The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

Nonda said:
UK's Cameron: no plans for ground forces in Libya

We must keep the support of the Arab world and I think that is very important to make sure this is done the right way," he said.
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Naona sasa AU ndio wameshatiwa kapuni. Yaani wanaonekana hawana mpango!
 
Libya, too, is a weak, divided country. Indeed, with the CIA conducting covert operations inside Libya and aiding the rebels there, the danger is that the West could be creating another jihadist haven.

After all, the broadening of the NATO-led mission from a limited, humanitarian goal to an all-out assault on Libya's military signals to some Arabs that this war is really about ensuring that the region does not slip out of Western control.

The intervention has seemingly been driven by a geopolitical imperative to bottle up or eliminate Col. Muammar Gaddafi so that his regime cannot exploit the political vacuum in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.

While it is now clear that much of the Arab world is in transition, the end point is not yet clear. But Barack Obama's administration apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs are likely to survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the United States to continue to coddle tyrannical kings.

Unfortunately, this double standard sends a message that democratic empowerment in any society is possible only if it is in the interest of the great powers.

No one has a greater interest in broad acceptance of this noxious idea – that promotion of human freedom is nothing more than a geopolitical tool – than the world's largest, oldest, and most powerful autocracy, China.

The geopolitical message from Libya - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
 
Hali inavyoendelea huko Libya ni dhahiri kuwa kumbe na wazungu nao hukurupuka katika mipango yao.
Tangu kampeni ya mabomu mazito dhidi ya nchi ya Libya na utawala wa Muammar Ghadhafi yaanze inaonekana malengo yameshindwa kutimia.Ghadhafi yupo madarakani na Tripoli iko shwari kabisa.Waasi hawaishi kulalamika na kukosoa juhudi za NATO.
Wakiumwa na hali hiyo eti sasa US inakuja na propaganda za enzi za vita baridi kwamba eti inatafuta nchi ya kumpokea Ghadhafi akiondoka madarakani.Kwani yeye amesema ana nia ya kuondoka!.Kinyume chake alisema atapigana mpaka tone la mwisho.Ukweli ni kwamba wameshindwa kumuondosha kwa nguvu.
Juzi David Cameroon amelalamika kuwa azimio la UN linawakwaza kuendelea na operesheni nzito dhidi ya Ghadhafi.Imethibitika pia kuwa UK hawana askari wa kutosha na waliotayari kupigana Libya.Kauli imetoka vile vile kwamba NATO haina ndege za kutosha kuipiga Libya.
Ufaransa nayo imezuia gari moshi lenye wakimbizi kutoka kaskazini ya Afrika likitokea kwa mshirika wake katika NATO,Italy ili lisiingie nchini mwake.
Jee yote haya hawakujua kwamba yanaweza kutokea?.Au ndiko kukurupuka!.
 
Boat with Libya officers reaches Tunisia - agency

Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:26pm GMT
TUNIS, April 18 (Reuters) - A boat carrying a Libyan Interior Ministry colonel and 19 other people fleeing their home country arrived in a southern Tunisian port on Monday, Tunisia's TAP news agency reported, citing a security source.

A ministry captain and soldier were also onboard the vessel, it said, giving no details on their identities or where the boat came from.

Last Friday, two small boats with five Libyan army officers and 13 other people arrived in the same Tunisian port, El Ketf.

(Reporting by Tarek Amara; writing by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Alison Williams)

Chanzo:
 
Interesting analysis!

How Libya Saps America's Power

by Leslie H. Gelb
Mighty NATO rains down bombs and bullets on Gaddafi's puny forces, but can't score a knockout. Leslie H. Gelb on the costs to American clout and credibility, and what can be done.

Here's what America's worst enemies like Iran and North Korea are spouting on the international circuit about Libya: If the vaunted and mighty NATO and the U.S. can't humble that weirdo Col. Gaddafi and his pint-size army, "what do we have to worry about?" To be sure, NATO and the U.S. haven't hit Gaddafi with all they have for fear of killing civilians. But they have hit him hard and on the open desert-presumably ideal terrain to show off the West's devastating air power, as opposed to the muck-like guerrilla war in Afghanistan. And while the West's enemies know well NATO's self-imposed restrictions on air attacks, they assume that NATO and the U.S. would put such limitations on themselves no matter where they fought. Thus, to Tehran and Pyongyang, the lesson of Libya is that the West can't do decisive harm to them.

NATO leaders are well aware that their credibility and power are on the line. That's what drove President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday to say: "o long as Gaddafi is in power, NATO must maintain its operations so that civilians remain protected and the pressure on the regime builds." In other words, they still intend to get rid of the Q-ball. Yet, they also recognize that their hands are tied by the U.N. mandate, which in their own words is "to protect civilians… not to remove Gaddafi by force."

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi waves at his supporters people in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, April 10, 2011. Inset: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Photo Credit: AP Photo)

Western leaders fully appreciate the box they're in, and often ask their staffs to examine if and how they can do more to incite rebellion in Gaddafi's ranks...

Full article (The Daily Beast):
 

I like your approach ni nzuri.

USA, Ufaransa na Uingereza zilikwishaandaa vita hii nchini Libya kwa kuwapiganisha wa-Libya wenyewe kwa wenyewe, lengo likiwa na kuhodhi uzalishaji mafuta na kuweka kituo cha kijeshi nchini humo.

Kuna kila dalili ya kufeli kimahesabu au" miscalculation" kuhusu nchi za magharibi kutaka kutawala eneo la mashariki ya kati na hapo Afrika Kaskazini hasa ukizingatia Irani na Algeria zinasemwa kuhusika na kusaidia jitihada za Gaddafi kupigana na waasi.
 
washkaji lakn huyu jamaa wanamuonea sana mi siamini kinachofanyika pale Libya ni ridhaa ya wana-Libya...
 
kipusy said:
washkaji lakn huyu jamaa wanamuonea sana mi siamini kinachofanyika pale Libya ni ridhaa ya wana-Libya...
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Ni ridhaa ya wana-Libya lakini wale wana-Libya waloelimika baada ya kutoka Libya na kuja kufahamu kwamba ukitaka maisha bora, kula vizuri, kuwa huru kutoa mawazo ya kukosoa na usichukuliwe hatua mradi huvunji sheria, inabidi uwe na kiongozi ambae si wa aina ya Gaddafi.

Na Benghazi ndio makazi ya watu hawa ambao kwa kiingereza wanaitwa pro- western ambao wamesoma Ulaya na Marekani na wanafahamu mambo mengi ikiwa ujuzi kwenye udaktari, ujenzi, teknolojia na mengine mengi tu lakini hakuna nafasi ya kuweza kufanya kazi au biashara zao kwa uhuru kamili.

Uhuru kamili ni kuwa na uwezo wa kutoka maoni, kuwa tayari kukubali mila na tamaduni za wengine na kujichanganya nao, wenyewe watu wa jumuia ya kimataifa wanatumia msemo usemao "freedom goes with our tradition and values".

Kwahio wakija kuchimba mafuta wanakuja na hizo "incentives" ambazo nimezitanabaisha hapo juu zile faida au au "profit" "dividends" mtagawana kwa "discretion" yao.

Angalia neno discretion lina maana nzito, yaani "the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment or freedom of judgment or choice
 
Where is Libya's Moussa Koussa?

Monday, 18 April 2011

Former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa was likely to seek asylum in Qatar. (File photo)

By KAREM AMMAR and SONIA FARID
Al Arabiya

Former Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Shalgam has said that his successor Moussa Koussa, who resigned last month in protest against the brutalities committed by Muammar Qaddafi's regime, would not be returning to London, and was likely to seek asylum in Qatar.

Mr. Shalgam, who was Libya's foreign minister from 2000 till 2009, told Al Arabiya that civil society representatives in London had been vehemently objecting to hosting dissident Mr. Koussa, who stayed in office from March 2009 till March 2011. He said that they objected to "his involvement in several crimes condemned by the international community."

"Koussa took part in the Lockerbie bombing, funding the Irish Republican Army, and liquidating several opponents to the Libyan regime," Mr. Shalgam told Al Arabia.

On March 28, 2011, Koussa left Libya for Tunisia and from there flew to the United Kingdom where he issued a statement. That statement said that he no longer wanted to be a representative of the Libyan government in light of brutal attacks on civilians by Mr. Qaddafi's forces.

Mr. Koussa subsequently left London for the Qatari capital Doha to attend a conference on the future of Libya and to meet with members of the National Transitional Council.

"He will most likely stay in Doha and will not go back to London," Mr. Shalgam said of Mr. Koussa.

The British government of Prime Minister David Cameron was faced with harsh criticism both for hosting Mr. Koussa and for allowing him to leave. While civil society slammed granting asylum to someone accused of crimes against humanity, especially that it took place on British soil, relatives of Lockerbie victims consider allowing Mr. Koussa to depart without taking the necessary measures against him a kind of "treason" on the part of the government.

Mr. Shalgam described Mr. Koussa as the "black box" of the Libyan regime, especially that he spent around 16 years as head of Libyan intelligence.

"The fact that he knows that much about the intricacies of the Libyan regime makes him very valuable for the interim council and necessitates staying in touch with him and making use of the information he possesses."

When asked if Mr. Koussa's decision to defect from Colonel Qaddafi's ranks meant he would join the revolutionaries, Mr. Shalgam replied that Koussa has not so far asked for this.

"However, his dissidence in itself is a patriotic action," Mr. Shalgam said.

Source:
 
British military officers to be sent to Libya
British military officers will be sent to Libya to advise rebels fighting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces, the UK government has said.


Foreign Secretary William Hague said the group would be deployed to the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.
The BBC understands 10 officers will provide logistics and intelligence training in a UK and French operation.
Mr Hague said it was compatible with the UN resolution on Libya, which ruled out foreign military ground action.
He stressed that the officers would not be involved in any fighting and the move was needed to help protect civilians.
For more information-UK to send military advisers to Libya
 
Jamaa wanamfanyia kama marathon sio, hawataki an all out war kama walivyofanya Iraq.
 
Mafuta na vita!

Gaddafi must be toppled ‘by force': rebel chief
(AFP)

20 April 2011, 11:29 PM
ROME - Muammar Gaddafi can only be toppled by force, Libya's rebel president said Tuesday during a visit to Rome in which Italy said the opposition could be aided with military equipment and foreign oil sales.

"Gaddafi will never give up power except by force," Mustafa Abdel Jalil said after talks with Foreign Minister Franco Frattini during his first foreign tour since becoming head of Libya's Transitional National Council.

Jalil thanked France, Italy and Qatar - the three countries that have officially recognised Libya's opposition. Asked by reporters about future oil contracts, he said: "Our decisions will be influenced by who helped us."

"There will be friendship and cooperation above all with Italy, France and Qatar," he said.

Frattini said Italy would host international talks in early May aimed at helping rebel-held eastern Libya with financial and military aid.

A meeting of the international contact group on Libya in Rome will discuss "legal instruments to allow the sale of oil products," Frattini said.

The meeting would also try to find ways of using assets owned by Gaddafi's regime that have been frozen around the world in order to aid the rebels and would discuss the thorny issue of arming the Libyan rebels, he said.

Italy was weighing the possibility of sending "night-vision equipment, radars and technology to block communications," he said.

"We don't have many alternatives. One of the alternatives is the use of ground troops. Italy is not in favour of sending ground troops," he said.

"There is still no defined political way out... There have been many initiatives. The regime is still engaged as an active interlocutor in an attempt to find a succession to itself. This is not acceptable," he added.

Libya was an Italian colony between 1911 and 1942 and had enjoyed close ties with Gaddafi in recent years. Friendly relations between the Libyan leader and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were particularly controversial.

Initially cautious after the start of the uprising against Gaddafi's regime, Italy's foreign policy gradually evolved into openly calling for him to quit power and it is now taking an active part in military operations.

Italy is currently Libya's top trade partner and the two countries signed a treaty in 2008 that paved the way for billions of euros (dollars) in investments in each other's economies, many of which have now been suspended.

Source:
 
Askari Kanzu said:
Duh, Mpigakelele mbona unataka kuyakuza mambo kihivyo?
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Let us see if You real mean it...!

"Matumizi ya Kijeshi chini ya mwavuli wa UN resolution hayajaisaidia Iraq, Afighanstan wala Somalia saana yameacha mapigano ya wenyewe kwa wenyewe katika nchi hizo...., kwa kulijua hili Walibya ndio maana wako pamoja na Kiongozi wao anayeweza kuwaunganisha... yaani M.Gaddafi..." Moussa Ibrahim msemaji wa Serikali ya Libya.

source 1:YouTube - Hardtalk with Moussa Ibrahim Part 1.wmv
2: YouTube - Hardtalk with Moussa Ibrahim Part 2.wmv
 
Human Right Watch" wasema Gaddaf ajishughilishi na mauaji ya makusudi kwa watu/raia wasio na hatia
Figures provided by Human Rights Watch prove that Gaddafi has not embarked on a deliberate policy to massacre innocent people. After two months of warfare, just 257 people in Misurata, a city with a population of 400,000, have been killed. Of the 949 wounded, just 22 are women, less than 3 per cent.
As University of Texas Professor Alan J. Kuperman writes in the Boston Globe, "If Khadafy were indiscriminately targeting civilians, women would comprise about half the casualties."
In addition, a mission by the British Civilians For Peace in Libya organization found "no evidence" that Colonel Gaddafi's forces had attacked, bombed or killed any civilians in western Libya, after the group spent a week touring Tripoli and other areas in the country.

"In their interim findings, the campaign group claimed they had been able to "corroborate civilian casualties and fatalities due to Nato bombing" but "could find no evidence that three areas of Tripoli cited in UN resolution 1973 had been subjected to government forces bombardment," reports Sky News.
Globalist forces are now fully committed to a ground invasion and destabilization campaign in Africa's richest oil country, and they will not stop at manufacturing any pretext to oversee regime change in Libya. A staged attack on western interests either domestically or abroad will be blamed on Gaddafi, or a new humanitarian hoax in a similar vein to Kuwaiti incubator babies or Serbian death camps will be invented as a means of securing a second UN resolution to completely ransack the country and overthrow Gaddafi.

Source: ISLAMIC-INTELLIGENCE: The invasion of Libya will provoke the fall of the french-israeli terrorist networks in North Africa, the destitution of Tantawi in Egypt, the destruction of the Algerian army and the destabilisation of Sarkozy in France this su
 
"Majasusi wa Ufaransa ndio waloandaa machafuko ya Libya......."Planet forum.

Timeline of Events

October 6, 2010
Nouri Mesmari turned himself to the French secret service and according to the Italians; he masterminded the revolution against Gaddafi. The document was leaked to Italian newspaper Libero.

Mesmari is referred in the documents by the French secret service as ‘The Libyan Wikileak’ because he gave them all the details within the regime and gave them an account of who’s who within Libya and who they should contact and what not.

With all the inside information, by mid January, the Italians say that the French had paved the way for the beginning of the revolution against Gaddafi.

October 20, 2010
Nouri Masmari boarded a Libyan Arab plane directed for Tunis accompanied by all his family. The day after, they were en route to France, claiming that he travelled to Paris due to health reasons. He stayed at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel.

In Paris he never met any doctors. In subsequent days he had several top secret meetings with high secret service French agents and other top government functionaries close to Nicolas Sarkozy.

November 16, 2010
A long car cade of official cars is parked in front of the hotel Concorde Lafayette whilst in the Mesmari suite; an important meeting is taking place. It is a long meeting.

November 18, 2010
A French ‘commercial’ delegation leaves for Benghazi. In the delegation there are officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and representitives from Cam Cereals, France Export Cereals, Cargill, Glencore, France Agrimer, Soufflet, Louis Dreyfous, and Comagra. Among the delegation, posing as government officials, there are French secret service agents and military staff. Their ‘business’ was meeting army officers indicated by Mesmari who will be ready to defect from the Libyan army.

While in Benghazi, contact is made with Libyan air defence colonel, Abdallah Gehani, who was indicated by Nouri Mesmari as an army officer who is ready to collaborate to topple Muammar Gaddafi. Gehani had good contacts in Tunisia too.

It is a secret operation but the Libyan regime suspects that a double game was being played and that something was about to happen.

November 28, 2010
An international warrant of arrest is issued by the Libyan government for Nouri Mesrami. Foreign Minister Musa Koussa is held responsible for the defection of Mesrami and his passport is withdrawn by the authorities.

December 2, 2010
French authorities announce that they have arrested a collaborator of Gaddafi. Word reaches Gaddafi that Mesrami is on house arrest at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel and is furious that his former friend and colleague asked for political asylum in France, where he still resides to this date. In fact during the first week of the uprising in Libya Mesrami gave interviews to Al Jazeera from a Paris studio.

Muammar Gaddafi sends messages to Nouri Mesrami to win him back saying that he forgives him for what he did and invites him back to Libya.

December 16, 2010
An emissary of Gaddafi, Abdallah Mansour head of state media, is arrested at the Hotel Concorde Lafayette trying to contact Mesrami.

December 23, 2010
A delegation of Libyans arrives in Paris for meetings with Mesrami and other French officials. The Libyans are Ali Ounes Mansouri, Farj Charrant and Fathi Boukhris. These three men will be known later together with Ali Hajj as leaders of the revolution, that started from Benghazi.

The Libyan delegation together with Mesrami and French military and secret service personnel dined at an elegant French restaurant at the Champs Elisée.

Decmber 25 – 31, 2010
Between Christmas and the start of the New Year, the French have every details and inside information available and in the compilation of the Maghreb Confidential document, it is stated that “the situation in Benghazi is boiling”.

Januray 22, 2011
Colonel Abdallah Gehani is arrested by the chief of the secret service in Cerenaica Aoudh Saaiti. Two days later the Colonel is transferred to a prison in Tripoli and accused with treason with the aim of holding back any dissent. But it was too late, the ball was already rolling and as the first signs of the revolution were seen a few days later after a prominent lawyer, Fathi Tarbel was arrested. The protest soon turned into clashes and as army officials deserted, the rebels advanced a took over important cities but so far they failed to take Tripoli.

The French government lead the airstrikes over Libya, was the first European state to recognise the new Libyan National Council and establish diplomatic relations. Since the Italian government was made aware of the documents, it started to take the back seat on the Libya crisis, and Prime Minister Berlusconi said that Italian military planes will not be engaged in airstrikes and that he hopes that it does not end into a war.

Source>> French Intelligence manufactured the fake protests to topple Gaddafi since Nov
 
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