The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

[Askari Kanzu]

Point yake ni kuwa, habari ikitoka press tv na russia today ndio ya kuaminika lakini ikitoka CNN, BBC, Sky News sio ya kuaminika.

Nimekusoma Mkuu. Lakini unaweza kukuta uyo MpigaKelele ndo mshabiki mkubwa wa CNN na hivyo vyombo vingine vya "kimagharibi" ka vile Osama bin Laden alivyoonekana (akibonyeza remote na kutafuta channels) kwenye ile video kule Abottabad!

 

[Webabu]

Wizi ni wizi tu,hata ukimwibia kaka yako.
Tajiri akimwibia maskini au maskini akimwibia tajiri,dhambi yake iko sawa sawa.

 

[Mtazamaji]

Ila wakuu hii issue ya gadaffi ina maswlai mengi. I dont suuport him but unaposkia west wanafikiria openly kuspport rebels tena rebels wenyewe wengine wanakiri wamefanya kazi na alqaeda........

 

[Safety last]

Maskini Gadafi wanamtafuna nje ndani ,ndo shida ya ulafi na bado mzee hawajakutwanga vizuri si amekataa kusoma alama za nyakati .

 

[shujaa]

let him rot in hell, huyu Gaddafi si ndie aliyetuma silaha za maangamizi kwenye vita ya Kagera kuja kutuchapa waTZ? no sympathy fo him

 

[shujaa]

let him rot in hell, huyu Gaddafi si ndiye aliyetuma silaha za maangamizi kwenye vita ya Kagera kuja kutuchapa waTZ? no sympathy for him

 

[Nonda]

UKWELI HUU MARA NYINGI HAUSEMWI.......!!!!

'US-China oil conflict behind Libya war'

The US has waged the Western coalition's war on Libya in an attempt to evict China from the oil-rich areas of the North African country, a former US Treasury official says.

The crisis in Libya is mostly a “CIA operation and the US government is trying to get China out of Libya because China has extensive energy investments in Libya,” former Assistant Secretary to US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts told Press TV.

“The US is very disturbed by the recent reports from the International Monetary Fund that China will surpass the US as the number one economic power within 5 years,” Roberts added. .

Bofya hapa

https://www.jamiiforums.com/interna...or-nato-attacking-gaddafis-libya-exposed.html

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Libya: Col Gaddafi targetted in series of precision strikes

Col Muammar Gaddafi and his armed forces have been directly targetted in a series of precision strikes in Tripoli and the key town of Misurata as concerns grow that the regime is attempting to swamp Europe with refugees.

Image showing post strike battle damage assessment (BDA) of a building near Misurata, after an RAF airstrike last Sunday against a building being used by Gadaffi's forces Photo: PA

By Thomas Harding, Andrew Gilligan in Tripoli 7:34PM BST 10 May 2011

The new phase of highly accurate attacks, shown in photographs released by the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday, was launched as an increasingly desperate refugee crisis has seen thousands from Libya flee for Europe in just a few days.

In a sign that the regime is trying to force a refugee crisis as a weapon against its Nato enemies, almost 1,900 people from Libya arrived in five boats on the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Linosa this weekend alone. Another vessel sank - bringing the total lost to four boats. Hundreds of bodies are now washing ashore along the Libyan coast. Some of the refugees said they were forced on to the boats by Libyan troops and police, the International Organisation for Migration reported. Others were given free passage, in contrast to the normal practice where migrants are charged fortunes for the crossing.

"The flow of migrants from Libya to Italy has undeniably accelerated very recently," said the IOM's spokesman, Jean Philippe Chauzy. "Until recently, the flow to Europe was overwhelmingly Tunisians and there were no departures [by sea] from Libya. But as of yesterday, a total of 12,360 people on 35 vessels have arrived in Lampedusa and Malta from Libya."

Early on Tuesday, Nato forces carried out some of their heaviest strikes on the capital, Tripoli, for weeks, attacking targets said to include part of Col Gaddafi's leadership compound.

A hospital next to one of the targets, said by the Libyans to be a "government administrative complex" but claimed by Nato as an intelligence building, was slightly damaged in the raids.

Aerial footage of the action in Misurata showed two bombs targeted the third floor of a four-storey building where Gaddafi loyalists were directing heavy machinegun, artillery and rocket fire on to the port as humanitarian aid ships were unloading supplies. Photographs show that the precision guided Paveway IV bombs detonated after passing through the roof then the ceiling of the third floor before detonating, destroying troops and weapons on only the top two floors. The bottom two floors remained intact.

"The Tornados were ordered to destroy only the top two floors of the building on the outskirts of the besieged Libyan city, and did exactly that, in an attack that demonstrated the level of precision that RAF crews can deliver," a Ministry of Defence official said.

It is understood that the deployment of US Predator unmanned drones – which are able to stay in the air for 24 hours – has enabled Nato to build up a much clearer intelligence picture of enemy troop movements. Persistent surveillance by drones has allowed the RAF to target other buildings without fear of causing civilian casualties. Since the weekend four buildings have been hit, some believed to be hiding snipers.

The strike was made as Nato announced that rebel forces had taken control over much of Misurata, a move which has forced Gaddafi's troops to use artillery and rockets at longer range and indiscriminately.

-The Telegraph

NB: I bet the majority of those who perished at sea are from the Sub-Saharan Africa!

 

[GJ Mwanakatwe]

Mwenye macho haambiwi tazama, kinachoendelea kuhusu libya ni ubeberu tu, na nchi nyingine zinazofurahia yanayoendelea libya ni kwa kuwa tu ni vibaraka , nao ipo siku yatawakuta, Mwafrika wa kweli hawezi kushabikia kinachoendelea libya, kule ni kurudisha ukoloni afrika kwa mlango wa nyuma. Leo libya kesho Tanzania, mwenzako akinyolewa we tia maji.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Jiji la Tripoli na sehemu zake nyeti

Right click > View image, for a better view!

 

[Askari Kanzu]

There are signs that NATO will conduct a bombing raid in Tripoli tonight. A series of tweets are warning people to stay away from command, intelligence and government buildings.

EH172 RT @Guma_el_gamaty: Tripoli is very tense 2night shooting heard in many parts and heavy security around burns hospital. Also news of army officers abandoning G

x4o RT @ChangeInLibya: EVERYONE that lives next to a command, intelligence or government building in TRIPOLI is asked to MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE with family #libya

 

[Askari Kanzu]

EU to open Benghazi office to back Libya rebels

BRUSSELS | Wed May 11, 2011 3:32am EDT

May 11 (Reuters) - The European Union plans to open an office in the rebel-held Libyan city of Benghazi to facilitate assistance to the rebel council based there, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday.

"I intend to open an office in Benghazi so that we can move forward on the support we've discussed to the people... to support civil society, to support the Interim Transitional National Council," Ashton told the European Parliament.

Ashton said EU support would include help for security sector reform and institution-building.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom, editing by Rex Merrifield)

 

[Nonda]

Africa na single currency. Jee Africa itaendelea kuwa shamba la bibi la US na West baada ya Gaddafi.?

Na bado tunachekelea kuondoshwa kwa viongozi ambao wanapambana na ubeberu kwa vitendo na kufurahia wanaotembeza "bakuli"

Kuna member ana kauli mbiu hii" Miafrika ndivyo ilivyo"....Kila mtetezi wa kweli wa Afrika anakwenda na maji.

Bofya hapa. http://dscoffins.blog.com/2011/05/06/why-did-the-west-attack-gaddafi/

Bofya hapa Qaddafi: World Mathaba Conference on Gold Dinar and Single African Currency

 

[Nonda]

Give a dog a bad name!
They call him delusional, mad man but this is what Gaddafi stands for.


Attack on World Bank

Some of the revolutionary leaders who are here as my guests were obliged to create parties, and you may ask why have Mandela or Mugabe, or any of these other leaders, created a party? They were forced to and told: Either you do that or you will not get any loans from the World Bank. They did it because they felt obliged to and not because they believed in it...

Let us talk about the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization. These must be ours or we will reject them. If it is a world bank it must then belong to all of us and it should not impose anything on us. But what it does is that it imposes its will on the people. Libya makes a huge contributions to the World Bank and the IMF. Therefore it is our bank. Why should anyone in America, or any other place, or on behalf of Zionism and imperialism, impose their terms on the peoples since the bank is not their bank but is the bank of each one of us?

That is enough. Let us create the Mathaba's bank, the International Bank of the World Mathaba. Let us create a bank. We can create a bank and we will grant loans to one another [applause]. Let all our states withdraw their contributions from the World Bank and put them in this bank. Since the World Bank has become a nightmare and a sword hanging over our heads; and since it imposes humiliating and destructive terms on us; and since it controls the price of our children's bread and controls our food and drink, and also the price of fuel, clothes, food, drink and water, we do not want it, and let America and Zionism stay in it. They are welcome to stay in their bank.

We should withdraw our contributions and create a bank for the Third World and for the forces part of this Mathaba [applause]. We have the support of all the organizations. As I have said the masses of Seattle are with us and are against all these nightmares. All the jobless in Europe, in their millions, are also with us...

Warning to Europe
We must warn Europe against some of the projects which it is currently undertaking, because they will harm Europe and will harm cooperation between us, such as Barcelona and the European-Mediterranean cooperation. They want to take North Africa and annex it to the European Union. This is rejected. Africa does not allow the partition of its territory at all. Whoever wants to cooperate with Africa should cooperate with Africa from its north to its south as one Africa [applause]. But to take Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco and annex them to the European Union, via the Mediterranean, this is tantamount to an aggression on Africa's territorial integrity.

We will not sell Africa in exchange for gains from Europe because if we were to sell our brethren in Africa in exchange for gains we might obtain from Europe that would mean that we are agents and have accepted bribes. That would mean returning the colonies to their colonisers once again. If Europe wants to deal with us we must warn it about this on behalf of the World Mathaba...

Warning to Britain Zimbabweans never went to Britain to take British land. It is the British who went to Zimbabwe and forcibly took land and killed many people. What is wrong with President Mugabe reclaiming that land now? And the British have an obligation to compensate for the land they took away [applause]. All former colonial masters must be made to pay for their past deeds, there must be an international tribunal to hear cases of compensation for those countries which were colonised [applause].


No international criminal court
Kofi Annan has sent us a letter and said: I plead you to approve the Rome international criminal court. No, no, no. I have sent him a letter and I shall hand it out to all world leaders. This must be the stance of the whole Mathaba. We can only approve this criminal court of Rome if we impose our conditions, because this court will try us only and will not try them. It is not in our interest, my brother leaders, for anything to proceed from the United Nations as long as the domination is by one single state, because everything will be in its interest...
I can tell you that Libya will never approve this court in the light of the current conditions. Never. Because we are convinced that a CIA director would not be brought to be tried before this court, while he perpetrated crimes such as the assassination of Salvador Allende, Cabral, Lumumba or took part in the liquidation of any other person...

THE WORLD MATHABA

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Where's Gadhafi? Leader out of public view
Libyan leader not seen since NATO bombing of son Saif al-Arab's home April 30

Darko Bandic / AP
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, the ruins of an official building are seen following an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Tuesday.

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 5/10/2011 10:01:30 PM ET

TRIPOLI, Libya — The whereabouts of Col. Moammar Gadhafi are puzzling the Libyan capital, the Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday.

Gadhafi, 69, has not been seen in public since he reportedly escaped April 30 NATO air strikes that killed one of his sons, Saif al-Arab, NBC News said. At least two NATO bombs struck the family compound while Gadhafi was there. At the time, his supporters said Gadhafi had escaped "unhurt" even though they admitted he was there. As to whether he is still in command of Libyan forces, a senior U.S. official was less definitive, calling Qaddafi "very isolated" and "hurting one way or another" because of the increasing tempo of NATO attacks.

The official would not say if the U.S. knew where Gadhafi was but noted that there were attacks on leadership targets over the weekend.

The Guardian talked to Gadhafi supporters concerned about their leader's disappearance while NATO attacks were taking their toll. "Yes it's true that his absence is strange," one man in an inner-city coffee shop told the Guardian. He was not at his son's funeral and I thought he would be."

Gadhafi was absent from the funerals of Saif al-Arab and three grandchildren who were also reportedly killed in the attack, the Guardian said. Officials blamed security fears as government officials claimed the strike on his son's home had been an assassination attempt on Gadhafi. "It's obvious that they tried to kill him and I imagine his security people have told him to keep a low profile," one senior Libyan official told the Guardian. "But it is strange that he has stayed silent since."

NATO claims it is not targeting Gadhafi.

"All NATO targets are military targets," Italian Brig. Gen. Claudio Gabellini, who serves on NATO’s planning staff at the headquarters in Naples, told a weekly press briefing Tuesday.

"We have no evidence about what Mr. Gadhafi is doing right now, and I tell you the truth we’re not really interested in what he is doing," Gabellini said. Gadhafi appeared in public and on state television several times after the Libyan uprising began in February. Libya's prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, told the Guardian he has taken over addressing the international media weekly.

Tribal chiefs also assumed more prominent roles, the Guardian said. After a national conference of 850 tribes from all parts of Libya was held in Tripoli last week, tribal chiefs gained more authority to arbitrate national disputes.

Mahmoudi defended Gadhafi's low profile. "He has lost a son and he is mourning," he said. "He will be back with us soon."

Another official told the Guardian rumors about Gadhafi being wounded in the NATO airstrike were false. A European diplomat agreed, telling the Guardian: "Our understanding is that he is still about and that he is very upset about the death of his son."

 

[Somoche]

Ni ujuha na uzuzu kukuta mtu mwenye akili timamu anashadadia kama mwehu eti Ghadaff anapigwa hivi mmewahi kujiuliza kwanini NATO inampiga ama hamjui ni mafuta na hakuna kingine zaidi?!! nani aliwadanganya haya mambwa ya NATO yana urafiki na mtu..angalia wanachoifanyia Pakistani ndio angalau mtie akili hawa sio!! lakini ukoloni umo akili mwenu furahieni tu...aibu sana kwa kizazi cha watu waoga na wanafiki kama hawa walioko Afrika...

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Qaddafi has until end of May to accept exile deal, Italy says
May 11, 2011

Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi has until the end of May to agree his exile before an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court is issued, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Wednesday.

"There are countries that in recent weeks have indicated... a willingness to welcome him," Frattini added in an interview with RAI public radio.

"It's clear that if there is an international arrest warrant it would be more difficult to find an arrangement for the colonel and his family," he said.

"This will happen by the end of May," he added.

Frattini also said he believed there were "many defections" from the regime underway, adding: "This shows we have probably arrived at a turning point."

-AFP/NOW Lebanon

 

[Leornado]

makubwa haya, yaani imefikia hatua wazungu wanatupa notice ya kufukuzwa kwenye nchi zetu za uzawa??

Sasa wiki mbili Ghadafi ataamuaje??

Mine eyes,lets wait and see.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Sidhani kama kamanda atakubali. Wanataka apate mchecheto aanze kuweweseka. Nadhani wanamlenga na vita vya kisaikolojia!

 

[Leornado]

Sidhani kama kamanda atakubali. Wanataka apate mchecheto aanze kuweweseka. Nadhani wanamlenga na vita vya kisaikolojia!

Basi wamechemsha, aondoki mtu labda akiwa mfu, Ghadafi will not feel himself at home anywhere else apart 4m Libya, hii hama hama wanapoteza muda tu.