Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Brutally Murdered or How not to Trust an Enemy

Muammar Gaddafi (Mouammar Kadhafi)

This is a sad day! Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan Guide Muammar Gaddafi (Kadhafi) has been brutally murdered in his house in Libya! I don’t know if this year we are going to get bad news every third day of the month, but so far, it has rained! At the height of the NATO attacks on Libya in 2011, we were there in prayers, and words, writing to tell all about the injustices that were being perpetrated against the Libyan people. The mainstream media lied, and of course Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy and the rest of NATO launched a vicious attack on the Libyan people under the false pretense that Gaddafi was killing his own people, a people he loved so dearly. The lies were blatant, the attacks horrendous, and they destroyed Libya, thus destabilizing the whole of Africa. We can still hear HRC cackle as she described the killing of the Libyan Guide. Western Media Lies in LibyaNATO’s debacle in LibyaTruth Dispatch: Update on Libya.

Libya, the Prey of the West
Libya, the Prey of the West

Saif al-Islam was one of Gaddafi’s sons. He was brilliant, and a part of his father’s inner circle, at some point performing public relations and diplomatic roles on his behalf; he publicly turned down his father’s offer of the country’s second highest post and held no official government position. He studied at the London School of Economics, and wanted to bring modernism to his country. In 2005, he was awarded a “Young Global Leader” title by the World Economic Forum, and in January 2011WEF founder Klaus Schwab personally invited Gaddafi to attend the annual WEF Forum in Davos. Young Gaddafi was tricked by the western glitter, and worked to lift the embargo on his country. He was instrumental in negotiations that led to Libya‘s abandoning its weapons of mass destruction program in 2002–2003, the country’s protection against western arms. He arranged several important business deals on behalf of the Libyan regime in the period of rapprochement that followed. He was viewed as a reformer, and openly criticized the regime, probably listening to western advisors.  Muammar Gaddafi did great things for Libya: it was one of the few countries in the world without debt, and with gold reserves. Living in a desert and constantly faced with lack of water, The Guide had even made water sprout in the desert digging deep, enabling amazing engineering feats such as the Great Man Made River Project, the world’s largest irrigation project once known as the 8th wonder of the world. Moreover, Muammar was helping other African countries free themselves, and was about to have the gold dinar to free African countries from the treacherous FCFA. Who in their right mind wouldn’t want the world to see that? Young Saif probably wanted to world to see the beauty his country was.

Map of Libya

Saif had schooled in Europe, in one of the best schools of the world, and likely wanted Libya to be accepted, and probably fell for the oldest Western trick in the book, that of “Democracy” Africans and the Trap of Democracy. He forgot that Westerners never forget! He forgot that once an enemy, always an enemy. He convinced his dad to open up to the west, to their measures, agree to their demands, etc. The Guide even financed Sarkozy’s campaign and election as president of France; he was in turn received like a king in Paris, just to be destroyed by that same Sarkozy (Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, gets 5-year Sentence for Corruption Linked to Libya). Once Saif saw the vicious Western attacks on his country in 2011, he understood that the enemy was trying to destroy Libya, and fought against NATO forces, but by then it was too late, as the enemy had weakened their defenses with all the negotiations.

The destruction of Libya: the cake
The destruction of Libya: the cake

After the murder of The Guide, Saif was taken into custody, tortured for years, and later on freed. However, how can a child who has seen his country at its height, and then seen it broken to pieces, his family and people killed and scattered to the winds by the West, sit still? If you are that child, how can you live with yourself, knowing that your country’s downfall might have come from you trusting the enemy, or falling for their treacherous claims? He was still a menace for the West and they had to eliminate him!

The lesson is clear! If you have been enslaved by someone and hated, do not for a second forget and think that they would love you one day. It is important to know that the West never forgets… they keep track… (even after 100 years, they do not forget) and it is imperative for us to keep track and never forget! We live in a global world, so one needs business partners, but do not for an instant believe that someone who has pillaged your country, raped your sisters, destroyed your lives, would one day when you have freed yourself from their choke-hold, forget that they had crushed you once, or become your friends. Evil never becomes good!

Who/What did we Celebrate in Africa in 2014?

Beji Caid Essebsi, new President of Tunisia
Beji Caid Essebsi, new President of Tunisia

Like every year, I have to tell you about the good things that happen in Africa, and all the things we celebrated. Here are 10 of them.

1. I have to say it again: Blaise Compaore’s demotion. Blaise Compaoré was booted out of office in 2014. Thomas Sankara‘s murderer taught that he will be eternal in power, and on October 30th 2014, the people of Burkina Faso said ENOUGH!

2. Presidential Elections finally took place in Tunisia, 3 years after Ben Ali‘s toppling at the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’, and the election of the people’s choice as president: Beji Caid Essebsi. We are glad the people of Tunisia’s choice was respected.

Some members of the South African Team - MTN Qhubeka(Source: bicycling.co.za)
Some members of the South African Team – MTN Qhubeka(Source: bicycling.co.za)

3. Mrs Catherine Samba-Panza was sworn in as interim president of the Central African Republic on 23 January 2014. She was chosen as a neutral person to lead the country of the conflict that rages in the area; she is the first woman appointed in such a position in the history of the country.

4. For the first time in the history of Cycling, there was an African team competing in a great race. 6 Africans (two Erithreans and 4 South Africans) ran in Spain for the South African team, MTN-Qhubeka.

5. Two African teams advancing into the last round of 16 at the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup for the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup: namely, Nigeria and Algeria. Even though both teams were eliminated in the last round of 16, Algeria particularly put up a good fight against Germany (who went on to win the World Cup) and made us proud.

6. The African version of Robocop designed by two female engineers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of them being Thérèse Inza.  This is a traffic cop who regulates the traffic, and even gives tickets to the cab drivers, and those who do not want to follow the code of the road.

Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong’o

7. There were 3 Africans nominated at the Oscars in main categories this year: Chiwetel Ejiofor(Nigeria) in the ‘Best Actor’ category, Barkhad Abdi (Somalia) in the ‘Best Actor in a Supporting role’ category and Lupita Nyong’o (Kenya) in the ‘Best Actress in a Supporting role’ category. Lupita made us proud by winning the Academy Award for ‘Best Actress in a Supporting role’ for her role in 12 Years a Slave. She was also named the ‘Most beautiful Woman’ by People magazine (I never really understood that People Magazine award: as if they had searched through the 3.5Billion women in the world before giving this award!) and ‘Woman of the Year’ in Glamour, and was announced as the ‘New Face’ of Lancôme, a first for a Black woman.

8. Nigeria became Africa’s # 1 economy after rebasing its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1990 to 2010 constant prices. Nigeria just surpassed South Africa as Africa’s top economy, and the world’s 26th largest economy.

9. U.S President Barack Obama hosts 50 African Heads of State and government officials at the historic US-Africa Leaders Summit.

George Weah
George Weah

10. George Weah, the only African to have won a FIFA World Player of the Year (in 1995) and won Ballon d’Or, won a senate seat in Liberia yesterday Dec. 29th. The 2005 presidential contender (he had won the first round of the elections then) of Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf won the senate elections against Robert Sirleaf (President Johnson-Sirleaf’s son). This was a landslide victory; it is a step forward, and progress is always to be acclaimed!