Peti oktobar na bliskom istoku i arapskom svetu

[Аврам Гојић]

Možda mu je Lilić dopeljao neke pare.

pa taj avion sigurno nisu slali zbog intervjua niti je realno da je pukovnik sada uopste raspolozen da daje intervjue medijskim anonimusima.znaci razlozi za posetu su drugaciji. koji su, saznacemo tipa za 5-10 godina, mozda i kasnije, a mozda i nikada

[Roger Sanchez]

Guardianov dopisnik na Gaddafijevom izletu:

We've just come from a mosque which has been turned into a makeshift first-aid post. It is more or less agreed that 24 people were killed in the fighting. While the town is in rebel hands, the outlying areas are in the hands of the Libyan military and they are not letting villagers in to join the opposition. We saw two young captured Chadian-Libyan soldiers. They are 17, obviously very frightened, but they are being treated very well and word is being sent to their parents to come and fetch them. The rebels have a lot of heavy equipment and if the government troops try and retake the town, it will be quite a bloody confrontation. When I said to our minders that I was baffled that they should take us to a rebel-held town, they said: "We don't want you to think we're hiding anything."

U Benghaziju proradili telefoni i internet, punom parom. Tako kaže I Egipćanin u Libiji. Edited February 27, 2011 by Roger Sanchez

[Bane5]

zakljucak sa izleta:

Guardian: "If this govt-sponsored trip is supposed to show that the regime has some semblance of control, it has backfired spectacularly"

Asked a man in Zawiya if he was a drug- taking terrorist. He gave me a fig and laughed. "These are our drugs."

Edited February 27, 2011 by Bane5

[Roger Sanchez]

Oil is pivotal to which direction Libya post-Gaddafi heads. In the east of the country the presence of so much black gold under the soil has long been more resented than appreciated.We never see any of the profits from it," said Mohammed. "Gaddafi has all these compounds and offshore money and there are no jobs, not much health service and no way of improving ourselves. Now the people will decide how the money is spent, not him."

Lilić disapproves dis message.Tunis:

1225: The BBC's Paul Moss in the Tunisian capital Tunis says there are "very ugly scenes" taking place there. Protesters are being subjected to "merciless" beatings from police and plain clothes thugs. He saw one man beaten unconscious before being dragged away by police.

Srednji ešalon ne pušta uzde iz ruku. Edited February 27, 2011 by Roger Sanchez

[Roger Sanchez]

Eh, događaji jedan drugog sustižu:

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has announced his resignation after a renewed outbreak of street violence in the North African country in the past few days.Ghannouchi was a longtime ally of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and had pledged to guide the country until elections can be held this summer. Ben Ali fled the country on Jan. 14 amid massive protests.

[ExicPL]

Bila najava na Pinku za interviju sa Gadafijem. "Veceras u 19.30, pogledajte kakvo je stvarno stanje u Libiji"

[morgana]

"Veceras u 19.30, pogledajte kakvo je stvarno stanje u Libiji"

:Dvaljda imam pink, majkumu

[Аврам Гојић]

U nekim medijima u Srbiji trenutno je u toku ogroman pritisak švercersko-bezbednjačkog lobija da se stvari u Libiji počnu opisivati istinito, a ne onako kao što pričaju Al Džazira, CNN i BBC. Po onome sto sam cuo, pukovnik je odabrao srpski "deep state" da preko njega komunicira sa svetom. To je pojavni oblik, a sta se zapravo dogadja, trenutno nemam pojma i iskreno plasim se da saznam.

Edited February 27, 2011 by Marko M. Dabovic

[Gandalf]

U nekim medijima u Srbiji trenutno je u toku ogroman pritisak švercersko-bezbednjačkog lobija da se stvari u Libiji počnu opisivati istinito, a ne onako kao što pričaju Al Džazira, CNN i BBC.

bravo! ako je ostatak sveta zaveden lazima imperijalistickih prasaca, ne mora i Srbija da bude deo masinerije.

[kim_philby]

btw gadafi od 16. januara 2011. godine o tunisu & ben aliju

In his statement, broadcast last night on Libyan TV, Gaddafi said: "Tunisia now lives in fear. Families could be raided and slaughtered in their bedrooms and the citizens in the street killed as if it was the Bolshevik or the American revolution."

:D

[Tutankamon]

Two prominent US senators, John McCain and Joe Lieberman, have told CNN the US should be offering military aid to the emerging provisional government.

[morgana]

As far back as 2002, Saif told an interviewer that Libya needed democracy. "It's policy number one for us. First thing democracy, second thing democracy, third thing democracy," Saif said, using a rhetorical technique he was to repeat last week to far more sinister effect

Arms folded, jaw firmly out, Saif is a manifestation of defiance. It is clear he is very much his father's son, albeit, as one Twitter user wryly observed, someone who seems to have styled himself sartorially on Stringer Bell, the drug lord in the US cop show The Wire.

Geneva places a high premium on guarding secrets, butrumours are a different currency. Amid momentous scenes being played out acrosstheMiddle East last week,sources in the Swiss financial centre were privately gossiping about a visit toGeneva earlier this year by Farhat Bengdara, the governor of the Central Bankof Libya.According to one popular rumour, Bengdara had visited Genevawith a purpose. He was there to make changes to key Swiss accounts, into whichflow hundreds of millions of dollars of Libyan oil money that are thenallocated to the Libyan Investment Authority and the Libyan Central Bank.Financiers in Geneva gossip that, as far back as 17 January,Bengdara established that four new names would be added as signatories on threecrucial accounts controlling much of the money. The signatories were Colonel Muammar Gaddafi; hisson Khamis, who heads Libya's infamous martyrs' battalion; the Libyan leader'sdaughter Aisha; and his son Saif al-Islam.Where Libya's petro-dollars may have been channelled in theweeks since tensions first erupted across the Arab world is hard to say. Butthose who know him would be surprised if Saif did not hold the answers.The westernised 38-year-old, who studied at the London Schoolof Economics and enjoys close friendships with senior British politicians andfinanciers, has become the focal point of the conflict now threatening to ripLibya apart.Whereas Gaddafi senior has always been seen in the west as adictator – albeit one brought back into the fold – Saif, a trained architectwho established a medical charity and was considered his father's heirapparent, held out the promise of a new dawn.As far back as 2002, Saif told an interviewer that Libyaneeded democracy. "It's policy number one for us. First thing democracy,second thing democracy, third thing democracy," Saif said, using arhetorical technique he was to repeat last week to far more sinister effect.With mercenaries flooding the streets of Libya's majorcities and horrifying stories of murder and mayhem emerging in piecemealfashion via social networking sites, despite a government-enforced newsblackout, such a promise now looks spent.Saif's desire to act as a mouthpiece for his father has lentthe tragic scenes unfolding in Libya a surreal, sometimes ridiculous dimension.His appearances in front of the television cameras suggest a man increasinglyunhinged. Arms folded, jaw firmly out, Saif is a manifestation of defiance. Itis clear he is very much his father's son, albeit, as one Twitter user wrylyobserved, someone who seems to have styled himself sartorially on StringerBell, the drug lord in the US cop show The Wire.The similarities may not stop there. A man who reportedlylikes to keep tigers and falcons, "Saif is urbane, charming andpsychotic", according to one person who has met him. This appraisal seemedto be confirmed last Sunday night when Saif appeared on domestic television tothreaten a civil war in which his father's regime "will fight to the lastminute, until the last bullet".By Thursday he was on CNN promising that the violence in hiscountry would make Libya "stronger, more united". Saif pledged:"Libya will have a better future as one united nation. [We will] not let abunch of terrorists control our country and our future."Displaying a hubris that is likely to be replayed in videoclips for years to come, Saif boasted that his family had a "Plan A, PlanB and Plan C". But all of the plans, it transpired, were the same:"To live and die in Libya."These were the fulminations of a man whose options wereincreasingly limited. It was a far cry from 2008 when, having collected hisdoctorate from the LSE, Saif pledged to donate £1.5m to the university for aglobal governance unit. "I've come to know Saif as someone who looks todemocracy, civil society and deep liberal values for the core of hisinspiration," Professor David Held, a political theorist at the LSE, saidat the time.Last week, while the university was reconsidering its linksto Saif as a "matter of urgency", Held too was reappraising hisformer pupil. "My support for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was always conditionalon him resolving the dilemma that he faced in a progressive and democraticdirection," Held said. "His commitment to transforming his countryhas been overwhelmed by the crisis he finds himself in. He tragically, butfatefully, made the wrong judgment."Whether others, however, will be quick to break their tiesremains to be seen. Saif's connections extend into the City of London andWestminster.Saif is an acquaintance of Lord Mandelson and met the formerLabour minister at a Corfu villa the week before it was announced that theLockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi,would be released from a Scottish prison. The two men met again when they wereguests at Lord Rothschild's mansion in Buckinghamshire.Rothschild's son and heir, Nat, also a close friend of Mandelson,held a party in New York attended by Saif in 2008. Saif in turn invited NatRothschild to his 37th birthday party in Montenegro, where the financier isinvesting in a luxury resort.Prince Andrew, too, has played host to Saif at BuckinghamPalace and Windsor Castle and the two men have also met in Tripoli. Others whomSaif classes as good friends include Tony Blair and, bizarrely, the lateAustrian far-right leader, Jörg Haider.On Friday night, at the end of a week in which hundreds arebelieved to have died and Saif's credibility in the west evaporated, the manwhose name means "Sword of Islam" in Arabic appeared delusional."Everything is calm," Saif told a group of foreign journalists whohad been invited to the Libyan capital."If you hear fireworks, don't mistake it forshooting," Saif added, smiling as he greeted the press outside a luxuryhotel boasting a glittering lobby and chandeliers. But the calm was unnatural.It was the quiet of empty streets that would normally be bustling on a Fridaynight.Saif insisted that much of the reporting was"lies" spread by a hostile media and denied claims his father'sforces had bombed civilians. "We are laughing at these reports," hesaid, urging reporters to interview "hundreds or thousands" of peoplefor themselves."The biggest problem is the hostile media campaignsagainst us. They want to show Libya is burning, that there is a big revolutionhere," he said. "You are wrong. We are united. Peace is coming backto our country."A few miles away the thousands of desperate migrant workersbesieging Tripoli airport, kept out by police using batons and whips, told adifferent story.

Edited February 27, 2011 by morgana

[Roger Sanchez]

Two prominent US senators, John McCain and Joe Lieberman, have told CNN the US should be offering military aid to the emerging provisional government.

Jutros su se išli slikat na Tahrir.

[dig_chohano]

Bila najava na Pinku za interviju sa Gadafijem. "Veceras u 19.30, pogledajte kakvo je stvarno stanje u Libiji"

Kojote, potok?

[jms_uk]

Ode Michelle

French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has announced her resignation after weeks of criticism over her contacts with the former Tunisian regime.