Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 1

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 1

Previous Day 8 threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x502125">Part 11

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

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.

AngryArabNews The Angry Arab
France and Qadhdhafi: ""Depuis des dizaines d'années, le colonel Muammar Kadhafi est un excellent client des in... http://bit.ly/gAz3e0
17 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

France and Qadhdhafi
""Depuis des dizaines d'années, le colonel Muammar Kadhafi est un excellent client des industries françaises d'armement. Après son arrivée au pouvoir, le 1er septembre 1969, à la suite du putsch qu'il avait dirigé contre le roi Idris Ier, Kadhafi n'attend que quelques mois pour acheter à Dassault 82 Mirage 5, en réalité un Mirage III modifié pour pouvoir conduire des attaques au sol. En juin 1973, les choses se détériorent un peu, puisque Kadhafi envahit la bande d'Aouzou, en territoire tchadien. Mais il ne faut pas six mois pour que la France et la Libye trouvent un terrain de réconciliation, sous la forme d'une vente de 32 intercepteurs Mirage F1-C."" (thanks Lama)
Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 7:43 AM

France and Qadhdhafi
"For decades, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been an excellent customer for the French armaments. After taking office on 1 September 1969, following the coup he led against King Idris I, Gaddafi waited a few months to buy 82 Dassault Mirage 5's which are actually Mirage IIIs modified to conduct ground attacks. In June 1973, things deteriorated a bit after Qadhafi invaded the Aouzou Strip in Chad. It took less than six months for France and Libya to find grounds for reconciliation in the form of a sale of 32 Mirage F1-C interceptors. "
Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 7:43 AM

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
@
@ericdimzon My estimate is 4000-5000 killed so far since the start of the revolution
5 hours ago

Tripolitanian Libyan
by iyad_elbaghdadi
#Gaddafi compares himself to Queen of England who has ruled for 57 years. Twitter response = http://twitpic.com/439408
5 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Here's how #Gaddafi's last televised speech ended, notice the building: http://j.mp/hKFbeX #Feb17 #Libya
5 hours ago

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=200206659992479

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Photo album from liberated eastern #Libya as it returns to normalcy: http://j.mp/fXJQA3 #Feb17
2 hours ago


Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26069&id=127675500637887

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Testimony of a British doctor who just flew out of Tripoli: http://j.mp/ib08Da #Feb17 #Libya
2 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
BREAKING: Eyewitness account from doctor in Libya - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2410
5 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Emotional prayer for #Libya from a Tunisian mosque, tears & prayers: http://j.mp/gKFbkx #Feb17
2 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Special Request: Watch and Say Ameen
Posted on February 24, 2011 by v1d

“And there is no victory/aid except from God.” (ch3/v126)
Prayer from Tunisia for our brothers and sisters in Libya.
Video: http://feb17.info/videos/special-request-watch-and-say-ameen/

Just one thing to add- "Amen".

People from all over Libya are said to be planning to join it and hoping for one million people. I would be very afraid of what he might do should that many people arrive in Tripoli while he still has control of the city and the weapons.

They are so brave ~ I hope no more people die before this over!

me with a good feeling. Not after his mercs and Kaseem troops were caught with gas masks.

They're brave indeed. I posted that prayer on my FB page. I hope many people, those who pray, will pray for them too.

That is very scary. Praying for them all. I wish there was some other way to dislodge him. I hope someone can reason with him as apparently they were able to do with Mubarak in the end. Even if he plans to die, he should consider his children, the ones who are not involved, and his grandchildren. They will be pariahs sadly, if he commits genocide on his own people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCr399k18Q&feature=player_embedded


It was Kasseem's troops that were caught with them, not mercs. Video of very angry people showing the world the gas masks above.

I was able to retrieve it from my Facebook page.

His sons should have left, if they could not stop him. Now they will be tried for war crimes. There is no more partying on the Riviera for them. It's amazing how fast it all happened, from Tunisia to Egypt, now this.

People are saying that on Friday Gaddhafi will fall as both Ben Ali and Mubarak fell on Friday.

I hope so.

My comment to this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4sp-8Z0Qu4

Catherina_Guate Catherina
@
@ShababLibya Excellent full length fur coat...the nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrvvvvvve. cheery smile, lip gloss, lovely party dress say it all.

I like this comment under the video on Utube:

Dead louis vuitton-girl walking!

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Friday morning's version of the #Libya map; shows Zantan, Zlitan, Kufa/Aljouf, and Ras Lanuf. http://yfrog.com/gzhb18j
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply



OP Updated

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Jazeera Mubasher now carrying live Friday sermon by Al Qaradawi from Qatar #Libya
1 hour ago

Will post it in parts in next few posts

live Friday sermon by Al Qaradawi from Qatar just now:

Al Qaradawi: Some people don't realise when someone has died, as was the case with King Solomon (after termites ate his stick).

The People have now realised that they can tell their leaders "No" & "Why?". Now the people have been awakened.

It all started with the young man Mohammed Bouazizi, & ignited the spark of the Tunisian revolution that moved elsewhere

Egypt's Foreign Minister was asked about the revolution he said "This is silly. Egypt is not Tunisia. This won't happen here"

Now, the so called Saif Al Islam says the same. "#Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt" & yet we see the tribes turn against them.

Even their very own has turned against them, Gaddaf El Dem has sold Gaddafi, it was his right, & his duty to do so.

I tell his officers & Abdul Rahman Shalgham (envoy to UN) that Libya is greater than Gaddafi, advise Gaddafi of the truth. (to his circle) Tell Gaddafi that the people no longer want him, tell him to leave, leave the country for the people.

Whoever heard Gaddafi's unstable address in which he accused his people of taking hallucinogens 13 times

They say it is actually him & his family who take hallucinogens. He called the revolutionaries "rats & rodents"

((Sorry this is funny. I can't type so fast ))

He's unstable. "Even the name of his country is weird. He calls it the Greater Jamahiriya something something"

#Libya fasts before the Islamic world & stops fasting after it. I asked them what's the deal, they told me we have no power.

This man is weird. He wanted to edit the Quran so it addresses people instead of the Prophet Mohammed.

The people of #Libya have been burdened by this man who has himself been burdened by delusions of grandeur.

In one single day on June 29th 1996 he killed 1,200 prisoners, how can you do that, even if they were indicted.

This man is a liar, some people lie so much that they believe their own lies.

#Libya has a small population, it should have been a heaven, look at Doha & Dubai & Abu Dhabi & Sharjah (yay) & Kuwait.

The oil is taken by Gaddafi, there is no budget review, it all goes to Gaddafi.

Husni Mubarak is poor compared to Gaddafi, he only had 40 to 70 Bilion dollars, Gaddafi has 120 billion dollars.

((I have never seen people laugh in a mosque. What a pleasant sight))

This is how his sons can spend as they wish, buy what they want. But the Libyans have now said "NO"

He calls his people rodents! He is the rodent. He calls himself a fight, are these the virtues of a fighter? Mercenaries?!

He takes the Libyan people's money & pays it to mercenaries to come attack them, form their own money.

They come & attack women, women in their own homes! Are these the virtues of a fighter, of an Arab, of anybody!

Women screaming from their balconies "You dogs, leave!" Is this a man!? Forcing himself on people, people who hate him.

I have issued a Fatwa, this man should be killed. He has massacred people, & to stop him from burning everything.

He said "I will fight to my last bullet" He used napalm against the Green Mountain, he will use chemicals weapons again.

That is why we must sacrifice this man to save the entire country. Who can come close to him, kill him, I am responsible.

I don't think the people around him can hear me, or understand, they don't understand history.

Some asked me, "You must be careful, you issued a Fatwa, he may kill you, be careful" I will not change, I travel alone.

He is weak & I'm strong. He worships the chair. He will die for power, he is the weakest man I have ever seen in my life.

Gaddafi has fallen. He is finished. He wrote his own end. They said he killed 2,000, he deserves to be killed for one.

Gaddafi has left to the rubbish bin of history. History will sweep him to its rubbish bin like other despots.

I promise you, like I promised your brethren in Egypt when Mubarak spoke, from here I promise that he will leave.

I promise you that the revolution of February 17th will prevail. The people of #Libya has changed from the inside.

I believe in this victory because I believe in God.

Abu Darda'a said "Beware the tears of an orphan & the prayers of those who have been wronged". They will haunt Gaddafi.

Gaddafi, you will be gone & those with you too. I advise those around you to advise you one last time then desert you.

We are expecting good news from Libya. I can almost see the victory with my eyes now.

I advise my brothers in Libta to allow these mercenaries to leave, they are poor, give them the security to leave.

Talk to the State Security people, they are Libyans, they may listen & change.


http://twitter.com/#!/SultanAlQassemi

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
Demonstrators take government building in Dahra, Tripoli - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2418
3 minutes ago


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7d71tJkwE&feature=player_embedded

Translation:

“Boys, boys, this is the flag of the country”

“Down down with Gaddafi”

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
don't matter if you're #shia or #sunni in #Iraq - what matters is a corrupt government filling its pockets & denying services to its people
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Jazeera: Anti-Gaddafi revolutionaries take over the Libyan Embassy in Paris. #Libya
15 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

AliTweel Ali Tweel
we need journalists and cnn everywhere in tripoli so progaddafi do not shoot us!
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Umm_Issa Natalya
AJE: the streets of Baghdad are full of security forces but a steady stream of protesters are headed to Tahrir Sq #Iraq #Feb25
2 hours ago


US diplomats, State Dept, Washington DC, can we talk here? They don't look too happy with your idea of freedom and democracy over there.

That's Baghdad, not Tehran. No wonder you're practically mute, struck dumb. Call me PJ, we need to chat.

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Government forces fire live rounds in "effort to disperse protesters" in #baghdad #iraq #feb25
1 minute ago

TimeInLibya Time In Libya
#Libya The current time in Tripoli is 12:30 PM on Friday, 25 February 2011
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

martinchulov Martin Chulov
In Benghazi friday prayers about to start. Demonstrations to follow #libya#feb17.
22 minutes ago

martinchulov Martin Chulov
Meanwhile in Tripoli, things are getting ugly. Seems like Ghaddafi's last stand. #feb17 #libya
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
#iraq protesters marching toward Green Zone in #Baghdad #feb25
6 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

No dicator is safe anymore.

A chant: "If it's a disease, we're the cure." :rofl:

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
On the phone with family in #mosul: "Hungry, impoverished Iraqis are taking to the streets - a revolution of the hungry." #feb25 #iraq
55 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
From #Mosul: "It is the same all over #Iraq - if this blows up it will be a revolution against the corrupt who are embezzling billions".
9 minutes ago

AlanFisher Alan Fisher
#Libya's food supply chain is "at risk of collapsing", the UN's World Food Programme warns
1 minute ago

ayaelb Aya el Batrawy
#Iraq: Governor of Basra resigns hours after thousands protests for his removal! Nine killed in Mosul and Kirkuk by police in protests
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Big day for protests today in #Egypt, #Yemen, #Bahrain -- and of course, #Libya. History on steroids!
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

ayaelb Aya el Batrawy
Solidarity with #Iraq. Police allow thugs to attack protesters. Horrific details here. Share widely. By @hrwnews : http://bit.ly/hJaXVh
6 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

huge magnitude, they were so much better off under Saddam Hussein.

I don't know why HRW thinks that the Iraq police could be any other way. WE trained them. And Manning reported their crimes of torture, and was ignored.

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Skynews: UK "Paid (Libyan) Officials To Evacuate Brits" http://bit.ly/hVSoHc #Libya "substantial payments were made to Gaddafi's regime"
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

is not worth what they did to the people of Libya. And now instead of making money, they are spending it to save their lives.

I hope they all get out safely, and I hope this teaches them that you cannot profit from a country and ignore the suffereing of the people without some day seeing the consequences of that. I don't think much of those who have been there, facilitating the Regime, however, I'm glad they are safe.

Funny, and I thought we don't negotiate with terrorists!! But they are the ones who tried to erase his past, it's all very sadly ironic in a way.

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
RT @AJELive Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has told CNN-Turk that his family intends to "live and die in Libya". #Feb17 http://aje.me/gRZhyE
10 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

I'm grateful to have your permission. In Libya you shall die then.

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
Civilian & army troops praying side by side on a military vehicle in #Tahrir #Egypt #jan25
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

If this pic is too large, size wise, Pls tell me and I'll edit to remove. Note to Elad, can DU3 have an image resizer?

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
This is Tahrir right now: #Jan25 #Egypt
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

they know their revolution accomplshed its goals.

Their demands were very socialist. Demanded an end to privatization, immediate redistribution of wealth to address homelessness, poverty etc... The media, especially in the West, glossed right over that thinking they'd be satisfied with a few cosmetic changes.

Time to start a new thread. This one has too many pictures for dial-up readers.

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
#Libyans, if you could only see #Tahrir in #Egypt now. Anti-Gaddafi chants, #Libya n flags. يا قذافي غور غور خلي ليبيا تشوف النور #Feb17
8 minutes ago

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
All these are chanting in unison "batil, batil!" "illegitimate, illegitimate" #Jan25 #Egypt #Tahrir
9 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
#Libya, #Egypt, #Iraq, #Morocco, #Yemen, #Bahrain all currently protesting. Pinch me, am I dreaming? This the mother of all Intifadas!
19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

about was 'sanctions' and kicking Libya out of the UN :-)

Lol, we'd need lots of coffee, up all night talking, probably for days! :-)

Who knows, I have met other online friends and was never disappointed ~

:hi: