hisroyalblueness said:
PaleBlue said:
Ask anyone who lost a relative on the Pan Am flight that was brought down on Lockerbie by state sponsored Libyan terrorists. I hope he gets staked out on the desert floor and fed to the birds.
Actually the case that a large number of the relatives of lockerbie victims simply don't believe that the plane was brought down by the libyans. Check it out for yourself but try an internet search rather than reading the sun . . you'll be surprised to learn that the 'popular' view put by the red tops can be little more than cheap propaganda of the kind that helped keep blair in power when we murdered 180,000 men, women and children in the very first night of the missile attacks on iraq. . attacks in reprisal for less than 6,000 killed in the 9/11 attacks that were carried out by saudi's -15 of the 18 involved were from saudi arabia. The relatives of the innocents murdered in that illegal western attack (dropping more weapon power in one night than was dropped on civilian areas in europe in the whole of the 2nd world war) know exactly who was to blame . . us.
Oh, and when you're on about state terrorism - think a little about the way that the usa sponsored the ira . . to the degree that even McDonalds were putting funding terrorism directly and with the blessings of the white house.
Moreover . . just try to think and when you've mastered that art then feel free to give an opinion - and people might just take you seriously.
Who paid the IRA? Nutters from Nor-Aid collecting dimes in buckets? Or Petro-dollars from the guy we should feel sorry for now because we're a bunch of bullies? (below from Wikipedia)
Gaddafi supported terrorist organizations that held anti-Western sympathies around the world.[123] The Foreign Minister of Libya called the massacres "heroic acts".[124] Gaddafi fueled a number of Islamist and communist terrorist groups in the Philippines, including the New People’s Army of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The country still struggles with their murders and kidnappings.[32][123][125][126][126][127] In Indonesia the Organisasi Papua Merdeka was a Libyan backed militant group. Vanuatu's ruling party also enjoyed Libyan support.[125] In Australia he attempted to radicalize Australian Aborigines, left-wing unions,[128] Arab Australians,[128] and one Labor Party politician, Bill Hartley, against the "imperialist" government of Australia.[40][40][125][125][128][128] In New Zealand he financed the Workers Revolutionary Party[128][129] and attempted to radicalize Maoris.[125]
In 1979, Gaddafi said he supported the Iranian Revolution, and hoped that "...he (the Shah) ends up in the hands of the Iranian people, where he deserves."[130]
Gaddafi explicitly stated that he would kill Libyan dissidents that had escaped from Libya, raising tensions with refugee countries and European governments. In 1985 he stated that he would continue to support the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) as long as European countries supported anti-Gaddafi Libyans.[82]
In 1976, after a series of terrorist attacks by the Provisional IRA, Gaddafi announced that "the bombs which are convulsing Britain and breaking its spirit are the bombs of Libyan people. We have sent them to the Irish revolutionaries so that the British will pay the price for their past deeds".[82] In April 1984 some Libyan refugees in London protested the execution of two dissidents. Libyan diplomats shot at 11 people and killed Yvonne Fletcher, a British policewoman. The incident led to the cessation of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya for over a decade.[131] In June 1984 Gaddafi asserted that he wanted his agents to assassinate dissident refugees even when they were on pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca and, in August that year, a Libyan plot in Mecca was thwarted by Saudi Arabian police.[42]
On 5 April 1986 Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three and injuring 229. Gaddafi's plan was intercepted by Western intelligence and more detailed information was retrieved some years later from Stasi archives. Libyan agents who had carried out the operation, from the Libyan embassy in East Germany, were prosecuted by the reunited Germany in the 1990s.[132]
Following the 1986 bombing of Libya, Gaddafi intensified his terror attacks on Americans. He financed the Nation of Islam and Al-Rakr to support their gang activities and violence. Members of the gang were arrested in 1986 for planning to bomb government buildings and bring down American planes.[133] In 1986 Libyan state television announced that Libya was training suicide squads to attack American and European interests. He began financing the IRA again in 1986, to retaliate against the British for harboring American fighter planes.[134]
Gaddafi had close ties with two European right-wing heads of state, Slobodan Milošević and Jörg Haider, who were both anti-Islamic politicians. Jörg Haider of Austria was reported as having received tens of millions of dollars from both Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.[135] Gaddafi also aligned himself with the Orthodox Serbs against Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, supporting Milošević even when he was charged with large-scale ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo.[136][137][138]
Gaddafi developed a friendship with Hugo Chávez and in March 2009 a stadium was named after the Venezuelan leader.[139] Documents seized during a 2008 raid on FARC showed that both Chavez and Gaddafi backed the group.[109] Gaddafi developed an ongoing relationship with FARC, becoming acquainted with its leaders at meetings of revolutionary groups which were regularly hosted in Libya.[108][109] In September 2009, at the Second Africa-South America Summit on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, Gaddafi joined Chávez in calling for an "anti-imperialist" front across Africa and Latin America. Gaddafi proposed the establishment of a South Atlantic Treaty Organization to rival NATO, saying: "The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power. Now we have to fight to build our own power."[140]
Gaddafi also sought close relations with the Soviet Union and purchased arms from the Soviet bloc.
