Reply #29: The regimes confronted were very different in nature [View All]

Mubarak had what I understood to be a smaller family surrounding him for example. I have heard only of the jetsetting son, fond of money, etc.

Whereas the Gadaffi klan is enormous to begin with and very crazy and xenophobic compared to the Mubarak clan and operated with the mentality of the terrorist outsider until recent get out of terrorist jail cards were issued by US and Europe to those nuts in about 2004. Egypt has been a legit player (Arab League leader, most populous Arab nation) on the world stage for ages. As stated upthread, the relationships with the US military industrial complex has been there for one and not the other. The entire psychology of Gadaffi's regime is xenophobic, volatile and violent.

He has 7 sons out of 8 kids. The two oldest are pieces of work, with Saif el Islam being the one the world has seen front and center being interviewed and lying on behalf of da's regime. He has his PhD from LSE and is listed as an architect. Was the modern, intellectual, progressive face of this family of vampires. His one older brother is head of the Libyan Olympic Committee. The other brothers are the head of the Libyan Football Federation, nother was a lieutenant colonel in the Libyan army and is now head of Libyan State Security, and young Hannibal has a party animal bad boy reputation around Europe, causing stress to such a degree against Switzerland, well, let me just cut and paste this puppy:


"...The fifth eldest, Hannibal Muammar al-Gaddafi, once worked for General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specializes in Libyan oil exports. He is most notable for being involved in a series of violent incidents throughout Europe. In 2001, Hannibal attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher; in September 2004, he was briefly detained in Paris after driving a Porsche at 140 kilometres per hour (90 mph) in the wrong direction and through red lights down the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated; and in 2005, Hannibal in Paris allegedly beat model and then-girlfriend Aline Skaf, who later filed an assault suit against him.<158> He was fined and given a four month suspended prison sentence after this incident. In December 2009 police were called to Claridge's hotel in London after staff heard a scream from Hannibal's room. Aline Skaf, now his wife, was found to have suffered facial injuries including a broken nose, but charges were not pressed after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall.<159> On 15 July 2008, Hannibal and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July. The government of Libya subsequently put a boycott on Swiss imports, reduced flights between Libya and Switzerland, stopped issuing visas to Swiss citizens, recalled diplomats from Bern, and forced all Swiss companies such as ABB and Nestlé to close offices. General National Maritime Transport Company, which owns a large refinery in Switzerland, also halted oil shipments to Switzerland.<160> Two Swiss businessmen who were in Libya at the time have, ever since, been denied permission to leave the country, and even held hostage for some time.<161> (see Switzerland-Libya conflict). At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Gaddafi called Switzerland a "world mafia" and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.<162>
Gaddafi's two youngest sons are Saif Al Arab (his name means "the sword of the Arabs") and Khamis. Khamis is a police officer in Libya.."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

As you can see, they are drenched in oil money and are rogues in even the Arab world. The boss man has accused everyone of being responsible for what foreign provocateurs say is happening but isn't, Al Qaida, the Beards (radical fundy Muslim clerics), USA, Egypt, let's see did I leave anyone out? Oh, yeah drugged up youths being duped by his undefined enemies in Africa. This is a much less sophisticated, much more violent, primitive family than Mubarak's.

I think that is a big difference. This is just a much more brutal regime. I know how can anyone say that after what the protestors that stormed state security torture headquarters in Cairo and Alexandria yesterday saw and confiscated?

Amazing times just now.


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