Gaddafi's daughter whips supporters into a frenzy with speech in Tripoli

 

Aisha Gaddafi tells a roaring crowd her father will not step down – 25 years after US forces bombed his Tripoli compound

Aisha Gaddafi addresses a crowd of her father's supporters at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli. Photograph: Pier Paolo Cito/AP

 

They gather nightly, ready to die for the Brother Leader. Wrapped in loyalist green, waving flags, chanting slogans, holding aloft portraits of their "Guide", singing, dancing and praying, they are Muammar Gaddafi's human shields against Nato air strikes.

In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.

Whipped up by loyalist chants led from loudspeakers and patriotic songs, they were already in a state of fervour when Aisha Gaddafi, the Libyan leader's daughter, appeared high in the skeleton of a bombed-out building.

Against a backdrop of the shattered facade and draped in a flowing headscarf of green and gold, Aisha pumped her fists at the crowd as they roared and ululated their approval.

Just a few hours earlier, Nato warplanes had flown sorties over Tripoli. Explosions and responding gunfire and anti-aircraft fire echoed around the capital, destroying at least one military site and causing blast damage to a nearby university cafeteria.

Aisha's message was one of uncompromising defiance. Referring to the strike in 1986, she said: "They rained down on us their missiles and bombs, they tried to kill me and they killed dozens of children in Libya. Now a quarter of a century later the same missiles and bombs are raining down on the heads of my and your children."

Below her was a statue of a giant golden fist crushing a western warplane in its grip. The throbbing crowd – mainly men, but including hundreds of women separated to one side – appeared intoxicated on love and loyalty.

"Talk about Gaddafi stepping down is an insult to all Libyans because Gaddafi is not in Libya, but in the hearts of all Libyans," Aisha told them. "Gaddafi said if the Libyan people don't want me I don't deserve to live. The Libyan people responded, 'He who doesn't want you does not deserve life'."

Half a dozen of Gaddafi's fabled female protection guards stood to the side as Aisha spoke, some with their faces covered, amid an atmosphere akin to a hyped-up football crowd crossed with a rock concert.

The cult of Gaddafi is evident across the capital. Huge portraits of him – saluting with a stern expression, beaming with his hands clasped, silhouetted against the rays of a rising sun – hang from buildings. Many in the crowd on Friday night wore miniature laminated versions on green ribbons around their necks.

"I love him more than my husband," said Randa Mohamed, 28, her voice hoarse from shouting and chanting. "We will never leave him. I will do anything to protect him."

This overt display of loyalty fractures when rare opportunities for rushed conversations out of earshot of the ubiquitous regime minders and informants arise. "He must go for the sake of Libya," is a view expressed in whispers. These few glimpses beneath the surface are always accompanied by visible fear at the possibility of being overheard and punished.

But in the Bab al-Aziziya compound, there was only one message: devotion to Gaddafi and hatred of Nato and Libya's rebel opposition. "We will never give up. Victorious or we die," ran one chant.

As the foreign media were escorted from the compound at the end of Aisha's speech, the "Zenga Zenga" song blared from speakers. The words are taken from a speech by Saif al-Islam, Aisha's brother and Gaddafi's son, early in the conflict, in which he pledged to hunt down the rebels.

"House to house, room to room, alley to alley, person to person we will disinfect the whole country from filth," it goes. "Zenga Zenga" – alley to alley – has now become part of loyalist Libya's lexicon, a chilling term of approval among people in Gaddafi's grip.

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15.04.11

Libya: Where William Hague got it wrong.

Just who the Hell is this freak to say Gaddafi must go?

William Hague. A conceited, self-opinionated and arrogant wannabe politician so typical of little men with little lives, whose only claim to fame is to have got it so monumentally wrong about Libya and to have sided with terrorists who fought against British troops for Al-Qaeda.
 

William Hague, a failed politician fighting his corner in perhaps the most hated government in British history using Libya as an excuse to turn the attention away from the disastrous social policies of his party which ruined his country in the 1980s and early 1990s - reveals himself today as an abject failure as a Foreign Secretary, arguably the worst insult to British and world diplomacy in the annals of history.

Little William Hague is a protagonist, eternally searching for a front to hide behind, an excuse for his sad little existence and a cover for the extreme unpopularity of his Tory party. And like all protagonists, William Hague has jumped the gun.

Time after time after time, that whiny, tinny little voice on TV, that self-righteous tone of the British northerner-cum-toff (it never quite comes off, does it?), claiming that "Gaddafi" used weapons against innocent civilians, that NATO is there to defend civilians against a "dictator" and that "Gaddafi must go". Now just who the Hell is this...freak...to say anyone should go, in their own country? What kind of imperialist arrogance is that, coming from this apology for a man?

If anyone should go, it is Hague, the traitor, whose sheer arrogance and unadulterated barefaced lies match the priggishness of their delivery and the pig-headed imperialist orgy they betray. And why? Because the Libya debacle was primed and prepared in (where else?) the USA decades back, failed once, in (where else?) Benghazi in the mid 1990s and now that the oil companies have finally got their foot in Libya, it's time to go for it before the oil companies could be nationalised.

Colonel Gaddafi never attacked innocent civilians - he is fighting against Al Qaeda terrorists controlled by a criminal who recruited the same Benghazi fanatics to fight against British troops in Iraq and to kill British soldiers in Afghanistan. One wonders whether William Hague, the traitor, would dare to show his featureless face and bald pate in the market town of Wootton Bassett, where the bodies of British servicemen are repatriated after arriving at RAF Lyneham air base.

I invite him to walk around Wootton Bassett with a placard stating "I am supporting the Islamist fundamentalist terrorists from Benghazi, the ones who hate Colonel Gaddafi because he spoke out against stoning women and killing men for being homosexuals, and for calling the Moslem veil a tent, the ones who yell Allahu Akhbar like their British-hating friends in Afghanistan and who were recruited there to fight against our troops". That is precisely what William Hague is doing and anything he states to the contrary is a pig-faced lie.

Here is their Foreign Secretary, a traitor, lying about a causus belli, failing to see that the Libyan authorities are as hugely popular in most of the country as they have been successful in fighting against the Benghazi terrorists and foreign mercenaries drafted in to cause havoc across the country, now thankfully confined to Misrata and the far East. Here is their Foreign Secretary taking the side of Al Qaeda terrorists and aiding and abetting exactly the same elements who have fought against and killed British troops elsewhere.

William Hague is, in a word, a traitor. While his aircraft carry out missions supporting Islamist terrorists in Libya, wasting up to 50,000 pounds per hour per aircraft, the people of his country tighten their belts. If he had not jumped the gun, the "rebellion" would long ago have been put down in Libya, which would now be living in peace and the traitors who took up arms against the Government would have been liquidated, punished or pardoned.

What he has done is to involve his armed forces in a battle which is already lost, in a fight which is wrong. He has taken the wrong side and painted himself into a corner, his desperate plight now getting other NATO countries to shoulder some of the cost because his darling terrorist rebels are losing the battle.

If anyone should go, it is William Hague, the traitor who supports the sworn enemies of his own people, who supports Al Qaeda terrorists against a sovereign government and who wastes millions of pounds of his taxpayers' money on taking sides in a battle which has nothing to do with him. Who the Hell is this freak to say Colonel Gaddafi must go. Why? For fighting against Islamist terrorists?

Next time around, maybe William Hague should lock himself in a hotel room with a, er..."special advisor" (third picture) and get some of it out of his system before inflicting himself and his pent-up closeted frustrations on the international community. What is it with these British politicians?

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

DAYLIGHT ROBERRY BY EVIL EMPIRES.

They have the authority to rob and kill who ever they want and destroy any country they want in the name of Democracy. Is it trurly Democracy or cold blooded murder? Any right minded person tell me whether these destroyers of the earth doing in LIBIYA is correct because I dont understand this cruel world. When our war heros saved thousands of civillians from destruction and death during the last phase of the Elaam war this cruel evil Empire questioned us and that Black witch Pillai make a big fuss regarding human rights etc and now what the USA,FRANCE,BRITISH AND the ass lickers in the Middle East doing, destroying and killing thousands of innocent civillians no one is questioning and no one to stand up against these criminal activities of the west. There should be someone or a group to counter their evil minds and stop these massacres of innocents.

Those white evil killers kill the people for entertainment and destroy property to test their equipment and hardware and later to sell back their arms and ammunition. They openly rob oil and the wealth of the country they destroy.They did in Iraq,Afganistan now in Libiya what next? How come when the legitimate government is there anyone can do deals with the outside world? Who gave the rebels the authority to sell oil to Qatar and other countries. How come Turkey is planning to run the Airports in other countries without permission? Isnt it pure roberry of a another country? All these Arab countries and the evil western nations rob the whole country in daylight and no organization or Governemnt have the power to put a stop for this undemocratic way of doing things in this civilized world. It’s a shame.

“They killed our youths and elders for entertainment, during the night they smoked Marijuanna and opium and in the morning they go and kill our people” quote from HAMID KARZAI the Afgan President. This is how they AMERICAN,BRITISH AND THE WESTERN STOOGES AND hypocrits,killers and destroyers do to the innocents in the whole world. They dont have any shame, in the pretext of terrorism they kill as they wish. Russia,China and the rest of the world should stand up and tell these bastards enough is enough otherwise there wont be any civilized country left in this world. What is that Monkey Moon doing? Why not sending his troops to Bharain,Yemen and do the same like in Libiya? How many were killed in Bharain and Yemen and what they did to their people why not Pillai the bitch doesnt question those Governments? Thank God we have a great leader who stood tall against those cowards and hypocrits. Though small we are straight forward in telling the world in one voice that we are against the wrong doing of the evil empires. If not for the courage of our President we too would have been in the same soup.

Hugo Chavez is the only leader who talks against these criminals openly and I hope decent leaders in this world should wake up and call to stop this massacre in LIBIYA. Who ever is right or wrong in this conflict should not allow so many countries to come and destroy one country like this. It’s a sovereign country and it should be respected. Every two to three years these Evil empires get together and destroy a country they themselves choose. Their main aim is to rob countries wealth nothing else. They pretend that they are friends of the country and enter and loot the wealth in daylight. From 2001 still they couldnt catch BIN LADEN or his second in command? Al QEDA is all over the place and they kill innocents in thousands and our most modern evil empires cannot do anything. They are helping new AL QEDA groups in the world and armed them. They want terrorism to go on in this world so they can sell their arms and ammunition to stupid countries in this cruel world. Why any country follow America I dont understand They are not truely a friend. They leave their friends when in trouble and take the sides of terrorists. If Brotherhood comes to power in Egypt just imagine the situation? Hezbollah in Lebnon,Hamas in Palstine,Brotherhood in Egypt and Iran on top. Will there be any peace for America in that situation? They will dig their own graves sooner or later. The evil Empires will have to beg in years to come because of their behaviour. I hope we can see that day very soon.

 All peace loving countries and the people should get together and say in one voice to these cowboys stop all these massacres in this world or should not follow them and say Yes to them in any world forum like in UN or other world bodies. We should fearlessly object to their demands and requests and show courage and true democracy. We should not bow down to these white slaves. Asia must take the lead role. The countries sould be like Russia and China without interfering in other countries and help others and be friendly with all. This is the true democracy helping your own people and helping others in a friendly way without giving pain and sorrow to others. How many die per day how many without hands and legs due to wars. How many have lost their loved ones, properties and wealth due to dirty wars? Why these criminal America and westren so called International community doesnt understand or hear the cries of millions around the world? What is the purpose in having world bodies like U.N. Commonwealth,Human rights etc if there is no truth and fair play in this world? What about Ivory Coast? Why Obama the great peace maker doesnt take any action there? Why not go there and start another war? Maybe they dont like coffee much? I read so many articles and we write so many articles but what’s the use when we see this cruel world do as they pleased and make millions of people homeless,miserable and starvation. Who will understand the value of a human life? How many are getting killed in Pakistan daily? Why these killers target innocents? What is the difference between Terrorists and America,France and British together? They both do the same killing innocents in broad daylight. Please stand up for PEACE around the world. Let’s be friends with everybody not enemies.Lets help each other instead of hatered and wars. We the humans are all same although we are born in diffrenet colors and countries and to diffrent Mothers. All religions preech PEACE and LOVE so let it be and say in one voice NO to WARS and indiscriminate killings of innocents.

 Hands off LIBIYA and other poor countries around the world. You bloody barbarians stop killing innocent civillians and learn to respect other nations. Human rights watch dogs treay every country alike and with respect and dignity. Lead this world in the right path and PEACE not WAR and destruction. Learn from our beloved country how to win WAR AND PEACE. Thanks to our War heros we managed to put a full stop to terror and destructions. 

May we all live in PEACE AND HARMONY. RESPECT HUMAN LIVES AND ALL RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD AND MAKE THIS WORLD A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE.
 MAY LORD BUDDHA PROTECT OUR LAND FROM THESE LAND GRABBERS,WEALTH GRABBERS AND VULTURES OF THE WEST.

 Ranjit Wickremeratne.
01.04.11
www.lankaweb.com

1. Ben_silva Says:
   April 3rd, 2011 at 12:40 pm Some in UK have questioned why Western nations did not attack Sri Lanka to protect the civilians, as the Western nations are doing in Libya now. This is a coded message asking why Western nations did not attack Sri Lanka, to protect the terrorists they created. History shows that Western nations are evil and they have killed millions of people all over the world. No supernatural power has helped any one in the world, ever, defend against aggressors. Lord Buddha did not protect Nalanda Buddhists and neither did he protect us from invading Tamils or invading Western imperialists.. If we want to protect our selves then the only way is to have a defence strategy and stop depending on ancient belief systems that even Indians do not believe. If we want extinction as our aim, then it is easy to achieve it by ignoring defence, as happened to Nalanda Buddhists. Some Tamils and Norwegians are hell bent on sending us to extinction, by promoting ancient belief systems, that will prevent us from thinking critically.
   

Reason for war? Gaddafi wanted to nationalise oil.

he Libyan leader proposed the nationalisation of U.S. oil companies, as well as those of UK, Germany, Spain, Norway, Canada and Italy in 2009.

On January 25, 2009, Muammar Al Gaddafi announced that his country was studying the nationalisation of foreign companies due to lower oil prices.

"The oil-exporting countries should opt for nationalisation because of the rapid fall in oil prices. We must put the issue on the table and discuss it seriously," said Gaddafi.

"Oil should be owned by the State at this time, so we could better control prices by the increase or decrease in production," said the Libyan leader.

These statements have worried the main foreign companies operating in Libya: Anglo-Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, U.S. ExxonMobil, Hess Corp., Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum and ConocoPhillips, the Spanish Repsol, Germany's Wintershall, Austria's OMV , Norway's Statoil, Eni and Canada's Petro Canada.

In 2008, the Libyan state oil company, National Oil, prepared a report on the subject in which officials suggested modifying the production-sharing agreements with foreign companies in order to increase state revenues.

As a result of these contract changes, Libya gained 5.4 billion dollars in oil revenues.

On February 16, 2009, Gaddafi took a step further and called on Libyans to back his proposal to dismantle the government and to distribute the oil wealth directly to the 5 million inhabitants of the country.

 

However, his plan to deliver oil revenues directly to the Libyan people met opposition by senior officials who could lose their jobs due to a parallel plan by Gaddafi to rid the state of corruption.

Some officials, including Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi, Ali Al-Mahmoudi and Farhat Omar Bin Guida, of the Central Bank, told Gaddafi that the measure could harm the country's economy in the long term due to "capital flight."

"Do not be afraid to directly redistribute the oil money and create fairer governance structures that respond to people's interests," Gaddafi said in a Popular Committee.

The Popular Committees are the backbone of Libya. Through them citizens are represented at the district level.

"The Administration has failed and the state's economy has failed. Enough is enough. The solution is for the Libyan people to directly receive oil revenues and decide what to do with them," Gaddafi said in a speech broadcast on state television. To this end, the Libyan leader urged a radical reform of government bureaucracy.

Despite this, senior Libyan government officials voted to delay Gaddafi's plans. Only 64 ministers from a total of 468 Popular Committee members voted for the measure. There were 251 who saw the measures as positive, but chose to delay their implementation.

Given the rejection of the Committee, Gaddafi affirmed before a public meeting: "My dream during all these years was to give the power and wealth directly to the people."

So...another big LIE falls by the wayside, the false image of Ghaddafi the dictator who robs from his people.

So far we have had pictures of pro-Ghaddafi demonstrations being portrayed as being against him. The professional, foreign and Photoshop nature of anti-Ghaddafi posters being bandied about were noted, along with signs being held upside down by people not knowing the alphabet placed on the signs.

We have had pictures of one sided battles where heavily armed terrorists are "fighting" with nobody. We have had reports, glaringly false, that Ghaddafi was fleeing the country.

We have had more than enough reports of bombings against his own people that never happened, as well as attacks against "unarmed civilians" that proved to be incorrect. It is patently obvious that there are no "unarmed civilians" involved in these actions against Ghaddafi, but CIA and other intelligence service mercenaries, foreign elements and Al Qaeda.

It has been brought to light that the living standard in Libya is the highest in Africa and that Libya was to be commended for its human rights record.

How many lies do we have to catch them in before somebody in charge buys a clue? It's no sale!

They try to portray Ghaddafi as crazy when he speaks of fighting Al Qaeda and now they have to admit it's true.

Two documents strongly back Gaddafi on this issue, according to the findings of Alexander Cockburn.

"The first is a secret cable to the State Department from the US embassy in Tripoli in 2008, part of the WikiLeaks trove, entitled, "Extremism in Eastern Libya," which revealed that this area is rife with anti-American, pro-jihad sentiment.

The second document, or rather set of documents, are the so-called Sinjar Records, captured al-Qaeda documents that fell into American hands in 2007. They were duly analysed by the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy at West Point. Al-Qaeda is a bureaucratic outfit and the records contain precise details on personnel, including those who came to Iraq to fight American and coalition forces and, when necessary, commit suicide.

The West Point analysts' statistical study of the al-Qaeda personnel records concludes that one country provided "far more" foreign fighters in per capita terms than any other: namely, Libya."

So who is the crazy one? Obviously that gang of lunatics savagely launching attacks on Libya based on the worst collection of lies in the history of the world. If you want to know where they are headed, just look at their track record, littered with genocide, theft and destruction.

More and more evidence is surfacing that this entire operation has been planned from outside (read U.S. and EU) for quite some time. First surround (Egypt and Tunisia), then invade. Wesley Clarke revealed the laundry list which included Libya.

In the U.S., there is a particulary motley group of interventionist war mongers who don't know what they're doing: Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, obviously sexually frustrated and repressed man hating lesbians who want to prove they are he-men.

We are also seeing attacks on residential areas, many civilians being killed. There have been attacks on Ghaddafi's living area, a clear attempt at assassination. Today intelligence also reports they plan a ground invasion. The fascists of the west never change. The term "humanitarian bombing" reminds of George Orwell doublespeak.

One can only heartily agree on Gaddafi's statement: They are "a group of crazy fascists that will end in the garbage dump of history."

History will surely judge them on the same page as Adolph Hitler.

www.english.pravda.ru

25.03.11