all regret and condemn what is happening in Libya, but really know the story of Colonel Gaddafi?
Yria
of Santiesteban, on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11:16
This is the biography, short of a revolutionary who hate the powers because they have not been able doblar.No defend him in any way, but at least we should know who he was before becoming a Tyrant.
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-------------------- "THE LION OF THE DESERT
March-2011 LATIN AMERICAN __INTEGRACIÓN
Colonel Gaddafi was born in a tribal Bedouin tent on the 3rd of September 1942. He graduated as a lawyer at 21 years of age. Then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England, and the Hellenic Military Academy in Greece.
In 1969, at age 27, overthrew King Idris, a tyrant, imposed by Britain and France. Said it will be "the Che Guevara of the Middle East." The following year he ordered the expulsion of foreign military bases on Libyan territory. Established the "Islamic socialism" through which it looked for a direct democracy: government of the masses through popular councils and communes. This created the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Popular Socialista.
The Jamahiriya: state of the masses, is a hybrid of Islam, socialism, and direct democracy, an ideology which proclaims in its Green Paper. Established a General People's Congress, with Gaddafi as Secretary General.
nationalized oil companies and officials expelled the Americans, British and Italians who had dominated and humiliated the country for decades. Libya was the headquarters of the largest military air base in the United States in North Africa: Wheelus Air Base. The Pentagon maintained a base for launching missiles just 25 miles from Tripoli.
never forgave him. He was immediately classified as enemy United States. Libya was designated as a pariah state for defending their right to self-determination and autonomy. Things deteriorated even more for the title role of Gaddafi in the 1973 oil embargo against the United States and its cooperation with the Soviet Union.
was an ardent follower of the prominent Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, especially in their struggle for the unity of Arab peoples in a large Arab nation. He defended the nationalization of the Suez Canal from Egypt. Nasser signed the so-called Charter of Tripoli, where the possibilities of military cooperation agreements, strategic and economic ties between Egypt and Libya. With
poisoning death of Nasser in 1970, Gaddafi took the leadership of pan-Arabism. Two years after announcing the creation of the Federation of Arab Republics, consisting then of Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Libya. He was also one of the most prominent leaders of the Organization of Non-Aligned Movement.
without hesitation Gaddafi has supported the Palestinian cause for decades. In 1972, Libya announced it would support, would train and finance to any Arab willing to defend the Palestinian cause. He was immediately labeled a "terrorist." Thereafter
rained accusations about his involvement or support in numerous terrorist attacks Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Chad, Philippines, Egypt. He was accused of being the main support of one of the most notorious terrorists of the era: the Venezuelan Carlos Illich Ramírez, "The Jackal". Carlos was captured in 1994 and since then meets a life sentence in prison La Santé de Paris.
As usual against any head of state who rebels against the international order imposed on developing countries after World War II, he was accused of involvement in drug trafficking, to promote terrorism, to develop weapons of mass destruction of supporting the FARC in Colombia, the IRA (Irish Republican Army) to the ETA in Spain, Hizbolla in Lebanon, Hamas and other Palestinian "terrorists". The U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, referred to as "the mad dog of the desert."
The U.S. government repeatedly tried to overthrow him. In August 1981, Newsweek magazine released a plan submitted by the director of the CIA to the U.S. government to assassinate Gaddafi. Days later, two U.S. warplanes attacked two Libyan Sukhoi Libyan airspace. U.S. planes had taken off from John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier parked off the Libyan coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1986 Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of the main military bases and government buildings in the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi and inciting the popular revolt. The aircraft took off from U.S. bases in England. The bombing killed one of their minor daughters, Jana, and dozens of officers from their immediate environment. The crime went unpunished.
Libya was quickly becoming a pariah state. Over the next 10 years, Colonel Gaddafi became the Osama Bin Laden at the time. Libya was fenced. He imposed a trade embargo to force to overthrow Gaddafi, similar to what Cuba has suffered for over 50 years.
was accused of ordering the bombing of an airliner Boeing 747 from the main airline of the United States by then: Pan American. The plane exploded in midair in December 1988 on the population of Lockerbie, Scotland. 259 people died aboard the plane and 11 people in Lockerbie. After a long negotiation process in 1999, Gaddafi gave the Scottish justice to the two Libyans accused of planting the explosives.
In 1997 Nelson Mandela had the courage to visit Gaddafi in Tripoli, to denounce the injustice committed against these people for their rebellion and attempt to decide their own destiny. Mandela knew from experience what being accused of crimes without evidence on them and not entitled to the defense. He had been released from prison 7 years ago after 27 years in prison for his rebellion against the discriminatory regime of the black population of South Africa from white minority of European origin. Gaddafi visited being the first black president and the first democratically elected president in South Africa.
His visit was followed by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, of African origin. Libya agreed to cancel $ 2,700 million in compensation to relatives of victims of terrorist attacks that accused the Libyans, but without acknowledging guilt of the nation Libya. International sanctions were lifted hanging over the country.
In 2008 President Bush leaves without effect the unilateral sanctions imposed against Libya the United States, removing it from the list of "state sponsors of terrorism." The transnational oil
pounced on Libya in search of the control of the giant deposits of light oil coveted. So did the dogs of war by providing weapons, from fighter aircraft to sophisticated assault rifles, machine guns and ammunition. Many boasted of having finally forced Gaddafi to give up their radical positions. That same year
Gaddafi was visited by Condoleezza Rice, Secretary State of the U.S. government. Tripoli then paraded the heads of state of countries that claim to own the planet: the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, followed by his replacement Gordon Bown, President of France, Sarkozy, Russian President Vladimir Putin. King Juan Carlos of Spain, Rodriguez Zapatero and humble themselves before him in 2009 to sell 3,500 million euros in arms.
Gaddafi became a kind of political vedette in international circles. He was invited to participate for the first time in the General Assembly of the United Nations, where he was received by President Barak Obama. He was invited to visit France, Italy and Spain, provided received as the "King of Kings" and "Lion of Sahara".
In 2009 he was elected Secretary General of the African Union. There he proclaimed his determination to continue fighting for the establishment of the integration of African countries and formation of the United States of Africa. His speech at this forum it showed that radical and socialist conceptions remained intact. The international analysts of the major media companies concluded however that it was just "populist rhetoric".
In Addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2009, Gaddafi made his position clearly defined. accused Israel for the assassination of John Kennedy called for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a single state. He referred to the Security Council as "Council of Terror", criticized the validity of the UN General Assembly to allow its decisions are ignored by the most powerful countries and broke the United Nations Charter on the podium of speakers .
In March 2010 one of his eight children, Hannibal, was arrested in Switzerland accused of mistreating two domestic employees. Gaddafi has suspended the sale of oil and adopted additional economic and trade reprisals against Switzerland, called for holy war against America and said he longed to be "wiped off the map."
The European Union was quick to denounce such a threat, taking a position diametrically opposed to that taken against Iran for aspiring presumably the same about the state of Israel. By contrast, the EU has publicly apologized for having allowed some Libyans into Europe by the conflict between Switzerland and Libya.
Gaddafi's behavior was often considered eccentric. When he visited New York City to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations requested permission to place his giant Bedouin tent in a park. This was done. Pitched his tent in the gardens of the mansion of the millionaire Donald Trump. There he conducted his business and visits. Also led camels, to take up fresh milk. As is his wont, was accompanied by dozens of young women bodyguards, who not only protect, but are responsible for their care and feeding: does not miss the goat cheese and dates.
At a summit meeting of the Arab League, Gaddafi wore a white glove on his right hand. He explained that trying to avoid infection by shaking hands with other heads of state that might have had contact with Israeli officials.
Something similar happened when he visited Paris at the invitation of Nicholas Sarkozy. Was received like a king. The visit ended with negotiations for the sale of military weapons and the investment of French companies in the Libyan oil business.
When he traveled to Rome as the guest of honor of Silvio Berlusconi put his tent in a park in the center of the city. It did not camels, but 200 women bodyguards to make several rings of security, armed with Kalashnikovs.
women who guard Gaddafi are experts in martial arts, in the use of firearms and bladed weapons in flying planes, helicopters and barges, are trained as snipers, in the handling of explosives and espionage activities. Berlusconi honored him with a fancy dinner for 800 people appropriate for a king.
Despite the attention and praise from Berlusconi, Gaddafi was particularly severe with their Italian hosts. Were too many crimes and abuses committed by Italy during its occupation and colonization of Libya from 1911 to 1943. When you least expect Berlusconi, Gaddafi took off his clothes and dressed Bedouin military. Along with his military decorations, breast hung a black and white photograph, 1931.
In the photo is, humiliated and chained, the Libyan hero Omar Al-Mukhtar, surrounded by his Italian captors. Al-Mukhtar for twenty years he led the struggle of the Bedouins against the brutal Italian occupation. It was to him that he coined the nickname "the Lion of the Desert." His figure is venerated in Libya. Italian Fascists was hanged in public a few days after having taken and reported that humiliating photo. Just before he died said: "The Edge of my tormentors." Italy was by then under the rule of Benito Mussolini.
When asked because I had that picture in your chest, Gaddafi, aware that Catholicism is the predominant faith in Italy, proclaimed in the presence of Berlusconi: "For us the image of Al-Makhtar is as sacred as a crucifix worn by some of you in the chest "
In the struggle for control sea \u200b\u200bof \u200b\u200blight oil on Libyan soil during the Second World War the country became the battleground between the Nazi forces under the command of Rommel and British forces under the command of Montgomery. With the defeat of Italy in the Second World War, Libya was divided that trophy of war between England and France.
The continuing struggle of the Bedouins for their independence in 1951 led to the declaration of a monarchy under King Idris, a puppet in the service of the Europeans. At the time of independence had no schools and Libya had only 16 university graduates trained abroad. The administration continued well into the hands of British, French and Italian. Everything changed with the arrival of Gaddafi to power in 1969.
honors and praise he was receiving Gaddafi by the heads of state in Europe until late 2010 changed suddenly. Bloodthirsty, mad, tyrannical, insane, autocratic, murderer, corrupt, psychotic, rabid dog. These and many other adjectives are used today against Gaddafi. The media around the world, with some exceptions, have no mercy on his figure. The goal seems to be destroyed before the international public opinion. Something similar happened to Saddam Hussein just before the invasion of Iraq by American and British military forces in 2003.
to the same time, weaves a web of "legality" to invade Libya and depose the despot. At the UN take the decision to remove Libya from the Human Rights Council, while the International Criminal Court states that it will act swiftly to condemn. Parallel s
encourages and supports movements opposed to Gaddafi to incite internal rebellion, with the aim of generating a state of violence and mayhem that helps justify the intervention of major powers to "pacify the country and protect human rights of its citizens. "
The goal is clear: to invade Libya, overthrow Gaddafi, take control of their coveted light oil wealth, as happened with Iraq and and tried unsuccessfully to be in Venezuela in 20o2. As is done with Iran and as years ago culminated in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE. The following dams are Algeria, Venezuela and Iran.
Gaddafi condemns today all was received and flattered as a great statesman in the G8 Summit in Italy, invited by President Barack Obama. Just a few months, with Sarkozy in Paris embraced, with Tony Blair in Tripoli and with Berlusconi in Rome.
What happened to justify this radical change against Gaddafi?
The awakening of the Arab people
Popular protests by the increase in food prices y la pobreza generalizada derrocó en pocos días a Ben Alí en Túnez. Irónicamente, sólo semanas antes Túnez había sido señalado por Hillary Clinton como el modelo de democracia a seguir en el medio oriente.
Las protestas se extendieron de inmediato a Egipto, concluyendo con la remoción del poder de Hosni Mubarak, un dictador apoyado por Estados Unidos durante 30 años. Mubarak recibía de Estados Unidos mas de 3.000 millones de dólares anuales, la cooperación mas alta proveniente de Washington después de la otorgada a su principal aliado de la región: Israel.
Las protestas en Egipto fueron también inicialmente motivadas por aumentos en los precios de los alimentos, the unbearable levels of poverty that is most of the population, the growing outrage at the blatant collusion with the government of Mubarak Israel in its criminal oppression of the Palestinian people, the lack of fundamental freedoms and the grotesque levels of corruption. Hosni Mubarak's fortune is estimated at 70,000 million dollars. While 40% of the 80 million Egyptians live on less than two dollars a day. Egypt maintained a suspension of fundamental rights of the population throughout the period of domination by Mubarak, through an emergency law, with the consent and support of the United States.
The analogies that have been loved drawn between the riots in Libya with Tunisia and Egypt look fake. In Libya, huge oil investments were channeled to finance public services and free health, education and housing. It has promoted economic development and substantially reducing social inequalities. The human development index is the highest in Africa. Unemployment rates are so low that it has had to facilitate the entry of hundreds of thousands of workers in other countries: Egypt, Tunisia, China, Pakistan.
The executive council of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently praised Libya for its "ambitious reform agenda" and its "strong performance macroeconomic and progress in enhancing the role of the private sector. "
In March 2007 Anthony gidda, advisor to Tony Blair, published an article in The Guardian in which he states: "Gaddafi seems to be genuinely popular. Libya will be in two or three decades a Norway of North Africa: prosperous, equitable and progressive "
Unlike Tunisia or Egypt, Libya is an oil power. Produces 2 million barrels of light oil every day, and its production can at least double. However, much of its 6 million inhabitants still remains in poverty.
Gaddafi has been criticized for encouraging the return of companies European oil and its rising share the oil and gas activity. Most of these companies operating from Benghazi where, coincidentally, was formed the core of the rebellion against Gaddafi.
It has also been criticized for contributing, from his position as secretary general of the African Union, the consolidation of an agreement with NATO to expand its military operations in Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. It has also been promoting military cooperation treaty between NATO and the African Union. Radical organizations inside and outside Libya consider such attitudes as a betrayal.
At the head of the insurrection is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL by its acronym in English). Their leaders are routinely portrayed as the good guys, in an unequal struggle against oppression and barbarism. Little notes that the FNSL was created in 1981 in Sudan, under the protection of Colonel Nimieri, a US-backed despot who ruled that unhappy country from 77 to 85.
The FNSL made his "national conference" in the United States in 2007, with sponsorship from the NED. The head is Sahade Ibrahim, who made allegations of any kind against the "despotic regime" of Gaddafi, often without offering any evidence thereof without interviewers or editors on request. However, their approaches are broadcast by major news agencies around the world as if it were true. Virtual reality itself is reported as true by internet, facebook, twitter.
Significant is also that the Benghazi rebels have dropped the green flag of the Republic of Libya and raised in its place the flag of three stripes, red, white and black, which was used during the monarchy of King Idris, imposed by Europe in 1951. It has also emerged of an alleged Prince Senussi nothing, "heir to the crown."
was King Idris who handed sovereignty to allow unrestricted use of air, sea and land by British military forces. Idris was the king who signed the agreement that the United States without restrictions set up and run the largest military base in Africa: Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli. King Idris also signed an agreement to relieve Italy of all damages that may be imputed as a result of 30 years of brutal colonization, also allowing the Italian community in Tripoli retains all its properties, businesses and privileges.
But the legitimacy or veracity of the accusations against Gaddafi seem irrelevant. Façade serves only to achieve the desired strategic objective: the occupation of Libya. Paul
Wolfowitz, who served as undersecretary of defense of the United States as World Bank president, architect of the Iraq war, published an open letter to Obama urging him to turn Libya into a "protectorate controlled by NATO," on behalf of the "international community."
In its editorial of February 23, 2011, the Wall Street Journal, spokesman for the commercial interests of the U.S. decision: "The United States and Europe must help overthrow the Libyan regime of Gaddafi"
same time, is mobilized Libyan territorial waters a fleet of American war, while United Nations and the International Criminal Court hastily concrete frame to justify the invasion legal.
The Security Council of the United Nations adopted the February 25, 2011 a resolution to investigate possible crimes against humanity he may have committed Muammar Gaddafi. But no such investigation has begun, and Gaddafi has been convicted.
is not only ironic, but hypocritical, that was precisely the United States who have promoted the motion for the UN to lift Libya's case before the International Criminal Court. United States has never recognized the jurisdiction of that court. Also opposed to its creation in 1998, along with Israel, Iraq and Libya. Such contradictions seem to go unnoticed for transnational media information.
The supreme commander of NATO, Wesley Clark, had said a couple of years ago that Libya was on the official list to be dominated Pentagon after Iraq, with Syria and the jewel in the crown: Iran. If completed
what Fidel Castro has called "the inevitable war of NATO" will unleash a movement of resistance throughout the Arab world that fulfills the last words of the Lion of the Desert: "The Edge of my tormentors." "-------------------------------
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-------------------- "THE LION OF THE DESERT
March-2011 LATIN AMERICAN __INTEGRACIÓN
Colonel Gaddafi was born in a tribal Bedouin tent on the 3rd of September 1942. He graduated as a lawyer at 21 years of age. Then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England, and the Hellenic Military Academy in Greece.
In 1969, at age 27, overthrew King Idris, a tyrant, imposed by Britain and France. Said it will be "the Che Guevara of the Middle East." The following year he ordered the expulsion of foreign military bases on Libyan territory. Established the "Islamic socialism" through which it looked for a direct democracy: government of the masses through popular councils and communes. This created the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Popular Socialista.
The Jamahiriya: state of the masses, is a hybrid of Islam, socialism, and direct democracy, an ideology which proclaims in its Green Paper. Established a General People's Congress, with Gaddafi as Secretary General.
nationalized oil companies and officials expelled the Americans, British and Italians who had dominated and humiliated the country for decades. Libya was the headquarters of the largest military air base in the United States in North Africa: Wheelus Air Base. The Pentagon maintained a base for launching missiles just 25 miles from Tripoli.
never forgave him. He was immediately classified as enemy United States. Libya was designated as a pariah state for defending their right to self-determination and autonomy. Things deteriorated even more for the title role of Gaddafi in the 1973 oil embargo against the United States and its cooperation with the Soviet Union.
was an ardent follower of the prominent Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, especially in their struggle for the unity of Arab peoples in a large Arab nation. He defended the nationalization of the Suez Canal from Egypt. Nasser signed the so-called Charter of Tripoli, where the possibilities of military cooperation agreements, strategic and economic ties between Egypt and Libya. With
poisoning death of Nasser in 1970, Gaddafi took the leadership of pan-Arabism. Two years after announcing the creation of the Federation of Arab Republics, consisting then of Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Libya. He was also one of the most prominent leaders of the Organization of Non-Aligned Movement.
without hesitation Gaddafi has supported the Palestinian cause for decades. In 1972, Libya announced it would support, would train and finance to any Arab willing to defend the Palestinian cause. He was immediately labeled a "terrorist." Thereafter
rained accusations about his involvement or support in numerous terrorist attacks Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Chad, Philippines, Egypt. He was accused of being the main support of one of the most notorious terrorists of the era: the Venezuelan Carlos Illich Ramírez, "The Jackal". Carlos was captured in 1994 and since then meets a life sentence in prison La Santé de Paris.
As usual against any head of state who rebels against the international order imposed on developing countries after World War II, he was accused of involvement in drug trafficking, to promote terrorism, to develop weapons of mass destruction of supporting the FARC in Colombia, the IRA (Irish Republican Army) to the ETA in Spain, Hizbolla in Lebanon, Hamas and other Palestinian "terrorists". The U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, referred to as "the mad dog of the desert."
The U.S. government repeatedly tried to overthrow him. In August 1981, Newsweek magazine released a plan submitted by the director of the CIA to the U.S. government to assassinate Gaddafi. Days later, two U.S. warplanes attacked two Libyan Sukhoi Libyan airspace. U.S. planes had taken off from John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier parked off the Libyan coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1986 Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of the main military bases and government buildings in the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi and inciting the popular revolt. The aircraft took off from U.S. bases in England. The bombing killed one of their minor daughters, Jana, and dozens of officers from their immediate environment. The crime went unpunished.
Libya was quickly becoming a pariah state. Over the next 10 years, Colonel Gaddafi became the Osama Bin Laden at the time. Libya was fenced. He imposed a trade embargo to force to overthrow Gaddafi, similar to what Cuba has suffered for over 50 years.
was accused of ordering the bombing of an airliner Boeing 747 from the main airline of the United States by then: Pan American. The plane exploded in midair in December 1988 on the population of Lockerbie, Scotland. 259 people died aboard the plane and 11 people in Lockerbie. After a long negotiation process in 1999, Gaddafi gave the Scottish justice to the two Libyans accused of planting the explosives.
In 1997 Nelson Mandela had the courage to visit Gaddafi in Tripoli, to denounce the injustice committed against these people for their rebellion and attempt to decide their own destiny. Mandela knew from experience what being accused of crimes without evidence on them and not entitled to the defense. He had been released from prison 7 years ago after 27 years in prison for his rebellion against the discriminatory regime of the black population of South Africa from white minority of European origin. Gaddafi visited being the first black president and the first democratically elected president in South Africa.
His visit was followed by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, of African origin. Libya agreed to cancel $ 2,700 million in compensation to relatives of victims of terrorist attacks that accused the Libyans, but without acknowledging guilt of the nation Libya. International sanctions were lifted hanging over the country.
In 2008 President Bush leaves without effect the unilateral sanctions imposed against Libya the United States, removing it from the list of "state sponsors of terrorism." The transnational oil
pounced on Libya in search of the control of the giant deposits of light oil coveted. So did the dogs of war by providing weapons, from fighter aircraft to sophisticated assault rifles, machine guns and ammunition. Many boasted of having finally forced Gaddafi to give up their radical positions. That same year
Gaddafi was visited by Condoleezza Rice, Secretary State of the U.S. government. Tripoli then paraded the heads of state of countries that claim to own the planet: the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, followed by his replacement Gordon Bown, President of France, Sarkozy, Russian President Vladimir Putin. King Juan Carlos of Spain, Rodriguez Zapatero and humble themselves before him in 2009 to sell 3,500 million euros in arms.
Gaddafi became a kind of political vedette in international circles. He was invited to participate for the first time in the General Assembly of the United Nations, where he was received by President Barak Obama. He was invited to visit France, Italy and Spain, provided received as the "King of Kings" and "Lion of Sahara".
In 2009 he was elected Secretary General of the African Union. There he proclaimed his determination to continue fighting for the establishment of the integration of African countries and formation of the United States of Africa. His speech at this forum it showed that radical and socialist conceptions remained intact. The international analysts of the major media companies concluded however that it was just "populist rhetoric".
In Addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2009, Gaddafi made his position clearly defined. accused Israel for the assassination of John Kennedy called for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a single state. He referred to the Security Council as "Council of Terror", criticized the validity of the UN General Assembly to allow its decisions are ignored by the most powerful countries and broke the United Nations Charter on the podium of speakers .
In March 2010 one of his eight children, Hannibal, was arrested in Switzerland accused of mistreating two domestic employees. Gaddafi has suspended the sale of oil and adopted additional economic and trade reprisals against Switzerland, called for holy war against America and said he longed to be "wiped off the map."
The European Union was quick to denounce such a threat, taking a position diametrically opposed to that taken against Iran for aspiring presumably the same about the state of Israel. By contrast, the EU has publicly apologized for having allowed some Libyans into Europe by the conflict between Switzerland and Libya.
Gaddafi's behavior was often considered eccentric. When he visited New York City to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations requested permission to place his giant Bedouin tent in a park. This was done. Pitched his tent in the gardens of the mansion of the millionaire Donald Trump. There he conducted his business and visits. Also led camels, to take up fresh milk. As is his wont, was accompanied by dozens of young women bodyguards, who not only protect, but are responsible for their care and feeding: does not miss the goat cheese and dates.
At a summit meeting of the Arab League, Gaddafi wore a white glove on his right hand. He explained that trying to avoid infection by shaking hands with other heads of state that might have had contact with Israeli officials.
Something similar happened when he visited Paris at the invitation of Nicholas Sarkozy. Was received like a king. The visit ended with negotiations for the sale of military weapons and the investment of French companies in the Libyan oil business.
When he traveled to Rome as the guest of honor of Silvio Berlusconi put his tent in a park in the center of the city. It did not camels, but 200 women bodyguards to make several rings of security, armed with Kalashnikovs.
women who guard Gaddafi are experts in martial arts, in the use of firearms and bladed weapons in flying planes, helicopters and barges, are trained as snipers, in the handling of explosives and espionage activities. Berlusconi honored him with a fancy dinner for 800 people appropriate for a king.
Despite the attention and praise from Berlusconi, Gaddafi was particularly severe with their Italian hosts. Were too many crimes and abuses committed by Italy during its occupation and colonization of Libya from 1911 to 1943. When you least expect Berlusconi, Gaddafi took off his clothes and dressed Bedouin military. Along with his military decorations, breast hung a black and white photograph, 1931.
In the photo is, humiliated and chained, the Libyan hero Omar Al-Mukhtar, surrounded by his Italian captors. Al-Mukhtar for twenty years he led the struggle of the Bedouins against the brutal Italian occupation. It was to him that he coined the nickname "the Lion of the Desert." His figure is venerated in Libya. Italian Fascists was hanged in public a few days after having taken and reported that humiliating photo. Just before he died said: "The Edge of my tormentors." Italy was by then under the rule of Benito Mussolini.
When asked because I had that picture in your chest, Gaddafi, aware that Catholicism is the predominant faith in Italy, proclaimed in the presence of Berlusconi: "For us the image of Al-Makhtar is as sacred as a crucifix worn by some of you in the chest "
In the struggle for control sea \u200b\u200bof \u200b\u200blight oil on Libyan soil during the Second World War the country became the battleground between the Nazi forces under the command of Rommel and British forces under the command of Montgomery. With the defeat of Italy in the Second World War, Libya was divided that trophy of war between England and France.
The continuing struggle of the Bedouins for their independence in 1951 led to the declaration of a monarchy under King Idris, a puppet in the service of the Europeans. At the time of independence had no schools and Libya had only 16 university graduates trained abroad. The administration continued well into the hands of British, French and Italian. Everything changed with the arrival of Gaddafi to power in 1969.
honors and praise he was receiving Gaddafi by the heads of state in Europe until late 2010 changed suddenly. Bloodthirsty, mad, tyrannical, insane, autocratic, murderer, corrupt, psychotic, rabid dog. These and many other adjectives are used today against Gaddafi. The media around the world, with some exceptions, have no mercy on his figure. The goal seems to be destroyed before the international public opinion. Something similar happened to Saddam Hussein just before the invasion of Iraq by American and British military forces in 2003.
to the same time, weaves a web of "legality" to invade Libya and depose the despot. At the UN take the decision to remove Libya from the Human Rights Council, while the International Criminal Court states that it will act swiftly to condemn. Parallel s
encourages and supports movements opposed to Gaddafi to incite internal rebellion, with the aim of generating a state of violence and mayhem that helps justify the intervention of major powers to "pacify the country and protect human rights of its citizens. "
The goal is clear: to invade Libya, overthrow Gaddafi, take control of their coveted light oil wealth, as happened with Iraq and and tried unsuccessfully to be in Venezuela in 20o2. As is done with Iran and as years ago culminated in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE. The following dams are Algeria, Venezuela and Iran.
Gaddafi condemns today all was received and flattered as a great statesman in the G8 Summit in Italy, invited by President Barack Obama. Just a few months, with Sarkozy in Paris embraced, with Tony Blair in Tripoli and with Berlusconi in Rome.
What happened to justify this radical change against Gaddafi?
The awakening of the Arab people
Popular protests by the increase in food prices y la pobreza generalizada derrocó en pocos días a Ben Alí en Túnez. Irónicamente, sólo semanas antes Túnez había sido señalado por Hillary Clinton como el modelo de democracia a seguir en el medio oriente.
Las protestas se extendieron de inmediato a Egipto, concluyendo con la remoción del poder de Hosni Mubarak, un dictador apoyado por Estados Unidos durante 30 años. Mubarak recibía de Estados Unidos mas de 3.000 millones de dólares anuales, la cooperación mas alta proveniente de Washington después de la otorgada a su principal aliado de la región: Israel.
Las protestas en Egipto fueron también inicialmente motivadas por aumentos en los precios de los alimentos, the unbearable levels of poverty that is most of the population, the growing outrage at the blatant collusion with the government of Mubarak Israel in its criminal oppression of the Palestinian people, the lack of fundamental freedoms and the grotesque levels of corruption. Hosni Mubarak's fortune is estimated at 70,000 million dollars. While 40% of the 80 million Egyptians live on less than two dollars a day. Egypt maintained a suspension of fundamental rights of the population throughout the period of domination by Mubarak, through an emergency law, with the consent and support of the United States.
The analogies that have been loved drawn between the riots in Libya with Tunisia and Egypt look fake. In Libya, huge oil investments were channeled to finance public services and free health, education and housing. It has promoted economic development and substantially reducing social inequalities. The human development index is the highest in Africa. Unemployment rates are so low that it has had to facilitate the entry of hundreds of thousands of workers in other countries: Egypt, Tunisia, China, Pakistan.
The executive council of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently praised Libya for its "ambitious reform agenda" and its "strong performance macroeconomic and progress in enhancing the role of the private sector. "
In March 2007 Anthony gidda, advisor to Tony Blair, published an article in The Guardian in which he states: "Gaddafi seems to be genuinely popular. Libya will be in two or three decades a Norway of North Africa: prosperous, equitable and progressive "
Unlike Tunisia or Egypt, Libya is an oil power. Produces 2 million barrels of light oil every day, and its production can at least double. However, much of its 6 million inhabitants still remains in poverty.
Gaddafi has been criticized for encouraging the return of companies European oil and its rising share the oil and gas activity. Most of these companies operating from Benghazi where, coincidentally, was formed the core of the rebellion against Gaddafi.
It has also been criticized for contributing, from his position as secretary general of the African Union, the consolidation of an agreement with NATO to expand its military operations in Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. It has also been promoting military cooperation treaty between NATO and the African Union. Radical organizations inside and outside Libya consider such attitudes as a betrayal.
At the head of the insurrection is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL by its acronym in English). Their leaders are routinely portrayed as the good guys, in an unequal struggle against oppression and barbarism. Little notes that the FNSL was created in 1981 in Sudan, under the protection of Colonel Nimieri, a US-backed despot who ruled that unhappy country from 77 to 85.
The FNSL made his "national conference" in the United States in 2007, with sponsorship from the NED. The head is Sahade Ibrahim, who made allegations of any kind against the "despotic regime" of Gaddafi, often without offering any evidence thereof without interviewers or editors on request. However, their approaches are broadcast by major news agencies around the world as if it were true. Virtual reality itself is reported as true by internet, facebook, twitter.
Significant is also that the Benghazi rebels have dropped the green flag of the Republic of Libya and raised in its place the flag of three stripes, red, white and black, which was used during the monarchy of King Idris, imposed by Europe in 1951. It has also emerged of an alleged Prince Senussi nothing, "heir to the crown."
was King Idris who handed sovereignty to allow unrestricted use of air, sea and land by British military forces. Idris was the king who signed the agreement that the United States without restrictions set up and run the largest military base in Africa: Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli. King Idris also signed an agreement to relieve Italy of all damages that may be imputed as a result of 30 years of brutal colonization, also allowing the Italian community in Tripoli retains all its properties, businesses and privileges.
But the legitimacy or veracity of the accusations against Gaddafi seem irrelevant. Façade serves only to achieve the desired strategic objective: the occupation of Libya. Paul
Wolfowitz, who served as undersecretary of defense of the United States as World Bank president, architect of the Iraq war, published an open letter to Obama urging him to turn Libya into a "protectorate controlled by NATO," on behalf of the "international community."
In its editorial of February 23, 2011, the Wall Street Journal, spokesman for the commercial interests of the U.S. decision: "The United States and Europe must help overthrow the Libyan regime of Gaddafi"
same time, is mobilized Libyan territorial waters a fleet of American war, while United Nations and the International Criminal Court hastily concrete frame to justify the invasion legal.
The Security Council of the United Nations adopted the February 25, 2011 a resolution to investigate possible crimes against humanity he may have committed Muammar Gaddafi. But no such investigation has begun, and Gaddafi has been convicted.
is not only ironic, but hypocritical, that was precisely the United States who have promoted the motion for the UN to lift Libya's case before the International Criminal Court. United States has never recognized the jurisdiction of that court. Also opposed to its creation in 1998, along with Israel, Iraq and Libya. Such contradictions seem to go unnoticed for transnational media information.
The supreme commander of NATO, Wesley Clark, had said a couple of years ago that Libya was on the official list to be dominated Pentagon after Iraq, with Syria and the jewel in the crown: Iran. If completed
what Fidel Castro has called "the inevitable war of NATO" will unleash a movement of resistance throughout the Arab world that fulfills the last words of the Lion of the Desert: "The Edge of my tormentors." "-------------------------------
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