bulldogg
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Contrary to all the good press Qaddafi is receiving these days nothing has changed for the better for those who oppose his rule.
Why are we turning a blind eye and embracing this :cen: as a friend? I'm baffled by the absurdity of the situation. Not only are we not targetting this twit, we're arresting people who are trying to free their country...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.
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http://www.libya-watanona.com/news/alwafa/wf21116e.htmNovember 21st, 2006 - Recently, the Libyan regime has been pulling out all the stops to confuse and retard the opposition. From contradictory speeches and addresses, ridiculous lies, and invitations to the opposition to return home. A Libyan who had lived in Europe for the past 20 years returned early November. After a few days of on-and-off harassment and interrogation, he has now simply disappeared.
http://www.stopgaddafi.org/Thursday, 2 November, 2006: An Algerian court convicted the head of a newspaper and one of its reporters for two articles that allegedly defamed Libyan leader Qadhafi, and sentenced them both to six-month prison terms, the newspaper reported Wednesday. Critics said Tuesday's ruling was aimed at protecting diplomatic ties between Algiers and Tripoli. The executive editor of the Arabic-language Ech-Chourouk, Ali Fodil, and reporter Naila Berrahal were sentenced by a court in the Algiers suburb of Hussein Dey to six-month prison terms and both were fined 20,000 dinars (US$265). The paper was ordered to suspend publication for two months and must pay 500,000 dinars (US$6,685) in damages to Qadhafi. The defense plans to appeal the verdict.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/libya/story/0,,1975740,00.htmlThe six deny infecting 426 children with HIV at the hospital in the late 1990s. More than 50 have since died, say Libyan authorities. Many western diplomats and scientists believe poor hygiene standards were responsible for the infections and that the medics became scapegoats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/libya/story/0,,1808359,00.htmlIn 1990, when he was a student in London, his father - a Libyan dissident living in Cairo - was kidnapped, taken back to Tripoli, imprisoned, tortured. He smuggled several letters out from Abu Saleem jail detailing his treatment, but there has been no word since 1995.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/libya/story/0,,1177081,00.htmlDespite the efforts of Muammar Gadafy to gain international legitimacy, the Libyan leader remains active in conflicts across Africa, usually on the side of leaders who are pariahs to the rest of the world. Gadafy's adventures are not the same as his government's support for international terrorist organisations, especially those that pose a direct threat to the United States. But US and European officials say his ability to use his country's oil wealth to project influence around the African continent is irksome and dangerous.
"If it were anywhere but Africa where he was meddling, we would scream bloody murder," said a former US official who dealt with Libya.
http://www.stopgaddafi.org/Moamar Gaddafi has made his annual September 1st address to the nation. Everything he said was contradictory to what his son and most likely heir Saif-el-Islam had said only recently. Momar asserted that the power and will of the people (him) will be protected from the traitors (opposition groups). And he stated proudly that he has eliminated all resistance to the revolution within Libya, and if they try to plant themselves in Libya once more he will kill them again. We hope that his rant sends a strong message to the weak in the opposition: Saif and Moamar, to put it lightly, are full of lies. They can't be trusted, and even in the event that they in fact change their ways; true progress can't be made until everyone who has committed crimes against the Libyan people (and other peoples) are held accountable. It's not a political game; we musn't forget the thousands of lives lost in Uganda and Chad, the thousands jailed and killed throughout the last 37 years, the Abu-Sleem Massacre, the public executions and broadcasting the demolition of homes, the corruption, the theft, the neglect and the destruction. And for what? It isn't just politics, and these acts can't be undone and must not be forgotten. It has been 37 years, let us not stand by and let it become 38.
Why are we turning a blind eye and embracing this :cen: as a friend? I'm baffled by the absurdity of the situation. Not only are we not targetting this twit, we're arresting people who are trying to free their country...
http://www.stopgaddafi.org/Thursday, 25 May, 2006: More than 500 police officers carried out raids yesterday targeting Libyans in Britain suspected of helping to plot and finance terrorist attacks in Libya. The investigation focused partly on a Birmingham-based charity that has been accused of acting as a front for an outlawed extremist group linked to al-Qa'ida. Eight people were being questioned last night after 19 properties were searched in the operation led by Greater Manchester Police and MI5. Thirteen of the raids were in Greater Manchester, three in Birmingham, and one each in Middlesbrough, London, and Liverpool. Among the buildings searched was the Birmingham office of the Sanabel Relief Agency. Sanabel has been accused of acting as a front for the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which is trying to overthrow Col Qadhafi's regime. [The Independent]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.
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