The head of the February 17 Coalition -- whose members kick-started the revolt against Moammar
Qadaffy...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics
Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyaor
Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule...
-- told Agence La Belle France Presse the ministers of defense and international affairs must be sacked in the wake of last week's murder of General Abdul Fatah Younis.
Abdul Salam al-Musmari, a judge who heads the coalition, criticized the events leading up to the Younis murder and the governing National Transitional Council's handling of its aftermath.
The facts surrounding the Younis shooting last Thursday remain opaque, with senior members of the NTC giving incomplete and sometimes contradictory accounts of how he died, who killed him and the motive for the murder.
"We have two main demands," Musmari said. "The resignations of the defense minister (Jallal al-Digheily) and his deputy and for all the gangs to fall under the national army or lay down their weapons."
| Aaaaaaaand a shrubbery! |
The blistering criticism marks the most public sign yet of tensions between Libya's revolutionaries and the NTC that has come to be their de-facto government.