Is anyone else watching Gaddafi's son ranting on the news right now?

slimboyfat

He is saying if the people want a civil war he will give it to them, and they will be sorry. Pretty desperate stuff.

I don't know what to think of that. One thing I got a kick out of though, was MSNBC reported that he blamed the unrest on protesters who are on drugs, and illegal immigrants. I thought to myself, gee I wonder where or whom he learned that political tactic from..............

On a serious note, I wonder how much US and UK operatives have played a role into this unrest.

slimboyfat

The US possibly, the UK not so much I suspect. Tony Blair and Gaddafi became good pals after all. (Impeccable judgement Blair had no?)

The British might be regretting that particularly cynical strategy to get Libya's oil right now.

VM44

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Gaddafi's son named to take on key post
No doubt he will continue his father's Islamic experiment.

THE son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi has been named co-ordinator of a grouping of tribal, political and business leaders, a Libyan paper said yesterday – making him the second most powerful figure in the country.

The exact powers Saif al-Islam will exercise are not clear, but the appointment as head of the "Popular Leaderships", if confirmed, is likely to convince many observers that he is being groomed as successor to his father.

The grouping has approved Saif al-Islam's appointment, the Oea newspaper said. Libyan media reported earlier this month Col Gaddafi had asked for Saif al-Islam to be given a senior government post.

A statement also said he would be given "all the power prerogatives to carry out his role towards building the Libya of the future," the newspaper reported.

On 6 October, Col Gaddafi told a meeting that his son should take a post with no term limit. "Saif needs a position that allows him to pursue his role in carrying out his programme to further Libya's interests," he added.

Scotsman

VM44

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/21/3144137.htm?section=world

Gaddafi's son in civil war warning

The son of Libya's embattled dictator Moamar Gaddafi said the country was on the verge of civil war as anti-government protests raged in the country's two major cities.

As protesters apparently took control of the second city, Benghazi, and gunfire was reported in the capital Tripoli, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi addressed the nation and vowed to fight the unrest "until the last man standing".

Moamar Gaddafi's son, who is rumoured to be a possible successor to the leader's 42-year rule, says wealthy businessmen and trade unions were behind a plot to break Libya into a number of small states.

But he also confirmed a lot of the military's tanks and artillery are now in the hands of the anti-government protesters and accused foreign forces hired by opposition groups of being behind the deadly unrest.

"We will take up arms ... we will fight to the last bullet," he said.

"We will destroy seditious elements. If everybody is armed, it is civil war, we will kill each other."

"We do not want a civil war in Libya. We do not want to kill each other in the street."

Tribal leaders in the oil-rich North African nation have already threatened to cut off oil supplies to the West in the next 24 hours if Moamar Gaddafi does not end the protests or leave the country.

Saif al-Islam denied reports his father had fled to Venezuela and said Libya's tribal structure could intensify the turmoil in the country.

"Libya is not Egypt or Tunisia. It's tribes, it's sects, it's coalitions. There are no parties, political parties in Libya. Everyone knows his own tribe," he said.

Pro-Gaddafi forces have been accused of using heavy artillery and grenades against the protesters in Benghazi, with medical sources in the city putting the death toll from the recent fighting at more than 200.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi denied the death toll was that high.

This morning an Australian in Tripoli told ABC News Online "things are starting to flare up here".

"Just outside the city centre I can see a lot of black smoke and the sounds of large crowds with gun shots constantly," he said. "How many more people will die?'

A Libyan-Australian man, Mohammed, told the ABC his cousin, a doctor in one of Benghazi's main hospitals, had put the death toll at 280, with around 500 injured.

He said hospitals are now running out of medical supplies.

"People dying because they don't have a bandage to save them, they just can't do anything for them, just watching the people die in front of them," he said.

More to come.

Finally-Free

blamed the unrest on protesters who are on drugs, and illegal immigrants.

Is he for real? Libya has a problem with illegal immigrants? Why would anyone want to go there?

W

hamsterbait

These corrupt dictatorships were put in power by the US and other western governments.

They put a stop to the democritisation of the region in the name of oil.

The people in these countries want freedom and a standard of living above poverty level, without the west interfering all the time. The current unrest has nothing to do with religion. They see the freedoms we enjoy and want them also.

If the west is behind this unrest it is the same hypocrisy that they put Saddam in power then over threw him years later because they wanted democracy for the iraqi people!

Strange that when the Egyptian army assaninated pres. Nasser, Mubarak was sitting beside him, and survived. His corrupt government has been supported by the west ever since.

HB