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Libya: Muammar Gaddafi’s Secrets Finally Revealed
Since Muammar Gaddafi’s ignominious death at the hands of a rebel mob in October 2011 much has been written and said about him. But now a new film, with unprecedented access to those close to Gaddafi, provides a comprehensive study of Libya’s brutal and contradictory long-time leader.
Ali Aujali, Gaddafi’s former ambassador to the United States, is an exceptionally charming man.
He is also something of a magician. He began his career in the Libyan diplomatic service a couple of years after Gaddafi seized power in 1969.
In a series of postings from London to Latin America, he explained away the excesses of the Gaddafi regime. So I was rather surprised to sit with Mr Aujali surrounded by the staggeringly ornate Libyan embassy in Washington and hear him tear the colonel to pieces.
Mr Aujali defected to the rebels in February 2011 and became their ambassador to the United States.
According to him, there was literally nothing good about the man whose regime he had served most of his adult life.
Secret after secret spilled out. We checked as many of his claims as we could.
There were anecdotes we could not follow up, such as his claim that a young man had been tied to two cars and ripped in half after complaining that Gaddafi had had sex with his wife.
But there were other claims we could check.
One was that on 22 December 1992, almost four years to the day after Pan Am 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, a Libyan Arab Airlines 727 was shot down on Gaddafi’s orders.
A total of 157 people – Libyans and foreigners – had died.
Its flight number, curiously, was 1103.
After Gaddafi fell, the British wife of one of the victims tried to get the new Libyan government to open an enquiry.
BBC
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frederick torben
February 3, 2014 at 9:12 am
why talking about someone who is dead?better to talk about current situation
Billythehandsome
February 3, 2014 at 2:06 pm
Snitch..
Ken
February 3, 2014 at 3:45 pm
If that guy new about all those secrets, he must have been very close to the great leader.
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February 4, 2014 at 8:28 am
Incomplete story naimwe
Mukombe Wamano
February 5, 2014 at 9:34 am
I think the story is incomplete, finish what you have started.
Mathews
February 5, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Gadafi ws,truely,evil.Curse hs soul,wherever it z.
mukamba mukanaka
February 5, 2014 at 6:37 pm
This man was a beneficially to the so called evil man.