The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

[Nanu]

Nchi ambayo Africa ina maendeleo makubwa na haitegemei Wazungu hata kidogo ni Libya! Ni nchi pekee katika Afrika inayosemesha mtoto toka chekechea hadi chuo kikuu bure, ni nchi pekee ya Afrika ambayo wanafunzi wanasema shida yao kubwa ni parking za kutosha za magari na maktaba ya amazon, ni nchi pekee ya Afrika ambayo imeajiri mamilioni ya wafanyakazi katika Afrika na wazungu pia, ni nchi pekee ya Afrika ambayo hata ilipowekewa vikwazo bado ilipiga hatua, ilitoa gawiwo la mafuta toka $7 kwa pipa mpaka zaidi ya $40 kwa pipa. Pesa nyingi zipo katika kuendeleza nchi.

Tanzania tuna Demokrasia? Demokrasia ambayo mpaka leo bado tupo kwenye nyumba za nyasi na tembe, bado wanawake zaidi ya 60% wanajifungulia kwa wakunga wa jadi au hata bila mkunga maana huduma za afya bado ni duni na hazijawafikia wengi, ambayo chini ya 10% ya Watanzania ndiyo wenye umeme na umeme wenyewe ni wa mgao na watu wanatumia muda wao mwingi na resources kulalamikia hili la 10% tu? Ndugu yangu tunahitaji angalau tuwe na visionary leaders wenye uchungu na nchi yao kama akina Gaddafi na Aliyekuwa Rais wa Ghana Jerry Rawlings, etc. We need visionary and committed leaders to take us to next level. When you have strong economy you can improve on anything. Libya will never be as it was but at least it is now ahead and anyone who takes it from there must spear to a better Libya, a better Africa. Gaddafi will not be there forever and even if not now but his days in office are numbers and I do think that if this ends without ending his power, he will prepare a smooth handover of power and constitution will be redone as was for Tanzania.
Nyerere did a constitution to address term in office after the failed coupe detat in early 80s. Those wanted to overthrow they clearly said we didn't have anyone in particular to become the president but we wanted at least someone elseo be it bad let see how bad he is but we can't continue as a Monarch.
Gaddafi will learn a lesson from this and foster the good and smooth power transition but I DONT AGREE WITH REBELLIONS BEING SUPPORTED BY THE WESTERNERS!!!

 

[Mkasika]

You can live or you can die but whoever that bows to the West is a ****ing moron. Those NLC are psychopath lying bastards inshort they are ****ing pussies waiting to be laid. Where were they before? We are killing one another, they are watching on TV while taking their people and watch us dying. You all know our neighbour Rwanda and what happened during genocide in 1994. So you can not tell me anything about whether France or any Western Nation recognising NLC as a legitimate gov't. There is no legitimacy first by being recognised by its people through a ballot paper and second being recognised by AU

I toatally agree with you mate, it amazes me the outcry (and rightly so) about the killing of protesters in Libya, yet in places Rwanda or Democractic Republic of Congo, where war has raged for more than ten years and caused casualties of around ten million, i hear nothing. is it due to not much oil being in Rwanda or Congo? Even though they are extreamely wealthy in precious metals that are used in mobile phone etc. I just hope it isn't double standards, or even recism from mainstream media of the west.

 

[Phillemon Mikael]

......mimi kwenye mgogoro huu nipo upande wa ghadafi hadi mwisho.....
nguvu ya umma sio kutumia silaha....bali ni maandamano tu....kitendo cha section ya jeshi kujiunga na wananchi kufanya fujo kimeonyesha kuwa tatizo sio wananchi wa libya bali ni mabeberu....

hata tanzania akitokea rais atakayewafanyia wananchi maendeleo makubwa kama libya nitakuwa wa kwanza kushauri atawale kwa kipindi kirefu......kiukweli miaka 10 haitoshi pale mnapompata kiongozi bora...inafaa tu kuepukana na viongozi dhaifu......

 

[Nanu]

The Westerners are killers and mostly France is a killer. Look on all her colonies they have been a problem in Africa. Their model is always to bring in chaos, to bring in rebels, to kill innocent people.
What about Somalia, it has been in chaos since 1991 and millions of people killed. No initiative is being taken by Europe, UN or America. It is only propaganda. They introduced pirates so that can be paid millions of money for any captured vessel through insurances. They are killers. They have caused premiums to be very high so tha componies like AIG can regain business. Why there wasn't pirates before economic down turn?

 

[mageuzi1992]

Mimi nashangaa kwa nini issue ya Ghadafi imekuwa hot kuliko ya Ivory coast, Yemen,Tunisia,Moroco etc!!!!!!!!!!! au SOMALIA!

 

[mama D]

haya mataifa makubwa nayo jamani hayafai huwa hayana msaada mtupu lazima kuna kitu wanakitaka ambacho ni mafuta ya libya...kama si hivyo mbona ivory coast hawaendi...? Tuwaangalie sana hawa jamaa na misaaada yao.....

u are very right! Wanachotaka nu mafuta tu!

 

[Hamuyu]

Je ni sahihi kuua watu wengi wako hivi ili kuendelea kutawala?

Mkuu wale wananchi walichokifanya walivamia makambi ya kijeshi wakapora silaha, ambazo wanazitumia kuteka maeneyo wanayoyakalia, sasa katika mazingira kama hayo usitegemee kama Ghadafi atawapelekea maua, ni lazima apambane nao mpaka kieleweke hakukua na njia nyengine, pia Gadafi alitumia uungwana wa kupeleka ujumbe kwa waasi kwamba kama kuna tatizo ndani ya Libya wote wanastahili kukaa pamoja kutatua matatizo yao waasi walikataa unategemea Gadafi afanye nini?

 

[Societa Jesuit]

Atashinda ndiyo.....how about this logical concept naomba mnisaidie.....Hitler alikuwa na mwisho mbaya....Musolin alikuwa na mwisho mbaya....Milosovich alikuwa na mwisho mbaya......Id Amin Dada.......Sani Abacha.....Saddam Hussein......Charles Taylor sawa ni sawa tu kama ni lazima Gaddafi awe na mwisho mzuri.

 

[Rungu]

Gaddafi hawezi kushinda. Wanaotaka, tupinge!

Licha ya kwamba vibaraka wake wa African Union (AU) wanamsapoti, Gaddafi kamwe hatashinda. Ameshaharibu, na hata akishinda kwa sasa, mwanzo wake wa kuanguka umeshatimia. He might win the battle, but he has already lost the war, as the saying goes.

 

[Ngekewa]

Tusubiri tuone nini kitatokea maana nilichokuwa nikikiona mimi ni utumiaji wa nguvu kupita kiasi dhidi ya wananchi huku wakinyemelewa na vita ya wenyewe kwa wenyewe.

Nafikiri kila mtu huwa anaangalia kitu akipendacho kwenye habari moja! Nilichokuwa nikikiona mimi ni uasi wa kutumia silaha na ilikuwa ni habari kuonyesha waasi na silaha. sasa sijui unapokamata silaha unakuwa unategemea unae[pigana nae atumie nini? Kweli siku zote itaonekana hata kama tuna chuki zetu binafsi!

 

[Ngekewa]

Atashinda ndiyo.....how about this logical concept naomba mnisaidie.....Hitler alikuwa na mwisho mbaya....Musolin alikuwa na mwisho mbaya....Milosovich alikuwa na mwisho mbaya......Id Amin Dada.......Sani Abacha.....Saddam Hussein......Charles Taylor sawa ni sawa tu kama ni lazima Gaddafi awe na mwisho mzuri.

Jee una ushahidi wowote ambao Gadaffi alifanya mojawapo wa lililofanywa na hao unaowataja? How about this logical concept naomba inisaidie: Watu kama Lumumba waliuliwa kwanini?

 

[Rungu]

Hii Mh. Kikwete hawezi kufanya. Anaogopa!
Zuma orders freeze on Gaddafi assets
March 11 2011 at 11:47am

President Jacob Zuma is warmly welcomed by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a visit to Libya last year - now Zuma has ordered the treasury to freeze assets linked to Gaddafi and his associates. Photo: Elmond Jiyane

President Jacob Zuma has ordered the treasury to freeze assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his associates.

The money is invested through the $5 billion (R34.7 billion) Libya Arab Africa Investment Co (Laaico), through Libya Oil Holdings, Libya African Investment Portfolio and Libyan Foreign Investment Company (Lafico).

In South Africa, it owns Ensemble Hotel holdings, including the luxury Michelangelo Hotel in Johannesburg. Treasury officials were not immediately available for comment. Libya holds billions of dollars in assets in Africa through subsidiaries its $70 billion (R485 billion) sovereign wealth fund.

The South African presidency said on Wednesday Gaddafi called Zuma “to explain his side of the story”.

It said: “South Africa has openly condemned the loss of life and attacks on civilians and reported violations of human rights in Libya.” - Reuters

 

[minda]

By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Paul Schemm, Associated Press

BREGA, Libya – Rebels held out Friday in part of a strategic oil port after fierce fighting with Moammar Gadhafi loyalists waging a heavy counteroffensive trying to push the opposition further east away from the capital.
Pro-Gadhafi forces barraged rebels a day earlier with an hourslong hail of rockets and tank and artillery shells in their strongest attempt yet to recapture the oil facility of Ras Lanouf, in central Libya. The assault sent hundreds of rebel fighters into a frantic retreat further east, fleeing in cars and pickup trucks fitted with heavy machine guns.
But some opposition forces — including special commando forces that defected to the rebellion — continued the battle into the evening. By sunset, the regime troops burst into the residential area of Ras Lanouf, forcing rebels there to pull back, said Ibrahim Said, deputy director of the main hospital in Ajdabiya, a nearby city where rebel wounded were taken.
The rebel forces continued to hold out in the oil facilities and industrial areas of Ras Lanouf, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the residential area. Four people were killed and 42 wounded in Thursday's fighting.
The powerful assault on Ras Lanouf underscored how Gadhafi's forces have seized the momentum in the back-and-forth battle with rebels, being waged mainly along the country's long Mediterranean coastline. In the uprising that began Feb. 15, nearly the entire eastern half of the coast fell into the hands of the opposition, along with several cities in the western half, close to the capital Tripoli, which remains Gadhafi's strongest bastion.
But government forces have repelled the rebels attempt last week to march west along the coast and if they decisively take Ras Lanouf, they could threaten the opposition's bastions further east.
In Washington, the U.S. director of national intelligence stressed that Gadhafi's military was stronger than it has been described and said that "in the longer term ... the regime will prevail." President Barack Obama has called on Gadhafi to step down, and the White House later distanced Obama from the director's assessment.
The opposition, however, made some diplomatic gains. France became the first country to recognize the rebels' eastern-based governing council, and an ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy said his government was planning "targeted operations" to defend civilians if the international community approves. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would meet with opposition leaders in the U.S., Egypt and Tunisia.
In Tripoli, Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam vowed to retake the eastern half of the country, which has been in opposition hands since early in the 3-week-old uprising.
"I have two words to our brothers and sisters in the east: We're coming," he told a cheering crowd of young supporters. The son depicted Libyans in the east as being held "hostage" by terrorists.
Gadhafi's government sent a text message to Tripoli residents, warning imams at mosques against allowing protests after Friday prayers. The message quoted Saudi cleric Sheik Saleh Fawzan, a member of the Saudi Supreme Scholars Council, as saying it was "unacceptable" for any imam "who incites people (or) causes disturbances of the society in any mosque."
There were demonstrations after prayers for the past two Fridays, and militiamen used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the crowds who had gathered in mosques. There were an undetermined number of deaths after the Feb. 25 demonstrations.
There were no concrete signs of Western moves toward military assistance that the opposition has been pleading for. A rebel spokesman went beyond repeated calls for a no-fly zone to prevent Gadhafi's air force from harrying opposition fighters and said the West should carry out direct strikes against regime troops.
"We have requested for all steps to be taken to protect the Libyan people. We believe the U.N. can do that. The bombardment of mercenaries and Gadhafi troop camps are among our demands," Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, a spokesman of the governing council, told reporters in the opposition's eastern bastion of Benghazi.
The battle at Ras Lanouf was a heavy blow for the ragtag rebel forces of armed civilians and mutinous army units that only days before had confidently charged west from the port, boasting they would march the hundreds of miles (kilometers) to "liberate" Tripoli.
Taking back the oil facility would be a major victory for Gadhafi, pushing his zone of control farther along the coast. His regime has also claimed a victory in the west, saying Wednesday it recaptured Zawiya, the closest rebel-held city to the capital, after a six-day siege. Western journalists in Tripoli were taken late Wednesday to a stadium on the outskirts of Zawiya that was filled with Gadhafi loyalists waving green flags and launching fireworks. But the journalists were not allowed to visit Zawiya's main square, and the extent of government control was not known in the city, located on Tripoli's western doorstep.
Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Qaid reiterated the government's claim Thursday, reading a military statement that Zawiya had been recaptured at 11 a.m. Wednesday and journalists would be taken Friday to visit the city.

"Now the forces are cleaning the city of the extremist armed militants," Qaid told reporters. He said "the security forces and civilians" had seized weapons and ammunition, including anti-aircraft guns, mortar shells and anti-tank missiles.
At a U.S. Senate hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said there was no indication that Gadhafi would step down and offer a speedy resolution to the crisis.
"Gadhafi is in this for the long haul," he said. "From all evidence that we have ... he appears to be hunkering down for the duration."
Pressed on which side had the momentum, he was even clearer: "I think in the longer term that the regime will prevail."
Hours later, the White House distanced Obama from Clapper's remarks. Obama does not think Gadhafi will prevail, a senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss Obama's position on Clapper's comments. The official reiterated Obama's stand that Gadhafi has lost legitimacy and should leave power. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Clapper has the full confidence of the president.

source: AP

 

[Leornado]

Nina wasi wasi Ghadafi anaweza kufanyiwa kile alichafanyiwa Sadam Hussein na Wanawe Ussay na Qussay na wamarekani.

Ghadafi bado nakukubali, die for ur country huo ndio uzalendo.

 

[Rungu]

Yamewashinda ya Ivory Coast watayaweza ya Libya?

Addis Ababa – The African Union Peace and Security (PSC) on Friday, rejected any form of external military intervention on Libya by any country or group.

The rejection was contained in a communiqué issued in Addis Ababa at the end of its meeting to discuss the situation in Libya.

"The Council reaffirmed its respect for Libya's territory and therefore rejects any form of foreign military intervention as the situation requires urgent African action. (Khaa!)

"To facilitate the immediate humanitarian crisis and assistance to African migrant workers,'' the communique said. (Hii ndio inaitwa blah blah. Kuna waafrica wengi wamekwama Libya hadi sasa. Mataifa mengine wameshawaokoa wananchi wao. AU bado inapiga domo!)

The Council resolved to appoint a High Level Ad-hoc Committee of five Heads of State and Dr Jean Ping, the AU Commission chairman, to visit Libya and discuss with both parties and to, among other things, assess the situation on the ground. (Hiyo kamati ya kutatua matatizo ya Ivory Coast mpaka sasa imeshindwa, je kamati nyingine itayaweza ya Libya?)

Pata habari zaidi hapa (allafrica.com)

My take: Kama AU itaendelea na mchezo huu basi si muda mrefu ujao umoja huu utasambaratika. AU sasa hivi ni kama kibogoyo, au tuseme umoja mfu. Kuna wale ambao wamefikia kuuita umoja huu 'MAFIA ORGANIZATION'

- The AU's seemingly conservative statements on Libya will likely draw further rebuke to a body described by critics as a safe-haven for despots and corrupt leaders with poor human right records.

Hadi Shalluf, a Libyan opposition figure living in Paris, dismissed the AU reaction to the events describing the Pan-African body as a "mafia organization".

"No one expects much out of the African Union anyways. They are all criminals and we [Libyans] should seek to withdraw from this organization," Shalluf told Sudan Tribune.

But some experts foresee more damage to the AU's credibility in the long run as events in Libya unfold.

Laura Seay, an Africa specialist at Morehouse College in Georgia told Voice of America (VOA) that the PSC whose other leaders include Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and the current AU chairman, Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema may be hesitant to take tough action against autocrats and dictators. (allafrica.com)

 

[Tisha-TOTO]

wee angalia composition ya wajumbe wa hiyo kamati ya AU. all of them a bunch of losers!!

 

[Rungu]

wee angalia composition ya wajumbe wa hiyo kamati ya AU. all of them a bunch of losers!!

Africa hivi sasa tuna hali mbaya sana!

 

[Mwanaitelejensi]

Criminal wote hao pamoja na Kikwete, umoja wa wakandamizajia Africa.

 

[Rungu]

11 March 2011 Last updated at 13:26 GMT
Libya: EU leaders say Muammar Gaddafi must go

Rebels are coming under increasing pressure from Gaddafi forces

Leaders of the EU's 27 member states have said Libya's Col Muammar Gaddafi must surrender power.

The EU is holding an emergency summit in Brussels in the hope of finding a common approach to the political and humanitarian crisis. France has urged other states to follow it in recognising the rebel's interim council, but has so far failed to gain wider support. The summit comes as forces loyal to Col Gaddafi make major gains.

Western journalists in the city of Zawiya, west of Tripoli, have confirmed the Gaddafi regime's claims that the city has fallen after days of bombardment. There are reports of fresh air strikes near the oil port of Ras Lanuf to the east, which had been held by the rebels for several days.

As he arrived at the summit, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters: "Regarding Libya, the problem has a name: Gaddafi. He has to go."

Pata habari yote BBC

 

[Rungu]

Criminal wote hao pamoja na Kikwete, umoja wa wakandamizajia Africa.

Duh, aisee!