Libyan rebels arming Hamas and Hezbullah?
Ayesha Gadhafi, the daughter of you know who, is accusing the Libyan rebels of
arming Hamas and Hezbullah.
Aisha Qaddafi, daughter of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi, has claimed that rebel forces in Libya have sold weapons to Hamas and Hizbullah. She made the claims in an interview with the New York Times that was published Tuesday.
Similar claims were made last week by DEBKA, which reported that leader rebel officers had sold chemical shells from Libyan stocks they had seized.
I wonder why she is saying this. Surely she doesn't think Israel is going to intervene to save her father?
Labels: Ayesha Gadhafi, Hamas, Hezbullah, Libyan civil war
The UN gets around to cutting its ties with Gadhafi
The United Nations is finally getting around to
severing its ties with Muammar Gadhafi and his family. Of course, when this is all over, no one is going to think about asking why they had those ties in the first place.
In response to a question from Fox News, a spokesman for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, revealed that his organization had just terminated the appointment of Qaddafi’s daughter Aisha as a National UNDP Goodwill Ambassador For Libya, “following the recent events.”
The “recent events” was a reference to the increasingly bloody repression of revolt in Libya, where anywhere from 200 to 1,000 dissidents have reportedly been killed, and where Aisha Qaddafi’s brother, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, has declared that he will fight “to the last bullet” to preserve his father’s regime.
The separation between Aisha Qaddafi and UNDP was no doubt painful for both sides. Ms Qaddafi is Secretary General of a Libyan welfare organization called the Waatasemu Charity Association, and her goodwill ambassadorship, announced in July 2009, was part of an effort to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and the issue of violence toward women, both sensitive topics in Libya.
Ms Qaddafi’s charity was also generous to UNDP in other ways, donating $1.5 million for construction of a co-educational elementary school for Palestinian children in Gaza, which was slated to begin construction in January.
UNDP’s spokesman justified the separation by citing a U.N. Guideline governing the appointment of Goodwill Ambassadors or Messengers of Peace, calling for termination of the relationship “if the Messenger of Peace or Goodwill Ambassador engages in any activity incompatible with his/her status or with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, or if the termination is in the interest of the Organization.”
UNDP was also hastily creating a similar distance between itself and Aisha’s brother Saif, whose own charitable vehicle, the Qaddafi Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF), was granted official observer status as a non-governmental organization (NGO) by the U.N. in January 2009.
The UNDP announcement of that status cited a “long and healthy partnership” between the Qaddafi foundation and the U.N., which included “numerous successful projects.”
I think the Gadhafi's fit right in at the UN.
Labels: Ayesha Gadhafi, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, United Nations Development Program
Planes carrying Gadhafi's daughter, daughter-in-law denied landing rights
Two Libyan planes carrying members of dictator Muammar Ghadafi's family have been denied landing rights in the region.
On Tuesday, a private plane carrying ten passengers was denied landing rights at Beirut International Airport. One of the passengers on the plane was
Ghadafi's Lebanese daughter-in-law.
A private Libyan jet that was prevented from landing at Beirut airport was carrying on board the Lebanese wife of one of Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi's sons, Voice of Lebanon radio reported Wednesday.
VDL said Hannibal Gadhafi's wife, who is from the Skaff family, and several members of the ruling family were aboard the jet that Lebanese aviation authorities refused to give the permission to land at Rafik Hariri international airport on Tuesday.
Several Libyan regime figures could have been among the plane's passengers, the radio station said.
As Safir daily said Tuesday that the plane was due to take off from Tripoli's airport before midnight but Lebanese authorities asked Libya to unveil the identity of the 10 people on board before allowing the jet to land in Lebanon.
When the Libyans ignored the Lebanese request, authorities in Beirut ordered airport officials to ask the pilot to divert the plane to a nearby country, either Syria or Cyprus.
At least that plane apparently never took off. Another plane carrying members of Gadhafi's family - including his daughter Ayesha - was denied landing rights in Malta on Wednesday afternoon despite being in the air and
claiming to be low on fuel.
Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET: Al-Jazeera TV correspondent Cal Perry reports that Gadhafi's only daughter, Ayesha, was aboard the plane that sought to land at Malta. Perry, quoting Maltese government sources, reports from Valletta, the capital, that at one point the Libyan ambassador to Malta was brought in to take part in negotiations with the pilot of the plane, who claimed he was running low on fuel. When Maltese authorities declared it an unscheduled flight that would not be allowed to land, the pilot said it was actually the scheduled flight from the previous day that was delayed. Perry says the plane circled for about 45 minutes before turning back.
Earlier posting: Al-Jazeera TV quotes a source inside the Maltese government as saying that a Libyan plane carrying the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sought to land on the island nation this evening but was turned back.
The news network quotes the unidentified source as saying there were 14 people aboard the plane that circled for several minutes before behind denied landing rights.
Troops were sent to guard the runaway when the unidentified plane first approached the island.
Al-Jazeera suggests that the main reason for refusing to let the plane land was for security reasons by an increasingly nervous Maltese government and not specifically because it may have carried Gadhafi's daughter.
Hmmm. If I'm Gadhafi (God forbid), I'm saying to myself that the only way to survive is to put down the revolt.
Unless the 'international community' is willing to send troops in, there's a much worse bloodbath ahead in Libya.
Labels: Ayesha Gadhafi, Hannibal Gadhafi, Lebanon, Libyan regime change, Malta
Ayesha Gadhafi, the daughter of you know who, is accusing the Libyan rebels of arming Hamas and Hezbullah. 
