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Qaddafi Warns of Carrying Out Attacks in Europe
Fox News ^ | 07/01/11

Posted on 07/01/2011 1:45:27 PM PDT by MissesBush

A defiant Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe against "homes, offices, families," unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.

The Libyan leader, sought by the International Criminal Court for a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters, delivered the warning in a telephone message played to thousands of supporters gathered in the main square of the capital Tripoli.

It was one of the largest pro-government rallies in recent months, signaling that Qaddafi can still muster significant support. A green cloth, several hundred meters long and held aloft by supporters, snaked above the crowd filling Tripoli's Green Square. Green is Libya's national color.

March 16: Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, smiles during a TV interview in Tripoli.

Qaddafi spoke from an unknown location in a likely sign of concern over his safety. Addressing the West, Qaddafi warned that Libyans might take revenge for NATO bombings.

"These people (the Libyans) are able to one day take this battle ... to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes," he said.

"We can decide to treat you in a similar way," he said of the Europeans. "If we decide to, we are able to move to Europe like locusts, like bees. We advise you to retreat before you are dealt a disaster."

It was not immediately clear whether Qaddafi could make good on such threats.

In the past, Qaddafi supported various militant groups, including the IRA and several Palestinian factions, while Libyan agents were blamed for attacks in Europe, including a Berlin disco bombing in 1986 and the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, mostly Americans. Libya later acknowledged responsibility for Lockerbie.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: libya; nato; obama; qaddafi; terrorism
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To: MissesBush

We have to know where he is hiding out.

Instead of using some puny little guided missile -

- why not use a “Daisy Cutter” and get rid of him and ALL of his associates in one felled swoop.


21 posted on 07/01/2011 4:59:51 PM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
If Qaddafi does that it will mean troops on the ground in Libya.

Simpler just to stop the BS as Qadaffi is requesting before anything like that happens. Free people should not fight wars over base causes and this one is super-base. It's about that $5T which Libya owns and George Soros and Bork obunga wanting to control it. No other reason would the slammite bro-hood set up a central bank before they even have a country. Basically, George and Bork are trying to use US military assets to perpetrate something terribly close to a bank robbery.

22 posted on 07/01/2011 5:31:45 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: Thunder90
This would be enough for NATO to decide to send in a large ground force to remove Qadaffi.

That might have been true in 1940 but it would be highly questionable at present when Germany is averaging 1.4 children per family. Attempting it could easily spark rebellion in Europe particularly given the baseness of the cause.

23 posted on 07/01/2011 5:35:03 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: TxDas

Even a slingshot, if it hits Qaddafi. The problem with Europe is that they won’t do zilch unless heavily pressed to. They don’t want Qadaffi out, not yet, and they’re not sure themselves where they’ll want him. A bit of action inside Italy, for example, and they’ll worry just a bit, maybe enough to say “know what? I don’t care, take him out”.


24 posted on 07/01/2011 5:58:55 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: Anti-Bubba182
I bet he has the assets in place, and is going to pull the trigger if it gets worse. When he has nothing to lose.

Farrakhan's boys are probably getting ready here in the states.

27 posted on 07/01/2011 7:09:29 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: oblomov
Yes, Qaddafi must have left months ago. Obama said it would be about a two week deal.

Qaddafi is probably Living in Florida by now.

28 posted on 07/01/2011 7:17:06 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: DTogo
NATO has been engaged in an unofficial and unprovoked war with Libya, Qaddafi seems entitled to return the favor.

Poking a hornet's nest can get you stung. D'uh.


My thoughts exactly. If it was 1986, then I think there would be a reason to fight Kadaffy, but this is 2011 and although he might have opened up his mouth a little, he generally behaved himself. I still believe he will have to answer for his past actions, but overall that is between him and God for now. All I can say is the hornet's nest comparison is right on. Because he did keep radical Islamic elements down, in a twisted way, Kadaffy is an ally or should be. Thinking back, I now have to question if going into Iraq to get Saddam was the right thing to do given that he kept the radicals down as well. Kadaffy and Saddam were more 1950's era Pan-Arab nationalists instead of radical Islamists.
29 posted on 07/02/2011 6:23:59 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: TxDas
Aim what? A British 3 inch butter knife? A 45 y/o fat, gay sgt from the Netherlands with his 14 comrades and their WW11 gear?

Unfortunately the Eurabians did not support the action in Afghanistan with more troops and gear because that was just about all they had to send. I guess France could send their aircraft carrier if the propellers would stay on. Or the British could send one of theirs if they had planes.., oops. I forgot, they will just call the Americans... again. I hope nobody answers the phone (because they are out golfing!)


Here ya go:

Military Fairy
30 posted on 07/02/2011 6:28:34 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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