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| Gadhafi Spokesman Denies Capture | |
| 2011-10-02 | |
| "And I wasn't dressed like a girl, either!" [An Nahar] A man claiming to be Moussa Ibrahim, front man for Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... , denied on Saturday claims he had been captured by forces of the country's new regime outside of the deposed Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte. "This information is a lie and does not reflect reality," the man said in a live telephone interview with Syrian-based Arrai television, which has become a conduit for declarations by Qadaffy and other elements of his former regime.
Those claims quickly came into question, with a front man for the NTC's Misrata military council saying the next day: "We cannot confirm he was tossed in the clink." On Friday, the website of the former state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? channel Allibiya said "Moussa Ibrahim has not been captured." "This is a mendacious rumor aimed at distracting attention from the rebels'... defeat at the hands of the heroic forces in Sirte." In the interview on Arrai, the purported Ibrahim said claims of his capture could not be true because at the time he was said to have been captured "I was near the Sirte front with 23 fighters. We were under attack by very well-armed rebels for more than a day and a half, and we suffered fatalities." Ibrahim was the public voice of the Qadaffy regime. Since NTC fighters overran Tripoli on August 23, he has continued to issue statements through Syrian-based Arrai television from an unknown location, although not so frequently in recent days. Late last week, he appealed for resolve against "agents and traitors," denounced what he called "genocide" by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and its "Libyan agents," and criticized the world community for "inaction." | |
| Posted by:Fred |