#sirte

I can still remember everything like it was yesterday.

I remember all the men, women and children who fell in the defence of Sirte.

There was no electricity, little food, no cameras, no broadcasting to what was happening as there is today in Gaza to have showed NATOs war crimes to the world, we were literally cut off from the world.

NATO had bombed Sirte's Local Radio Station, the last place we could hear Brother Leader Mu'ammar al-Qathafi's beautiful defiant voice.

It was just us and our great defiant leader, and our morale had never waned for a moment with his reassuring company.

He was there, with us, to calm the pain and the feelings of frustration and treason from the reactionary Arab governments and our sleeping Ummah.

I have never spoken about this part of my life before and what we, the people of Sirte had to endure at that time, but today as I worringly watch on what is unfolding in Syria, it is poignantly coming back to me, I do not want the same to happen to beloved Syria, and for the Syrians to go through what we went through.

I was raised in a Socialist Jamahiriya, where we were unitary, our streets were beautifully adorned with unitary Arab poem lines, we chanted Arab unity slogans as early as we could learn to speak. I had always held Syria in a very high regard, for what Syria historically represents for the Arabs and Muslims.

Although everything is still cloudy, but if Syria falls, it would be the greatest calamity of our times. Syria is going to be divided up as Brother Leader Qathafi predicted more than 30 years ago.

'Arab existence in that area will be finished if Syria falls.' he said.

It is a tragedy what we are witnessing.

O' Damascus, the Umayyad flower, sweet basil of my heart, may you never witness a scintilla of pain or destruction, I pray that God takes away good days from me and gives it to Damascus and Syria. May we suffer, and may Damascus never see evil.

O Damascus, may I grow old, and you be forever young.

I wish I could bear my soul in my palm, and hurl it into the pit of death for you.

Forgive me Damascus, forgive us, we are sorry, the two Colonels are dead, Abdel Nasser and Gaddafi.

Vivi con un campanello d'allarme impiantato nel cervello. Nel sonno come nella veglia, in raccoglimento come in escandescenze, stai sul chi vive. Un attimo di distrazione, e tutto ciò che è stato non è più. Non esiste stress peggiore di quello che patisce un sovrano - uno stress esacerbato, ossessivo, permanente, molto simile a quello di certi animali assetati che davanti a una distesa d'acqua non possono fare a meno di guardarsi intorno dieci volte, con l'orecchio teso, annusando l'aria alla ricerca di un eventuale gas mortale. Ma neanche per un istante ho immaginato una disgrazia così squallida: finire in una scuola abbandonata, circondato da legioni di ingrati, in una città che non somiglia a niente! Come potevo concepire di cadere tanto in basso, io che avevo una luna piena a cui andava stretto persino l'infinito? Nemmeno se uccidessi con le mie mani migliaia di insorti troverei conforto al dispiacere che in questo momento mi rode il cuore come un cancro. Mi sento gabbato, tradito... Finanche la Voce che cantava dentro di me si è zittita di colpo. Il silenzio che mi pervade è spaventoso come uno spettro nella notte. “

Yasmina Khadra, L' ultima notte del Rais, traduzione di Marina Di Leo, Sellerio Editore (collana Il contesto n° 62), 2015¹, pp. 120-121.

Subscribers: Our map of territorial control in Libya’s civil war has been updated for January 2020, with some important changes!

*It’s exactly 6Yrs since Muammar Gadaffi was Killed*

*Muamar Gaddafi's Prophecies:*

```"I will not go into exile to any foreign country. I was born here in Libya, and I will die here. This country was a dessert, and I turned it into a forest, where everything can grow.

No one Love this land more more than its citizens. If Europe and America tells you that they love you, be careful. They love the wealth of your land. The oil and not the people. They are helping you to fight against me but, it will be more wise for you to fight against them because they are fighting against your future and progress.

My message to you the people of Libya is, they are helping you to kill me but you will pay the price because you will suffer. And my message to you America and Europe is, you will kill me, but be ready to fight a never ending TERRORISM.

Before you realise your ignorance, terrorists will be hitting you at your doorstep."

GADDAFI once told the Nigerian and British governments to divide Nigeria into two, so that the Hausa/Fulani (Moslems), Yoruba (Christians) and Biafrans/Igbo, can live as neighbouring countries.

It's good we look at these 16 REAL REASONS WHY COL. GADDAFI WAS KILLED:

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya, electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens are at a 0% interest by law.

3. Home is considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a

home.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi, only 25% of Libyans were literates. Today, the figure stands at 83%.

6. Libyans taking up farming as a career, they received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.

8. In Gaddafi's Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefit upfront.

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

If this is called "Dictatorship", I wonder what type of Leadership Democrats have!!