When I went to the continuation on the India source, I also found this interesting update on Gadaffi’s illusions. I wonder what he is smoking? Like the rebels will ever allow him to stay in Libya in retirement!!
“.Tripoli, May 15 (ANI): Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wants to ‘lead a dignified life’ by making a safe exit from public life, which he thinks will bring an end to NATO strikes on his country.
The Guardian quoted Libyan officials as saying that Gaddafi plans to retire to a godfather-like role in the nation he has ruled for over 40 years and then allow institutions to grow that will eventually replace his hold on power. “But he isn’t going to run away to Venezuela. He wants to move to the background and lead a dignified life. He himself has said he wants to be like the Japanese emperor, or Castro,” an official said.
The paper quoted another official as saying that Gaddafi “knows and we know that Libya doesn’t have a future through imposing his cult of personality on the people and the world. There is no question that the country needs reforms, many reforms.” The revelation came after NATO jets struck the dictator’s compound yet again on Friday, hours after he taunted European leaders saying he is in a place that ‘coward crusaders’ cannot detect.
“I tell the coward crusaders - I live in a place where you can’t get to me. I live in the hearts of millions,” Gaddafi had said in a newly released audio recording. Referring to the previous NATO attack on his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, the Libyan dictator was heard saying in the audio recording that lasted over a minute that many people “driven by their love for me put in many calls to check on my well-being after they heard of the cowardly missile attack of the crusaders on Bab al-Aziziya last Thursday, May 12.” (ANI)
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