Libya: The next stop for the revolution

[Jacaylbaro]

Gaddafi son: Libya faces 'civil war, rivers of blood'

 

 

TRIPOLI, February 21, 2011 (AFP) - Libya faces civil war and "rivers of blood", the son of its leader Moamer Gaddafi warned on Monday, as a brutal crackdown failed to stop an unprecedented popular uprising from reaching the capital.

 

With gunfire crackling in the streets of Tripoli, and Human Rights Watch putting the death toll at 233 since Thursday, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi vaguely promised reforms as he condemned the revolt as a foreign plot.

 

"Libya is at a crossroads. If we do not agree today on reforms .... rivers of blood will run through Libya," he said in a fiery but rambling televised speech that betrayed a note of desperation within his father's 41-year regime.

 

"We will take up arms... we will fight to the last bullet," he said. "We will destroy seditious elements. If everybody is armed, it is civil war, we will kill each other.

 

"Libya is not Egypt, it is not Tunisia," added Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, 38, who has no defined political role but wields vast influence.

 

The elder and famously mercurial Gaddafi, 68, the longest-serving leader in the Arab world, and whose nation holds Africa's biggest oil reserves, remained out of sight.

 

Heavy gunfire broke out in central Tripoli and several city areas on Monday for the first time since the uprising began in eastern Libya, witnesses and an AFP journalist reported.

 

Several witnesses said fire was set to public buildings overnight, including the state broadcasting offices and branches of the People's Committees that are the mainstay of the regime.

 

Some 500 Libyans meanwhile stormed and looted a South Korean construction site near the capital on Monday, injuring about 15 Bangladeshi as well as three South Korean workers, Seoul's foreign ministry said.

 

Earlier, witnesses reported clashes in Tripoli's downtown Green Square between protesters and Kadhafi supporters, and a witness in the working-class Gurgi area reported that security forces had fired tear gas at protesters.

 

 

 

READ MORE ON .....

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1111808/-/12i8w7y/-/index.html

 

[Polanyi]

SOme jadidis are sending emails about obedience to rulers. A bit too late, me thinks.kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

[Jacaylbaro]

Is that what Libya is heading to ,,, Civil War ???

 

Shocking that he is bombing his people from the air today. He fled Tripoli and giving orders to kill civilians.

[Somalina]

Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Calls for Fatwa on Gadhafi

February 22, 201

A cleric called for a fatwa Tuesday against embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, saying fighting his citizens “is not heroism.”

Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, issued a fatwa on live television, urging the Libyan army to kill Gadhafi, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“It is not heroism to fight your people and to hit them with missiles,” Qaradawi said on al-Jazeera.

 

 

[Polanyi]

^^The likes of Sheikh Qardawi, Hamza Yusuf and Amr Khaled are classical opportunists. For years, they've been good friends and sucking up to various Arab leaders. Now,when the people revolt against them, they hog the airwaves, desperately trying to claim the glory and pretend they hated these leaders all along.kay. I wonder if Amr Khaled will support the revolt against his good friend Saleh of Yemen like he did in his own countr? Or maybe Hamza Yusuf will condemn AMISOM in Muqdisho? kay. government of bladland. we run tingz.

 

[Jacaylbaro]

I wonder where they were hiding in 1988 ,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Polanyi]

WHO, the ******?

[nuune]

Jacaylbaro;697229 wrote:

I wonder where they were hiding in 1988 ,,,,,,,,,,,,

woow, you are classic JB

[Jacaylbaro]

Maandhow maxaan kala hadlaa buu yidhi carabi waa ,,, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ,,,