Seif Al Islam Gaddafi, 6 May 2006: "We used terrorism as tactics, for bargaining…to gain more leverage."
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March 17, 2011 at 12:07am
Seif Al Islam Gaddafi talking to Andrew Solomon and quoted in The New Yorker (6 May 2006):
“We used terrorism and violence because these are the weapons of the weak against the strong. I don’t have missiles to hit your cities, so I send someone to attack your interests. Now that we have peace with America, there is no need for terrorism, no need for nuclear bombs.” Seif dismissed any comparison between the terrorism that Libya had sponsored in the past and the kind associated with Al Qaeda. “We used terrorism as tactics, for bargaining,” he told me. “Mr. bin Laden uses it for strategy. We wanted to gain more leverage. He wants to kill people.”
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Read the full article here:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/08/060508fa_fact_solomon#ixzz1Go3wkP00
Jeez! one plane. one fighter bomber could rid the Libyans of this Frankenstein family. The US did it once, no UN bullshit agreement at all. Unfortunately a crazed Maltese PM warned him. He snuck away, and here we are. Assuredly, the crew cut, senile asshole is happy.
The crazed Maltese former PM didn’t sneak away. He’s still around, giving interviews to TV and newspapers.
And distributing Gaddafi’s human rights prizes.
Let us hope that something will come out of this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12768695
It is the US ambassador’s (to the UN) appeal to the UN for measures exceeding a no-fly-zone.
On the other hand, I heard the security advisor to Ban Ki Mun being interviewed on the BBC this morning. Not much of a doer. Actually, if it were up to him, because of the current sanctions, Gaddafi would have to go ‘in the long term’. Very comforting.
Italy informed Gaddafi before KMB. Get your facts right before……
Stick it. The dummy still called.
Saif is at it again. Now he is proclaiming ‘peace with America’ in order to use as a lever against direct intervention by the USA.
For correctness’ sake, that was in 2006.
And the LSE conferred a doctorate upon him.
He bought it.
They accepted his money.
I like the photo. He is already measuring “xiber b’xiber.”