It should come as no surprise to us that Col Gaddafi publicly threatened to unleash mob rule on the protestors in Libya. Hundreds have already been murdered in his attempt to keep control of the country. He has said that he will not defect but rather stay in his country and if necessary die there.
As the Telegraph explains:
In his 40 years as Libyan leader, Gaddafi has done more than enough to guarantee a permanent place in the pantheon of history's villains. One of his goons shot and killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher as she helped police a demonstration outside the Libyan Embassy in London. He lavished aid and arms on Robert Mugabe's vicious regime in Zimbabwe. He supplied weapons and explosives to the Provisional IRA which, lest we forget, was responsible for murdering 1,824 people during the Troubles, a third of them civilians. And above all, he is suspected of sanctioning the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December, 1988, killing all 259 people on board, and a further 11 on the ground. It was the worst terrorist atrocity in British history.
Like Mubarak, Gaddafi and his family have accumulated untold wealth during his 40 odd years as dictator. The oil revenue of the country has been carefully salted away in various banks, on houses and on his “projects”. Now he believes that the world is set against him – he is right.
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