Interesting that the uprising against him never enjoyed more than 15% popular support and was largely centered around muslim brotherhood strongholds.
Surely a {{{coincidence}}}…
Why was he so based?
Easton Jackson
Cameron Collins
define "brutal"
Joshua Richardson
Kinda depressing that so many leftists are happy to write off all the good that he did cause he wasn't a liberal.
Alexander Rivera
I think he and others like him would have been better served defending themselves than attacking much stronger imperialist forces.
Dominic Morris
That's a fair enough point I suppose.
Most """"""leftists"""""" seem to be liberals these days. Even some of the people here who claim to oppose liberalism. Liberalism is a cancer that seems to infect everything.
Nathaniel Thompson
He was a narcissist idiot, thats what got him killed
Should have bought icbms from russia and poited them at the us
Jordan Stewart
myths
Juan Price
This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA). (Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:
wikileaks.org
British support for the rebels during the fighting, certain members of the NTC remain focused on the fact that the British government and oil industry had good relations with the Qaddafi regime, particularly the firm British Petroleum (BP). At the same time, this source indicates that the government of France is carrying out a concerted program of private and public diplomacy to press the new/transitional government of Libya to reserve as much as 35% of Libya's oil related industry for French firms, particularly the major French energy company TOTAL. Sources with access to the highest levels of Libya's ruling NTC, as well as senior advisors to Sarkozy, stated in strict confidence that while much of this pressure is being exerted at very senior diplomatic and political levels, the French external intelligence service (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure/General Directorate for External Security –DGSE) is using sources with influence over the NTC to press the French position.
wikileaks.org
Clinton Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary Clinton's Emails
US Treasury blocks record $30bn of Libya assets. Officials say action to seize funds belonging to bank and sovereign wealth fund is largest ever undertaken by US
In March 2011, the governor of CBL, Farhat Bengdara, resigned and defected to the rebelling side of the Libyan Civil War, having first arranged for the bulk of external Libyan assets to be frozen and unavailable to the Gaddafi regime.[1] As of September 2011, the bank's governor is Kassem Azzuz
Evan Clark
This.
It sucks because if he didn't do these two things, he'd likely still be alive today. He was too naive that those actions wouldn't come to bite him. Should have just focused on his country.