Libya 2011 Demonstrations (8 Viewers)
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Is that ***** ** ***** still clinging to power?Opponents of Gaddafi have held off an attack by pro-government forces near the town of Misrata, 125 miles east of Tripoli, and shot down a military aircraft, a witness has told Reuters:
"An aircraft was shot down this morning while it was firing on the local radio station. Protesters captured its crew," said the witness, Mohamed.
"Fighting to control the military air base (near Misrata) started last night and is still going on. Gaddafi's forces control only a small part of the base. Protesters control a large part of this base where there is ammunition."
"Misrata is still under the control of the protesters," he said.
"An aircraft was shot down this morning while it was firing on the local radio station. Protesters captured its crew," said the witness, Mohamed.
"Fighting to control the military air base (near Misrata) started last night and is still going on. Gaddafi's forces control only a small part of the base. Protesters control a large part of this base where there is ammunition."
"Misrata is still under the control of the protesters," he said.
Britain has frozen Gaddafi's British-held assets and those of his family and withdrawn their diplomatic immunity.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/101637
Clearly, he's not welcome in the UK!
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/101637
Clearly, he's not welcome in the UK!
Nelly Furtado: In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min. Show for guests at a hotel in Italy. I am going to donate the $
http://twitter.com/nellyfurtado
http://twitter.com/nellyfurtado
'My People Love Me': Moammar Gadhafi Denies Demonstrations Against Him Anywhere in Libya
I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya.
"My people love me. They would die for me," he said.
We conducted the interview at a restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast. Gadhafi, wearing sunglasses and dressed in a brown tribal dress, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. The longtime leader seemed not to be surrounded by huge amounts of security.
Gadhafi said he wanted to speak to the press to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story.
Libya's longtime leader laughed when I asked him whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama. He invited the United Nations and any other organization to come to Libya and do a "fact finding mission" and questioned how they could freeze assets, impose sanctions and an arms embargo, and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports alone.
The current uprising is the most serious challenge posed to Gadhafi's leadership since he came to power in 1969.
Gadhafi's version of the truth seemed to be at odds with what people have been talking about and reporting here, and he does not seem to fully comprehend the drama and the magnitude of whats going on around him.
He said he would not be leaving Libya, and denied -- in very strong terms -- using any force against his people. I asked him several times about reports that aerial bombardments had been used against protesters, but Gadhafi said they did not happen and that they had only bombed military and ammunition depots.
He seemed to be in complete denial about the protests against him, and that other big cities in Libya, particularly those in the east, had been taken by his opponents.
He simply rejected the notion that any walls were closing in on him. He denied he was besieged in the capital and said he would survive the current situation.
Gadhafi reiterated his mantra, saying he's not president and he's not in a formal position. Libya is ruled by the people, and he is one of the people, he told ABC News.
Gadhafi instead blamed al Qaeda for encouraging young people to seize arms from military installations.
He said the people who have taken over Benghazi in eastern Libya are terrorists and al Qaeda operatives. He doesn't believe people are demonstrating against him anywhere in Libya, and repeated the charge that those who are have been given hallucinogenic drugs -- a claim he first made in his televised speech broadcast last week.
Gadhafi, who has ruled Libya for 41 years, said he felt betrayed by the United States.
"I'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight al Qaeda, and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us," he said. "Perhaps they want to occupy Libya."
Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, and the United States lifted sanctions and restarted business relations with Libya.
In 2008, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Libya, marking the first such visit for an official of her position since 1953, and in 2009, Gadhafi visited the United States.
Libya's longtime dictator called Obama a "good man" but said he might have been given "misinformation."
"The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else," Gadhafi said. "America is not the international police of the world."
In response to Gadhafi's assertion to ABC News that the Libyan people are behind him, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "He should get out of his tent and see what is really happening in his country."
As for Gadafi feeling betrayed by the United States, Crowley said it was Gadhafi who has betrayed his own people.
ABC conducted the interview with two other reporters from the BBC and the Sunday Times of London.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...iews-libyas-moammar-gadhafi/story?id=13019942
I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya.
"My people love me. They would die for me," he said.
We conducted the interview at a restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast. Gadhafi, wearing sunglasses and dressed in a brown tribal dress, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. The longtime leader seemed not to be surrounded by huge amounts of security.
Gadhafi said he wanted to speak to the press to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story.
Libya's longtime leader laughed when I asked him whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama. He invited the United Nations and any other organization to come to Libya and do a "fact finding mission" and questioned how they could freeze assets, impose sanctions and an arms embargo, and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports alone.
The current uprising is the most serious challenge posed to Gadhafi's leadership since he came to power in 1969.
Gadhafi's version of the truth seemed to be at odds with what people have been talking about and reporting here, and he does not seem to fully comprehend the drama and the magnitude of whats going on around him.
He said he would not be leaving Libya, and denied -- in very strong terms -- using any force against his people. I asked him several times about reports that aerial bombardments had been used against protesters, but Gadhafi said they did not happen and that they had only bombed military and ammunition depots.
He seemed to be in complete denial about the protests against him, and that other big cities in Libya, particularly those in the east, had been taken by his opponents.
He simply rejected the notion that any walls were closing in on him. He denied he was besieged in the capital and said he would survive the current situation.
Gadhafi reiterated his mantra, saying he's not president and he's not in a formal position. Libya is ruled by the people, and he is one of the people, he told ABC News.
Gadhafi instead blamed al Qaeda for encouraging young people to seize arms from military installations.
He said the people who have taken over Benghazi in eastern Libya are terrorists and al Qaeda operatives. He doesn't believe people are demonstrating against him anywhere in Libya, and repeated the charge that those who are have been given hallucinogenic drugs -- a claim he first made in his televised speech broadcast last week.
Gadhafi, who has ruled Libya for 41 years, said he felt betrayed by the United States.
"I'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight al Qaeda, and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us," he said. "Perhaps they want to occupy Libya."
Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, and the United States lifted sanctions and restarted business relations with Libya.
In 2008, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Libya, marking the first such visit for an official of her position since 1953, and in 2009, Gadhafi visited the United States.
Libya's longtime dictator called Obama a "good man" but said he might have been given "misinformation."
"The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else," Gadhafi said. "America is not the international police of the world."
In response to Gadhafi's assertion to ABC News that the Libyan people are behind him, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "He should get out of his tent and see what is really happening in his country."
As for Gadafi feeling betrayed by the United States, Crowley said it was Gadhafi who has betrayed his own people.
ABC conducted the interview with two other reporters from the BBC and the Sunday Times of London.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...iews-libyas-moammar-gadhafi/story?id=13019942
@ Gadhafi
A delusional meglomaniac! Call the funny farm & get the men in white coats to cart him off in a straight jacket!