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See how the dss implicated themselves, illiterates fellows, the judge is now claiming they planted the money. So much for a sting operation.

On this day the 20th of October 2011, the west killed the one man who brought peace, development and stability in Libya.


In the 42 years that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya, Western views went from considering him a cartoon villain to believing him a model of international conduct – and back to villain again, when the West backed an armed rebellion against him.

The Libyan Army officer who led the 1969 coup against King Idris I quickly became a thorn in the side of Western powers, nationalizing British Petroleum’s holdings and withdrawing Libyan millions from British banks by 1971. Libya also led OPEC’s oil boycott of the US in 1973, and Gaddafi became an outspoken advocate of the Palestinian cause.

‘Mad dog of the Middle East’

It was under the Reagan administration that open hostilities flared up between Washington and Tripoli, however. In 1981, the US Navy intensified what it called “freedom of navigation” patrols in the Sirte Gulf, which Gaddafi had declared exclusive Libyan waters. US fighters shot down Libyan jets over Sirte on two occasions, in August 1981, and again in January 1989. In March 1986, a US Navy task force entered the Gulf and sank several Libyan Navy ships, killing 35 people.

Libya was blamed for the bombing of a discotheque in Germany in April 1986, which killed 2 US soldiers and injured 79 more, along with many civilians. President Ronald Reagan called Gaddafi a “mad dog of the Middle East,” and ordered the US bombing of Libya, called “Operation El Dorado Canyon.” Gaddafi’s government was listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, and placed under a sanctions regime.


Gaddafi was also accused of organizing the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which crashed outside of Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. In 1992, the UN imposed sanctions against Libya, demanding it turn over those responsible for the attack.

Libyans were even presented as terrorists in US popular culture, notably in the 1985 movie “Back to the Future.”

‘Model for others’


By 2003, however, it seemed like the tide had turned. Gaddafi had declared his intent to surrender Libya’s atomic and chemical weapons materials, and pay compensation to victims of the Berlin disco bombing and the Pan Am Lockerbie flight.

Libya’s decision to abandon its weapons programs should become “a model for other proliferators to mend their ways and help restore themselves to international legitimacy,” Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance Paula DeSutter told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 2005. The US removed Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2006.

Gaddafi is “campaigning for the reintegration of his country into the international community,” French PM Francois Fillon said in December 2007, as the Libyan leader was visiting Paris. “All those who want to lecture us should carefully weigh their words.”

In 2008, Italy offered Libya $5 billion in reparations for occupying the country between 1911 and 1941, and the government of Silvio Berlusconi signed several lucrative trade deals with Gaddafi. Libya also agreed to stem the flow of immigrants from Africa, passing through the country on their way to Italy and the EU.

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said he had heard Gaddafi “speak with great moderation and a sense of duty when it comes to the most difficult problems facing the African continent.”


In 2004, Libya paid $35 million in compensation to the victims of the Berlin disco bombing. In 2008, another $1.5 billion was paid into the fund to compensate victims of Pan Am 103 and Americans who died in the disco bombing, among others. Libya served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 2008-09.

‘Killing his own people… lost all legitimacy’


In February 2011, following the mass demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt, a rebellion against the Libyan government began in Benghazi, the country’s second-largest city and the historical capital of the Cyrenaica region. Within days, the US and the European powers that had previously sang Gaddafi’s praises turned on him.


Citing UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which called for a no-fly zone over Libya to “protect civilians,” the US, UK, France and several other powers began bombing Libya on March 19, 2011. The US had strategic command of the intervention, which was codenamed “Operation Odyssey Dawn.” Alongside the air strikes and cruise missile attacks, special forces from the UK, France, Italy, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates worked with the rebels inside Libya.

“We are doing it to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that in killing its own people has lost all legitimacy,” said French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

“Colonel Gaddafi has made this happen. He has lied to the international community… He continues to brutalize his own people,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron, adding, “We cannot allow the slaughter of civilians to continue.”

The intervention’s purpose was “to protect civilians and it is to provide access for humanitarian assistance,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave away the game as regime change, however, when he said that Gaddafi would “simply will not be able to sustain his grip on the country” if his armed forces were destroyed.

“The nature of this leader and the nature of his regime is they will massacre every single individual they even remotely suspect of disloyalty,” Harper added.

US President Barack Obama simply skipped over the previous decade of relations with Libya, justifying the bombing to the American people on March 28 by saying that Gaddafi “has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.”

Gaddafi himself seems to have been unaware of this speech when he wrote Obama on April 6, asking him personally to stop the bombing and reminding him that “democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed members of Al-Qaeda in Benghazi.”

'We came, we saw, he died'

Gaddafi’s words fell on deaf ears. The NATO-backed rebellion succeeded in seizing almost all of the country by October 2011. On October 20, Gaddafi tried to break out of Sirte, but his convoy was bombed by NATO aircraft. He was captured, tortured and killed by militants loyal to the Western-backed National Transitional Council government, proclaimed the month prior.

“We came, we saw, he died,” quipped Hillary Clinton, learning of Gaddafi’s death during a CBS interview.

Libya plunged into chaos, with factions in Tripoli and Benghazi fighting each other, and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) raising its flag over Sirte.

“Today there is no government of Libya. It’s simply mobs that patrol the streets and kill one another,” Virginia State Senator Richard Black told RT. “We were willing to absolutely wipe out and crush their civilization.”

“The Libyans had an incredibly high standard of living, the highest in Africa. When I first went to Libya in 1986, I was amazed by the empowerment of women,” international lawyer Francis Boyle told RT. “What I saw in Libya was that women could do anything they wanted to do.”


Among the world leaders saddened by Gaddafi’s death was Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa. “In the darkest moments of our struggle, when our backs were to the wall, Muammar Gaddafi stood with us,” he said.

In 1997, Mandela defied the UN embargo to visit Gaddafi and thank him for his support during the anti-apartheid struggle. US President Bill Clinton called the visit “unwelcome.”

“No country can claim to be the policeman of the world and no state can dictate to another what it should do,” replied the former political prisoner.


https://www.rt.com/news/363525-western-leaders-gaddafi-libya/

Oblang:
Go to efcc and find out if u want to know more...FIB was signed into law for a reason..

so how are u sure I haven't done that, before u were eager to quote me.

Oblang:
U must be a dunce obviously deviating from ur initial assertion. U claimed only southerners are bin investigated and I put it to u to tell me if dasuki is a southerner then u bring in if he was guilty or not. Abeg swerve joo...U can do urself a favour by replacing Justice Ademola who withdraw from his case...

u are the dunce here, because there is no deviation, we all know why dasuki is being investigated. And. I was expecting u to name more names because all u guys shout is dasuki dasuki.

Nigerian police?? Put your hope on them and die of high hopes . Only God is saving us in this country. The police are for the rich and wealthy

ikwubaba:
Southerners like Dasuki and Badeh. Also including all the Northern judges. U try.

The same dasuki that was granted bail by every reputable court of law. I don't know why u guys always point out dasuki. We all know he has a personal issue with buhari, the same buhari's dss or efcc has refused more than once to bring him to Court on two occasions, the same buhari's govt that wants a closed door trial.

What has happened to badeh, we last heard he attended an air force function feeling very large with his colleagues hailing him.
U guys better wake up.

Oblang:
They don come o. The grandpatron of corruption who has bin in prison all this while is a southerner abi. I mean dasuki...

u are very funny, u have become a judge that found him guilty. The same dasuki that was granted bail by every reputable court of law. I don't know why u guys always point out dasuki. We all know he has a personal issue with buhari, the same buhari's dss or efcc has refused more than once to bring him to Court on two occasions, the same buhari's govt that wants a closed door trial.

ayindejimmy:
Don't trample on my intelligence. I never insulted you o- to the best of my knowledge.
However, insult is relative, So if I had, I apologize.
Be that as it may, its highly insensitive and highly provocative to claim only southerners are being investigatd on corrupt charges when Dasuki and co have been behind bar for months

That was my point

. Ok, we all know why dasuki is still in jail, despite been granted bail by every reputable court of law. I rest my case.

ayindejimmy:
I don't have to quote you to state my points .
I was addressing your grossly lopesided and ethnically laced bigotry statement.
i was hoping you'll come with a logical defense but you just erased all doubts

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I don't have to quote u to give a logical defense, next time if u have nothing to say or can't address an issue, raised by someone and u can't give reasons why it's grossly lopsided without insults, don't quote state yours.

kolaaderin:
Soo u have not been reading of arrest and properties been seized from the north abi, get out of here shameless bigot

how many northerners have u seen being arrested or detained, the property hear who owns them, what are the names of the owners. Shameless hypocrites.

ayindejimmy:
bigot

just like ur master buhari u guys lack the ability to raise an opinion, illiterate fellow. "bigot" is that all u have to say. Why don't u state ur view.

Only Southerners are corrupt under this govt.

Very funny Clinton accusing trump of being a puppet, we all know Clinton is the puppet.

One of the few reasons I prefer trump is that for the first time America has an individual who is almost independent.

This is how the south should be speaking on issues with one voice.

All talk and no action. ..
Bail remains free my foot.

muykem:
He also speak my mind. We don't need senate, house of rep is enough.

he should have stated that operating two legislative houses is a waste of funds, which I am in support of, who knows he might say the same thing if we have on the house of rep.

These are the kind of people buhari wants in every sector, hard core extremist and semi illiterates, no wonder we are in deep problem in this country.

The man just spoke the mind of his master buhari, left for buhari the Senate should be scrapped, then judiciary, then opposition.

Dictatorial mindset.

BushidoBlue:
Don't mind them. Na newspaper trial and noise dem Sabi.

If I were Dokpesi once I'm discharged and acquitted. I will sue the EFCC for half a trillion for damages.

whenever this govt want to fight u the first thing dey do is to damage ur reputation.

After all the media trial, tarnishing the image of the man. This govt is filled o incompetents and illiterates.

Useless govt

After all the media trial, tarnishing the image of the man. This govt is filled o incompetent and illiterates.

Hope dokpesi sue the useless efcc.

The court brought oshiomole the same court would bring in iyamu

The efcc should have stated the amount of corruption petitions they received from each region, and the ones they are acting upon.

So he was found near shrine, then the next thing is to shoot at sight. Nigerian military smh

Boko Haram again, innocent soldiers are dying as a result of evil politicians.

Esseite:
What sort of propaganda is this... 100 girls are dead simple.. its not like i wish them harm or pray so.. but of what point is it to remain and spend the rest of your life on the run and in the bush.

I dont mean to be vain and evil with my statement, but the administration make you read between the lines with their statements

exactly my thoughts, this is pure nonsense.

saintkel:
If dis Government is serious about fighting corruption then it should begin from its cabinet and party members. Till then we see dis as a mere witch hunt

well said, even with the so called fight against corruption, Nigeria is in chaos caused by illiterate in various sectors and govt agencies who don't know how to do their job.

Well Prince or no Prince he killed someone, I believe justice has been served.

No one was expecting to hear amaechi accepting he tried to bribe the judge.

This govt is the worse since civilization.

Buhari is an illiterate mumu, am sure his media aides are confused about defending the dullard.

Very backward human

Nigerian executive arm cannot be above the law

ayolatun:
They have books with them na. Its just that its the same colour with the table spread. That's why you can't see it

hmmmm ok

, northerners playing politics with human life. Hmm. These people have no value for human life.

One of the major reasons why goodluck was voted out was this chibok girls conspiracy.
Now let my ask my educated and enlightened southerners if 200 girls where kidnapped under buhari in osun or Enugu, do u think the north would blink an eye, do u think they would vote for a southerner.

The south needs to start having political sense. The north play politics to the core whether human life is involved or not.