The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

Pro Gaddafi news - 26th April

Britain commits £1bn – and time – to end Gaddafi's attacks in Libya
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 April 2011 21.45 BST

Defence secretary Liam Fox says there is no time limit to Nato operations against Muammar Gaddafi



Libyan students show their support for leader Muammar Gaddafi in the town of Al-Sbeia, south of Tripoli, as Britain commits time and money to ending his attacks on his own people. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

Britain's military commitment to help Libyan rebels get rid of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is open-ended and the cost, estimated to top £1bn by the summer, will come out of special Treasury funds, the defence secretary, Liam Fox, said on Wednesday.

He believed operations against Gaddafi's forces were sustainable, denied there was a stalemate, and claimed there was the political will to carry them through. "Our resolve will not waver," he told MPs on the cross-party Commons defence committee.

Asked how long it would take Britain and other countries engaged in the operations to achieve their objectives, he said it was "up to Colonel Gaddafi". The Libyan leader had to "move to a safe distance" and stop threatening, let alone attacking, Libya's civilian population.

"It is essential to give the signal – it is not time-limited, it would not be short, and not be finite," Fox told MPs.

The Guardian: (Full story)

Eqlypz said:

Zaidi ya mafuta na gesi kuna nini kingine Libya unless mchanga wa jangwani nao umekuwa deal siku hizi.

In fact kwenye post yako uliandika "it's all about resources".

Click to expand...

Do your homework....:A S 39:

Michelle said:

Do your homework....:A S 39:

Click to expand...

I have done my homework already. Stop deflecting the question.

Naona wanajeshi wa Gaddafi wanaanza kufundisha na kuwapa silaha watoto wadogo, this is the new low kwa kweli kama ana uchungu na Libya kwa nini ana hatarisha maisha ya kizazi kijacho kwa kuwaweka in harms way ili waulinde urais wake?

Muammar Gaddafi is arming Libyan 17-year-olds to build a "home front" against Nato military intervention and the possibility of rebels from the east of the country reaching largely loyalist towns and cities in the west.

As part of the drive towards an unofficial civilian army, the government is releasing thousands of AK-47 assault rifles into communities and is organising classes in the use of weapons.

At a women's training centre in the town of Sbia, 30 miles south of Tripoli, young women crowded round a trestle table as a soldier wearing camouflage fatigues and thick red lipstick demonstrated how to field-strip and reassemble the guns.

Officials said the minimum age for weapons training was 17, although the centre was crowded with girls as young as seven who were schooled in loyalist chants and waving portraits of Gaddafi.

Salmeen Faroun, 18, said she had come to the training school because: "I want to defend my country from the crusader enemy." She said she had never fired a gun before, but "now I have a goal".

Asked if she was frightened at the idea of taking part in a gun battle, she said: "No. I have the right to kill, to fight against Nato and the rats [opposition rebels]."

Against the background noise of bullets being fired into the air, Ebtihaj Enbess, 17, said she had also come to the centre to learn how to defend her country. "We are nothing without Gaddafi. I am not scared."

Their instructor, regular soldier Zohrah Mohamed, 35, said she was proud to be training women to defend their country. Gaddafi "did a lot of things for women", she said, without elaboration.

The training had started about a month ago, she said. Asked if it was acceptable to train children to use weapons, she said: "All the Libyan people must be armed."

Most Libyan families own guns, which are normally stored in town depots. But since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings began, in mid-February, the authorities have opened the arms dumps. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters last week up to 1m weapons were being distributed.

At a men's training centre nearby, little instruction appeared to be under way, but almost all the several hundred adult men present were carrying AK-47s, and many were firing into the air.

Muhammad Mabruk, 65, said all Libyans over the age of 17 should be armed and ready to fight to defend their country. "I am waiting for anyone coming from Nato. I have my gun and I will shoot him," he said.

A Nato missile had struck a field nearby recently, according to locals. "I don't believe Nato is protecting civilians," said Mabruk.

Journalists were taken to the training centres on a government-organised trip, accompanied by minders.

A team of UN investigators arrived in Tripoli to examine allegations of human rights violations by Gaddafi's forces.

The three-member commission of inquiry said it would press for access to prisons, hospitals and areas of the country where abuses were suspected to be taking place.

Click to expand...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/27/gaddafi-arms-17-libyan-nato

i am very disappointed with usa and uk the way they are using the excuses of no fly zone and protecting libyan people to test their multi billion new fighter aircraft.
the usa F22 raptors and uk euro typhoon have never been tested in battle in-spite of their multi billion project involved in making them, since when did america or uk or nato for that matter started to care about other countries citizens, why aren't they protecting palestinians from israel precision guided missile from their aircraft, why not implementing no fly zone there?

UPDATE 1-Russia not seeking emergency UN meeting on Libya-TAS

Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:29am GMT

MOSCOW, April 28 (Reuters) - Russia is not planning to request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss what Moscow has called Western aggression in Libya, Itar-TASS news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying on Thursday.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticised the Western countries enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya and said they have gone beyond the limits of a Security Council resolution designed to protect civilians.

Libya urged Moscow on Tuesday to request an emergency Security Council meeting. But, quoting Deputy Foreign Ministry head Gennady Gatilov, Itar-TASS said: "An emergency meeting of the Security Council is not planned."

Russia holds the power of veto as a permanent member of the Security Council but abstained last month in a vote on a resolution authorising force to protect civilians. (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman, editing by Timothy Heritage)

-Reuters:

African kings hold brief for embattled Gaddafi
April 28th, 2011 in News, World



APA-Cotonou (Benin) About 30 African kings are due in the Beninese capital, on Thursday and Friday to express their "support" to Muammar Gaddafi in view of the socio-political situation rocking Libya over the past two months, APA can report from Cotonou, Wednesday.

"All the African continent's traditional kings will look to find one voice to express their support to the Libyan leader as a popular uprising roars into its third month aimed at toppling him from power. The kings will also embark on finding solutions for sustainable peace in Libya", steering committee chairman Benin's Savalou King Tossoh Gbaguidi XIII, told APA.

In the course of the conflict, a group of Libyan rebels had left Benghazi resolved on advancing on Tripoli to topple Muammar Gaddafi's regime but were repulsed by troops loyal to Gaddafi. While Gaddafi's troops were planning on marching to the rebel stronghold of Bengazhi, the international community had adopted, after initial prevarications, UN Resolution 1973 to facilitate the enforcement of a no-fly zone over the country to protect civilians.

"Under this pretext, the western coalition, backed by the Arab League, were bent on lending military support to the rebels", said organizers of the African kings forum who described the action as deplorable.

They added that the coalition forces deployed under NATO's authority are destroying Gaddafi's artillery instead of protecting civilians as provided by the UN resolution.

"The coalition has many times hit civilian positions and even those of rebels who are their allies", the organizers claimed.

-Afrique Avenir:

bona said:

i am very disappointed with usa and uk the way they are using the excuses of no fly zone and protecting libyan people to test their multi billion new fighter aircraft.
the usa F22 raptors and uk euro typhoon have never been tested in battle in-spite of their multi billion project involved in making them, since when did america or uk or nato for that matter started to care about other countries citizens, why aren't they protecting palestinians from israel precision guided missile from their aircraft, why not implementing no fly zone there?

Click to expand...

It is no longer a secret that this war is like a beauty contest between Sweden (Gripen), US (F 18), France (Rafale). Each of these countries is trying to showcase their fighter aircraft capabilities (in a Libyan desert) in a move to win a multi-Billion tender to supply the Brazilian Air-force with a 4.5th Generation fighter. These countries are the top bidders in that deal waiting to hear a final word from Brazil....

Virtually unknown in the West: Libya’s water resources


We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now?
Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIPELINE to the Benghazi region, that lunatic?
Were they waiting for him to finish?




The 1st of September marks the anniversary of the opening of the major stage of Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects. The leader of the so-called advanced countries, the United States of America cannot bring itself to acknowledge Libya’s Great Man-Made River. The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than four million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks.
…In the 1960s during oil exploration deep in the southern Libyan desert, vast reservoirs of high quality water were discovered in the form of aquifers. …
…In Libya there are four major underground basins, these being the Kufra basin, the Sirt basin, the Morzuk basin and the Hamada basin, the first three of which contain combined reserves of 35,000 cubic kilometres of water. These vast reserves offer almost unlimited amounts of water for the Libyan people.
The people of Libya under the guidance of their leader, Colonel Muammar Al Qadhafi, initiated a series of scientific studies on the possibility of accessing this vast ocean of fresh water. Early consideration was given to developing new agricultural projects close to the sources of the water, in the desert. However, it was realized that on the scale required to provide products for self sufficiency, a very large infrastructure organization would be required. In addition to this, a major redistribution of the population from the coastal belt would be necessary. The alternative was to ‘bring the water to the people’.
In October 1983, the Great Man-made River Authority was created and invested with the responsibility of taking water from the aquifers in the south, and conveying it by the most economical and practical means for use, predominantly for irrigation, in the Libyan coastal belt.
By 1996 the Great Man-Made River Project had reached one of its final stages, the gushing forth of sweet unpolluted water to the homes and gardens of the citizens of Libya’s capital Tripoli. Louis Farrakhan, who took part in the opening ceremony of this important stage of the project, described the Great Man-Made River as “another miracle in the desert.” Speaking at the inauguration ceremony to an audience that included Libyans and many foreign guests, Col. Qadhafi said the project “was the biggest answer to America… who accuse us of being concerned with terrorism.”
The Great Man-Made River, as the largest water transport project ever undertaken, has been described as the “eighth wonder of the world”. It carries more than five million cubic metres of water per day across the desert to coastal areas, vastly increasing the amount of arable land. The total cost of the huge project is expected to exceed $25 billion (US).
Consisting of a network of pipes buried underground to eliminate evaporation, four meters in diameter, the project extends for four thousand kilometres far deep into the desert. All material is locally engineered and manufactured. Underground water is pumped from 270 wells hundreds of meters deep into reservoirs that feed the network. The cost of one cubic meter of water equals 35 cents. The cubic meter of desalinized water is $3.75. Scientists estimate the amount of water to be equivalent to the flow of 200 years of water in the Nile River.
The goal of the Libyan Arab people, embodied in the Great Man-Made River project, is to make Libya a source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries. In short, the River is literally Libya’s ‘meal ticket’ to self-sufficiency.
Self-sufficiency?!? Absolutely Not Allowed. Banksters don’t like that sort of thing one bit.
This project has been in the works for many years. Have you ever heard of it? We had not until today.
Underground “Fossil Water” Running Out, National Geographic, May 2010
Libya turns on the Great Man-Made River, by Marcia Merry, Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, September 1991
A gala ceremony was held in Libya at the end of August, at which Libyan leaders “turned on the tap” of the Great Man-Made River, the water pipeline/viaduct project designed to bring millions of liters of water from beneath the Sahara Desert, northward to the Benghazi region on the Mediterranean coast. The inauguration marked the end of Phase I of the project, which is slated for completion in 1996.
Under the giant scheme, water is pumped from aquifers under the Sahara in the southern part of the country, where underground water resources extend into Egypt and Sudan. Then the water is transported by reinforced concrete pipeline to northern destinations. Construction on the first phase started in 1984, and cost about $5 billion. The completed project may total $25 billion. South Korean construction experts built the huge pipes in Libya by some of the most modern techniques. The engineering feat involves collecting water from 270 wells in east central Libya, and transporting it through about 2,000 kilometers of pipeline to Benghazi and Sirte. The new “river” brings 2 million cubic meters of water a day. At completion, the system will involve 4,000 kilometers of pipepines, and two aqueducts of some 1,000 kilometers. Joining in celebrating the inauguration of the artificial river were dozens of Arab and African heads of state and hundreds of other foreign diplomats and delegations. Among them were Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, King Hassan of Morocco, the head of Sudan, Gen. Omar El Beshir, and Djibouti’s President Hassan Julied.
Col. Muammar Qaddafi told the celebrants: “After this achievement, American threats against Libya will double…. The United States will make excuses, [but] the real reason is to stop this achievement, to keep the people of Libya oppressed.” Qaddafi presented the project to the cheering crowd as a gift to the Third World.
Mubarak spoke at the ceremony and stressed the regional importance of the project. Qaddafi has called on Egyptian farmers to come and work in Libya, where there are only 4 million inhabitants. Egypt’s population of 55 million is crowded in narrow bands along the Nile River and delta region. Over the last 20 years, the water improvement projects envisioned for Egypt, which could provide more water and more hectares of agricultural and residential land, have been repeatedly sabotaged by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and the Anglo-American financial interests behind them.
In the 1970s, Qaddafi expelled many Egyptian families from Libya, but over the recent months the two countries have become close once again. There are plans to build a railway line to facilitate travel back and forth. There is also a standing commission between Sudan and Libya for integrating economic activity.
Over 95% of Libya is desert, and the new water sources can open up thousands of hectares of irrigated farmland. At present over 80% of the country’s agriculture production comes from the coastal regions, where local aquifers have been overpumped, and salt water intrusion is taking place. The Great Man-Made River will relieve this. The water now flowing will immediately supplement supplies for domestic and industrial needs in Benghazi and Sirte. But Libyan officials plan for 80% of the overall project’s flow to eventually be used for irrigating old farms, and reclaiming some desert lands. Since 20% of Libya’s imports are foodstuffs, expanded water supplies are a means to greater self-sufficiency. The Great Man-Made River project and its objectives fly in the face of the water-control schemes sanctioned by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. These institutions have blocked work on other “great projects” such as the Jonglei Canal–the huge ditch that was designed as a straight channel on the upper White Nile in southern Sudan. The Jonglei Canal, which stands half-finished and abandoned at present, would have drained swamplands, aided agriculture, transportation, power resources, and health, and provided expanded flow to the Nile River all the way down to Egypt. The World Bank and the U.S. State Department are backing a “Middle East Water Summit” in Turkey this November, which is intended to promote only politically favored projects such as desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, and water shortages elsewhere.
London and Washington circles were apoplectic about the opening of the new Libyan water project. The London Financial Times ran criticisms of the project from Angus Henley of the London-based Middle East Economic Digest. The pipeline, he said, was “Qaddafi’s pet project. He wants to be seen as something other than the scourge of the West.” The Financial Times called the project Qaddafi’s “pipedream,” stating that critics may be awed by the engineering involved, “But they regard the dream as a monument to vanity that makes little economic sense in a country where the U.N. Development Program says 94.6% of territory is desert wasteland.”
If it is vanity that motivated the project, at least the vanity of Libya’s head of state is being channeled in a productive direction in this case–which is more than can be said of the leaders of Britain and the United States.

Water, Water, Water - Libya's Hidden Asset « The Story Behind The Story

So Libyan War Is For Water – NOT Oil – Largest Fossil Water Reserve Libya and Egypt sit on a resource are more valuable than oil, in that part of the world . The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer , is a sea of fresh water , that has an invaluable value , on a continet as Africa . Gaddafi used much of the funds generated from oil to build the " Great Man Made River Project " ( GMMRP ) . The 4000 Km long water pipeline barried underneath the desert . $ 25 Billion has already been invested into this project, and he was aiming to increase production to help Egyptians and Sudan

Qaddafi achezewa na NATO ili akatumie zana zake karibu zote huku njia zote za kupata silaha zaidi zikiwa zimebanwa kote.

ICC to update U.N. on Libyan war crimes

Published: April 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM



US Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, (C) listens to a medical officer during his visit to the wounded in a local hospital in the eastern stronghold city of Benghazi on April 22, 2011. McCain urged the international community to recognise the rebels' Transitional National Council (TNC) as the "legitimate voice" of the Libyan people. UPI\Tarek Alhuony

Related Stories

• Libyan troops rout rebels at Tunis border
• Britain may 'look at' troops for Libya
• Gadhafi 'losing grip on Misurata'

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 28 (UPI) -- The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court said Thursday he will report to the United Nations in May on alleged Libyan war crimes.

U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970, passed in February, referred Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to the ICC for allegedly ordering attacks on unarmed civilians.

The ICC announced Thursday that ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is to update the Security Council on progress made in the "investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity and war crimes" in Libya.

The United Nations announced that a three-member team arrived in Libya to investigate alleged human rights abuses that occurred since Gadhafi sent his forces to respond to the unrest that began in February.

The United Nations' Human Rights Council is expected to review the panel's findings in June.
A subsequent measure, Resolution 1973, authorized U.N. member states take "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attack by forces loyal to Gadhafi.

European countries are leading the military response in Libya. France, Italy and Great Britain announced they were sending military liaisons to rebel-held territory in Libya as part of their intervention. The United States has sent unmanned armed drones to the fight.

The African 'Star Wars' It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.

The African 'Star Wars' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

i411 said:

Virtually unknown in the West: Libya's water resources


We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now?
Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIPELINE to the Benghazi region, that lunatic?
Were they waiting for him to finish?


The 1st of September marks the anniversary of the opening of the major stage of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects. The leader of the so-called advanced countries, the United States of America cannot bring itself to acknowledge Libya's Great Man-Made River. The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than four million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks.
Water, Water, Water - Libya's Hidden Asset « The Story Behind The Story

Click to expand...

YouTube - Great Man made River Project Libya

https://www.jamiiforums.com/interna...sis-and-gadaffis-options-132.html#post1908855

REUTERS BREAKING SMASH:
Libyan government forces shelling Tunisian border town of Dehiba

11:10am: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are attacking the Tunisian town of Dehiba, near the Libyan border, with small arms and artillery, two local residents told Reuters on Friday.

"Intense shooting is taking place now in central Dehiba. This started around two hours ago. People here cannot come out. The battle started after the (pro-Gaddafi) brigades attacked the rebels positioned in Dehiba."

A second local man, called Samy, told Reuters shells were falling on houses in Dehiba and a Tunisian woman had been killed.

-Reuters

Tunisian army soldiers stand by a distrained car which belongs to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Dehiba near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Dehiba April 29, 2011. Forces loyal to Gaddafi are attacking Dehiba, near the Libyan border, with small arms and artillery, two local residents told Reuters on Friday.

i411 said:

So Libyan War Is For Water – NOT Oil – Largest Fossil Water Reserve Libya and Egypt sit on a resource are more valuable than oil, in that part of the world . The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer , is a sea of fresh water , that has an invaluable value , on a continet as Africa . Gaddafi used much of the funds generated from oil to build the ” Great Man Made River Project ” ( GMMRP ) . The 4000 Km long water pipeline barried underneath the desert . $ 25 Billion has already been invested into this project, and he was aiming to increase production to help Egyptians and Sudan

Click to expand...

thank you for braim washing

Mwaga ugali na mimi namwaga mboga!

Updates

11:35pm: At a press conference at Rixos Hotel tonight, Moussa Ibrahim presents children with a poster they made for William and Kate:

Source

"WEKA SILAHA CHINI NDANI YA SIKU NNE VINGINEVYO 'TUNAWASHUSHIA KICHAPO' CHA MBWA MWIZI" Yasema majeshi ya Serikali ya Libya
Libya declares sea blockade of Misurata port
After besieging city for days, government forces offer rebels 'amnesty or bloodshed'.
Last Modified: 29 Apr 2011 22:12


Gaddafi's troops have been shelling rebels inside several western cities [EPA]
The Libyan government has announced that its forces took control of Misurata's port and warned rebels in the besieged city they faced further bloodshed unless they handed in their weapons within four days.

Mussa Ibrahim, a spokesperson for Muammar Gaddafi, also urged foreign fighters to leave the country or "[we will] finish you off".

"We will fight for Misurata soldier by soldier, young man by young man, young woman by young woman," he said on Friday.

Responding to diplomatic tensions with neighbouring Tunisia after fighting spilled over the border, Ibrahim blamed the rebels for border violations and pledged respect for Tunisia's sovereignty.

He said Libya that was co-ordinating with the Tunisian government to prevent a disaster on the border.

Earlier on Friday, pro-Gaddafi forces clashed with Libyan rebels, Libyan refugees and Tunisian civilians in the Tunisian border town of Dehiba, prompting Tunis to issue a diplomatic rebuke.

source>>> Gaddafi forces claim control of Misurata port - Africa - Al Jazeera English