Libya protests: Gaddafi says Bin Laden to blame (in phone interview to state TV)

[maddezmom]

Source: BBC

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told state TV that Osama Bin Laden and his followers are to blame for the protests wracking his country.

In a phone call from the town of al-Zawiya played live on TV, Col Gaddafi said young people were being duped with drugs and alcohol to take part in "destruction and sabotage".

Col Gaddafi is battling to shore up control of Tripoli and western areas.

Protesters have been consolidating gains in cities in the east.

'This is your country'

The telephone call was said to be an address to the people of al-Zawiya, 50km (30 miles) west of the capital, where there has been renewed gunfire reported in the streets.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12570279

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Libya calls western journalists 'al-Qaida collaborators'

Journalists from the BBC, CNN and other international media in Libya are being considered "al-Qaida collaborators" by the country's government, the US state department said on Thursday.


Senior Libyan officials said journalists who had entered the country "illegally" would be considered terrorist sympathisers and "risked immediate arrest".


Reporters from the Guardian and ITV News are among dozens of journalists to have entered Libya for the first time in four decades yesterday. Most journalists have entered the embattled country through its eastern border with Egypt, which is reportedly "liberated" from Muammar Gaddafi's regime.


Libya has allowed some members of CNN, BBC Arabic and al-Arabiya to remain in the country, despite a longstanding ban on international media.

more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/24/libya-journalists-al-qaida

[Renew Deal]

1. I don't get the Al Queda talk.

Is it meant to scare americans? I'm sure Libyans know it's BS.

[NOLALady]

2. Maybe he's hoping that we will bomb his people

while searching for Al Quiada.

[Poll_Blind]

11. Could be a dog-whistle for Saudi help by framing his narrative as theirs

After all, during the height of the Egypt thing, it was widely reported that Obama had gotten into an argument with the king of Saudi Arabia and the king had threatened to bankroll Mubarak himself.

PB

[groundloop]

3. I'd have expected Gaddafi to rail against the west rather than al-Qaida

[RZM]

4. That well is pretty much dry, I think

A lot of these protesters across the region are advocating Western-style governments.

[David__77]

12. Gaddafi is more pro-Western than the opposition.

Make no mistake, the movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have had liberal face, but the real muscle of it all is far different. The urban middle class intellectuals will be swept to the side with comparative ease, just as happened in Iran so long ago. They haven't the support and connection with the masses of people to actually wield power.

[JI7]

13. Bin LAden is a religious fundie, i think he is trying to scare his people into thinking fundies

will take over.

[Alamuti Lotus]

16. Why? Italy & England sold him those nifty guns and choppers his militia uses

the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group is the most organized and armed opposition group in the country, and oh yes are also the Libyan arm of al-Qai'dah in the Islamic Maghreb. While his communiques are becoming decidedly more unstable, street-thuggish and frankly moronic, claims like this are not remotely baseless.

[L0oniX]

5. Bwahahahah ...hey ...what's good for US propaganda is good for him too.

[VWolf]

6. Is this the same Bin Laden

who was on dialysis TEN years ago while living in a cave?

Yeah ok, sure, he's still alive.
:sarcasm:

[jimnasium]

9. Noooo... not HIM!

He's actually talking about Freddie bin Laden - real distant cousin that runs the Jiffy Lube down the street from him...

That guy's always playing that damn country music too loud!

[florida08]

7. 112 ways to spell Gaddafi

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/09/how-many-different-ways-can-you-spell-gaddafi.html

[Throd]

18. Didn't Paul Simon record that back in the 70's?

[jimnasium]

8. Here's some advice, Mo...

Dump the African tribal garb and put that bad-ass Colonel costume back on.

If you can still fit in it.

[RedCloud]

10. Proof positive all the arabs are united! LOL

[Alamuti Lotus]

14. Islamic Emirate of Libya proclaimed

Islamic Emirate of Libya proclaimed

Western and Russian media reported that the Islamic Emirate of Libya had been proclaimed in the north-eastern Libyan city of Derna.

AFP reported good tidings with reference to the head of the apostate Libyan "ministry of foreign affairs" Khaled Khaim.

The leader of the Emirate is Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, a former prisoner at the American concentration camp Guantanamo Bay.

Khaled Khaim also claimed at a meeting with envoys of the EU in Tripoli that al-Hasadi, the Emir of the Islamic Emirate of Libya, is a member of al-Qaeda.

According to an opinion of a deputy minister of the apostate Libyan "ministry of foreign affairs", al-Qaeda is counting that events in Lybia unroll in accordance with "the Afghan scenario".

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/02/23/13640.shtml


Al-Qaeda in N. Africa backs Libya uprising: SITE

NICOSIA — Al-Qaeda's branch in North Africa has vowed to do everything in its power to help an uprising against Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi, according to a statement posted Thursday by the SITE monitoring group.

"(We) will do whatever we can to help you, with power from Allah, because your fight is the fight of every Muslim who loves Allah and His Messenger," the statement from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said, according to SITE.

In the US monitoring group's English translation, the statement made no mention of a claim by Libya's deputy foreign minister that Al-Qaeda had set up an Islamic "emirate" in Derna, eastern Libya.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g02pPJW_vcHAqLeRkmvXUTyMC4EQ?docId=CNG.8a77d66bccd3cd18428e099055089ce0.1f1

[Throd]

15. As Spongebob Squarepants would say: "Well, good luck with that"!

I don't see the Libyans wanting to trade 42 years of despotic rule with another version of authoritarianism.

[The abyss]

17. LOL - gota love it!

The last I heard "Bin-dead-for-some-time" was last seen selling vacuum cleaners door to door in Pakistain........ reported by wikileaks?........ or some such reliable source - perhaps?


People need to quickly grow some critical thinking skills.



- the world she is a changing!