Scottish city of Lockerbie in 1988.


Gheriani also described the situation in which Jalil signed the apology as being under pressure.

"It depends on how you define pressure. I request something from you when you want something from me. It could be defined as pressure," he said.

Britain is one of the countries that have frozen Libya's assets and is currently blocking some £100 million in Libyan currency.

"We need those frozen assets. They will be frozen until they have a legitimate body they can be released to, so we need recognition. This is essential for us," Gheriani stressed.

Source:
PressTV - Britain forced apology from Libyans

Wataelewa karibuni kuwa West wameenda Libya kuvuna shamba la bibi sio kuwasaidia wao.

 

[jmushi1]

Nikusaidie hapo kwenye red. Mijadala ya kumchukia Gadaffi hapa JF haikuwa na element za dini ya kikristo. Wengi walikuwa wanachukizwa na mtu kujifanya Mungu mtu. Kuna mtu anayependwa duniani kama Nelson Mandela? Mbona alistaafu mwenyewe uraisi alikiwa na nguvu zake? Hicho ndicho kinachowafanya watu wawashambulie wale wanaotaka tuamini kuwa military intervation ya UN ina uhusiano na vita dhidi ya uislamu. Nani anamjua Gadaffi zaidi, Mtanzania wa Kiwalani hadi aandamane, au Mribya anayetawaliwa na Ghadafi zaidi ya miaka 40 ambaye anaandamana ili atoke? Kuwapinga hawa si kuwakilisha wakristo. Kuwepo kwa Ghadafi na kutokuwepo hakuna maslahi yoyote kwa dini ya Kikristo hivyo hakuna Mkristo anayeweza kufurahi au kuchukia kuendelea kuwepo madarakani. Wapenda demokrasia ndio wanamchukia Ghadafi.

Ni dhana hii pia inayowaudhi watanzania wengi dhidi ya CCM, kutaka kulazimisha ushindi kana kwamba wao tu ndio wenye akili za kuongoza au mmesahau sakata la uchakachuaji ?

Mkuu sidhani kama ulinielewa.
Walioandamana kupinga uvamizi wa Libya ni kina nani?
Pia nilitumia neno wengi wetu,mimi si muislam lakini sisapoti uvamizi wa Libya.
Kwa kifupi hakikisha unaelewa kwanza...Wengi wetu hatujui kuwa kulielewa tatizo ni sawa na nusu ya kulitatua.

 

[MkamaP]

Wataelewa karibuni kuwa West wameenda Libya kuvuna shamba la bibi sio kuwasaidia wao.

Tatizo sio westrners, tatizo ni sisi lazima tujifunze kutafuta sources ya tatizo. Hao wa Libya wa beghaz kwanini wanawafurahia .Sisi wenyewe tunawaruhusu harafu tunaanza kulialia. Ni kama wakenya na ICC, wao wenyewe walilazimisha mambo yao yafanywe na ICC harafu baadae wanageuka . Sie tuna ujinga jinga sana.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Buoyant Gaddafi makes first TV appearance for a week as troops attack Ajdabiyah

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:58 PM on 9th April 2011

A bouyant Colonel Gaddafi made his first television appearance for five days as his troops engaged in new fighting with rebels on Libya's eastern front. The dictator smiles on the camera and pumped his fists as he received an ecstatic welcome at a school in Tripoli.

It comes as government forces shelled the outskirts of Ajdabiyah, the launch point for rebel attacks towards the Mediterranean oil port of Brega.

Defiant: Colonel Gaddafi pumps his fist as he pays a visit to a school in Tripoli

Visit: The Libyan dictator has not been seen on national television for nearly a week

Wearing his trademark brown robes and dark glasses, Gaddafi was last seen on television on April 4. Artillery and machinegun fire has been reported around Ajdabiyah, the gateway to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to the northeast. Inconclusive battles have raged along the desert road between Brega and Ajabiyah for more than a week after government troops pushed back a rebel advance. NATO generals are increasingly pessimistic that the military stalemate can be broken despite air strikes on armoured columns.

A Red Cross ship managed to dock in Misrata today carrying enough medical supplies to treat 300 patients with gunshot wounds. Misrata, the lone major rebel outpost in the west of Libya, has been under siege by Gaddafi's forces for weeks.

Attack: Rebel fighters launch missiles against government troops on the outskirts of Ajdabiya

Retreat: Rebel fighters fall back outside Ajdabiya after Gaddafi soldiers launched counter attacks

Insurgents said on Friday they had repelled an assault on the eastern flank of the city after fierce street battles that killed five people. Misrata, Libya's third largest city, rose up with other towns against Gaddafi in mid-February after a security crackdown snuffed out most peaceful protests in the west.

Rebels say people in Misrata are crammed five families to a house in the few safe districts to escape weeks of sniper, mortar and rocket fire.

There are severe shortages of food, water and medical supplies and hospitals are overflowing.

The rebels said they intended to take Brega today and some had penetrated the outskirts. 'God willing, we will take Brega today. We already have people up there and we will try to do it today,' said rebel Captain Hakim Muazzib from a petrol station on the desert road between the two towns.

There were 10 pick-up trucks waiting in the petrol station, carrying rocket launchers and machineguns.

Fierce fighting: More missiles are fired at Gaddafi troops. A series of battles has taken place across the desert road as NATO airstrikes target tanks

Stocking up: A rebel fighter prepares a 'Grad' missile on the road between Brega and Ajdabiya

Abdullah Mutalib, 27, a rebel lying in a hospital bed in Ajdabiyah with a bullet wound in his side, said: 'Some of us got inside Brega to the university, some got to the outskirts. Then we came under rocket fire.' NATO air strikes hit weapons depots belonging to Gaddafi forces near Zintan, south of Tripoli, on Friday, a resident said.

'The depots are situated nine miles southeast of Zintan. We could see buildings on fire in the distance,' the resident, called Abdulrahman, said by phone.

An oil tanker carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude that the rebels need to finance their uprising entered the Suez Canal on Saturday after leaving rebel-held east Libya.

Traders say it is heading for China with the first cargo the rebels have sold.

Arsenal: Rebels prepare to launch a barrage of missiles on the road to Ajdabiya

Western officials have acknowledged that their air power will not be enough to help the rag-tag rebels overthrow Gaddafi by force and they are now emphasising a political solution.

NATO air strikes, with the stated aim of protecting civilians against Gaddafi's army under a U.N. mandate, have created rather than broken a stalemate with neither side now strong enough to land a knockout blow. Alliance officials have expressed frustration that Gaddafi's tactics of sheltering his armour in civilian areas has diluted the impact of supremacy in the skies over Libya.

Analysts predict a long, low-level conflict possibly leading to partition between east and west in the sprawling country.

'The opposition forces are insufficient to break this deadlock and so as things stand, the march on Tripoli is not going to happen,' said John Marks, chairman of Britain's Cross Border Information consultancy.

'This standoff looks like it could go on pretty much forever ... for now we have a stalemate so we are looking rather more at a de facto partition.'

 

[jmushi1]

Exactly, mimi sio mgeni na ndio maana nikakuuliza unamaanisha nini by "wengi wetu humu". It was a simple question demanding a simple answer, not explanation which does not even answer the question anyway. Tena explanation yako inaraise even more questions. Una maana gani unaposema "wengi wao"? What do you mean by jamii yetu bongo na jamii yetu hapa? Una maana "jamii yetu hapa" ni tofauti na "jamii yetu bongo". What exactly do you want to say?

Acha porojo

 

[Nonda]

Libya after the NATO invasion There can be no quick fix for a Libya caught between a loose-cannon despot and an opportunistic Western intervention.



The 2010 UN Human Development Index – which is a composite measure of health, education and income – ranked Libya 53rd in the world, and first in Africa.

What was a predominantly rural and backward country when the king was deposed 42 years ago is today a country with a modern economy and high literacy. This single fact embodies the gist of Gaddafi's claim to the historical legitimacy of his rule.

The popular debate on Libya is today divided: one side stresses solidarity with an oppressed people, the other is opposed to another Western war.

Soon after the Western coalition imposed a no-fly zone on Libya, the New York Times published an opinion piece by a Libyan professor of political science at a US east coast college. Ali Ahmida divided Gaddafi's rule into two periods, each representing one side of the argument today.

The intervention that followed has been about more than just policing Libyan skies to save civilians on the ground.

In an obviously coordinated move, the British went for the person of the Libyan leader with a cruise missile, the French targeted his army and the Americans blew the Libyan air force to smithereens.

Together the NATO allies have made sure that no matter its identity, the regime that follows its humanitarian mission in Libya will be without a credible means of national defence.

For the people of Libya, there can be no quick fix. Not only will the post-invasion Libyan state lack the means to defend its sovereignty externally, a post-invasion Libyan government will need to accommodate a highly fractured society through patient coalition-building, if Libyan society is not to disintegrate into an Afghan-style civil war.

That necessary work will have to be political, not military. For that work to begin, the first prerequisite is an end to the NATO invasion and a ceasefire.


Libya after the NATO invasion - Opinion - Al Jazeera English#

 

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Battle erupts for rebel-held Libya town

Gaddafi forces reportedly attacking eastern town of Ajdabiya as fighters are also forced back from Brega.


Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, have shelled rebel positions west of Ajdabiya.

There are reports the town is on the brink of falling to Gaddafi troops, in a major setback for rebels who earlier in the day had pushed westward towards Brega.

Our correspondents, citing reliable sources, said gun battles were taking place in the streets of Ajdabiya on Saturday.
And as his troops engaged rebels in new fighting, Muammar Gaddafi made his first television appearance in five days. He was last seen on April 4.

Gaddafi smiled and pumped his fists in tfhe air as he received an ecstatic welcome at a school in Tripoli, where women ululated and pupils chanted anti-western slogans.


Battle erupts for rebel-held Libya town - Africa - Al Jazeera English

 

[Nonda]

Tatizo sio westrners, tatizo ni sisi lazima tujifunze kutafuta sources ya tatizo. Hao wa Libya wa beghaz kwanini wanawafurahia .Sisi wenyewe tunawaruhusu harafu tunaanza kulialia. Ni kama wakenya na ICC, wao wenyewe walilazimisha mambo yao yafanywe na ICC harafu baadae wanageuka . Sie tuna ujinga jinga sana.

Mkuu.
kama unaifahamu historia ya wazungu kwa jamii nyengine zisizikuwa za kizungu, katika kila kipembe cha dunia basi utaelewa kuwa wao ndio tatizo hasa.

na ya sasa yanajirudia tu.
kweli tunayo matatizo yetu ya ndani lakini wao ndio hao wanaopanga mipango ya kutubana sawa sawa na wanapopata mwanya kama wa Libya ndio utawaelewa vizuri.

 

[EMT]

Acha porojo

kama huna cha kusema kaa kimya.

 

[Nonda]

Earlier in the day, a ship carrying medical supplies docked at the port in Misurata - the scene of fighting for more than 40 days - with badly needed supplies, as aid workers made their way towards Az Zawiyah.

The move came as the Red Cross announced that it was extending aid services to western Libya.

"We are sending the ship to support Misurata's main hospital, by delivering enough medical supplies to treat 300 patients with weapon injuries on the spot," Jean-Michel Monod, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team now in Tripoli, said in a statement on Saturday.

The ship's arrival came after more than a week of negotiations with the Libyan government in order to gain access to western cities.

A Turkish ship also docked in Misurata to bring home Egyptians stranded in Libya's third-largest city, said Egypt's deputy foreign minister, MohammedAbdel-Hakam. A second Turkish ship was expected on Sunday.

The Red Cross vessel is carrying 130 cubic metres of medicines and other cargo, including medical supplies, surgical equipment, drugs, stretchers and blankets. Five ICRC staff members were also on board.
Battle erupts for rebel-held Libya town - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Nchi ambayo mwezi mmoja nyuma haikuwa na uhaba wa chakula wala madawa.......sasa gharama ya kudondoshewa demokrasia kwa mabomu, zinazaa matunda.

Na majeshi yanapelekwa kuhakikisha wanaipata hiyo misaada....Libya inahitaji misaada.

Na rebels wanataka pia wasaidiwe kuvipiga vikosi wa Gaddaffi.

 

[Gamba la Nyoka]

ukisoma historia ya China, jinsi waingereza walivyojipatia HongKong, unaweza kuelewa jinsi hawa jamaa walivyokuwa greedy.
kiufupi ni kwamba wakati huo China ilikuwa inafanya biashara na uingereza, na kulikuwa na trade deficit, wachina walikuwa wanaexport bidhaa za maana kwenda uingereza, lakini waingereza walikuwa hawaexport bidhaa za maana kuja uchina. na badala yake Waingereza wakawa wanaexport OPIUM kuja China, wakatengeneza mazingira na kuifanya biashara hii ya opium kuwa ni biashara ya nzuri yenye kuingiza faida kubwa, mfalme wa china akakataza hii biashara, lakini waingereza wakawa hawataki ikome, basi vikapiganwa vita kati ya China na uingereza, Wachina wakashindwa hiyo vita, na matokeo yake mfalme wa China akasaini mkataba wa kuikabidhi hongkong kwa uingereza kwa miaka 100, in exchange Waingereza wasishambulie maeneo mengine ya China.
Kwa hiyo unaona umafia wa hawa jamaa umeanza longtime sana.

 

[punainen-red]

AU Leaders hawana ubavu wa kuingilia. Kwanza hakuna hiyo unayoita 'heshima ya Africa' Pili, Mtu ambaye angegarimia huko kuingilia kwa nguvu ni huyohuyo mfalme wao anayedundwa sasa. Kama Africa itaendelea kukosa viongozi wazalendo, tutaendelea kuwa watazamaji(siyo washiriki) wa siasa za Dunia, na kazi yetu itakuwa kulalamika tu.

 

[Nazjaz]

wazungu ni wezi. Hamna chochote wanachtaka Libya isipokuwa ni mafuta tu.

 

[only83]

..Nimekuwa nikisema hapa JF kuwa dhambi ya hawa waasi wa Rais Gaddafi itawala muda si mrefu.Nilisema mimi ni kati ya watu ambao napinga Gaddafi kukaa madarakani kwa muda kiasi cha miaka 40...Nachokipinga ni njia zinazotumika kumtoa ambazo zina mkono wa nchi za magharibi...Nilikubaliana na nguvu ya umma iliyoanza kutaka kumtoa Gaddafi lakini baada ya uvamizi wa hawa mabepari nilipoteza imani na hii nguvu ya umma....

 

[Askari Kanzu]

African migrants trapped in Libya forced to fight for Gaddafi

International Business Times
April 9, 2011 8:10 PM GMT

Rebel fighters question a man from Chad at a checkpoint after he was captured in Ajdabiyah

Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trapped in Libya are being forced to fight for soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi against rebel groups in that country’s bloody civil war.

According to a report in Al Jazeera, some of these migrants – who have no way of getting home – have been abducted or kidnapped and pressured to fight along with Gaddafi loyalists.

While some Africans were able to flee Libya at the onset of the revolt, many hundreds of thousands remain stranded in the country – some of them have been subject to reprisals by rebel forces who accuse them of being mercenaries for the Libyan leader.

A Nigerian migrant, who has worked in Libya for eight years as a technician, told Al Jazeera he was abducted in March at a military checkpoint in Tripoli, along with other men from Ghana, Mali and Niger, before being moved to a military center.

"There was up to 100 people in the courtyard and military trucks were arriving and leaving with more people,” he said.

“They started beating people, I saw them shoot one Ghanaian in front of me. The atmosphere was very intimidating. They put us into a vehicle and we were driven into the desert. I saw an oil refinery, there was evidence of bomb strikes, burnt out vehicles and a strong smell. I think it was Ras Lanouf."

Similarly, a Ghanaian migrant said he was abducted from his home in Sirte.

"They asked us why we were trying to leave the country and that we must stay to fight for when the Americans come," he said. "We were taken to a police station and then to an underground hospital which they ordered us to clean."

Gaddafi has long hired foreign mercenaries from all over Africa to serve as his soldiers and executioners. But it is unclear how many Africans have been used for this purpose – either voluntarily or by coercion.

Jeremy Keenan, a professor specializing in North Africa, told Al Jazeera he estimates that between 5,000 and 10,000 mercenaries may have entered Libya during this civil war.

"If you've got a million migrants milling around in Libya, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, all paperless with no ID, I suspect he's using them, not Libyans, as human shields,” he said.

“The key thing is he [Gaddafi] has got them over a barrel, they can't leave. I think the opposition people, when they bump into anyone fighting against them who is speaking another language and looks black, irrespective of how they got into Gaddafi's hands, they are using the word mercenary. There is a lot of confusion there."

There are also reports that Gaddafi has hired mercenaries from neighboring Algeria and even Belarus in eastern Europe.

 

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Recollections Of My Life - Mu'ummar Qaddafi

Qaddafi Unplugged and Uncensored
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By Col. Mu'ummar Qaddafi; Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D.
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Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, The Leader of the Revolution



In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.
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For 40 years, or was it longer,I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food, I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child, then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union, did all I could to help people understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our country, but that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more, and they told Americans and other visitors, they needed “democracy,” and “freedom,” never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup, no, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah’ a’ Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination—from thieves who would steal from us—

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism,” but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer, so, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following his path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters to work here with us, in the Libyan Jammohouriyah,

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stood up to betrayal, stood up the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light, when others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent, I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah’a’deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself…

In the West, some have called me “mad,” “crazy,” but they know the truth but continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.



c: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, 4.5.11
Copyright Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, - professor Sam Hamod - Information Clearing House.

 

[pascaldaudi]

It is true for Mr Qaddafi, the opposition took a wrong path, I hope Qaddafi will win!!

 

[jmushi1]

kama huna cha kusema kaa kimya.

Hii kopi n paste inakupa kiburi cha kuniambia nikae kimya.Hamnazo kweli wewe.

 

[boma2000]

NATO na US tayari wameshindwa kumtoa, sasa ni uharibifu tu unafanyika Libya. Ila bora Ghadaffi angesitafu na kumpa mtu mwingine uraisi maana yeye kama binadamu anamabaya yake na familia yake hivyo kwa kukaa muda mrefu, Walibya wengine wamemchoka. Kuna usemi "watu hawaishi kwa mkate tu"

 

[Nonda]

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