Dictator Who Murdered 190 Americans: Now Murdering His Own

Dictator Who Murdered 190 Americans: Now Murdering His Own

Egypt’s Mubarak was a peaceful wimp compared to what is happening to the citizens of Libya RIGHT NOW -- by someone who murdered 190 American citizens and got away with it.

The Libyan people are being shot in mass numbers by Muammar al-Gaddafi –the longest serving dictator (41 years) in the Mideast (who hopes to pass power to his son). If you are old enough to remember, Ghaddifi financed the bombing of American Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing all 243 on board and 11 unlucky Scots in the village where it fell and burned. Citizens of 19 countries died. Autopsies showed that as many as 147 were still alive when it hit the ground, the crew still strapped into their seats.

The man convicted of planting the bomb on PA 103 that blew a 20 inch hole in its side was just released by the UK and allowed to return to Libya after pressure from BP on the UK government. Ghaddafi gave him a hero’s welcome. In return, Gaddafi awarded BP a major offshore oil concession. (yes, the same BP that fouled the Gulf of Mexico with the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed eleven, the largest spill on record).

As we sit in our comfortable living rooms at our computers, Libyan citizens are being riddled with bullets from helicopters and heavy weapons simply for being on the streets, trying to be heard. They haven’t been rioting, just walking or sitting. Many were shot as they walked in a funeral procession for those killed the day before. Religion hasn’t even been mentioned. People are unemployed and have no jobs.

Ghaddafi has an advantage the other dictators didn’t – he’s locked out the foreign media, keeping the killing off the global TV screens. Reports are that he flew in mercenaries from Africa to assist in the shooting. Yesterday Libyan doctors’ reached on the phone by BBC reported over 200 people shot dead in the head, chest, etc. It is UGLY and BRUTAL even by Middle East standards.

Even Egypt’s Mubarak and the Bahrain King stopped the bloodshed after it shocked the world to see the brutality of soldiers shooting peaceful men, women and children. Don’t expect Ghaddafi to cut back, or care what we think. He’s hiding behind blank TV screens.

The Libyan people have only rocks to defend themselves –they have no weapons. The world needs to DO something about this serial killer. Ghaddafi is committing war crimes against his own people. To allow him to slaughter people on a scale far beyond what Mubarak did and go unpunished is inhumane. Democracy embracing countries should band together to punish him economically -- and otherwise.

The UN, UK and US should say: “Stop the shootings immediately or we cut off all business with Libya.” This would deny Ghaddafi revenue from his oil fields. Right now, American and European businesses are operating in Libya, filling his war chest. We are doing business with a dictator who murdered Americans, Europeans and nationals from 19 countries, and then got the bomber out of jail. And he laughed about it. Business with him should stop until he steps down.

If no one else acts my fantasy is that charter jets start landing somewhere near Libya with guns and ammo to be distributed to the people of Libya who have only rocks, and their courage, to defend themselves from Gaddafi's AK-47’s and helicopters --paid for with the vast oil wealth he is getting from companies like BP. I’d rather Libyan people get those weapons instead of drug cartels in Mexico.

Americans take for granted having the right to vote. Republicans and Democrats can disagree and complain on the streets without being gunned down by soldiers or mercenaries. The people in Egypt and the other Mideast countries swept into this wildfire desire for freedom simply want that same basic human right. They also want a voice in their governments they don’t have, but we do.

THINK about it. The little people in the Middle East are tired of being denied FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY and JOBS - and an opportunity to be heard in their government.

To deny the Libyans, Egyptians and others that right is to be hypocritical of what America is all about and what it is to be an American. To be deaf and blind to this global serial killer is unfathomable.

If you want action, pass this on to your friends and their Congressional representatives to pass on to others -- and to the President.

They can sign up for future updates, appearing here and on Global American radio at www.GlobalAmerican.org. Tune in to our last program “Should We Fear Democracy in the Middle East.”

I’ve covered the Middle East since starting with the Fortune 500 thirty years ago. I will be discussing Libya and will give Americans the “big picture” about this Middle East SuperNova -- and its impact on our security -- in our next program. Stay tuned!

Michael Fjetland

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