Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 6, Part 8 (Richard III in a bad & dangerous way)

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 6, Part 8 (Richard III in a bad & dangerous way)

"Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!" - Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Third, Act 5, Scene III, Bosworth Field

The world’s 100 largest arms dealers, excluding Chinese vendors, sold weapons for $401 billion in 2009, with US vendors remaining in first place

Today's threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

Threads for previous days are in my journal

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, with the silent complicity of world leaders more concerned about the stability of oil prices than people's lives, Qaddafi has brought in more than 35,000 North African mercenaries specifically from Chad, Nigeria, Guinea and Darfur. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad (Youtube here). Captured mercenaries confessed they were paid between $12,000 - $30,000 each. Today pamphlet ads were found in Nigeria offering them $2000/day for their savage work.

Is Qaddafi the only one paying these mercenaries? Or are EU governments, with their long history of hiring mercenaries, chipping in? I demand to know.

MAP of Protests across the Middle East

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

:hi:

Well, I had a nap. :)

:hi:

libyans_revolt omar
by MushuThaLohari
a call fon from zawia 2 AJ: Libyan army under Mahdi Alarbi " pro protesters" are Preparing to move into Tripoli!! finely our army gona do it
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya - Large army force attempting to suppress revolt in Sebrata, shows #Gaddafi is still able to command some troops outside Tripoli.
4 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

Anything for $2 million I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_nuFFCbruU&NR=1

Please don't ask me how I found this. Ok, I found it from when I was checking a really silly tweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDNbVeS2P8

or do a thesis or something :)

Its like you're super human. What can I say....wow.
Be sure to get rest when you need it.

your effort is invaluable!! still catching up...

...Bagdad Bob found a new job?

LOL! He mentioned that the situation is calming down, yeah that is because the Gaddafi forces have been defeated!

:D

Hitler and Stalin did the same thing...

during his psychokiller 90 minute ramble.

:loveya:

Now back to work, someone crack that whip for me.

12fevrier Ouled Eldzair
John Ivison: Embracing Gaddafi was Canada’s shame | Full Comment | National Post: http://bit.ly/i6G4aN via @addthis
10 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

They paid him to say "ooh! The US invading Iraq has made me renounce terrorism, therefore their invasion of Iraq was a GOOD thing!"

OK, I paraphrased a bit...;-)

In 1999, Johnson made headlines again when it was revealed that he had been hired by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to act as a football coach for his son, Al-Saadi Qadhafi, who aspired to join an Italian football club. Al-Saadi ultimately did join an Italian team but was sacked after one game when he failed a drug test. Johnson's publicist in Canada had predicted in The Globe and Mail that his training of the young Qadhafi would earn Johnson a Nobel Peace Prize.

Shortly after his leaving Libya, it was reported that Johnson had been robbed of $7,300 by a Romany gang in Rome. His wallet was taken, containing $7,300 in cash, the proceeds of his pay for training Qadhafi. Johnson gave chase, but was unable to catch them after they vanished into a subway station.

From Wikipedia, i can't vouch for the secont paragraph but the first one is true. He actually joined several Italian clubs, probably because they were paid to take him. Udinese and Sampdoria are both top level professional clubs in Italy and well-known in Europe. His last contract was with Red Star Belgrade, the fascinst/nationalist club in Belgrade. Arkan recruited a lot of his death squad goons from their ultraviolent fans, and their fans still openly hail Milosevic today.



Swell guy.

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya BBC says Gaddafi is attacking army bases who defected. A warning that the beast is not dead, but desperate tactic that will back fire
5 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Replyon this issue?

A man who has to hire 35,000 mercenaries at $2000/day doesn't have enough support to wage a civil war.

I read he can only count on 5000 of the 45,000 military corps.

thanks again enormously!

I show the first two and last two paragraphs, a whole lot in between

http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad02222011.html

The Bang That Ends Qaddafi's Revolution?
The Libyan Labyrinth

By VIJAY PRASHAD

In 1969, Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi (age 27) surprised the aged King Idris, then in Turkey for medical treatment. Inspired by the Free Officers in Egypt, Qaddafi and his fellow Colonels force-marched the fragile Libyan State and even more fragile Libyan society into socialism. Libya’s main product was its oil, and by the time Idris was deposed the country exported three million barrels of oil per day. Scandalously, it received the lowest rent per barrel in the world. Idris feasted on the rents, and the people suffered immeasurably. It is the reason why there was barely any opposition to Qaddafi’s coup.

Qaddafi’s regime pushed forward a series of radical developments to transform Libyan society. Libya had the misfortune of being a distant outpost of both the Ottoman Empire and the Italian colonial adventures. It wanted for the most basic social development. Over the first decade of the Qaddafi regime, the state took charge of the oil fields and raised their rents. That money was then diverted toward social welfare, mainly an increase in housing and health care. Over the second decade (1978-1988), the regime constrained private enterprise and encouraged workers to take over control of about two hundred firms. Redistribution of land on the Jefara plain west of Tripoli was the rural cognate. The State stepped in to manage all macro-economic functions, at the same time as the Central Bank redistributed wealth by putting a ceiling on bank account holdings.

<snip>

Uprisings in the east combined with the neo-liberal efforts from Tripoli have alienated large sections of the population against the Gaddafi regime. Little of the luster of 1969 remains with the old man. He is a caricature of the aged revolutionary. We are far from the “revolutionary instigator” whose watchword was “the masses take command of their destiny and their wealth.” The game will be up when the military tilts its support (that two Colonels in their Mirages have sought refuge in Malta rather than fire on the crowds in Tripoli is an early indication of one direction, but on the other are those other pilots who did open fire on the crowd). The issue is not yet settled.

The masses have come out. Old rivalries and new grievances are united. Some of them are for reactionary tribal purposes, and others seek liberation from “reforms.” Some cavil that a country of 6 million with such oil wealth does not look like the Emirates, and others simply want to have some more control of their lives. But most want release from the hidden corridors of the Libyan labyrinth.

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, CT His most recent book, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize for 2009. The Swedish and French editions are just out. He can be reached at: vijay.prashad@trincoll.edu

EndTyranny01 End Tyranny
by monasosh
Benghazi youth are running the city...cleaning, directing traffic, people donating food, money & medicine..Amazing scenes of unity #libya
11 minutes ago

the people will prevail!

MilitantNews MilitantNews
by Catherina_Guate
#Libya BBC says Gaddafi is attacking army bases who defected. A warning that the beast is not dead, but desperate tactic that will back fire
7 minutes ago

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Jazeera breaking: @AJArabic Correspondent: Two battleships have arrived in Malta after refusing Gaddafi's orders to shell Benghazi #Libya
4 minutes ago

He doesn't have any suitcase nukes does he? Really I shiver, with all the merc contacts he has, I worry, he has no moral boundaries.

NancyAngela Nancy
@Sabrology account been suspended ad he's experiencing numerous take-over attempts over his FB profile. they are still at it #Egypt #Jan25
20 Feb

so he reregisters

SabrologyIsMad Ahmed Sabry
@waelabbass @alaa @monaeltahawy My twitter account has been suspended for no reason, and i am suspecting the Egyptian gov! i am @sabrology
21 Feb

SabrologyIsMad Ahmed Sabry
. @twitter suspended my account @sabrology for no reason and they are not answering in the help forum or emails for 2 days now! #twitter
21 Feb Favorite Retweet Reply

SabrologyIsMad Ahmed Sabry
.@twitter do not reply to emails and they just suspended @Sabrology for no reason, #FreeSabrology it was suspended due to political reasons
43 minutes ago


And of course, once they figured out he was back, suspended again

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Bel Qasim, the Sec Gen of the People's Commitee: Drivers are scared to take food to Benghazi because the are people on hallucinogens #Libya
32 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

OMG. This would be so comical if not so tragic.

;-)

...tossing their weapons overboard. Unconfirmed...

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Reports of thousands of more #mercenaries arriving all time, now roaming towns firing wildly at everyone possible
42 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

I'd really be interested to know if American mercenaries are involved...:grr:

oil execs.

the UK and Italy here.

Abdulla_AlAthba عبدالله العذبة
by acarvin
TV state speaker: Mercenaries were used to make a mess in #Benghazi by those who claim to be prosesters, not us. #Libya #Gaddafi
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Really? The poor drug-crazed protesters had all that money? Or was it the US/Al-Qaeda Cooperative?

"and now genocide has started".

Ibishblog Hussein Ibish
by blakehounshell
Wow. That's kind of amazing. The UN Security Council has reportedly adjourned without issuing any statement. #epicfail
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Guess there is no problem.

Or, worse yet, guess there are covert operations being planned, to protect the oil.
Get Gaddafi out, put another malleable idiot in place.

Libyayalibya Libyan Kid
by ChangeInLibya
CONFIRMED: #FASHLOOM and #Tajoura are under attack now. #CNN #UN #FREE #LIBYA.
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Defected Interior Minister said to Al Arabiya that he could not accept Gaddafi's orders to open fire on protesters & bomb them #libya #feb17
4 minutes ago

shaistaAziz Shaista Aziz
by acarvin
AJE: Unconfirmed reports guns were being dumped in to the sea from the Libyan navy ship off the coast of Malta #Feb17 #Libya
16 minutes ago

gr33ndata Tarek Amr
by Zeinobia
Peru just suspended its diplomatic relations with Libya until violence against the people stops. #Feb17 v @emiliosalcedot @Dima_Khatib
8 minutes ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x484467

for dial up reasons