The King Of Swing Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Lets be honest nothing will come of any crime that the rebels commited at best there may be a few token arrests but even that is unlikely and as long as the NTC stay on the West's good side all we see is some token finger pointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 (I know you can't mention them, but there is a 1 hour documentary on Al Jazeera tonight about that group in your sig, mickey, should be interesting.) For anyone who missed the above mentioned documentary, it can be found here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I see it didn't take long for the World Bank to get involved in the Libyan situation. Â "As Libya begins its recovery from conflict, the World Bank has been asked to lead the effort in the areas of public expenditure and financial management, infrastructure repair, job creation for young people and service delivery," Â The Bank said it had been asked to repair services in the water, energy and transport sectors and, in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, to help prepare the country's budget and restore the banking sector. Â "We are ready to support the people in Libya," World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. "Our experts have started coordinating with their partners already and we are moving fast to begin work." Â The World Bank's sister organization, the IMF, on Saturday said it had endorsed the rebel transitional council and would send a team to Libya as soon as security permits. The rebels, being the fucking idiots that they are, have just led their country to the equivalent of a financial black hole. Â Say what you will about Gaddafi, but he was right to keep these fuckers out of the financial affairs of Libya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted October 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 28, 2011 An excellent article there Bobbins, cheers. Also, for anyone interested, here's a copy of Gaddafi's last speech;  For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union. I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed "democracy" and "freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.  No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination - from thieves who would steal from us.  Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called "capitalism" ,but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.  So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters.  I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.  Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.  When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself...  In the West, some have called me "mad", "crazy", but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.   That was a good read. Do you have a source for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted October 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 28, 2011 Did a bit of digging of my own. Turns out this is very likely bullshit; not written/spoken by gaddafi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Apparently that speech is from April from what i could find out. Â http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnist...from_qaddafi-0/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Apparently that speech is from April from what i could find out. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnist...from_qaddafi-0/ Ah, right. The site I got it from was getting it from another site that they were trying to translate. The speech was written in English, but the site was Arabic I think? Fuck knows.  It wasn't his last one though? Ah well. Still pretty fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Agreed, surprised that i had never seen it before. Â Just watched this video a few minutes ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gNS75RpOc Makes you wonder what will become of her life now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 video is also interesting. No doubt his naysayers will have none of it, but it's impossible to acknowledge the terrible things he did without acknowledging the good he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Gaddafi's son, Saif Al-Islam has been arrested:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/1...addafi-captured  Quite nice to hear we haven't assassinated someone for once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted November 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 Gaddafi's son, Saif Al-Islam has been arrested: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/1...addafi-captured  Quite nice to hear we haven't assassinated someone for once.  Yes, and he will absolutely have a fair trial and serve a decent sentence in prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Gaddafi's son, Saif Al-Islam has been arrested: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/1...addafi-captured  Quite nice to hear we haven't assassinated someone for once.  Yes, and he will absolutely have a fair trial and serve a decent sentence in prison.  No doubt.  Seriously, though, at least he will be able to put forward his case, which should be very interesting. It's a shame that Gaddafi himself wasn't able to do that (especially with everything he could have known), just at an elementary, basic level of morality. Mind you, if we actually believed in that, Bush, Blair, Cheney and Rumsfeld would have all been tried too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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