Qaddafi Threatens to ‘Get Crazy’

[Amby 490]

As the United Nations voted last night to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, a totally sane Muammar Qaddafi sat down with a Portuguese TV news channel. He had some interesting things to say:

"If the world gets crazy with us, we will get crazy too. We will respond. We will make their lives hell because they are making our lives hell. They will never have peace."

He also said that he's prepared to shoot down passenger planes and sink ships in the Mediterranean. Then he warned "traitors" in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi that he's coming for them in their closets. Watch out — Qaddafi's about to suddenly become crazy!

http://gawker.com/#!5783258/qaddafi-threatens-to-get-crazy

[Samoray 165]

[Peikko 1,575]

Such words are only funny when voiced by someone not in a position to carry them out.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

He also said that he's prepared to shoot down passenger planes and sink ships in the Mediterranean.

Surprise, surprise.

[Ban Hammer 13,485]

Then he warned "traitors" in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi that he's coming for them in their closets.

is he suggesting the rebels are gay?

[Teacher Mark 53]

Edited March 18, 2011 by Teacher Mark

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Libya declares ceasefire after West threatens attack

TRIPOLI/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces.

"We decided on an immediate ceasefire and on an immediate stop to all military operations," Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa told reporters in Tripoli on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing military action.

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Libya declares ceasefire after West threatens attack

TRIPOLI/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces.

"We decided on an immediate ceasefire and on an immediate stop to all military operations," Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa told reporters in Tripoli on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing military action.

And you believe that? :rofl:

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Libya Renews Attacks After Cease-Fire Offer

Libya's foreign minister Friday said the country will abide by the United Nations Security Council resolution calling for military action against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces and will implement an immediate cease-fire, though reports of renewed assaults against rebel-held towns suggest the fighting continues.

"My country will try to deal with this resolution," Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa told reporters in Tripoli as he read from a prepared statement.

"According to article 25 of the [u.N.] charter and considering that Libya is a member of the U.N., then it is bound to accept the Security Council resolution and has decided an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of all military operations."

Mr. Koussa said the government was also willing to enter "dialogue" with all parties without offering more details or indicating whether this would include rebels and opposition figures now fighting the regime and calling for its overthrow.

The statement given by Mr. Koussa, a hardliner who is part of Col. Gadhafi's inner circle, marks a dramatic shift in the regime's tone after days of warnings that it will crush all its internal and external enemies.

But it remains unclear to what extent Col. Gadhafi's regime will abide by the ceasefire on the ground given that most areas are off-limit to journalists and even U.N. humanitarian teams who have visited the country over the past week.

Earlier, several residents affiliated with the rebels in Misrata, about 130 miles east of Tripoli, said Col. Gadhafi's forces renewed their assault on Friday morning using heavy artillery.

They said government forces stationed on the outskirts made several incursions into the city center starting at about 8 a.m. local time prompting clashes with rebels.

"It's now street battles inside the city," said one man with the rebel movement. He said pro-government snipers were stationed on rooftops on Tripoli Street on the city's western fringes.

News of the assault on Misrata came as the international community addresses the next steps following the U.N. resolution.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the U.S. must see "action on the ground," not just words from Libya on the cease-fire

"We are going to be not responsive or impressed by words," Mrs. Clinton said at the U.S. State Department. "We would have to see actions on the ground, and that is not yet at all clear."

Mr. Koussa refused to take questions from reporters about fresh fighting in Misrata and reports that pro-Gadhafi forces there were preventing ambulances from evacuating casualties.

A doctor at the city's complex of clinics which has been turned into a field hospital said there were at least 12 fatalities from Friday's violence including four government soldiers.

Earlier Friday, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain has begun to deploy aircraft to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya, and Qatar announced it would join the mission, becoming the first Arab nation to participate.

The doctor said that another man who was severely wounded in another incident in Al-Karzaz on Thursday could only be reached nine hours after he was hit and that he had to be carried on foot for about a mile in the direction of the hospital.

The U.K., which along with France pushed aggressively for U.N. action, said it will deploy Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets as well as refueling and surveillance aircraft, and told Parliament there was a "clear and unequivocal legal basis for the deployment of U.K. forces and military assets."

Qatar, the wealthy Gulf nation that is home to the Al Jazeera Arab news network and has been seen as an robust champion of international intervention to stop bloodshed in Libya, didn't specify what role it would take in the military operations, in a statement published by the official Qatar News Agency early Friday.

"Qatar decided to take part in the international efforts aimed at stopping the bloodshed and protecting civilians in Libya," the statement said.

Diplomats involved in the drafting of the U.N. Security Council resolution have said that they expected Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and perhaps Saudi Arabia and Jordan to all take part in enforcing the no-fly zone.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization decided Friday that conditions had been met for its involvement in military action against Libya, and said it would continue planning to this end.

However, diplomats said the alliance had taken no formal decision to get involved, though a number of NATO countries, including France, Spain and Britain, have said they would. Meetings by the alliance's decision making body—the North Atlantic Council, which comprises ambassadors to NATO of the alliance's 28 member governments--would likely continue into the weekend.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO " is now completing planning in order to be ready to take appropriate action."

In a response to the U.N. action, Libya closed its airspace to all traffic, according to a statement from Europe's air traffic control agency reported by the Associated Press.

Mr. Koussa said his government was dismayed by the fact that the resolution authorized the use of military force against his country and called for the implementation of a no-fly zone that also covered commercial flights.

European and U.S. officials said military operations could begin quickly, as fear increased that Col. Gadhafi could move aggressively to retake Benghazi.

Developments in Libya Friday suggest Col. Gadhafi's forces are still launching attacks.

The doctor in Misrata said government forces were shooting randomly at civilians and preventing ambulance crews from operating.

He said a four-year-old girl, Aisha Misbah Suweib, was killed on Thursday along with her grandfather and uncle after government forces shot at the vehicle they were boarding in an area known as Al-Karzaz, southeast of Misrata.

Government forces had raided the family's home looking for Aisha's father who is with rebel movement but could not find him, according to the doctor and other residents familiar with the incident. The family then decided to leave fearing that government forces would come again but they were shot at as they were driving out.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576207933347949412.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

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If he only needs a day or two to take the city, he may just be delaying until he wraps up the assault.

[Zero Sum 305]

we will get crazy too

I knew it!

[Amby 490]

so...have we got "crazy" now?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

As the United Nations voted last night to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, a totally sane Muammar Qaddafi sat down with a Portuguese TV news channel. He had some interesting things to say:

"If the world gets crazy with us, we will get crazy too. We will respond. We will make their lives hell because they are making our lives hell. They will never have peace."

He also said that he's prepared to shoot down passenger planes and sink ships in the Mediterranean. Then he warned "traitors" in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi that he's coming for them in their closets. Watch out — Qaddafi's about to suddenly become crazy!

http://gawker.com/#!5783258/qaddafi-threatens-to-get-crazy

I hope he sells a LOT of oil to pay for it. That ought to knock the legs out from under the price of oil.

[Zero Sum 305]

so...have we got "crazy" now?

I don't see him surviving this.