ANOTHER TYRANT – GADDAFI FALLS V
KyaemonPOWER CORRUPTS!
THAT IS WHY, THERE IS A NEED FOR A “CHECKS AND BALANCES” SYSTEM.
EXAMPLES:
A SEPARATION OF EXECUTIVE, JUDICIARY, AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT,
“TERM LIMITS,”
AND OF COURSE,
A FREE MEDIA TO EXPOSE AND CONTROL CORRUPTION AND BAD BEHAVIOR.
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound – CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.gadhafi.nanny/
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Moammar Gadhafi told his people he lived modestly during his nearly 42-year rule over Libya, often sleeping in a Bedouin tent.
Even if that was true for the leader, it certainly wasn’t for his sons.
At a seaside compound in western Tripoli, the Gadhafi boys enjoyed a decadent lifestyle that his people could only dream about, while perpetrating unspeakable horrors on the staff that served their every whim.
CNN visited the seaside homes Sunday.
The first house we entered was apparently the “party” beach condo with an oversized door that led into sleek, modern, black-and-white rooms. It had been ransacked by the rebels, but still it was spectacular, with panoramic ocean views and plenty of evidence of the hedonism for which Hannibal Gadhafi — one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — is famous.
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Discarded bottles of Johnny Walker Blue Label Scotch and Laurent Perrier pink champagne cases littered the floor. (Kyaemon’s Note: Muslims are not allowed to drink wine or alcohol). Much of the electronic equipment had been plundered, but instruction manuals remained for high end Harman/Kardon stereo components. Cabinets designed to hold two huge TV screens could still be seen.
The bedroom held a circular bed, while the in-suite bathroom was complete with sunken Jacuzzi tub lined with plastic white flowers. Outside, a hot tub, a bar and a barbecue area adjoined the private beach.
Another villa contained a white baby grand piano and more expensive stereo equipment. Next door was a huge swimming pool and diving complex, a gym, a steam room and a sauna faced in white marble. In other house.
We came upon rebels furtively dividing up a huge stash of alcohol. They seemed edgy and tense — this is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and alcohol was supposedly banned under the Gadhafi regime.
We filmed them quixotically studying the labels of Cristal champagne and fine St. Emilion Bordeaux, apparently not realizing each bottle is worth hundreds of dollars.
As we were about to leave, one of the staff told us there was a nanny who worked for Hannibal Gadhafi who might speak to us. He said she’d been burnt by Hannibal’s wife, Aline.
I thought he meant perhaps a cigarette stubbed out on her arm. Nothing prepared me for the moment I walked into the room to see Shweyga Mullah.
At first I thought she was wearing a hat and something over her face. Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.
Even though the burns were inflicted three months ago, she was clearly still in considerable pain. But she told us her story calmly.
She’d been the nanny to Hannibal’s little son and daughter.
The 30-year-old came to Libya from her native Ethiopia a year ago. At first things seemed OK, but then six months into her employment she said she was burned by Aline.
Three months later the same thing happened again, this time much more seriously.
In soft tones, she explained how Aline lost her temper when her daughter wouldn’t stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.
“She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this,” she said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.
She peeled back the garment draped carefully over her body. Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars — some old, some still red, raw and weeping. As she spoke, clear liquid oozed from one nasty open wound on her head.
After one attack, “There were maggots coming out of my head, because she had hidden me, and no one had seen me,” Mullah said.
Eventually, a guard found her and took her to a hospital, where she received some treatment.
But when Aline Gadhafi found out about the kind actions of her co-worker, he was threatened with imprisonment, if he dared to help her again.
“When she did all this to me, for three days, she wouldn’t let me sleep,” Mullah said. “I stood outside in the cold, with no food. She would say to staff, ‘If anyone gives her food, I’ll do the same to you.’ I had no water — nothing.”
Her colleague, a man from Bangladesh who didn’t want to give his name, says he was also regularly beaten and slashed with knives. He corroborated Mullah’s account and says the family’s dogs were treated considerably better than the staff.
Mullah was forced to watch as the dogs ate and she was left to go hungry, he said.
It seems to sum up how the workers at the beachside complex were viewed by the Gadhafi family.
“I worked a whole year they didn’t give me one penny,” Mullah said. “Now I want to go to the hospital. I have no money. I have nothing.”
She starts sobbing gently — an utterly pitiful scene.
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CAPTIVES EXECUTED IN LIBYA
Charred bodies, nanny’s scars left behind by fleeing Gadhafis – CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.war/
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Captives executed in Libya video
http://www.casttv.com/ext/j4v6044
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CNN|Added on August 29, 2011
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports on a prisoner of Gadhafi forces who says he escaped a massacre of his fellow captives.
5 comments
zoe
August 30, 2011 at 10:16 am
It’s sad, that limitless power corrupts mind with no laws to control. How one human being can treat another in an inhuman, sadistic way is beyond words. Horrible…. imagine the victim suffering..
Kyaemon
September 7, 2011 at 2:29 am
Libya conflict: Armed Gaddafi loyalists flee to Niger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14799075
A convoy of heavily armed Gaddafi supporters has crossed Libya’s southern desert border into Niger.
The convoy, of at least 50 vehicles, is said to be headed for the capital, Niamey. It is believed to include Tuareg fighters recruited by fugitive Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Niger’s foreign minister said Col Gaddafi is not in the convoy. His spokesman insists he is still in Libya.
The new Libyan authorities say the convoy is carrying gold and cash.
Col Gaddafi has vowed to fight to the death, even though he has lost control of most of the country.
Tuareg ties
Officials from Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said the convoy had set out from the Gaddafi-held town of Jufra on Monday.
It arrived later that day in Agadez – 950km (600 miles) from Niamey.
“Vehicles carrying gold, euros and dollars crossed from Jufra into Niger with the help of Tuaregs from the Niger tribe,” Fathi Baja from the NTC told Reuters.
Another NTC spokesman, Jalal al-Gallal, put the number of vehicles at about 200, and told AFP news agency: “We can’t confirm who was in this convoy.”
The BBC’s Kevin Connolly, in the Libyan capital Tripoli, says there is speculation that the convoy could be carrying members of Col Gaddafi’s entourage, as the desert route is the likeliest way for them to escape troops loyal to the NTC.
Many Tuareg former rebels from Mali and Niger were trained in Libya in the 1970s and 80s.
A number of Col Gaddafi’s aides – including his chief of security, Mansour Daw – have already reached Niamey, according to Niger officials.
They are said to have entered the country in an earlier convoy on Sunday.
The US called on Niger to arrest senior pro-Gaddafi figures entering the country. “We have strongly urged the Nigeran officials to detain those members of the regime who may be subject to prosecution,” state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said.
Meanwhile earlier reports that Burkina Faso, which borders Niger to the south-west, had offered to welcome Col Gaddafi have been denied by the country’s communication minister.
Alain Edouard Traore told the BBC: “Burkina Faso has not offered asylum to Mr Gaddafi. Burkina Faso is not informed of Mr Gaddafi coming to this country.”……..
Kyaemon
September 9, 2011 at 10:05 am
Anti-Qaddafi forces move toward ‘Brother Leader’s’ hometown of Sirte (VIDEO)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/Qaddafi-Watch/2011/0829/Anti-Qaddafi-forces-move-toward-Brother-Leader-s-hometown-of-Sirte-VIDEO
Despite their success in securing Tripoli, Libya’s interim government asked NATO to continuing putting pressure on the remnants of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
“Qaddafi is still capable is doing something awful in the last moments,” National Transitional Council leader Abdul-Jalil told NATO officials at a meeting in Qatar, according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, anti-Qaddafi forces in eastern Libya moved toward Sirte over the weekend, the Monitor reported. With progress from the west as well, fighters appear to be closing in on the Qaddafi stronghold, where some believe the former leader may be hiding. Qaddafi has not been seen for several weeks.
According to Bloomberg, the fighters are waiting for NATO to bomb Scud missile sites on the road to Sirte from the west so that they can continue their advance. Commander Col. Salm Miftah told Bloomberg that the rebels will need about 10 days to capture Sirte if Qaddafi loyalists there remain unwilling to negotiate a surrender.
Kyaemon
September 17, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Gadhafi Loyalists Prolong Endgame
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576574171814879648.html?mod=WSJ_World_LEFTSecondNews
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BANI WALID, Libya—Libya’s revolutionaries struck Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s remaining strongholds on Friday, aiming to consolidate their control ahead of a meeting of the interim governing council to chart a democratic transition.
Advancing units, however, encountered fierce resistance in Bani Walid, a crossroads city two hours southeast of Tripoli, and in the deposed dictator’s coastal hometown of Sirte. Sustaining dozens of casualties, the anti-Gadhafi forces retreated Friday night to the desert outside Bani Walid.
The latest round of fighting erupted after more than a week of attempts by the new interim administration to negotiate a peaceful surrender of the loyalist areas, which also include the southern city of Sebha and large parts of Libya’s southern deserts bordering on Algeria, Niger and Chad.
The push came as the National Transitional Council, Libya’s interim governing authority, prepared to convene on Sunday its first meeting since Col. Gadhafi’s ouster from the capital last month.
The NTC is expected to discuss reshuffling the interim government, possibly giving more representation to western Libyan areas that have only recently shaken off Col. Gadhafi’s rule, its members say.
Kyaemon
September 25, 2011 at 4:27 pm
YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF THE FIGHT IN LIBYA
Rebels fight for Libya’s Ras Lanuf – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=IIjMNJMTbBI
Libyan troops troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi launched counteroffensive attacks against a number of rebel-held towns yesterday as the uprising intensified into open warfare. In Libya’s Ras Lanuf, which is home to an important oil refinery, the fighting has been particularly heavy, rebels there say the town remains in their hands. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland is there and has been talking to the rebels.
Dramatic video of fighting aftermath in Libyan airport – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lXxbceUw8&feature=related
Saudi Arabia Sending Weapons Into Libyan Rebels – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL13Zyt3xP8&feature=related