The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

Hivi vita vinaonekana kama vile wana ladhimisha tu, na ni more of a political agenda than anything else. Its unpopular war and people are now skeptical considering most of european nations are under a tight budget. The tax payers would rather see their money being spent inside their borders rather than on a war si ajabu opinion polls in France do not favour 'Sarkozy' government.

The only way they can salvage their political positions those who are heavily involved is to kill 'Gadaffi' soon and accomplish their mission quickly or else its a disastor. And so far we know if he is to be killed civil war will follow in Libya.

Damn I hate white for messing up our continent.
 
Juma Contena said:
...The only way they can salvage their political positions those who are heavily involved is to kill 'Gadaffi' soon and accomplish their mission quickly or else its a disastor...
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It seems like this is their desired goal, although they do not want to admit it publicly. The way I see it, for the West, Gaddafi is now more of a liability than an asset!
 
Three more countries recognize Libya rebels: spokesman
Published: Thursday, 5 May 2011

ROME - Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands have joined Italy and France in recognizing the Transitional National Council of rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said on Thursday.

Mahmoud Shammam told reporters at a meeting of an international anti-Gaddafi coalition that the cash-strapped rebels only had enough funds to pay for their immediate needs in food, public salaries and medicine until the end of May.

They needed $2-3 billion dollars in urgent funding, he said.

"There are three more countries that have recognized us this morning, Holland, Denmark and Spain. And there will be possibly more after the meeting," Shammam said. Meeting hosts Italy earlier appealed for more members of the NATO-led coalition to recognize the Benghazi-based rebels.

-Reuters
 
Denmark denies officially recognizing Libya rebels

COPENHAGEN | Thu May 5, 2011 9:10am EDT

(Reuters) - Denmark denied Thursday that it had officially recognized Libya's Transitional National Council (TNC) of rebels, but said it did recognize the organization as a relevant partner for dialogue.

Earlier Thursday a Libyan rebel spokesman said that Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands had joined Italy and France in recognizing the TNC rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

"We have not taken steps to formally recognize the TNC," Danish foreign ministry spokesman Jean Ellermann Kingombe said. "There is a willingness to engage (with the TNC) but no formal recognition."

Denmark considers the TNC "a relevant partner for dialogue" and has appointed an envoy to explore the potential for conducting relations with the Benghazi-based rebels, Ellermann Kingombe said.

(Reporting by John Acher; editing by David Stamp)

-Reuters
 
NATO wanamkomalia Gaddafi!

Air strikes on Libya will be stepped up to oust Gaddafi, says Hague

By Nick Pisa
Last updated at 6:54 PM on 5th May 2011
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Oust: Mr Hague said the aim was to use 'military, financial and diplomatic pressure'

Foreign secretary William Hague today said military action in Libya would be intensified in an attempt to oust dictator Colonel Mummar Gaddafi from power. Mr Hague made his comments following the second Libya Contact Group meeting which was attended by 22 countries and which ended with a commitment to provide millions of dollars in funds but not arms to the rebels.

The money would be for immediate financing towards medical and food supplies for he cash strapped rebels, as well power to hospitals but no clear financial figure was given. Officials from the Libyan Transitional National Council had hoped for a more definite pledge of arms as they are being outgunned by mad dog Gaddafi's military forces.

But Mr Hague stressed the aim was to oust the dictator through 'military, financial and diplomatic pressure' and he added: 'I am not talking about arming the rebels. The tempo of the military action will be increased against command and control centres and will continue. Time is not on the side of Colonel Gaddafi.

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France is expelling 14 Libyan diplomats

By JAMEY KEATEN
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PARIS — France's foreign ministry says the government has ordered 14 diplomats loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to leave the country within 48 hours.

A foreign ministry spokesman says the fourteen "ex-diplomats" worked for Libya's embassy before it was shut about a month ago. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the official protocol.

The foreign ministry said in a statement Friday that the 14 have been deemed "persona non grata," and that they have between 24 to 48 hours to leave France.

France has recognized Libya's opposition movement and has been a major backer of a NATO-led military mission aimed to protect civilians from an onslaught by Gadhafi's forces.
 
Gaddafi Furious At Funding Plan For Rebels

2:00pm UK, Friday May 06, 2011

Colonel Gaddafi's regime has reacted angrily to a Western decision to give funding to the rebels trying to oust him.

The government branded the move to unblock Libya's frozen foreign assets to help the rebels "piracy". An agreement on funding was reached at a meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya in Rome on Thursday. It is intended to be an emergency lifeline for the rebels, who have now been fighting Colonel Gaddafi's men for more than two months.

Italy said $250m in humanitarian aid is already available. Countries including Kuwait and Qatar are among those who have pledged to donate. An extra source of funding will eventually come from Libya's blocked assets, estimated to be worth $60bn in Europe and the US. Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril said the package, far less than the $3bn figure they had wanted, was a "good start" and was a "six-month budget".

French foreign minister Alain Juppe says the new fund, which will be managed alternately by France and Italy, could be up and running "within weeks". He acknowledged it would take longer to tap Libyan government assets frozen abroad under UN sanctions because it does pose "legal problems".

The prospect of seeing funds it regards as its own used to finance the rebellion against it has infuriated Col Gaddafi's government.

Deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim said: "Libya still, according to international law, is one sovereign state and any use of the frozen assets - it's like piracy on the high seas."

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HALI INATISHA BAHARAIN KULIKO LIBYA, LAKINI "NATO" NA "UN" INAONA RAIA WA UKO NI SISIMIZI!!!

'Al Khalifa far worse than Gaddafi'

Fri May 6, 2011 5:15AM


Atrocities that the Bahraini regime is committing against the people are far worse than what Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi is doing to its people, says a Bahraini activist.


"What is happening in Bahrain is completely worse than Libya, because in Libya the dictator is killing his own people with his own army, but our dictators ... invited other armies from other oppressive regimes [Saudi Arabia] to share with them their bloody crackdown to kill their own people," Nabeel Rajab of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights told Press TV on Thursday.

Rajab said although it is difficult to distinguish Bahraini forces from those of Saudi Arabia deployed in Bahrain, it becomes clear that the Saudi regime is playing a major role in the crackdown on the anti-regime protesters when one looks at the latest developments there.

"You can see the culture of the Saudi army [in Bahrain] when you see [the] new [event] happening here, which has never happened in the history of the country: ...demolishing mosques and demolishing worshiping places. This is the part of the Saudi Wahhabism culture which does not exist in Bahrain," Rajab said.

The Bahraini activist also said that the deployment of additional Saudi troops in Bahrain indicates that Saudi armed forces plan to remain in Bahrain for a long time.

However, Rajab pointed out that Bahrainis do not welcome foreign forces on their soil as their presence has aggravated the situation in Bahrain

"The people of Bahrain don't welcome that [sending more troops by Saudi regime], they are upset about it; it's an interference in our internal affairs and issues," he said.

"Since the Saudis have come, the problem has become more complicated ... and the gap between the ruling elite and the people of Bahrain has become wider and wider...We don't see, in the nearest future, any solution if they [Saudi regime] continue the same process."

Saudi Arabia has reportedly sent more troops to Bahrain to help the Manama regime quash upcoming protests in the small Persian Gulf kingdom.

The latest development comes as Bahraini demonstrators plan to hold mass anti-regime protests on Friday, which they have dubbed "the Day of Sacred Defense."

SOURCE>>> PressTV - 'Al Khalifa far worse than Gaddafi'
 
MADILI YA "US"na "WESTs" YA KUUZA SILAHA NDIYO YANAIYUMBISHA NA KUWAUA RAIA LIBYA

'Libya war Western plot to sell arms'

Fri May 6, 2011 6:3AM


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at an academic ceremony in Tehran on May 5, 2011.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says NATO's military invasion of Libya is aimed at selling Western-made weaponry.


“They [the West] have frozen [Libya's] funds under the pretext of the war and right now they are selling their stockpiled armaments, and withdrawing the money for the arms from the account of those killed [in the war],” Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying at an academic ceremony in Tehran on Thursday.

Since the revolution against Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's regime began in mid-February, hundreds have been killed and injured in clashes between Libyan revolutionaries and pro-Gaddafi forces.

Many civilians have reportedly been killed since the Western coalition unleashed a major air campaign against the Libyan regime forces on March 19 under a UN no-fly zone mandate.

The Western military alliance has refused to apologize for the deadly bombardments.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian chief executive pointed to the failure of Marxism, Humanism and Liberalism, saying a new humanistic movement, inspired by Iran, would prevail in the world.

President Ahmadinejad emphasized that the Islamic Republic's power “does not rely on weapons or economy,” but “is rooted in faith and humanitarian” values.

SOURCE>>>> PressTV - 'Libya war Western plot to sell arms'
 
SIJUI NATO wanatumia kifungu kipi cha UN Charter kufanya haya......!

Funding revolutionaries piracy: Libya
Fri May 6, 2011 1:10AM



Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim has denounced an international plan to fund the revolutionaries with frozen government assets as "piracy on the high seas."


The international Libya Contact Group on Thursday announced the establishment of a special fund to support the Libyan revolutionaries against Muammar Gaddafi, and promised to tap frozen assets of the embattled Libyan ruler.

Meanwhile, a harsh reaction came from Tripoli with the Libyan deputy foreign minister saying the International Contact Group is "ambiguous, it's a strange body, and we consider it a non-entity," Reuters quoted Kaim as saying after the group met in Rome.

"Libya still, according to the international law, is one sovereign state and any use of the frozen assets, it's like piracy on the high seas," he added.

When asked whether the Libyan regime would guarantee the safety of ships carrying aid to the besieged opposition-controlled city of Misratah, the Libyan official replied: "We will not allow those ships to bring arms to the city and then to evacuate some criminals."

Kaim went on to say that the government's decision to cut off the revolutionaries' access to the Mediterranean Sea -- their final lifeline-- remains unchanged.

Libya's Ministry of Transportation has said the port is closed and that any foreign ship or vessel will be targeted by the armed forces.

On Wednesday, a ferry chartered by the International Organization for Migration, offloaded supplies and onloaded refugees at the Misratah port amid a hail of artillery fire by Gaddafi's forces.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had said on Wednesday that Libyan opposition forces should be supported financially to enable them to remove the country's ruler from power.
 
A powerful explosion in Tripoli tonight is reported via Twitter. NATO planes are circling over the city!
 
MAJESHI YA SERIKALI YA LIBYA YALISHATOA SIKU NNE HAWA WASUMBUFU WAWEKEE SILAHA CHINI....KWA HILI wasilalamike
Libyan revolutionaries censure NATO

Sat May 7, 2011 1:55PM


Migrants wait for transportation after arriving at the port in Benghazi from the besieged Libyan city of Misratah on May 5, 2011.
NATO forces fail to stop an assault on four large oil storage containers near the strategic and besieged Libyan city of Misratah.


Aircraft operated by pro-Gaddafi forces dropped bombs on the storage tanks and damaged another four containers in the process.

Revolutionary forces say they warned NATO about the planes before the airstrike, but they received no response.

Pro-Gaddafi forces used small planes in their overnight attack in Qasr Ahmed close to the port.

"Four tanks were totally destroyed and huge fire erupted which spread now to the other four. We cannot extinguish it because we do not have the right tools," Reuters quoted opposition spokesman Ahmed Hassan as saying.

Government forces have bombarded Misratah over the past several weeks, attempting to prevent supplies from reaching the port.

Last month, the head of the opposition's armed forces, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis, told reporters in Benghazi that NATO's inaction had allowed government troops to advance and kill people in Misratah and other cities.

Younis also threatened to ask the United Nations Security Council to suspend the NATO mission in Libya if the military alliance does not do "its work properly."

Critics, however, accuse the West of hypocrisy over the offensive in Libya, along with its silence towards the brutal crackdowns on similar anti-regime movements elsewhere in the Arab world, such as in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

SOURCE>>.PRESS TV
 
KUTOKA KUWA MFUGWA GUANTANAMO KUWA MWANAMAPINDUZI YA KULETA DEMOKRASIA LIBYA...

'US too broke for real war on Libya'

Sat May 7, 2011 4:15PM



The US has resorted to stirring conflict between the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, al-Qaeda, and anti-Gaddafi tribes because it is simply "too broke and isolated to mount any serious form of land effort in Libya," a historian says.


Press TV has conducted an interview with American Author and Historian, Webster Tarpley to further discuss the matter.

Press TV: The Libyan Transitional Council has recently shown its road map towards democracy as far as Libya goes at this meeting of the contact group in Libya. What they outlined was, elections to be held despite Gaddafi staying in power. What do you make of that?

Webster Tarpley: We have to remember that this Benghazi-rebel council, I would simply call them the 'NATO puppets' are not revolutionaries in any sense. This group around [President of the rebel council, Mustafa Abdul] Jalil, [the rebel's military Chief of Staff Abd Al Fattah] Yunis, and Hester, now they are people who are co-sponsored by MI6, by the CIA, by the French DGSE, and with the input from the National Endowment for Democracy, as was quite correctly mentioned. But the embarrassment for the Western government is that this group is chuck full of al-Qaeda operatives and former veterans of the Libyan-Islamic fighting group, people who have been prisoners of war of the US and Pakistan and or have been held in Guantanamo Bay are now in command of cities like Benghazi.

I think it's going to be very hard to transfer money to such a group of dubious characters. Hilary Clinton obviously wants to give these people at least a good chunk of the USD 33 billion that the US has seized. There is evidence that they have already been stealing oil and selling it with the help of Qatar out there in the [Persian] Gulf, but the word I had was that the rebels were about three to four weeks away from going bankrupt, so they need a cash infusion, and I'm not sure that they have it, because what they have seems to be humanitarian aid.

I think the other side, the military side, from NATO circles we now hear that the bombing has reached an impact that these NATO circles speaking through various academics and so forth, want a new United Nations resolution that would allow them to the ground invasion that we just heard of Obama promising that he would never go with.

So, certainly the danger therefore of the ground war, and just let me add that here in Washington, we have a mood of what I call hysteria, psychosis and euphoria all mixed. Having mainly to do with this bin Laden story, being too complex to go into. I think now it will be fairly easy for his handlers to get Obama to sign paperwork for some kind of invasion of Libya, but I would also warn that would be yet another disaster for the US, given the obvious strategic problems of Libya.

Press TV: Well, then all this brings us back to the fact that the UN mandate does not require a regime change, however, any success that can be measured on the ground will only come through a viable regime change.

Webster Tarpley: Well, the regime change is illegal ...............................

SOURCES>>>> PressTV - 'US too broke for real war on Libya'
 
Pro-Gadhafi forces bomb fuel depots in contested Libyan city

By the CNN Wire Staff
May 7, 2011
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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces bombed key fuel depots in the contested city of Misrata Saturday, destroying six containers and causing a massive fire, a rebel spokesman said.

Three green helicopters with the internationally recognized symbols of the Red Cross and Red Crescent were seen flying over Misrata's port early Saturday, said rebel spokesman Ahmed Hassan. He said Gadhafi's forces are using aid helicopters to bomb the city.

The fuel depots were located 2 kilometers from the port. The oil stored there was used for electricity and generator plants. "We lost a lot of fuel which is used for the daily life of the city," Hassan said.

Misrata, the only city in western Libya held by the rebels, has been the scene of heavy fighting for weeks as Gadhafi's forces try to reclaim control.

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Askari Kanzu said:
Pro-Gadhafi forces bomb fuel depots in contested Libyan city

By the CNN Wire Staff
May 7, 2011

Misrata, the only city in western Libya held by the rebels, has been the scene of heavy fighting for weeks as Gadhafi's forces try to reclaim control.

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Askari Kanzu sasa hii kali .....yaani habari itoke CNN ndio uiamini...Refer post #2723 ya thread hii.
 
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