As the world watches Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi slaughter his own people, we should remember the human cost of international indifference.

NEW YORK Many would say that Col. Muammar el Qaddafi got what he deserved. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

And both contributed to Libya s transformation into a failed state by aiding Islamist militias. During the 2011 NATO campaign to overthrow Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi, Qatar even deployed ground troops covertly inside Libya.

The deposed authoritarian rulers Tunisia s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mubarak, and soon Libya s Col. Muammar el Qaddafi stashed away billions of dollars stolen from the public treasury. This ill gotten money should be recovered and put into a special fund for youth employment.

Proposal by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Leader of the Great Al Fatih Revolution, concerning the reform of the United Nations

Last year, its adherents did play an important role in the removal of Libya s brutal dictator, Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi. Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.

Hezbollah was initially thrilled at the outbreak of popular revolts against rulers closely allied with the US and the West. Even Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi was considered a foe for having allegedly ordered the killing of Lebanese Shiite leader Imam Musa Sadr in 1978.

When Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like rats, a UN coalition intervened under an emerging global doctrine the responsibility to protect. But three years after Qaddafi s ouster, Libya remains hobbled by weak national institutions and roiled by factional fighting.

SIRTE, LIBYA Although Libyans are now celebrating the first anniversary of the revolution that toppled Muammar el Qaddafi, they are increasingly frustrated with their new leaders. Libyans complain that the interim government, known as the National Transitional Council (NTC), has not moved quickly enough to purge and prosecute senior Qaddafi officials, or to rein in the militias that overthrew his regime.

There are large numbers of soldiers and police among the casualties, as well as civilians and, partly as a byproduct of the fall of Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi, Egypt is awash with weapons. But simply condemning the military will not bring a return to democracy any nearer.

At the end of 2010, Erdoğan was the (last) recipient of a human rights prize granted by Libya s Col. Muammar el Qaddafi. Turkey has also tried, desperately at times, to maintain good relations with Bashar al Assad s regime in Syria, despite the Syrian government s abominable behavior.

Farther away, in Libya and Syria, the Saudis have said little, perhaps to avoid picking the losing side in uncertain circumstances. The Kingdom has no love for Libyan leader Muammar el Qaddafi, who tried to assassinate King Abdullah and has waged a concerted anti Saudi propaganda campaign for at least a decade.

MELBOURNE The world has watched in horror as Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi uses his military to attack protesters opposed to his rule, killing hundreds or possibly thousands of unarmed civilians. Many of his own men have refused to fire on their own people, instead defecting to the rebels or flying their planes to nearby Malta, so Qaddafi has called in mercenaries from neighboring countries who are more willing to obey his orders.

Aquino s approach to the negotiations reflected his recognition that the MILF had twice used peace talks once brokered by Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi as a cynical ploy to buy time to regroup and raise funds (including from Al Qaeda). With freshly restocked arsenals, they would relaunch their campaign to seize Mindanao by force.

LONDON The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya s Col. Muammar el Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy. And their demise is likely to lead to very different outcomes liberation for the Libyans and stagnation for the Saudis.

BENGHAZI Six months after Libyan rebels took up arms against the country s leader, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi, they have finally toppled him. But, while victorious on the battlefield, they have not been triumphant in political and economic terms. If the rebels are to ensure their revolution s long term success, they will have to overcome the weaknesses that plague them.

If we think of the Arab revolutions, there are many surprises yet to come. So far, most Arab monarchies have had enough legitimacy, money, and force to survive the waves of popular revolt that have brought down secular republican autocrats like Egypt s Hosni Mubarak and Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi, but we are only two years into the revolutionary process.

BENGHAZI Six months after Libyan rebels took up arms against the country s leader, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi, they have finally toppled him. But, while victorious on the battlefield, they have not been triumphant in political and economic terms. If the rebels are to ensure their revolution s long term success, they will have to overcome the weaknesses that plague them.

Libya was created out of three former Italian colonies, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan, each essentially comprising different tribal confederations (the Sa adi in Cyrenaica, the Saff al Bahar in Tripolitania, and the Tuareg in Fezzan). The fall of Muammar el Qaddafi opened a Pandora s box of old rivalries, with Cyrenaica developing into a semi autonomous region known as Barqa.

For Egypt s current leadership, the brutal tactics employed by the likes of Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi and Syria s Bashar al Assad are more likely to work in the Egyptian context than in those countries. After all, the probability of international intervention (as in Libya) is nil, and the likelihood of a full fledged armed revolution (as in Syria) is extremely limited.

At the same time, some institutions that could provide effective international oversight have been coopted, as demonstrated by Libya s leadership of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights while under the control of deposed dictator Muammar el Qaddafi. And others have been far too willing to accept at face value submissions from countries where the rule of law is routinely abused.

The Americans do not want the job and are happy that someone else does. Indeed, President Nicolas Sarkozy s willingness to intervene (alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron) helped close a dangerous gap between the world of values, which would call for direct American intervention against Muammar el Qaddafi, and the world of interest, which impelled President Barack Obama to restraint.

Libya After Qaddafi

Charismatic young military rulers turned dictators like Egypt s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iraq s Saddam Hussein, Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi, Yemen s Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Syria s Hafez al Assad used these popular causes to win public support. But their failure to deliver better lives to their citizens, together with the discrediting of left wing ideologies following the Soviet Union s collapse, fueled the rise of a rival movement political Islam.

Rebuilding the Ruins of Qaddafi

After toppling Libyan ruler Muammar el Qaddafi and bombing targets in Somalia and Yemen, Obama has initiated airstrikes in the Syria Iraq belt, effectively declaring war on the Islamic State a decision that will involve infringing on the sovereign, if disintegrating, state of Syria. In his zeal to intervene, Obama is again disregarding US and international law by seeking approval from neither the US Congress nor the United Nations Security Council.

Even Libya s Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi was considered a foe for having allegedly ordered the killing of Lebanese Shiite leader Imam Musa Sadr in 1978. Hezbollah had been in a virtual cold war with Hosni Mubarak s Egypt since January 2009, when Nasrallah had effectively accused Mubarak s government of collusion in Israel s intervention in Gaza, and had called for the Egyptian people to take to the streets in their millions.

In the wake of the ferocious religious war that tore Algeria apart in the 1990 s, a great number of Muslim fundamentalist Arabs fled south to the vast Sahara that covers part of Mali. Then, in 2011, Western backed regime change in Libya toppled Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi and drove more fundamentalists to flee into the desert 160 but not before they had gotten their hands on a significant part of Qaddafi s heavy weaponry, as well as many vehicles.

In the wake of the ferocious religious war that tore Algeria apart in the 1990 s, a great number of Muslim fundamentalist Arabs fled south to the vast Sahara that covers part of Mali. Then, in 2011, Western backed regime change in Libya toppled Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi and drove more fundamentalists to flee into the desert but not before they had gotten their hands on a significant part of Qaddafi s heavy weaponry, as well as many vehicles.

Then, in November, the NTC s military prosecutor named its own former deputy prime minister, Ali al Issawi, as the prime suspect. The conflict and opacity surrounding the case are telling signs of the country s political fragility since Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s demise.

Tripoli, which hosted the liberation ceremony and Zintan, which is holding Qaddafi s son, Saif al Islam el Qaddafi, prisoner. And all of them, like most Libyans, share the unrealistic expectation that their newfound freedom will somehow solve their socio economic woes.

It is ten in the evening, and I am waiting at the elevators in the lobby of the Hotel Westin with Mahmoud Jibril, one of the leaders of the Libyan insurrection. Jibril has made a special trip to plead on behalf of the civilians whom Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his sons have promised to drown in rivers of blood.

The Permanent Mission of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations presents its compliments to the Secretary General of the United Nations and has the honour to transmit herewith a proposal by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi concerning the problem of the Security Council and the reform of the United Nations with reference to Africa and the world (see annex).

In Libya, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi s wanton violence brought the situation firmly under the purview of the United Nations Security Council and the UN s recently proclaimed responsibility to protect civilians threatened by their own governments. Libyan civilians are now under the protection of international law.

In Libya, the collapse of Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s regime has thrown the country into chaos and decimated central government authority. The south remains lawless, while the east is ruled by the Benghazi regional council only the west remains subject to the poorly consolidated government in Tripoli.

It is my pleasure to submit to you herewith the ideas that Colonel Muammar Al Qaddafi, Leader of Great Al Fatih Revolution, has put forward concerning the issue of the reform of the United Nations (see annex), and furthermore to request that the present letter and its annex be circulated as a document of the General Assembly and the Security Council.

Have you considered El Lat and El 'Uzza

Have you considered El Lat and El 'Uzza

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In the case of Qaddafi, he'd do 1.2 million, and that they would launch it.

He was recently transferred to El Wadi El Gadeed Prison.

Ideas presented at the 2001 Amman summit by Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, Leader of the Great 1 September Revolution

Ideas presented at the 2001 Amman Summit by Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, Leader of the Great 1 September Revolution

His Excellency Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, Leader of the Great 1 September Revolution, Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya