Asked why he thought it was taking Western nations so long to produce money, Tarhouni said: "No idea. ... I am tired of asking them."He had earlier estimated the rebels were spending up to $86 million per day.
"I don't expect us to produce oil any time soon. The refineries have no crude oil, so they are not working," he said. "People died for this revolution and are still dying. We will find a way (to raise money). One thing is for sure: We will never give up."
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising...
international officials arrived in Cairo for Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
round table talks on possible solutions for the crisis in Libya. The conference is the second to be held in Cairo since the Libyan revolt erupted almost five months ago.
Participants include the secretary-general of the vaporous Arab League,
Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ...
, high representative of the European Union Catherine Ashton, chairperson of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Jean Ping, UN envoy to Libya, Abdellah El-Khatib and Habib Kaabachi, director of political affairs at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon,
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
the secretary-general of the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
, participated via video conference.
The officials met a day after Libyan TV aired an audio speech of Qadaffy during which he vowed that the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
alliance, which is providing air support for rebels attempting to dislodge him from Tripoli, "will be defeated".
NATO on Friday dismissed an apparent offer of elections by Qadaffy as a cynical public relations ploy and vowed to continue its mission until his forces no longer posed a threat to civilians.