Africans?
Was Gaddafi African in an ethnic sense of African by assumption, by living in Africa?
Whatever he was, what has that got to do with killing his own people because they wanted him to go after four decades of autocratic rule?
Does abandoning such a killer imply betraying a just cause?
I would like understand your perspective.
As a person who respects your academic productivity, I need to know what is going on with your seeming uncritical adulation of Gaddafi.
toyin
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Gaddafi's former oil minister found floating in river Danube died by drowning, autopsy results show
- Police say no indications that Shukri Ghanem committed suicide and have ruled out foul play at this stage
- Mr Ghanem last seen by daughter in their apartment on Saturday night
- Family members initially told ministry that Mr Ghanem died of heart attack
- Police say he could have become ill and then fallen in to the river
- Mr Ghanem had defected from regime last year
By Phil Vinter
PUBLISHED: 20:20 EST, 29 April 2012 | UPDATED: 09:14 EST, 30 April 2012
Shukri Ghanem, 69, who was the country's prime minister between 2003 and 2006, was discovered fully clothed floating in the river Danube in Austria on Sunday morning.
When she woke and found him missing she called police who told her his body had been found 20 metres from the shore of the Danube, close to their apartment.
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Ex-Libyan prime minister Shukri Ghanem (right) has been found dead in the river Danube in Austria. He defected last year while he was oil minister in Colonel Gadaffi's (left) regime
'There would be no signs of violence if someone pushed him in, but it's also possible that he became ill and fell into the water.'
An Austrian foreign ministry official said family members initially told the ministry that Mr Ghanem had died of a heart attack, adding that their version appeared to be plausible.
Mr Ghanem had no personal identification other than a document that named the company he was working for, Mr Hahslinger said.
Location: Police told his daughter his body had been found 20 metres from the shore of the river Danube, in Vienna, close to their apartment
Initial report: An initial autopsy shows Mr Ghanem died from drowning. Police say it's feasible he could have become ill and fallen into the river
An employee of the company was subsequently contacted and identified him.
The former energy chief fled from Libya to Italy several months after opponents of Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan leader last year.
At the time he told the Italian Ansa news service that he deserted for Italy 'to fight for a democratic country'.
As chairman of the Libya state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) since 2006, he had helped to steer the country's oil policy and held the high-profile job of representing Libya at Opec meetings and regularly visited Vienna for meetings in that role.
Defected: The former energy chief, seen left in June last year and right in March last year, fled from Libya to Italy several months after opponents of Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan leader last year
He was believed to have been living in Europe in exile since he left Libya but was still closely associated with Gaddafi's rule by Libya's new leaders and had ruled out returning home.
Mr Hahslinger said Mr Ghanem apparently left his Vienna home in the early morning after spending Saturday evening at home.
Police were alerted by a passer-by who saw his body floating near his home, close to the modernistic building housing United Nations agencies in the Austrian capital.
Considered a member of Gaddafi's inner circle until his defection, Mr Ghanem insisted that Libya bore no responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
Controversial: Considered a member of Gaddafi's inner circle until his defection, Mr Ghanem insisted that Libya bore no responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
He also repudiated Libyan responsibility in the 1984 shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher during a protest in front of his country's embassy - an incident that led to the severing of British-Libyan relations.
Mr Ghanem's efforts were supported by Saif al-Islam, the Gaddafi son associated with the reform wing.
At the same time, he was viewed with suspicion by the old guard opposed to change - and their opposition to him led to his ousting as prime minister and subsequent appointment as head of the state oil company and de-facto oil minister.
He was reinstated in those positions in 2009 just weeks after his resignation, a move reflecting the power struggle between reformists and nationalists in his oil-rich North African nation.
Mr Ghanem continued to live in Vienna after Gaddafi was ousted and later killed last year in the Nato-backed rebel campaign.
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