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Libyan Defence Minister Osama Juili (L) listens on during a meeting with tribal elders in the oasis town of Bani Walid, on January 25, 2012 (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA)
What does the post-Gaddafi era look like? Where will new Libyan leaders come from? And is there any future for the NTC? Is the civil war still unraveling? CrossTalking with Diana Johnstone, Nick Meo and Dirk Vandewalle on January 27.
January, 2012
27 4:00, 6:30, 9:15, 11:30, 15:30, 19:30, 23:30
28 1:30, 3:00
Peter Lavelle
Some points of correction & questions. How did Colonel Gaddafi, as leader of Libya, transform it from one of the least developed countries in the world to among of the most developed with a high income, highly educated society, without state institutions? Colonel Gaddafi did agree to the AU proposal & had a fully functioning army, though not a modern one. It was the NTC that relied on militia & YES if people were being lynched, Police stations invaded & barracks over run, harsh rhetoric from Saif, was absolutely right. Simply because Libya deliberately did not have a Western style government (that has failed all over the continent ) did not make Colonel Gaddafi a dictator. How long has Queen Elizabeth been on the throne? It had a functioning Jamariyya government, which the UN called inclusive, in its Human Development Report published January ’11 & reforms were already under way to further modernise before NATO attack. There were & are Western military personnel in Libya. Well done to your male commentators for supporting racist, ethnic cleansing, ‘revolutionaries’ but then that’s to be expected from the Telegraph!! This was NO revolution but regime change brought about by aggressive imperialist nations. NATO who have no moral right (only the right of brutal force) particularly bearing in mind their bloody history, distant & recent, against other people. Trying to win an argument by half truths & lies, shows the position is flawed & lacking merit.if in the unlikely event, the National Transitional Council had declared itself Marxist, would the West have looked the other way even if Gaddafi had swept through Benghazi, killing everyone in the city?. We simply know that news would have look very different even if the reality was much worse. If the National Transitional Council got ideas above its station and decided not to play ball with the western powers, how long will it be before the news emerged that earlier reports were right and Al Qaeda is infiltrating the country? *These things are predictable. Iraq was not a disaster for the West, things went exactly to plan. A weak government, Shite and Sunni Muslims at each others throats diverting the fight from the invaders/liberators, 14 massive American bases in the heart of the worlds oil patch and a calve up of oil contracts by Western oil majors. What on earth could be better?
Chaos is the best option in Libya for Nato, as it was in Iraq as it will for Syria.