Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 4, Part 7 (Gaddafi out tonight or we stop the oil flow)

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 4, Part 7 (Gaddafi out tonight or we stop the oil flow)

Previous threads from today: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6


Occasionally, since the people I follow cover Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan also, if I see something really important about those countries, I'll post it here but I plan to mostly focus on Libya because they're having the hardest time getting the word out and Qaddafi's brutality is more systematic and I believe the scale exceeds the brutality in the other country.

They're also the country with the most propagandists on Twitter.

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, Qaddafi has brought in thousands of mercenaries from Pakistan, Bangladesh and other North African coutries, specifically Chad. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=103697256377254&oid=179449562095105 (Youtube link here) Their confessions are that they've been offered between $12,000 - $30,000 each.


A conservative estimate, based on reports, is that the figure is over 500 already.



MAP of Protests across the Middle East



Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
#Libya caller on Aljazeera: Rumors about Gaddafi's sons fighting might be to set the stage to make Saif Gaddafi appear as a hero #Feb17
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

LibyanDictator The Dictator
From Tripoli on #Aljazeera: everyone is on the streets, we are all celebrating the fall of the regime. Words can't describe. #Libya #Feb17
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


YOU BETTER BE SURE HE'S GONE!

RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh
Guest on AJArabic to presenter -- We have to understand, this is the first time ppl in #Libya are able to take to the streets in 41 years
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Mamoudinijad Mahmoud M. Khattab
by Zeinobia
#Libya has officially broken the RECORD! You guys toppled a president in 5 days! #Feb17
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Not surprised if when they enter #Gadaffi compound in Tripoli find corpses of half the family killed by other half
13 minutes ago

Zeinobia Zeinobia
@
@SultanAlQassemi These are the most craziest two months in the history of the Arab world !!
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

You are AMAZING! :headbang:

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Arabiya: International Criminal Court Member Dr. Hadi Shalouf: 35,000 African mercenaries took part in suppressing protesters
14 minutes ago

35,000?

You Libyans are the bravest people out there!

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Arabiya: Dr. Hadi Shalouf: I agree that Gaddafi's regime may be making up rumours including that he has fled the country.
14 minutes ago

Zeinobia Zeinobia
Some Libyan officer says that Moussa El-Sadr is alive in one of the Libyan jails !!(Via @rallaf)
14 minutes ago



Who?

NihalAbdelAziz NihalAbdelAziz
by Monabdelaziz
All these leaders will be enjoying hell so much, its gonna just like old times, like an Arab League Summit!!
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

:rofl:

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BREAKING: CONFIRMED: rumours have now spread to Tripoli and they are celebrating CONFIRMED #Libya #Feb17
15 minutes ago

ArabVoicesSpeak Samar Dahmash Jarrah
Two supporters of Said El Islam were just killed Al Arabiya #libya
14 minutes ago

Zeinobia Zeinobia
Mohammed Bou Azizi what have you done !!? You did not torch yourself , you lighted the way for over 90 million in Tunisia , Egypt , Libya
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


YES INDEED! RIP Mohammed!

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Venezuelan government sources deny that Gaddafi is on his way to Venezuela. #libya #feb17
15 minutes ago

and the man can't just get to the verb.

"Mistakes were made..." hmmm.

We'll all need new shoes.

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Saif Al Islam: I saw that I had to speak to you. Many Libyans asked me to speak. I don't have a paper or a document to read from.

Saif Al Islam: I will not speak in classical Arabic, I will speak in Libyan, I don't have any papers, this is a talk from the heart & mind

Saif Al Islam: We all know that the region is passing through an earthquake, a hurricane or change

Saif Al Islam: If this change does not come from the govts it will come from the people, we have seen this in other Arab countries

Saif Al Islam: Today I will tell you only truth only. We know that there are opposition figures living abroad who have support in Libya

Saif Al Islam: There people try to use Facebook for a revolution to copy Egypt

Saif Al Islam: These people want to bring Libya to what happened in Egypt & Tunisia. We saw this on facebook and on emails

Saif Al Islam: The country did a pre-emptive move by arresting some people before the protests, shots were fired, people died

Saif Al Islam: The anger was directed at the police in Benghazi. People wanted to storm the police stations, people died, funerals occur

Saif Al Islam: This is a summary of what happened in Bengazi, now there is a major Fitna and a threat to the unity of Libya

Saif Al Islam: Of course there were many deaths, which angered many people in Benghazi, but why were there people killed?

Saif Al Islam: The army was under stress, it is not used to crowd control so they shot, but I called them.

Saif Al Islam: The army said that some protesters were drunk, others were on hallucinogens or drugs

Saif Al Islam : The army has to defend its weapons. And the people were angry. So there were deaths, but in the end Libyans were killed

Saif Al Islam: There are thee parts behind this 1- Political Activists whom we agree with, 2- What happened in Bayda are Islamic elements

Saif Al Islam: Bayda is my town, my mother is from there. People called me. They stole weapons and killed soldiers.

Saif Al Islam: They want to establish an Islamic Emirate in Bayda. Some people took drugs & were used by these protesters.

:rofl:

Thanks for this, Catherina!

Damn and if he doesn't have a script to read, he's spending a lot of time scanning the counter in front of him. On a scale of one to ten for good media presence, he gets a one.

What a LIAR!!!!!

These clowns are the only ones who can do this??

40 years to organize again? ARGHHH!

it may just be the translation but I can't figure out what this guy is trying to say. He reminds me of the crazy guy on the corner raving about, well, I'm not sure exactly what he's raving about.

This is what happens when people are that disconnected from reality. They become a comic parody.

The Dems are in danger of such, too, if they don't collectively pull their heads out.

I needed to turn it off a couple of times. It's far more pleasurable to hear it from Catherina with her editorial. He just seems drugged and confused or dazed and confused. Apparently, despite that, the commentary afterward says that he used all the most effective dog whistles to try to strike fear in the heart of Libyans. I guess, not being Libyan, I didn't catch that in his apparently drug addled commentary that went all over the map.

down unarmed people from a distance.

But he hopes some didn't see it so he can spin it. Unfortunately, Al Jezeera is running like a well oiled machine since Egypt.

Is there anything we can do this time but keep our eyes on it, as we did in Egypt?

Saif Al Islam: They want to establish an Islamic Emirate in Bayda. Some people took drugs & were used by these protesters.

Saif Al Islam: The third part are these children who took the drugs and were used. These are facts like it or not.

Saif Al Islam: We have arrested tens of Arabs and Africans, poor people, millions were spent on them to use them by millionaire businessmen

Saif Al Islam: There are people who want to establish a countries in parts of Libya to rule, Like the Islamic Emirate

Saif Al Islam: One person said he is the Emir of Islamic Emirate of Darna. The Arabic Media is manipulating these events

Saif Al Islam: This Arabic media is owned by Arabs who are distorting the facts but also our media failed to cover the events

Saif Al Islam: Then there are the Baltagiya who destroyed public property, they fled jails Baltagiya = “gangs”

Saif Al Islam: There are our brothers who sit and drink coffee and watch TV and laugh at us when they see us burn our country

Saif Al Islam: It is no lie that the protesters are in control of the streets now.

Saif Al Islam: Libya is not Tunis or Egypt.

Saif Al Islam: Libya is different, if there was disturbance it will split to several states. It was three states before 60 years.




UNBELIEVABLE!

Saif Al Islam: Libya is different, if there was disturbance it will split to several states. It was three states before 60 years.

Saif Al Islam: Libya are Tribes not like Egypt. There are no political parties, it is made of tribes. Everyone knows each other.

Saif Al Islam: We will have a civil war like in 1936. American Oil Companies played a big part in unifying Libya.

Saif Al Islam: Who will manage this oil? How will we divide this oil amongst us? Who will spend on our hospitals?

Saif Al Islam: All this oil will be burnt by the Baltagiya (Thugs) they will burn it. There are no people there.

Saif Al Islam: 3/4s of our people live in the East in Benghazi, there is no oil there, who will spend on them?

Saif Al Islam: Your children will not go to schools or universities. There will be chaos, we will have to leave Libya if we can't share oil

Saif Al Islam: Everyone wants to become a Sheikh and an Emir, we are not Egypt or Tunisia so we are in front of a major challenge

Saif Al Islam: We all now have arms. At this time drunks are driving tanks in central Benghazi

Saif Al Islam: so we all now have weapons. The powers who want to destroy Libya have weapons. There will be a war & no future



Get on a fucking plane already or, better yet, just shoot yourself Saif. Could this pathological jerk be any more condescending and mendacious?

Did they shoot him up with heroin before they threw him on the stage? He is, or his translator is, confused and slightly demented. I'm inclined to believe his translator is fine.

FEAR FEAR FEAR BULLSHIT FEAR BULLSHIT.

(Are you all scared yet?)

comments really spark me. thanks for all this sharing! You are worth your weight in gold... er....oil. ^_^

This was the 'reasonable' one out of seven sons, and one daughter. He has lots of friends in the west. The western powers could not resist all the money to be made in Libya, the building the oil.

Propping up dictatorships. It's time to stop it.

Come back later, cutie.

for you to do that "adult work."

If you had the time to type your response, you had the time to type something supportive...

just sayin'

and clearly failed. I was also doing a protracted kick since I can only recommend a thread once.

Saif Al Islam: so we all now have weapons. The powers who want to destroy Libya have weapons. There will be a war & no future

Saif Al Islam: All the firms will leave, we have 500 housing units being built, they won't be completed. Remember my words.

500 housing units? Really? How generous of you thugs Saif!

Saif Al Islam: 200 billion dollars of projects are now underway, they won't be finished.

Saif Al Islam: You can say we want democracy & rights, we can talk about it, we should have talked about it before. It's this or war

Get a clue you desperate war criminal, it was war and you lost

Saif Al Islam: Instead of crying over 200 deaths we will cry over 100,000s of deaths. You will all leave Libya, there will be nothing here

Saif Al Islam: There will be no bread in Libya.

Saif Al Islam: Before we let weapons come between us, from tomorrow, in 48 hours, we will call or a new conference for new laws

Saif Al Islam: We will call for new media laws, civil rights, lift the stupid punishments, we will have a constitution.

Libya has NO constitution.

Saif Al Islam: Even the LEader Gaddafi said he wants a constitution. We can even have autonomous rule, with limited central govt powers

Saif Al Islam: Brothers there are 200 billion dollars of projects at stake now

:rofl: Did the EU and BP write your speech?

Saif Al Islam: We will agree to all these issues immediately. We will then be able to keep our country, unlike our neighbours

Saif Al Islam: We will do that without the problems of Egypt & Tunisia who are now suffering. There is no tourism there

Saif Al Islam: We will have a new Libya, new flag, new anthem. Or else, be ready to start a civil war and chaos and forget oil and petrol

You gonna try to pull a Ben Ali and pack up the oil in 97 Louis Vuitton bags and fly it out?

Saif Al Islam: What is happening in Bayda and Benghazi is very sad. How do you who live in Benghazi, will you visit Tripoli with a visa?

Saif Al Islam: The country will be divided like North and South Korea we will see each other through a fence

Saif Al Islam: You will wait in line for months for a visa

Saif Al Islam: If we don't do the first scenario be ready for the second scenario

Saif Al Islam: The British FM called me. Be ready for a new colonial period from American and Britain

Oh good lord, just cut to the chase and tell them no ponies for naughty children!

Saif Al Islam: You think they will accept an Islamic Emirate here, 30 minutes from Crete? The West will come and occupy you.

Saif Al Islam: Europe & the West will not agree to chaos in Libya, to export chaos and drugs so they will occupy us

drugs Saif? :rofl:

Saif Al Islam: In any case, I have spoken to you, we uncovered cells from Egypt and Tunisia and Arabs

OMG. Will he keep talking forever?

Blah blah blah...

Love your commentary. :thumbsup:

I'm telling you, it's so incoherent, I'm left, well, confused. Almost as confused as he seems.

:applause:

He says the unity of the country, possible civil war, possible 'imperialist intervention' is at stake.

Without saying it, he does seem to acknowledge his father's fallen.

Saif Al Islam: In any case, I have spoken to you, we uncovered cells from Egypt and Tunisia and Arabs

C'mon, hurry up and get to the Al Qaeda part. Mention Bin Laden for old time's sake

Saif Al Islam: The Libyans who live in Europe and USA, their children go to school and they want you to fight. They are comfortable.

Saif Al Islam: They then want to come and rule us and Libya. They want us to kill each other then come, like in Iraq

Saif Al Islam: The Tunisians and Egyptians who are here also have weapons, they want to divide Libya and take over the country

Saif Al Islam: We are in front of two choices, we can reform now, this is an historic moment, without it there will be nothing for decades

Saif Al Islam: You will see worse than Yugoslavia if we don't choose the first option.

:rofl:

Saif Al Islam: Gaddafi is not Mubarak or Ben Ali, a classical ruler, he is a leader of a people. 10,000s of Libyans are coming to defend him

Really, those African mercenaries were Libyans who came to defend him?

Saif Al Islam: Over coastline Libyans are coming to support Gaddafi. The army is also there, it will play a big part whatever the cost

Saif Al Islam: The army will play a big role, it is not the army of Tunisia or Egypt. It will support Gaddafi to the last minute

Oh, guess the honey approach didn't work. Now you're gonna try vinegar?

Saif Al Islam: Now in the Green Square people shoot so that they show the world that the army is shooting. We must be awake

Saif Al Islam: Now comes the role of the National Guard and the Army, we will not lose one inch of this land.

Saif Al Islam: 60 years ago they defended Libya from the colonialists, now they will defend it from drug addicts.

drug addicts? You call those martyrs and brave youths drug addicts?! Saif, did you dip into your dad's pharmaceuticals?

Saif Al Islam: Most of he Libyans are intelligent, they are not Baltagiya (thugs)

Saif Al Islam: Benghazi is a million and a half not the few thousands who are in the streets

Saif Al Islam: We will flight to the last man and woman and bullet. We will not lose Libya

Saif Al Islam: We will not let Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and BBC trick us and laugh at us

Saif Al Islam: We will live in Libya and die in Libya. (Ends)


Can we get a recommendation from the Charm School these guys went to?

Odarhobi Othman Darhobi
#Feb17 #Benghazi #Tripoli we have to guard our oil wells, refinery there could be plans for sabotage
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya The only question left is when and how to storm the compound, are reinforcements needed+can those forces said 2 b with Rev b trusted
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BREAKING: Tripoli area Saha Al Khadra is now under attack by snipers. Confirmed report #feb17 #libya #gaddaficrimes
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
Awesome. I love Arab shoes! Reaction of Libyans in Derna http://ow.ly/402gY #Saifspeech #Libya #Feb17
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Mubarak's last speech ~

Love the shoes ~

Odarhobi Othman Darhobi
#tripoli #Libya Saif declars war on Libyans.Turns genuine Libyan revolution to the revolution of addicts Be prepaired guard country's assets
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

ahmednaguib Ahmed Naguib
by Zeinobia
I want from whatever the Qaddafis smoke. #Libya العيلة دي جامدة آخر حاجة.
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

embee Embee
RT @TheAliNasser: Someone call MTV... I think we just found their new reality TV show: The Qaddafis - The Osbournes ain't got shit on us!
3 minutes ago

LibyanDictator The Dictator
Heavy gunfire in #Tripoli RIGHT NOW. Heavy artillery also being used. #Libya #feb17
1 minute ago

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
while this speech is going on, there is sniper fire right now in #Tripoli we need to spread this to help our brothers and sisters in #Libya
6 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

There are snipers right now firing in the heart of tripoli please spread #Libya #Feb17 I will speak to BBC shortly, tune in,
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BREAKING: Tripoli area Saha Al Khadra is now under attack by snipers. Confirmed report #feb17 #libya #gaddaficrimes
8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

MilitantNews MilitantNews
Q now is can ppl in Tripoli take Gadaffi's compound alone or will armed reinforcements be needed? @libyanfsl @ChangeInLibya @ShababLibya
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

hishamjmatar Hisham Matar
by Zeinobia
Libyan ambassador to India announced his resignation after Saif's terrible speech. #libya
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

EndTyranny01 End Tyranny
by Zeinobia
CONFIRMED: #Saif #Gaddafi's speech was pre-recoded, before tripoli fell to the protesters, approx 5pm local time.
8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply