Reddit reviews Destroying Libya and World Order: The THree-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution

A minor note of contention, Gaddafi wasn't a dictator let alone even the leader of Libya when he died. He hadn't held formal office since early in the 70's shortly after the bloodless coup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_government_of_Libya

The cult of personality that sprung up around Gaddafi was largely because he was idolized among many Libyans due to the prosperity and progress he helped facilitate, though he did play into this image as 'folk' hero' and used it to his advantage to promote Libya quite well.

Some important context to keep in mind is that prior to the Green Revolution, Libya was a monarchy and Libyans were used to having a prominent central governing figure, a king, before the peaceful coup in '69. So it was only natural that the public would depict Gaddafi in a similar way.

Little different than the US equivalent of George Washington.

Gaddafi was so loved for the reforms he created that many Libyans honored his contribution by calling him the 'brother leader'. It was a fitting informal title because he was not the officially recognized leader but he was highly revered among Libyans.

Ultimately, Gaddafi was merely a statesman and adviser to the system of direct democracy known as 'Jamahiriya' that he helped create, and it is a tragic irony that he was doomed in some ways by the very adoration of his fellow Libyans.

Gaddafi and the Libyan government had even been slated to receive a reward from the UN just prior to the bombing of Libya for their economic and social progress and for their commitment to human rights. (See the following link)

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16session/A-HRC-16-15.pdf

On 01-07-2011, over 1 million peaceful Libyans came out to support the Libyan Government and to protest the NATO bombing of Libya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAIQSQp58A

The following link is probably the most comprehensive account documenting the Islamic fundamentalist nature of the Libyan rebels I have seen on the web and the efforts by the US and it's European and Saudi allies to subvert and undermine the Libyan Jamahiriya.

Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3504

Another great reference is a book called 'Destroying Libya and World Order'. Written by Francis Anthony Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, who also served as legal council to Libya and filed lawsuits on Libya's behalf against the US with the World Court (he won both trials against the US); It details the Reagan and Bush administration's violent provocation of Libya during the 80's, all the way up until the 2011 US/NATO backed destabilization.

http://www.amazon.com/Destroying-Libya-World-Order-Three-Decade/dp/0985335378

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The guy didn't win shit for compensation for Lockerbie, the Libyan government paid extortion money compensation to have unjust sanctions removed. There is no direct link tying the Lockerbie bombing to the Libyan government, never was, never has been.

The continued lies and propaganda surrounding the event need to end.

The government of Libya and Gaddafi were highly cooperative with the investigation. One of the men accused was acquitted, and the key witnesses in Megrahi's case were bribed with three million dollars by the United States for their testimony. And then there is this:

After five years of secrecy, today we publish the full report that could have cleared the Lockerbie 'bomber'

Published on 25 March 2012

Lucy Adams

Relevant excerpt from article:

>The Sunday Herald and its sister paper, The Herald, are the only newspapers in the world to have seen the report. We choose to publish it because we have the permission of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the bombing, and because we believe it is in the public interest to disseminate the whole document.

>The Sunday Herald has chosen to publish the full report online today at www.heraldscotland.com to allow the public to see for themselves the evidence which could have resulted in the acquittal of Megrahi. Under Section 32 of the Data Protection Act, journalists can publish in the public interest.

Additionally, the following well sourced comment refutes the official Lockerbie bombing story and was originally posted by u/Lard_Baron:

>The BBC always raised an eyebrow at his conviction. If the trial had been in the UK in front of a jury he would of walked.

>They made a play based on transcript of the trial and interviewed key players willing to speak. They repeated the broadcast last week. Lockerbie on Trial

>His conviction stank. The UN observer thought the conviction politically motived. The witness's were extremely iffy. The main witness against him, Abdul Majid Giaka, had nothing to say about him. Then the CIA dangled the offer of a new life in the US and a car hire business and he suddenly remembered seeing explosive in Megrahi's desk and him talking about blowing a plane up......

>All the players interviewed by the BBC, including the victims relatives thought that very odd. They thought some of the witnesses against him where guiltier and doubted his guilt.

>You can listen to it here. It changed my mind on the conviction.

>An interview with the father of one of the victims

Also there is this additional personal account by one of the family members of a victim left in a review for the book 'Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution':

>My 19 year old daughter was murdered on board Pan-Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost from the outset we have felt that our politicians (British and American) were not being honest with us and that Libya was, for some reason, being used as the scapegoat. I attended the whole of the trial and 1st appeal in Holland and the 2nd appeal in Scotland and that feeling was only confirmed. I came away from the trial feeling about 90% convinced that justice had not been done and that the judicial system had been manipulated by the Politicians. Thank you, Mr. Boyle, for providing yet more solid evidence to show that we were right all the time.

>In November 1991 I was in the USA and was asked by a TV news team who I thought was guilty of my daughter's murder. I replied, "My daughter is dead because of US foreign policy. Whether you believe the official version of the guilt of Libya or that it was a reprisal for the downing of the Iranian airbus by the Vincennes, it was a revenge strike for US agression. It is the arrogance of power." I then added, "But you US policy makers will never be half as good at that as we British have been - we had over 300 years practice!!!".

>How right I was all those years ago.

>John F. Mosey - Father of Helga (aged 19) who was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie.

The US has had it out for Libya for decades, ever since the Bloodless Coup of '69 and the institution of a Socialist leaning government which nationalized Libya's oil industry (which the Libyan Jihadist rebels made deals with the French to control).

The book Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution written by Francis Anthony Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, who also served as legal council to Libya and filed lawsuits on Libya's behalf against the US with the World Court (he won both trials against the US), will give you a good idea of how reasonable and restrained Gaddafi and Libya was.

A preview of the book provides a brief overview of US aggression towards Libya:

>After the Bush Senior administration came to power, in late 1991 they opportunistically accused Libya of somehow being behind the 1988 bombing of the Pan American jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. I advised Libya on this matter from the very outset. Indeed, prior thereto I had predicted to Libya that they were going to be used by the United States government as a convenient scapegoat over Lockerbie for geopolitical reasons. Publicly sensationalizing these allegations,in early 1992 President Bush Senior then mobilized the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the coast of Libya on hostile aerial and naval maneuvers in preparation for yet another military attack exactly as the Reagan administration had done repeatedly throughout the 1980s. I convinced Colonel Qaddafi to let us sue the United States and the United Kingdom at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the Lockerbie bombing allegations; to convene an emergency meeting of the World Court; and to request the Court to issue the international equivalent of temporary restraining orders against the United States and the United Kingdom that they not attack Libya again as they had done before. After we had filed these two World Court lawsuits, President Bush Senior ordered the Sixth Fleet to stand down. There was no military conflict between the United States and Libya. There was no war. No one died. A tribute to international law, the World Court, and their capacity for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Pursuant to our World Court lawsuits, in February of 1998 the International Court of Justice rendered two Judgments against the United States and the United Kingdom that were overwhelmingly in favor of Libya on the technical jurisdictional and procedural elements involved in these two cases. It was obvious from reading these Judgments that at the end of the day Libya was going to win its World Court lawsuits against the United States and the United Kingdom over the substance of their Lockerbie bombing allegations. These drastically unfavorable World Court Judgments convinced the United States and the United Kingdom to offer a compromise proposal to Libya whereby the two Libyan nationals accused by the U.S. and the U.K. of perpetrating the Lockerbie bombing would be tried before a Scottish Court sitting in The Hague, the seat of the World Court. Justice was never done. This book tells the inside story of why not.