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So many Libyans felt they’d been avenged by this symbolic gesture. Before his appointment with death, the rapist was raped.
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
In the process, you obscure the actual reasons why people might risk their life to cross the sea – the wars and dictators that forced them from their homes. By denying the existence of these real root causes you simultaneously absolve yourself from the duty of providing sanctuary to those fleeing from them. Acknowledging this duty would prove very problematic: it would be an admission that your own failure to do so previously was the reason why so many thousands then turned in their desperation to smugglers – and why so many of them then drowned in the ocean. It would be an admission that a Syrian boards a boat only when he realises that there’s no realistic means of winning asylum from the Middle East. And an admission that Libya’s current predicament is in part the result of NATO’s (justifiable) airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011 – and subsequent (and unjustifiable) failure to help Libya’s post-Gaddafi transition.
Patrick Kingsley (The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis)
Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell?
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
vested interests that financed their election campaigns. In August 2011, as Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Libya was falling apart, a BBC correspondent in Benghazi spotted some remarkable graffiti on a wall. On the left side of the wall there was a classically straightforward revolutionary message: ‘The tyrant should fall, he’s a monster.’ Direct and to the point. But on the right side, the message was anything but simple. It read: ‘We want constitutional rule and for the president to have less authority and the four-year presidential term should not be extended.’17 As that (quite correctly) suggests, the devil in any
Niall Ferguson (The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die)
Liberia got Petroleum (Oil): The problem of development lies in good leadership and great communication. Some of our leaders want to turn the country's oil company into the Gaddafi regime of Libya that they could rule Liberia and their sons and grand kids can also rule as well. It's a form of oppression. The Liberian people want a leader, not an oppressor or an installed puppet. Someone who will put the country and its peoples' interest first. Not a corrupt politician who's out to rip the country apart, in the name of enriching their families.
Henry Johnson Jr
Saddam never had weapons of mass destruction, he had a weapon much worse. The weapon had no name but the damage it would have done would have brought the United States of America to its knees without a shot being fired. How does this weapon work? It works by exchanging one chemical for another chemical. The chemicals are oil and gold. This threat to the USA was why oil barons ordered the U.S. government to eliminate Saddam at once. Libya tried to use the same weapon against the USA and, again, the oil barons ordered Gaddafi to be eliminated and he was. Next on the list of countries who possess this massive weapon which are threats to the oil barons are Venezuela and Iran.
James Thomas Kesterson Jr
Clearly, the humanitarian relation is not a relation between equals. We are not our "brother's keepers" then, but rather we are more like animal keepers. Bombing for us is really just an animal management technology, and our relationship to the world remains a zoological one.
Maximilian Forte
موقعی که شما در جهنم هستید ,چگونه میتوانید شیطان را متهم کنید؟
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
Thus all civilian officials and military officers in the United States government who either knew or should have known that the Reagan administration intended to assassinate Qaddafi and participated in the bombing operation are “war criminals” according to the U.S. government’s own official definition of that term. The American people should not have permitted any aspect of their foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged “war criminals.” They should have insisted upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, and prosecution of all U.S. government officials guilty of such war crimes. Nevertheless, U.S. public opinion had been so effectively brutalized by five years of Reaganism that over three-quarters of the American people rallied to the support of their demented leadership over the destruction, injuries, and death it had inflicted upon hundreds of innocent civilians in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Francis A. Boyle (Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution)
After this encounter, and despite being a US ally, the Italian government alerted Libya of the incoming attack. Whatever their motives may have been, the Italians succeeded in alerting Gaddafi at his Bab al-Aziziya residence only minutes before the F-111s arrived.
Mike Guardia (Tomcat Fury: A Combat History of the F-14)
After this encounter, and despite being a US ally, the Italian government alerted Libya of the incoming attack. Whatever their motives may have been, the Italians succeeded in alerting Gaddafi at his Bab al-Aziziya residence only minutes before the F-111s arrived. The Libyan leader barely escaped with his family.
Mike Guardia (Tomcat Fury: A Combat History of the F-14)
before the lynching, the bodies, the bullets, the crush, a rebel violently shoved a wooden or metal stick between the buttocks of the fallen dictator, who immediately began to bleed. “Raped!” one of the two women said without an ounce of regret.
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
He’s going to open you. From here on in you will be his possession and you’ll never leave him. So stop making that face. It’s no use resisting or wishing things were different—that won’t change anything here!
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
Colonel Gaddafi was sitting under a tree that I had planted, we had planted several thousand hectares of forest there in Mauritania. He was sitting there under that tree and he was drinking the salted coffee that the Bedouins drink. And he was impressed. He asked me to work out a project with him in Libya as well.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
Before I got the Royal endowment, I was not allowed to work. I always wanted to. And I have always been contradicted on that front. I have never asked to depend on others, I have always wanted to be independent. That's why I want to do these projects.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
I may not always be taken seriously. I often come off as rather humorous: not serious, not academic enough. But that is simply not my style. I regret that I often get comments about that. That people think I have no sense of reality. But people don't know me. Sometimes I find it really disturbing, the criticism I've been getting since I was young. I'm 55 now: if I had really done something wrong, it would have been known by now.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
I've experienced things I didn't want to know and I'm not happy at all with what's happening now. Those bad people will one day have to answer for their actions. I tell you again: in Libya there are people who have been murdered, because of the money that has been released here. And exactly no one has done it.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
Change in leadership brands must be influenced and proactively effected at a personal level, it can never be forced from outside with sustainable effectiveness. Saddam Hussein, Muammar al Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak are all political trophies, yet the effects of the military or “civil” initiatives that toppled them, are nothing to be proud of considering what continues to happen in countries like Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, after the use of force to bring political change.
Archibald Marwizi (Making Success Deliberate)
Throughout my years inside the IRA, there was always a desperate shortage of good-quality, modern hand-guns.  The IRA had ample supplies of AK-47s, hundreds of which had been supplied virtually free of charge by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) and Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. A
Martin McGartland (Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA))
It was the French who fired the first shot. That evening Rafale fighters bombed a convoy of Gaddafi’s tanks and armored vehicles just outside Benghazi. Operation Odyssey Dawn had begun. A short while later 110 cruise missiles were launched from U.S. ships in the Gulf, targeting radar, communications, fuel storage and air defenses around Tripoli and Misrata, followed by air strikes from British Tornados.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
The LIFG were focused on Gaddafi’s regime and had never attacked civilians or foreigners. But violence was at the heart of their ideology. Negotiating or reconciling with an enemy was forbidden; their beliefs were absolute and incontrovertible. They drew no distinction between civilians and soldiers, only Muslims and non-Muslims.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
Gaddafi became an icon for those fighting apartheid in South Africa. He supported the African National Congress with money, weapons and training, earning the undying gratitude of Nelson Mandela, which caused immense diplomatic inconvenience in later years, when Gaddafi was still a pariah and Mandela the toast of the world.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
Just outside Benghazi, in a heavily guarded complex unseen by the outside world, Gaddafi built the World Revolutionary Headquarters, a training facility for anyone who might like to have a go at overthrowing a regime he didn’t like. It was part of the mathaba, the World Center for Resistance against Imperialism, Zionism, Racism, Reaction and Fascism.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
I am a Muslim, an Arab and a Libyan,” she said. “I have to tell you that democracy cannot work here. It’s not possible with Arabs. Gaddafi did a lot for Libya.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
In 1982, when Arafat and his Fatah fighters were besieged in Beirut, on the brink of being pushed out of Lebanon by the Israelis, Gaddafi sent him an open telegram suggesting his best option was to kill himself. “Your suicide will immortalize the cause of Palestine for future generations,” he said. “There is a decision which, if taken by you, no one can prevent. It is the decision to die. Let this be.” Arafat is reported to have replied that if Gaddafi would like to join him, he might consider it.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)