How did Colonel Gaddafi get away with such evil for so long?

[Legion Troll]

How conveniently they forget...

The Libyan disarmament issue was peacefully resolved on December 2003 when Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to eliminate his country's weapons of mass destruction program, including a decades-old nuclear weapons program.

As of 2013, over 800 tons of chemical weapons ingredients remained to be destroyed. In February 2014, the Libyan government announced that it had finished destroying Libya's entire remaining stockpile of chemical weapons.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_Libya


Now, after they were just plaintively asking what threat Libya posed, watch them give Bush the credit for disarming the Colonel.

 

[Legion Troll]

Their law their culture. Been this way forever.

Wait, aren't cons shedding rivers of crocodile tears over gays being thrown off buildings under Muslim rule?

 

[Legion Troll]

Ok, but we're talking about 2011 here. Gaddafi took down a plane if I'm not mistaken back in '86. You asked about Iraq and Libya. We had a policy of supporting regime change in Iraq so Saddam was on our list. Was Gaddafi was on our watch list?

Wow, you just make shit up as you go along, don't you?


In 1981, the new US President Ronald Reagan pursued a hard line approach to Libya, erroneously considering it a puppet regime of the Soviet Union.[182] In turn, Gaddafi played up his commercial relationship with the Soviets, visiting Moscow again in April 1981 and 1985, and threatening to join the Warsaw Pact. The Soviets were nevertheless cautious of Gaddafi, seeing him as an unpredictable extremist. Beginning military exercises in the Gulf of Sirte – an area of sea that Libya claimed as a part of its territorial waters – in August 1981 the U.S. shot down two Libyan Su-22 planes monitoring them. Closing down Libya's embassy in Washington, D.C., Reagan advised U.S. companies operating in the country to reduce the number of American personnel stationed there. In March 1982, the U.S. implemented an embargo of Libyan oil, and in January 1986 ordered all U.S. companies to cease operating in the country.

After the U.S. accused Libya of orchestrating the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which two American soldiers died, Reagan decided to retaliate militarily.

he Central Intelligence Agency were critical of the move, believing that Syria were a greater threat and that an attack would strengthen Gaddafi's reputation; however Libya was recognized as a "soft target."

Reagan was supported by the U.K. but opposed by other European allies, who argued that it would contravene international law. In Operation El Dorado Canyon, orchestrated on 15 April 1986, U.S. military planes launched a series of air-strikes on Libya, bombing military installations in various parts of the country, killing around 100 Libyans, including several civilians. One of the targets had been Gaddafi's home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi#Conflict_with_the_USA_and_its_allies:_1981.E2.80.9386

 

[anatta]

He instituted Shari'ah law in Libya also

more like a people's state - al-Jamahiriyya
Sharia is the basis of many Muslim countries laws..

Honestly you are on a wild goose chase of harlequin romance sourcing.
Or many with a grudge to carry- Qaddafi was a dictator is not a new concept. the sensationalism is puretrash

 

[christiefan915]

Ok, but we're talking about 2011 here. Gaddafi took down a plane if I'm not mistaken back in '86. You asked about Iraq and Libya. We had a policy of supporting regime change in Iraq so Saddam was on our list. Was Gaddafi was on our watch list?

Condi took him off the watch list in 2006.

Ya know Obama took Cuba off the watch list in 2015 and cons flipped out, so why was it different for Libya?

 

[Cancel 2016.11]

Its too burdensome to type homosexual all the time......its not too complicated for you is it ?

Something like using 'cons' and 'libs'.....saves bandwidth too....

Try "gays". (or "gay" if you don't have the energy to hit the s on your keyboard).

 

[anatta]

Wait, aren't cons shedding rivers of crocodile tears over gays being thrown off buildings under Muslim rule?

that would be anyone except salafi jihadists -not "cons". ISIS rule

 

[Phantasmal]

When the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed in October 2011, no one was in any doubt about the horrors he had inflicted on opponents. Thousands had been imprisoned, tortured or murdered during his 42-year regime. But few knew of his other poisonous legacy - the rape and imprisonment of hundreds if not thousands of young women to fulfil his sexual fantasies.

Annick Cojean is an award-winning French journalist who noticed, covering the downfall of Gaddafi for Le Monde, how few women were vocal in the revolution. She heard stories of girls being abducted by Gaddafi and used for sex, sometimes for a day, sometimes kept for years. She made it her mission to uncover the fate of these forgotten women. Procured for Gaddafi by his posse of helpers, cajoled into meeting with the dictator by false promises, girls, often in their early teens, were sought out at official visits to schools and other public occasions. A signal by Gaddafi would indicate which young girl presenting him with flowers he wished to procure.

The irony was that Gaddafi was lecturing other Arab nations on the rights of women. Ostensibly, he seemed progressive. He raised the legal age for marriage to 20; granted rights for divorced women, and, in 1979, opened a Military Academy for women. Many of his personal bodyguards were women. When Cojean investigated, it transpired that most were part of his harem, rewarded with presents for compliance, punished or even executed for escape.

The book contains the harrowing testimonies of several women. Soraya was plucked from school aged 15. She was then imprisoned and forced to participate in frenzied sex sessions in which the dictator would bite, hit and even urinate on her. Escape was futile: she was now seen as "soiled" in Libyan society. Her family rejected her."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-cojean-trans-marjolijn-de-jager-8901967.html

Horrendous

 

[christiefan915]

more like a people's state - al-Jamahiriyya
Sharia is the basis of many Muslim countries laws..

Honestly you are on a wild goose chase of harlequin romance sourcing.
Or many with a grudge to carry- Qaddafi was a dictator is not a new concept. the sensationalism is puretrash

I looked up her book on Amazon. I am assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it is footnoted and the stories weren't just fiction. What info can you provide that everything was made up? I will say the title is sensational but that doesn't automatically mean the content is.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/080212282...=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#iframe-wrapper

 

[Legion Troll]

that would be anyone except salafi jihadists -not "cons". ISIS rule

Maybe you need to pay more attention to what cons post here.

 

[cawacko]

Condi took him off the watch list in 2006.

Ya know Obama took Cuba off the watch list in 2015 and cons flipped out, so why was it different for Libya?

Didn't Gaddafi give up his nukes or something like that in '06?

Cuba is a completely different animal. I guess your goal here is to point out hypocrisy but Cuba and the others are apples and oranges.

If you are honestly looking for an answer it lies in what was the threat to the U.S. between Saddam and Gaddafi.

 

[anatta]

Condi took him off the watch list in 2006.

Ya know Obama took Cuba off the watch list in 2015 and cons flipped out, so why was it different for Libya?

Libya–United States relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya–United_States_relations

May 15, 2006, the US State Department announced its intention to rescind Libya's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism in recognition of the fact that Libya had met the statutory requirements for such a move: it had not provided any support for acts of international terrorism in the preceding six-month period, and had provided assurances that it would not do so in the future.[citation needed] On June 30, 2006, the U.S. rescinded Libya's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.[8] In July 2007, Mr. Gene Cretz was nominated by President Bush as ambassador to Libya

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Why did Obama take Iran of the State Sponser of Terror list??

 

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Apparently anatta suffers from some confusion over what a harlequin romance is. I'm pretty sure none of them are about the systemic rape of underage girls.

I looked up the author and all I could find was that she is a respected, well-respected, or highly regarded (depending on source) correspondent for Le Monde.

But I am totally sure anatta has superior credentials. I know he outranks President Obama so a Le Monde journalist should be a breeze.

 

[christiefan915]

Didn't Gaddafi give up his nukes or something like that in '06?

Cuba is a completely different animal. I guess your goal here is to point out hypocrisy but Cuba and the others are apples and oranges.

If you are honestly looking for an answer it lies in what was the threat to the U.S. between Saddam and Gaddafi.

My opinion is the the government almost randomly decides who to attack and why to attack them based on what's in it for us.

 

[cawacko]

My opinion is the the government almost randomly decides who to attack and why to attack them based on what's in it for us.

What threat do you feel Gaddafi possessed to us?

 

[Irish]

:lol:

trying so hard to protect the queen.

 

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Annick Cojean, special correspondent for Le Monde, is one of France's most widely admired journalists. She chairs the committee for the Prix Albert Londres, the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and is the author of several books.

 

[anatta]

BAC's favorite video..a pic is worth a 1000 words

 

[anatta]

Apparently anatta suffers from some confusion over what a harlequin romance is. I'm pretty sure none of them are about the systemic rape of underage girls.

she's a sensationalist author. the book is pure fiction
I don't read harlequin -maybe that was a poor analogy - but that book, like all of the periodic "tell all" crap
is like some of the inside stories that are crap.

He was often demonized and portrayed as a mad man and a fool by western media.
The fact the author is French ought to tell you a lot more then the bizarre stories of "Soraya"

 

[anatta]

I looked up her book on Amazon. I am assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it is footnoted and the stories weren't just fiction. What info can you provide that everything was made up? I will say the title is sensational but that doesn't automatically mean the content is.

the book is like many sensationalism. It's based on interviews - but with no independent corroboration.

I haven't read it ( I would not pollute my mind with such trash) ..but look at it this way..
Where else do you EVER hear of her story as factual? Footnoting I would assume is to actual events, but the characters interactions
are sensationalized....to sell books.
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here is a redact I found. Recall Libyan women were judges, and civil servants under qaddafi.
Now look at how the author takes a look at post Qadafi Libya,and the lack of women under rebels.
She makes it about rape, instead of Islamists extremists (NTC) controlling Libya.
She is propagating the Viagra rape bullshit
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When the author, Annick Cojean, went to cover Libya post Gaddafi for Le Monde, she was struck by the absence of women among the rebels. Elsewhere in the Arab Spring, women had been present on the streets sharing the celebrations. She did come to learn that the Libyan women in fact had taken huge risks in passing information and supplies and hiding money. However, they were still trapped in a society that held the woman's place as in the home, guarded and hidden.

Part of the origin of this seclusion was the fact of Gaddafi and his policy of rape to suppress rebel activity

https://www.amazon.com/Gaddafis-Har...B0034P1S22_1_2&s=books&sr=1-2#customerReviews