The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

Gadhafi appears on TV after weeks-long absence


AP – In this image made from Libyan TV, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi holds a meeting with tribal leaders …
TRIPOLI | Wed May 11, 2011

By DIAA HADID, Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made a short television appearance late Wednesday after weeks of absence.

Gadhafi appeared on Libyan state television for several minutes. A camera filmed him from a distance as he sat with tribal leaders. He did not speak.

Gadhafi has not been seen or heard since an April 30 NATO airstrike on his residential and command compound that killed one of his sons, Seif al-Arab Gadhafi.

That led to rumors that Gadhafi himself was hit in the airstrike. His brief appearance, meeting with tribal leaders, was broadcast in Libyan TV. It appeared to take place at the Tripoli hotel where foreign correspondents are stationed and seemed designed to squelch the rumors.

To confirm the authenticity of the screening, the camera zoomed in the date shown on a television screen close to Gadhafi. It read Wednesday, May 11.
 
Those who think is Gaddafi is delusional are the ones who are delusional.... but in this case sababu TZ tumejaliwa ubishi na kutotaka kuelewa ukweli wa mambo twaweza bishana mpaka kesho hapa..wacha tu our next generation ndo waje wapate ukweli wa mambo na matatizo tutayo waachia.... Then ndo itajulikana who was/was not delusional...
 
Libya's Muammar Gaddafi's on TV Tripoli



Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made an appearance on state TV Wednesday, his first since a NATO air strike nearly two weeks ago that killed his son and raised speculation over the Libyan leader's fate.
By News Wires (text)

REUTERS - Libyan state television showed footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son. The Libyan leader, who had not been seen in public since the April 30 strike on his Tripoli compound killed his youngest son and three of his grandchildren, made his appearance on Wednesday in his trademark brown robe, dark sunglasses and black hat.

"We tell the world these are the representatives of the Libyan tribes," said Gaddafi, pointing to the officials and naming a few of them.

"You will be victorious," an old man told Gaddafi, referring to the three-month-old revolt in the North African country against the Libyan leader's 41 years of rule.

A screen behind Gaddafi showed a morning chat show on state al-Jamahirya television. A zoom-in on the screen showed Wednesday's date displayed in the corner.

Reuters journalists based at the same hotel said some rooms had been sealed off during the day for an event, but they had not seen Gaddafi. In the past he has made high-profile entrances accompanied by a large staff of minders and aides.

-France 24
 
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Update:
Libyan state TV: North Korean embassy in Tripoli damaged by NATO air strikes!

- Reuters

North Koreans will surely be angry!
 
pamoja na wewe daima just nextdoor
MAMMAMIA said:

Tuwe na fikira chanya, fikira hasi ndizo zinazoturudisha nyuma. Imani yangu ni uwa Yatafika ndugu yangu, yatafika! Kama si sasa halafu kidooogo. Nina hakika hatufiki 2015.
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Asha D said:
Those who think is Gaddafi is delusional are the ones who are delusional.... but in this case sababu TZ tumejaliwa ubishi na kutotaka kuelewa ukweli wa mambo twaweza bishana mpaka kesho hapa..wacha tu our next generation ndo waje wapate ukweli wa mambo na matatizo tutayo waachia.... Then ndo itajulikana who was/was not delusional...
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his days are numbered-just wait
 
Libyan rebels invited to open office in UK

From: AAP
May 12, 2011 9:21PM

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron invited the Libyan rebel council to open an office in London after talks with its leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil. It would be the National Transitional Council's first foreign diplomatic mission and a highly symbolic step in the rebels' fight against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was shown on television yesterday for the first time in nearly two weeks.

"The government is today inviting the council to establish a formal office here in London," Cameron said after the talks in Downing Street, his first face-to-face discussions with the rebel leader. The prime minister also said Britain was boosting its diplomatic team in the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi, including by adding a new special representative to the council.

In addition, "we are now completing plans to transfer several million pounds worth of equipment to the police in Benghazi. We will also provide new support to improve the council's public broadcasting capacities", Cameron said.

Addressing Jalil, he said: "These steps signal our very clear intent to work with you and your colleagues to ensure that Libya has a safe and stable future, free from the tyranny of the Gaddafi regime."

Cameron said it was "impossible to imagine a real future for Libya with Gaddafi in power and we will continue to support the development of an open, democratic and free Libya".

"Just as Gaddafi can have no part in the political transition that lies ahead, it is clear that the National Transitional Council will play a leading role," he said.

-Full Story
 
Pressure mounts on Gadhafi within Libya's capital
By DIAA HADID and MAGGIE MICHAEL. Associated Press
May 12, 2011, 2:01PM

TRIPOLI, Libya — Pressure is mounting on Moammar Gadhafi from within his stronghold in the Libyan capital, with increasing NATO airstrikes and worsening shortages of fuel and goods. Residents said Thursday there has also been a wave of anti-government protests in several Tripoli neighborhoods this week — dissent that in the past has been met with zero tolerance and brutal force.

A local journalist and another resident in Tripoli, reached by telephone from Egypt, told The Associated Press that there have been protests this week in at least three neighborhoods in the capital, accompanied by exchanges of gunfire between opposition activists and Gadhafi forces. Both spoke only on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.

When residents of Tripoli tried to protest against Gadhafi earlier in the uprising, gunmen in speeding cars tore through and fired wildly into the crowds, making many fearful to go out in the streets and demonstrate.

The local journalist said residents are deeply frustrated by a severe fuel shortage that forces some motorists to spend up to three days in line at gas stations.

The head of the rebels' transitional government, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, said during a high-level visit to London on Thursday that Gadhafi opponents in Tripoli were in the process of acquiring weapons and predicted they would eventually contest regime forces in the capital.

"Tripoli is surrounded both internally and externally, and every day its sons go out and execute a few limited operations, perhaps to acquire some weapons," Abdul-Jalil said. "Tripoli will rise to get rid of this regime."

In Tripoli, Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said three people were killed in Thursday's NATO strikes — a local official and two Libyan journalists who were making a documentary about the hundreds of Libyan civilians who have been sleeping in Gadhafi's compound to show support for their leader.

Ibrahim fumed at the persistent airstrikes, which are aimed at pressuring Gadhafi to end his 42-year authoritarian rule.

"All they want is to break our morale, to cause death and destruction everywhere," Ibrahim said. "People are being killed, every single day, every single night."

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How Did Gaddafi Evade Journalists in Tripoli?

12:27pm UK, Thursday May 12, 2011


Mark Stone, Sky News reporter, in Tripoli

It is fair to say, there has been a good deal of head-scratching among journalists at Tripoli's Rixos Hotel.

Just how did Colonel Gaddafi manage to sneak into the hotel where all international journalists, their photographers and their cameramen are all staying without any of us seeing him?

Simple really. It involved curtains, large bodyguards, underground car parks, tunnels and torches.

At about 8pm on Wednesday night I was walking through the hotel to dinner. I noticed one corridor leading from the main lobby was curtained off. The lights behind the curtain were also off.

This isn't unusual. It's happened a number of times before and signifies that there's a VIP in the hotel. There have been plenty of rumours that Colonel Gaddafi had been injured, or worse, in the attack on his son's home. Now he has appeared on state TV.

Such are the restrictions here, there's no way of getting a glimpse of what's going on behind the curtains.

Don't forget, this is the best hotel in Tripoli. It's essentially the hub for all business meetings in Libya. If you're here on official government business, the chances are, you'll stay in the Rixos.

So we assumed a VIP was here, but not for a minute did I expect the Libyan leader to be sitting in a room just 50 metres from where I was eating my dinner.

Clearly, he didn't use the front entrance. We think he drove the 1km from his compound, entered the hotel through an underground car park and then walked up into the room for the meeting.

In the footage, you'll notice a torch on the table next to him. We think the walk from the car park to the room was made in darkness. They were determined that no one caught a glimpse of the man until he was gone.

Of course there is another theory: some say he wasn't here at all.

This place ticks over on rumour and conspiracy. I'm already getting messages from people telling me I am gullible. They claim the appearance was an elaborate set-up by the regime. Perhaps. But I don't believe it was.

Look at the screen behind the Colonel. It's showing state TV complete with the time and day: 19:52pm on May 11, 2011.

He's wearing black because he's mourning the loss of his son. This hotel only opened a year ago. He's not been here much. It would have to be some set-up.

One more rumour is that he is actually staying here, say some. It's certainly seen as the safest place in Tripoli at the moment. It'd be a sensible move for him.

Nato jets pounded his compound again just hours after his hotel visit. But as I said, this place thrives on rumour. Smoke and mirrors of an order I have never experienced.

Sky News
 
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Hali ya Gaddafi inazidi kuwa mbaya kila kukicha. Viongozi wa Africa wamempa kichogo. Wasomi wa Africa wamekaa kimya wakati majeshi ya NATO yamekuwa yakimwaga mabomu na kusambaratisha utawala wake. Kabla ya vita, wakati mambo yalipokuwa shwari, ni hao hao viongozi wa Africa ambao walikuwa wanampaka Gaddafi mafuta ya mgongo na kupokea mihela yake huku wakimkenulia meno.

Nikionacho mimi kwenye mchezo huu mzima ni undumilakuwili, uzandiki na usaliti uliokubuhu katika siasa za bara la Africa. Na ndio maana bara hili bado tutaendelea kukaa kwenye giza totoro na itachukua vizazi vingi vijavyo kabla ya kuanza kuamka!

Kwa hali ilivyo sasa sio muda mrefu tutaanza kuandika R.I.P Gaddafi humu humu jamvini!

Pressure mounts on Qaddafi within Tripoli while rebels seek US recognition

Friday, 13 May 2011
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Opposition forces celebrate upon returning to liberated territory following the NATO bombing of Qaddafi forces deep inside Ajdabiya. (File Photo)

By ABEER TAYEL
Al Arabiya with Agencies

Pressure is mounting on the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from within his stronghold in the Libyan capital, with increasing NATO airstrikes and worsening shortages of fuel and goods. An activist said Friday that there has also been a wave of anti-government protests in several Tripoli neighborhoods this week.

Opposition fighters, meanwhile, received major political boosts from abroad. Britain promised to provide them with police gear, and the Obama administration invited a rebel delegation to the White House for talks on Friday, according to The Associated Press.

The sound of two NATO strikes could be heard in the capital early Friday. It was not immediately clear what they targeted. A round of NATO airstrikes on Thursday hit Colonel Qaddafi's fortified compound in Tripoli. Just hours beforehand, the Libyan leader had appeared on state TV for the first time since his son was killed nearly two weeks ago. Before his appearance, rumors swirled that he had been killed or injured.

Reporters were shown the airstrike damage by Libyan officials, including one who said Mr. Qaddafi and his family had moved away from the Bab al-Aziziya compound some time ago. There was speculation that the colonel had moved into the Rixos hotel, where foreign journalists have been sequestered.

Malizia kusoma hapa!
 
The International Criminal Court will likely issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi by the end of the month, Italy's foreign minister said.
The warrant would be a "key moment" in the battle against Gaddafi and would make it impossible for him to escape into exile, foreign minister Franco Frattini said on Thursday.
"From that moment on, an exit from power or from the country will no longer be imaginable," he said.
A spokeswoman for the office of ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo told Al Jazeera that it was surprised by Frattini's statement. Ocampo submitted a report to ICC judges on May 4 requesting an arrest warrant but is waiting for the court to either approve the warrant or request more information, the spokeswoman said.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on February 26 to ask the ICC to investigate human rights crimes in the uprising against Gaddafi, which began earlier that month.

source ; .Aljazeera.

hwa jamaa wamempania sana. kwazi ni kwake...
 
taarifa yako ni ya upande mmoja tu bado hujapata ya upande wa serikali. mkuu wewe ni miongoni mwa waathirika wa siasa za media za magharibi.
 
Does it mean africa does not have a say on our land coz i think Nato is helping africa to think and to act and they a so fast,i believe we can think for ourselves and resolve our isues,i believe there is a way without this destructive war
 
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has likely been wounded in western airstrikes and has probably left Tripoli
 
unapokuwa na bunch la viongozi dhaifu kama tulionao sasa, na unapokuwa na siasa za kimagharibi zikitawala dunia, sio ajabu kuona waliokuwa wanufaika wa hela za libya sasa hivi kimyaaa kama maji mtungini. kama vile hawaoni yatokeayo libya. ni kweli kwa sasa ghadaffi is on his own and is left alone to fight the west. na hivi hali haijatulia syria na iran nayo ina mambo yake, basi hana hata mwarabu wa kumtetea. kila mtu anaganga kwake. ghadaffi atabaki alone against the west...na kwa wajuao mwenendo wa dunia, ni rahisi kuotea nani atakaesalimu amri, hata kama hatuipendi hiyo hali.
 
Inasikitisha sana!.Walianza na azimio la No fly zone,sasa hakuna mpaka tena.Ni msako wa nyumba kwa nyumba na kuripua kila kitu cha maana cha kumsaidia Gaddaffi.
Inaonekana Gaddafi ni shujaa zaidi kuliko Saddam.Nalipongeza jeshi lake lisilorudi nyuma katika hali zote.Ukidhulumiwa usilie,bali pigana.
 
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