As I observed on 25th of June, 2011
"It's not so much that Gaddafi is fighting " to defend his
sovereignty" - he is merely fighting against his own people who want
to overthrow him and his system of government. If he were truly
committed to defending his sovereignty, he would have brought down a
NATO plane or two. But he's afraid to do that, since that would be
tantamount to declaring war on NATO. For the same reason, he dare not
commit any terrorist act on NATO soil. That would also be an act of
war, a declaration of war, and the war on terrorism would be waged on
him ( not just protecting Libyan civilians) "
http://groups.google.com/group/usaafricadialogue/msg/94d3b1af8ed53a80
And amazingly, Gaddafi who should know better after the "Mad Dog"
Reagan episode, has fallen into the same trap once more, with his eyes
wide open or maybe still slightly covered by some of that desert dust
(of battle) with bombs exploding all around him he now threatens
Europe with a promise of Terror-ism on NATO territory. He is
definitely getting too big for his shoes. He must be thinking that his
mortal frame is more powerful than the combined forces of NATO......
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&xhr=t&q=Gaddafi+threatens+terrorism+in+Europe
Chapter xviii Of Machiavelli " The Prince " is on " How Gaddafi
should keep his promise ( rendered in Swedish " Hur en furtse bör
hålla sina löften"
http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince18.htm
And so, back to the question : How is the New Gaddafi different from
the Old Gaddafi?
The answer is this : there is only one Gaddafi: the same old Gaddafi.
Nothing has changed. The unchangeable Gaddafi is back to his old
tricks again and promising more of the same not in the desert but on
the greener turf of Europe which might want to call his bluff –
because should he now, even once fulfil his threat, I fear what is to
be feared: that would give Europe and NATO enough legal justification
to drop an avalanche of angry bombs on his head live and direct
wherever the radar will find him hiding in Tripoli or in the desert.
And whereas his nearest and dearest kith and kin may want him alive,
so does the ICC, so that they can try him for his terrorism and his
many crimes against humanity, in Libya, Europe and in many parts of
Africa. (Just recently Chairman Ping was expressing distress about
France supplying weapons to Gaddafi's rebels; Ping did not express
similar distress when Gaddafi was bank-rolling other rebels movements
in various other places in his world and supplying them weapons too.
Understandably, Ping wasn't Africa Union Secretary-General then and
had not received any money or baksheesh from Gaddafi, personally or
impersonally. The baksheesh and pittance that some of those who are
blowing the moribund's trumpet hope to receive before he kicks the
bucket or the flow of dollars all dries up in the dust.
Are you with me?
Yes, formerly rehabilitated into the bosom of the West he has now
relapsed into the true image of his former not so glorious self,
just because it's Obama and not his Brother Reagan in the White House.
Because Reagan, like John McCain , by now would be singing this Beach
Boys song : Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
Yes, its Africa Union's so called "King of Kings" threatening to
retaliate with terrorism in Europe.
What say his ardent supporters here in the USA-Africa Dialogue Series?
Do they justify and endorse his public threat? Are they prepared to
aid and abet terrorism – to advocate terrorism not in the name of
Allah, but in the name of Muammar their "King of Kings" – ready to
be accessories after the crime of terrorism - in Europe - and to be
placed on the usual list of terrorist suspects and sympathizers?
It's a question one would like to put to Secretary-General Ping : Is
Africa's so called " king of Kings" serious about his own personal
long-term survival as the eternal Big Brother of Libya? How is his
threat different from the sort of thing one would expect from al-Qaeda
– who anyway know better than to issue such a threat, even if Gaddafi
is now their new mouthpiece in Tripoli?
Not surprisingly, at that Final Call Press conference of 15th June,
2011, Farrakhan's A. Akbar Muhammad introduced as opening speaker, no
other than one of the most incongruous of criminal defenders namely
Ramsey Clark, about whom, the least said, the better:
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