The Libyan Transitional Council has declared Libya a "liberated nation" and an Islamic State that will conform to Islamic Law. While this declaration comes as no surprise to those of us who follow and study Middle Eastern Affairs it must and should be a thorn in the side to the White House and State Department who herald the Arab Spring as a springboard for Democracy in the Arab States. source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/libya-declares-libe... "BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya's top leader declared the country officially "liberated" Sunday from the four-decade rule of Moammar Gaddafi, pledging to replace his dictatorship with a more democratic but also a more strictly Islamic system. In a speech to a cheering, flag-waving crowd, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the Transitional National Council, promised to ban interest on housing loans and scrap other laws that didn't conform to Islamic jurisprudence. Tensions have arisen on the Transitional National Council between Islamists and secularists and between former Gaddafi officials and his longtime foes. Abdel Jalil, a slight and balding former justice minister, paid homage Sunday to those who lost their lives in the civil war. "This revolution started as peaceful, to demand the minimum. But Gaddafi started killing people with heavy weapons," he said. Dozens of people in the crowd hoisted gold-framed pictures of relatives who had been killed. In what surprised some in attendance, Abdel Jalil gave prominence to the role of Islamic law in the new Libya. "We are an Islamic state," he said, and he pledged to get rid of regulations that didn't conform to Islamic law." So our belief that this illegal war would yield the world's newest Islamic State sadly seem to have been accurate. We spent over a $1 billion dollars to empower known terrorist and radical Islamic fundamentalists. Congratulations Mr. President and Secretary Clinton. You have once again been played for the idealist fools that you truly are. Now what?? Look for a power struggle in Libya that will evolve in to an all out Civil War. Syria will be next and Iran is conducting operations in Saudi Arabia and attempted to do so in the United States. Hezbollah is threatening the region with missiles targeted at Tel Aviv. Russia is going to put Putin back in power and they want their former grandeur of the USSR. Turkey is making noises and trying to be a central player among the Arab States with threats to Israel. Do you see how this is starting to stack up? Many feel that these events are a prelude to the next global conflict. I agree with them. The question is are you ready for the battle that is to come? We can't face this coming conflict with weak leadership. The weak leadership in this current administration and quite frankly, rank stupidity, is the primary reason for the muscle flexing and scramble for power on a global basis. Our influence and ability to counsel nations is greatly diminished. We will not be able to buy our way out of this one. Throwing money at rogue regimes just empowers them and makes us the "Patsy". I don't believe this administration is ever going to figure that out. How can they be so STUPID?? I just wonder if November 2012 will be too late? Let's hope not. Let's continue to speak loudly and often. So much is at stake. I had said that the West's involvement in the Middle East, while appearing to be helpful and humanitarian, invariably winds up supporting regimes that are as bad or worse than the one they replace. This is particularly true if you look at what happens to the Christian population. It is also almost certainly true in terms of the fate of Israel, which always is threatened when a stabilizing tyrant like Mubarek and Ghadaffi is replaced by an Islamist. This is what is happening in Libya as the country finds itself in the hands of a proponent of Sharia law. But here are some very mixed views from the Muslim world -- friends whom I specifically asked for opinions on Ghadaffi, and also friends who have discussed this with Muslim friends. xxxxxxxxxxx d h Subject: Re: Nabil, a favor please RESPONSE 1 (from a UK friend with a Muslim contact): Another cafe owner in Shropshire we spoke to at the week-end Don. He is Iranian and also thought the whole thing was terrible. What a warning from the NWO to others who buck the system !!! RESPONSE 2 (A Pakistani): Hello, Don: RESPONSE 3 RESPONSE 3, FROM US CITIZEN IN PANAMA: xxxxxxxx d President Obama's decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an "absolute disaster" that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian "strangling," said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war. When Wal-Mart was looking for property to develop in Ward 6 for one of its four proposed D.C. stores, it didn't have to go very far. For a city buried under more than $300 million in unpayable debt, even the holiday season can't provide relief. Though the front-runners have changed, the 2012 Republican presidential race has been remarkably consistent: Mitt Romney versus the rest of the field. The last time Congress went on a deficit-cutting spree, lawmakers thought they had settled on a great way to squeeze more money from deadbeat contractors: Withhold 3 percent of all government contracts to make sure those companies paid their full tax bills each year. Cam Newton stood in the corner of the end zone and pantomimed ripping open the chest of his shirt while fans showered him with cheers. It's his trademark touchdown celebration, one that NFL teams are quickly getting used to seeing from the league's most dynamic rookie. Newton mimics how Clark Kent reveals the Superman costume, with that unforgettable "S," under his dress shirt. Anti-capitalism protesters camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral have forced the iconic church to shut its doors for the first time since World War II out of concern for what it says are health and safety risks posed by the "Occupy the London Stock Exchange" movement, now entering its 10th day. The Bush Doctrine, articulated by George W. Bush after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks, was simple: "We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," he said on Sept. 20, 2001. So close to a World Series shutout, Derek Holland did everything he could, trying to convince Texas manager Ron Washington to let him finish. Touting his own jobs plan to eliminate five Cabinet agencies and cut a trillion dollars from the budget, presidential candidate Ron Paul complained of trivial infighting between his GOP rivals at a time when the nation faces monumental challenges he thinks would be solved by a virtual government upheaval. Voters in Maine, Mississippi and Washington will decide election-reform questions this November, joining a wave of 36 states that in 2011 moved to increase identification requirements, limit the early-voting period, or toughen up registration rules. As a complex week full of discord looms, consider "President Reagan's Favorite Macaroni and Cheese," a recipe shared by "Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Washington, D.C., Wife of the President" in a spiral-bound community cookbook published by the American Cancer Society's Northern Virginia division in 1983. Republicans from the campaign trail to Congress took aim Sunday at President Obama's foreign policy. Ten months after they sparked a revolution that spread to become the Arab Spring, Tunisians went to the polls Sunday in elections widely seen as a test for the small North African nation and the entire region. If political parties cannot win over voters, perhaps just trying to confuse them might work. A letter warning a spouse that divorce could be imminent, a "cooling off" period and classes on reconciliation are parts of a model legislation package aimed at helping troubled couples avoid "preventable" divorce. COMMENTARY More than a trillion dollars in U.S. corporate profit sits around the globe, just waiting for a good reason to come home. With the most anti-business tax system in the developed world, the United States encourages companies doing business offshore to leave their profits overseas. The money would easily flow back into our economy if Washington shifted to a territorial tax system and lowered the corporate tax rate. The time to move on this is now. On Oct. 14, a federal judge blocked key portions of Alabama's new immigration law after several groups, including the Obama Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), asked for an injunction. The Justice Department claims that states that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws are violating the constitutional separation of powers. The brazen Iranian terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, kill Americans and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington was a wake-up call. The radical regime in Tehran has crossed a red line. Iran has murdered Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon over the years. Now it appears to have ordered terrorist attacks inside our nation's capital. Should this prove true, Iran has engaged in an act of war. The utopian dream of a United States of Europe is coming apart at the seams. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are all on the verge of default, which would push the rest of the common market into the abyss. For once, Paris is refusing to surrender and continues to fight the inevitable downgrade of France's credit rating. The European Central Bank isn't strong enough to do much to prevent a continental banking meltdown. Overall, European economic chaos makes U.S. fiscal indiscipline look manageable. This is slim comfort, however, because in the modern global economy, we all sink or swim together. Politicians and realtors want to maintain a permanent government occupation of the housing market. If the hippies clogging the streets of major cities had any integrity for their cause, they'd speak out against mortgage lending practices that stick taxpayers with the bills when banks make bad loans. On Thursday night, the Senate voted 60-38 to do more of the same.Introducing the Islamic State of Libya..brought to you in part by NATO and the US Taxpayer
Personally, I have a long string of grievances against Gaddafi. He met a similar fate as Mussolini...shot by his own people while trying to flee. Would I prefer to have seen him face trial as Saddam did before he was executed? I don't know.
I say good riddance to bad rubbish, anyway. Here's what I have to say against him:
1) Before Gaddafi came to power in 1969, Libya did have a Jewish presence within its borders. After he came to power, he made sure Libya was ethnically cleansed of Jews. He was violently, fanatically anti-Jew.
2) He was full of himself. He changed the flag of the country and the official name of the country as well. H even tried to alter the original text of the Qur'an! He called himself "king of kings" which is blasphemous in itself. He claimed that the government he ran was a "people's government" ...yeah, him, him and him...and members of his immediate family. So he wasn't being dishonest about it. Yeah, right!
3) He supported Pakistan when their army butchered my people in the name of Islam back in 1971...as if the Pakistanis were somehow more "Islamic" than my people!
4) His support of brutal dictators and mass murderers near and far...Idi Amin, the men who murdered Sheikh Mujib (under whose leadership Bangladesh was freed from Pakistan in 1971), various European terrorist organizations, and more recently, the group known as Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.
5) All-female bodyguards, Ukrainian nurses, bunga-bunga...need I go on?
The guy who ranted and raved about "crushing the opposition" was reduced to a whining, whimpering crybaby during his final moments in this world. The Qur'an mentions the fate of tyrants and oppressors in the Hereafter, where they await an even worse fate...the guardians of hell, all angels in God's service, will pour molten gold over their heads and will say to them: "You were so mighty and strong back then! Where is your power now? This is what you have earned! Taste of it!" It does give me a degree of pleasure to see him the way he was during his last moments. I wish to see Assad of Syria, Ahmadinejad and the entire Iranian leadership, Kim Jong-Il of North Korea, and a couple of others not in this hemisphere suffer the same fate.
Take care.
[A Pakistani friend]
I adopted US as my home country since 1969 and keep very little contact with the muslim society in Bangladesh as all my brothers are now living in DE or NY. My physician brother who continued to live in Bangladesh passed away about 6 years back while treating a patient with bird flu.
When it comes to religion, I am a very liberal person and avoid judging people or events based on faith. In my view, we have enough problems of our own and should refrain from military adventures abroad. Judging from the tenacity of Gaddafi, he was perhaps more popular than Saddam Hussein. Without the active participation of NATO, both of these guys would still be in power and we would have avoided all the humanitarian & economic sufferings. Today, the Iraquis are no better off than they were under Saddam and my feeling is that the Lybians are likely to have the same fate. Also, what worries me is that the fanatics will gain the upper hand over the secular systems these countries enjoyed during several centuries.
Just spoke to a mate in Palestine (Jordan) and he said the same; when the US Forces leave, the Iranians will be running southern Iran.
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Why we helped depose an emasculated Gaddafi
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