The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi

[Askari Kanzu]

"Kamwe sitaondoka Libya", Gaddafi aapa!

Zuma says Gaddafi refuses to leave Libya

By Marius Bosch
JOHANNESBURG | Tue May 31, 2011 7:37am EDT

(Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not prepared to leave Libya but will press efforts to find a political solution to the country's conflict, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

In a statement issued after meeting Gaddafi in Tripoli on Monday, Zuma said the Libyan leader had called for an end to NATO bombings "to enable a Libyan dialogue" and renewed a call for a ceasefire.

These terms were rejected by rebel leaders last month after an earlier mission to Libya by Zuma, who was mediating on behalf of the African Union. Libyan rebel leaders say Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule must end before any ceasefire.

"He emphasized that he was not prepared to leave his country, despite the difficulties," the statement released by Zuma said.

Zuma was taken on a tour of Tripoli to see the damage done by the bombings and the statement said: "The personal safety of Colonel Gaddafi is of concern."

Western leaders in charge of the two-month NATO-led air campaign against his forces say they will not stop bombing until Gaddafi steps down. Coalition aircraft resumed attacks within hours of Zuma's departure from Libya.

-Reuters

 

[Nonda]

Hapa ipo video fupi ya Zuma, gaddafi

BBC News - Libya: Zuma says Gaddafi will not quit

 

[Webabu]

Wasi wasi umewapata US,Nato na allies wao. Hawakutarajia vita kuchukua muda wote huu.Wanataka kama leo wasikie Gaddafi kafa au kakubali kukimbia.
Ni kama vile wasi wasi unaompata mtu aliyeandaa karamu kubwa ya kujifakharisha mfano harusi ya mwanawe,lakini mpaka dakika za mwisho haoni aliowaalika.Hata maskini pia hawakuja.Wamesusia au mwaliko haukuwafikia!

 

[Nonda]

Wasi wasi umewapata US,Nato na allies wao. Hawakutarajia vita kuchukua muda wote huu.Wanataka kama leo wasikie Gaddafi kafa au kakubali kukimbia

Wamesema wanamtayarishia hizi sasa

The Royal Air Force is to get 2,000lb "bunker busting" bombs to boost its mission in Libya.
The Ministry of Defence said the Enhanced Paveway III bombs were capable of penetrating the roofs of reinforced buildings.

The MoD said the bombs had been prepared and could be used in Libya in a matter of hours and would help to protect civilians from being targeted by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

BBC News - RAF to get 'bunker busters' for Libya mission

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Zuma akutana na Gaddafi - Video

 

[mbasajohn]

let be realistic here! Mwanzon mwa crisis ya libya na kabla hawa wamagarb hawajaingia mzgon Ghadaf alikuwa anashoot watu wake na mauwaj ya kmbali yalkuwa around th corner, sikatai wamagarb wanaweza kuwa na mkono libya bt 2kumbke yalyotokea Rwanda 1994 pale dunia ilpoigeuzia rwanda mgongo. So ntarudia kusema tena it good 4 libyan ikiwa Ghadaf ataondoka mana wamagarb hawatakuwa na reason to stay.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

let be realistic here! Mwanzon mwa crisis ya libya na kabla hawa wamagarb hawajaingia mzgon Ghadaf alikuwa anashoot watu wake na mauwaj ya kmbali yalkuwa around th corner, sikatai wamagarb wanaweza kuwa na mkono libya bt 2kumbke yalyotokea Rwanda 1994 pale dunia ilpoigeuzia rwanda mgongo. So ntarudia kusema tena it good 4 libyan ikiwa Ghadaf ataondoka mana wamagarb hawatakuwa na reason to stay.

Nadhani watu ka akina Ami, MpigaKelele, X-Paster, Michelle na Mtazamaji watakusikia. Trust me, mmoja kati ya hao atakujibu!

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

'NATO war on Libya is unacceptable'
Tue May 31, 2011 11:10PM


Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs Ali Ahani
An Iranian official has criticized the West's double-standard approach to the issue of human rights in the Middle East and North Africa and condemned the NATO-led war in Libya as "unacceptable."


"Politically motivated and instrumental approaches to the honorable issue of human rights are by no means acceptable and will yield no result," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs Ali Ahani said in a meeting with the director general of the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Robert Rydberg, in Tehran on Tuesday.

"The devastation of Libya's economic infrastructure by NATO's bombardments, based on wrong and egotistical interpretations of the [UN] Security Council's resolution, is unacceptable and deplorable," Ahani stated.

The Iranian deputy foreign minister urged the international community to compel the Western powers to revise their biased approach to the recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa.

"The international community's efforts to enforce a basic democratic framework based on respect for the principle 'one individual, one vote' will make a great contribution to solving the issues in the region," Ahani asserted.

NATO has conducted hundreds of sorties over Libya since it assumed control of a military campaign to impose a no-fly zone over the country and save civilian lives in late March.

Recent reports indicate that many civilians have also been killed in the UN-mandated aerial offensives.

NATO itself has admitted to killing revolutionary fighters and civilians in an airstrike in eastern Libya but has adamantly refused to apologize for the deadly bombardment.

Rydberg said the people of certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa began uprisings in order to regain their dignity and challenge entrenched dictatorships.

He also pointed to Iran's key role in the region and highlighted the importance of improving Tehran-Stockholm ties.

PRESS TV

 

[Webabu]

Nadhani watu ka akina Ami, MpigaKelele, X-Paster, Michelle na Mtazamaji watakusikia. Trust me, mmoja kati ya hao atakujibu!

Wewe umewaona akina Ami tu.
Ina maana watu kama raisi mzima Jacob Zuma na waziri wa zamani wa Ufaransa hiyo hiyo inayoongoza mashambulizi ambao wamechoshwa na uovu wa NATO kwako hao wana mawazo ya kiAmi?.
French ex-Minister in Libya, would defend Gaddafi | Top News | Reuters
Tatizo ni kwamba wewe akili yako kama ya NATO na ulipoanzisha hii mada ilikuwa ni katika namna ya kushangilia mwisho wa Gaddafi,hukutaraji kwamba ingekuwa ngumu hivi.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Mlipuko mkubwa watikisa Benghazi!

Blast hits hotel in Libya's rebel-held Benghazi: report

BENGHAZI, Libya | Wed Jun 1, 2011 2:46pm EDT

(Reuters) - A large explosion damaged a hotel on Wednesday in the eastern rebel-held city of Benghazi, Arab satellite television channels reported.

Al Jazeera reported that a "huge" blast had gone off outside the city's Tibesti hotel. Arabiya television said the explosion appeared to have come from a car parked beside the building. Footage showed cars on fire beside the hotel.

Reuters witnesses said they saw no blood at the scene and that no casualties had been reported. The witnesses said they saw five burned cars.

The hotel, which overlooks the sea in central Benghazi, has been used for rebel news conference and the National Transitional Council, which is fighting to topple Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has had offices there.

There was no immediate word on what caused the explosion. Given the location of the incident there will be suspicions that it was caused by a bomb.

(Writing by William Maclean)

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Picha ya kwanza mara baada ya mlipuko

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

MTEGO WA GADDAF WA MNASA MWINGINE....ni mmoja ya katika wale walio katika orodha aliyokabidhiwa na intelijensia yake kuwa wana pokea malipo(mishahara) kutoka kwa majasusi wa nchi za nje. Mtuhumiwa ashtuka mapema na kujikabidhi nchini Italia.

Libyan oil minister joins revolution
Wed Jun 1, 2011 9:49PM

Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem speaks during a press conference in Tripoli on March 9, 2011.
It has been confirmed that Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has defected to the opposition, joining a slew of other high-ranking officials who have jumped ship.


"I can't work in this situation. So I have left my country and my job to join the choice made by young Libyans(lead by CIA agents who are paying higher salaries) to fight for a democratic country," Shukri Ghanem was quoted as saying by AFP on Wednesday after he fled to Italy.

He added that he lost hope in the possibility of reform in Libya when he saw the country's people being killed(weak leader).

Ghanem noted that "there could be many solutions, including a peaceful solution," to the crisis.

On May 17, it was reported that Ghanem had defected but the report was not confirmed until June 1.

On May 20, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Ghanem had defected(she was right as she is able to access CIA payees), but Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim denied her remarks.

The oil minister's defection comes a day after eight high-ranking military Libyan officers -- five generals, two colonels, and a major -- deserted the Gaddafi regime and fled to Italy.

Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari said Italy was following the issue of Libyan defections.

However, the Italian Foreign Ministry announced that it did not play a role in bringing Ghanem( very hard to believe these words) to Rome.
Source: PRESS TV

 

[NICK2275]

MTEGO WA GADDAF WA MNASA MWINGINE....ni mmoja ya katika wale walio katika orodha aliyokabidhiwa na intelijensia yake kuwa wana pokea malipo(mishahara) kutoka kwa majasusi wa nchi za nje. Mtuhumiwa ashtuka mapema na kujikabidhi nchini Italia.

Libyan oil minister joins revolution
Wed Jun 1, 2011 9:49PM

Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem speaks during a press conference in Tripoli on March 9, 2011.
It has been confirmed that Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has defected to the opposition, joining a slew of other high-ranking officials who have jumped ship.


“I can't work in this situation. So I have left my country and my job to join the choice made by young Libyans(lead by CIA agents who are paying higher salaries) to fight for a democratic country,” Shukri Ghanem was quoted as saying by AFP on Wednesday after he fled to Italy.

He added that he lost hope in the possibility of reform in Libya when he saw the country's people being killed(weak leader).

Ghanem noted that “there could be many solutions, including a peaceful solution,” to the crisis.

On May 17, it was reported that Ghanem had defected but the report was not confirmed until June 1.

On May 20, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Ghanem had defected(she was right as she is able to access CIA payees), but Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim denied her remarks.

The oil minister's defection comes a day after eight high-ranking military Libyan officers -- five generals, two colonels, and a major -- deserted the Gaddafi regime and fled to Italy.

Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari said Italy was following the issue of Libyan defections.

However, the Italian Foreign Ministry announced that it did not play a role in bringing Ghanem( very hard to believe these words) to Rome.
Source: PRESS TV

gaddaf atajikuta kabaki mwenyewe-ngoja tuone

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

Russia raps NATO over Libya mission
Thu Jun 2, 2011 8:50PM


Russia has once again criticized NATO over its military intervention in Libya, insisting that the crisis in the North African country should be settled through dialogue.


Following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev emphasized on the need for political means to tackle the conflict in Libya, AFP reported.

"We would like as much as possible for the problem to be resolved through negotiations and not by military means," Medvedev told reporters.

"It's a very difficult road," he said one day after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that the military alliance decided to extend its mission in Libya until the end of September.

"This decision sends a clear message to the [Libyan ruler Muammar] Gaddafi regime. We are determined to continue our operation to protect the people of Libya," Rasmussen said.

The Russian president, however, insisted that NATO should let Libyan people determine their own destiny.

Last week, Medvedev said Russia would be sending its senior Africa envoy Mikhail Margelov "imminently" to the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.

Meanwhile, NATO warplanes have stepped up their airstrikes against the revolutionary forces in the capital Tripoli and its suburbs over the past few weeks amid grave concerns that the death toll among civilians is rapidly rising.

NATO, which took over command of the operation from the US in late March, has already come under intense grilling from the Libyan opposition for not doing enough to protect civilians.

source😛ress Tv

 

[NICK2275]

After weeks of fighting in the western Libyan town of Zintan, the opposition seems to have the upper hand [Reuters]

NATO jets target Libyan capital

Fresh attacks have taken place in central Tripoli, with a series of explosions reported as Nato continues sporadic bombing of the Libyan capital.

A series of explosions and and gunfire was heard across Tripoli in the early hours of Friday morning, according to witnesses.
Footage captured by AP Television showed smoke rising from the city skyline following at least one large explosion.

A Libyan government official, speaking on condition of anonymity to the AP news agency, said that at least 10 NATO raids hit targets in and around Tripoli.

NATO earlier confirmed that it carried out attacks on Thursday, which it said hit military vehicles and ammunition depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher and a fire-control radar.

The attacks took place just hours after NATO and its partners said it would extend the Libyan mission for 90 more days in support of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.
"This decision sends a clear message to the Gaddafi regime: We are determined to continue our operation to protect the people of Libya," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said.
Now in its fourth month, the Libyan conflict is deadlocked, with the opposition forces unable to break out of their strongholds and advance towards Tripoli, where Gaddafi appears to be firmly entrenched.


Opposition forces control the east of Libya around Benghazi, the third-biggest city, Misurata, and a mountain range stretching from the town of Zintan, 150km south of Tripoli, towards the border with Tunisia.
On Wednesday, opposition fighters in the country's west said they had managed to force Gaddafi troops out of the towns of Qasr el-Haj and Shakchuk.The towns had been under attack since February.

Residents and opposition forces in the west celebrated on the streets after a battle that lasted for nearly 12 hours.
By liberating the two towns, the opposition says it will now be able restore electricity to three other areas, one of which is Zintan, which has been heavily bombarded in recent days.


Misurata fighting
In the city of Misurata, opposition fighters have pushed forces loyal to Gaddafi out of the centre of the city and pushed westwards towards the neighbouring town of Zlitan, where they are exchanging artillery fire.
"They [pro-Gaddafi forces] are randomly bombarding from an area near Zlitan," Youssef, an opposition spokesman, told the Reuters news agency from Misurata.
Zlitan could become the next battleground, opposition forces said.


Residents there said pro-Gaddafi forces have been moving into the town and mounting a crackdown to prevent regime opponents from rising up and joining the opposition.
"Gaddafi has tightened security here. His brigades have been getting reinforcement every day. They have stepped up their campaign to arrest, terrify and frighten residents," an opposition spokesman in Zlitan, who identified himself as Mabrouk, said.

 

[Askari Kanzu]

Wachina nao sasa ni ndumilakuwili Libya

China confirms contact made with Libyan opposition

June 3, 2011

BEIJING (AP) - China's Foreign Ministry says its ambassador to Qatar recently met with the head of Libya's rebel council. The announcement Friday appears to mark a change of tactics for China, although the ministry's statement said Beijing remained hopeful that Libyans themselves could find a political solution to the conflict.

Beijing abstained in the United Nations Security Council vote authorizing the use of force against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists and has repeatedly criticized the NATO bombing campaign in support of the rebels.

The statement said Zhang Zhiliang exchanged views on the Libyan situation with the chairman of the rebels' National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul-Jalil but gave no details.

Source:

 

[Askari Kanzu]

NATO uses attack choppers to strike Gaddafi targets

Jun 4, 2011 10:37 Moscow Time

Photo: EPA

NATO used attack helicopters to hit targets in Libya for the first time on Saturday, the alliance said in a statement, without giving details of the location of the strikes.

The NATO statement said the use of attack helicopters provided increased flexibility to track and attack pro-Gaddafi forces attempting to hide in populated areas.

Mass-scale protests against Muammar Gaddafi flared up in February and quickly spilled over into a full-fledged civil war.

The NATO countries are engaged in a UN-authorized military operation to enforce no-fly zones over the troubled North African nation.

Source

 

[NICK2275]

British Helicopters Destroy Libyan Target

Cockpit footage has shown the moment UK Apache helicopters opened fire during their first operation in Libya, as Foreign Secretary William Hague visited rebel leaders in Benghazi.

In the video, released by the Ministry of Defence, a radar installation and a vehicle at a military checkpoint near the town of Brega are both destroyed.
The MoD confirmed that army Apaches successfully completed their mission of hitting the targets overnight.

Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi fired at one of the choppers, but they both returned safely to the Royal Navy helicopter carrier, HMS Ocean, which is stationed off the Libyan coast.
A variety of weapons were used, including hellfire missiles.
source-
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[Askari Kanzu]

NATO aircraft bombed Tripoli!

Today 23:29

NATO aircraft on Saturday evening, June 4, dealt a few blows to the Libyan capital, reported Agence France-Presse, citing its own correspondent in Tripoli. Subjected to bombardment of the eastern suburb of the Libyan capital - Tadjoura, where the military base. According to the correspondent of AFP, airstrikes were deposited about 18:30 local time.

In turn, Reuters, reporting on Saturday's bombing, said that the strikes on the Libyan capital, were deposited before nightfall. Tripoli, like the agency has undergone almost daily air strikes, but usually the bombing carried out at night.

Source

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

Necessary Step, Dangerous Rationalization: NATO Prolongs Libya Campaign
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 107June 3, 2011 04:02 PM Age: 2 days
By: Vladimir Socor


On June 1 in Brussels, the North Atlantic Council approved a prolongation of the NATO-flagged campaign in Libya for another 90 days –that is, until the end of September (NATO - Homepage, June 1). The Alliance had originally set a 90-day term, counting from March 31 when launching this campaign; and it anticipated a quick successful conclusion to materialize well before the original deadline. The prolongation announced on June 1 comes 30 days before the expiry of the original 90-day term. It seems therefore that the net gain is of 60 days, rather than 90, for this operation.

Prolongation and escalation (as reportedly planned) are imperatively necessary in this unnecessary war, which must nevertheless, once initiated, be prosecuted to a successful outcome. Moreover, a Russian-mediated outcome (which Moscow actively seeks) would be widely perceived as a setback to NATO and the US, after months of bombing and other exertions.


n a flurry of accompanying statements on May 30-June 1, NATO's Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, justified the prolongation largely with the same arguments he had used for justifying the launch of the campaign ("NATO and the Responsibility to Protect: Whom Exactly ?," EDM, May 21). Rasmussen postulates a NATO humanitarian "responsibility to protect the Libyan people" from violence; and he insists that NATO could only act with approval from the UN Security Council (resolution No. 1973 of March 17 in this case). Moreover, the Secretary-General seems to hail the precedent-setting value of this mechanism, which would take NATO down the path of universal humanitarian interventions, if Rasmussen's rationalization for the Libya mission is taken at face value.

This would constitute a major distraction from NATO's core mission of protecting its own member countries and filling the security deficit in Europe's East. "Responsibility-to-protect" interventionism would entail an unsustainable mission creep for NATO and its members at any time, all the more at this time of drastic cuts in defense budgets. And by presenting UN Security Council approval as indispensable, Rasmussen is using an argument that can only boomerang against NATO in future contingencies, in the form of Russian (or Chinese) vetoes.


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Importing the "responsibility-to-protect" doctrine into NATO would make short shrift of the Alliance's Strategic Concept, only months after its adoption at NATO's summit in November 2010. The Alliance has no responsibility to protect populations of the world against violence from their governments or from each other. NATO is only responsible for protecting its own member countries and the Alliance's collective interests in its eastern and southern neighborhoods. Europe has some major interests in Libya (oil and gas supplies, migration control), but these have not been factored into the planning for this intervention. Referencing these interests could actually reinvigorate political support for bringing the campaign to a successful outcome, without resort to third-party brokers.

Source:The Jamestown Foundation: Necessary Step, Dangerous Rationalization: NATO Prolongs Libya Campaign