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A defiant Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi vowed Tuesday not to resign and denounced the anti-government protesters who have challenged his regime as "greasy rats" and "drug-fueled mice" who deserve to be executed. "These gangs are cockroaches," he said. "They're nothing. They're not one percent of the Libyan people."
Libyan leader and new head of the African Union (AU), Moammer Gaddafi has defended the actions of Somalian pirates as an act of self-defence against “greedy” Western nations, the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reports. The paper, reporting on Gaddafi’s courtesy call on AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, quoted him as saying: “It is not piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalian children’s food.
Colonel Qaddafi — dressed in a brown traditional Libyan robe, embroidered vest and shirt, with a black pin of the African continent pinned to his chest — took about 17 minutes to get to the main point of his speech, which was a demand for an African seat on the Security Council.
He also suggested that those who caused “mass murder” in Iraq be tried; defended the right of the Taliban to establish an Islamic emirate; wondered whether swine flu was cooked up in a laboratory as a weapon; and demanded a thorough investigation of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
He offered to move the United Nations headquarters to Libya because leaders coming here had to endure jet lag and because the understandable security against another attack on New York by Al Qaeda was too stringent. And he repeated his longstanding proposal that Israel and the Palestinian territories be combined into one state called Isratine.
I'm just struck by his intention to become a martyr. A martyr to what? His dictatorship? He's fired upon his own people, he's brought in mercenaries, he ordered bombers to bomb his own capital city. He's a martyr? To megalomania.
Qaddafi is a man with nothing to lose except his head. He is a rabid dog backed into a corner awaiting his death. Any one ever hunt cape buffalo? A mortally wounded buffalo, when able, will take as many into death with it as it can.
I'm just struck by his intention to become a martyr. A martyr to what? His dictatorship? He's fired upon his own people, he's brought in mercenaries, he ordered bombers to bomb his own capital city. He's a martyr? To megalomania.
When the USA could have fulfilled his wish and made him a martyr hundreds of years ago, he just went into hiding.
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