USA Africa Dialogue Series - al- Qadafi's dream : the United States of Africa - and his home country Libya, today

So, who is now enemy of the people and killing them?

http://www.google.com/#q=Libya&hl=en&prmd=ivnsulm&source=lnms&tbs=nws:1&ei=q3liTboVh8ezBu7f9LUI&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQ_AUoAw&bav=on.1,or.&fp=bc3757e578a738f7

Libya was at position 146 out of 178 countries in Transparency
International's Corruption index for 2010.

And here is Libya's Human Rights record which is in urgent need of
reform::

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Libya:+Human+Rights

I have followed Colonel Qadhafi's chequered career since his
overthrowing of King Idriss, the King of Libya in 1969. Today, I am
disappointed

Whilst incensed by Dr. Aliya Tilde's Discourse on alleged Arab
racism here,

http://fridaydiscourse.blogspot.com/2011/01/trivial-11-southern-sudan-welcome-to.html

I still recall a time (1982) when all of Jerry Rawlings' bodyguards
were Libyan (till they were decimated by others in Ghanaian Security
who thought that it was a national affront, for a Ghanaian president
to be body-guarded by Libyans.

It also got to a point when Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings himself
flew over to Libya in 2000, to take back home some of his Ghanaian
countrymen who had been the victims of xenophobia, unlawful
imprisonment and alleged racism in Libya.

http://www.info-ghana.com/u.s._of_africa.htm

True : when not sponsoring war in Sierra Leone and Liberia, or the
desecration and. destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Benghazi and
Tripoli by purposefully constructing a road right through those Jewish
cemeteries in those cities, the by now reformed Arab revolutionary -
and so we thought, ( after Reagan's and Thatcher's bombings) the by
now rehabilitated Colonel Qadhafi having spent billions of dollars in
Africa outside of Libya, for example – admirably, among other things,
donating a billion dollars worth of food aid to Zimbabwe when that
country was in dire straits and facing famine., was now a new man.

Now, like other people in that region, the Libyan people want change,
political reform and better living standards, for which purpose
peaceful demonstrations started in Benghazi (different tribe from his)
and have since spread to his headquarters in Tripoli.

The Sunday Observer headline for yesterday best expresses what I feel
about Qadhafi's "Green Book" ideology in action : "Revulsion as
Gaddafi sets his army on Libyan people."

One is left wondering, is this how Colonel Qadhafi upon obtaining
what would have been the final glory of being the first elected
president of the United States of Africa would put down a a peaceful
demonstration against tyranny in say one of his states, Nigeria?

"We are not Egypt " he says , "We will fight until the last man, the
last woman, the last bullet," ( al-Qadhafi Jnr.)

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=We+will+fight+until+the+last+man%2C+the+last+woman%2C+the+last+bulle

Question is, does he have a future after this? Where?

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