Let's Pay Tribute to Muammar Gaddafi the Bully of Africa
Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info
Here is my tribute to the great Muammar Gaddafi, but first, some history.
In 1985 Charles Ghankay Taylor "escaped" out of the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, USA. Twenty-five years later, Charles Taylor, who is now facing trial for war crimes in the Hague, broke silence and admitted in July 2009 that the US government aided him out of jail on September 15, 1985. He was being held in Massachusetts by the American government to face embezzlement charges levied by President Samuel Doe of Liberia, under whom Taylor served as the purchasing agent in the GSA (General Services Agency). According to President Doe, Taylor stole about one million dollars, banked the money in America, before fleeing there.
Upon his staged escape, Charles Taylor found his way to Libya, probably invited there by a man who, like Taylor, harbored animus toward the Liberian leader. Muammar Gaddafi did more than host Taylor. Gaddafi trained the Liberian and his 168 recruits in gorilla warfare before unleashing them on Liberia.
Gaddafi's disdain for Doe began in the early 1980s after Samuel Doe overthrew the Liberian government on April 12, 1980 in a bloody coup. When the Liberian leader returned from a meeting of the OAU (Organization of African Unity), he ranted on national TV about how he almost got into a fist fight with Gaddafi. Whereas Doe boasted of settling scores with Gaddafi in a duo, the more flamboyant Gaddafi had a greater fight in mind.
The enmity between Doe and Gaddafi may have arisen from Doe giving in to American pressure to stop completion of the Libyan cultural center in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Up to that point, Doe and Gaddafi appeared to have a working relationship. When Doe converted the magnificent building to other use, Gaddafi counted him another American puppet on African soil.
In September 1990, the joint dream of Gaddafi and Taylor became reality, as Doe fell into the merciless hands of Prince Johnson, who led a breakaway faction of Taylor's NPFL (National Patriotic Front of Liberia). I will never forget the day; I was then one of some 20,000 struggling refugees cramped in the Liberian refugee camp in Ghana.
However, the death of Samuel Doe did not halt the Liberian War. If anything, Doe's death exacerbated the war, and it raged on for another thirteen years, eventually killing an estimated quarter million Liberians, dispersing nearly 1,000,000 as IDPs, refugees and exiles. Many Liberians identified three bloodstained pairs of hands in the Liberian carnage: Doe, Taylor, and Gaddafi.
Liberia was not the only victim of Gaddafi the wealthy, brutal bully. He weaponized unrests in Sudan, Chad, Egypt, etc. He funded terrorist attacks in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Germany. And who can forget Gaddafi's hand in the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103, killing all passengers and crew?
Did I glory in the gory displays of Gaddafi's body by Libya's NTC (National Transitional Council) fighters on Thursday, October 20, 2011? Ironically, Gaddafi was killed on our daughter's seventh birthday. A twisted birthday present for our girl from the mysterious fingers of fate?
And the way he was captured ... hiding inside a sewage hole, cowering from the fangs of death, seemingly his favorite entertainment when he was the one on stage! Naturally, something in me said, "Good riddance to the monster who caused the deaths of many fellow Liberians and the destruction of my beloved country! You reap what you sow, MG (which happens to be my initials too)!"
But my ethical sentiments connected with my wife's, who is the better Christian. Suddenly, I got the feelings of a kid who watches his dreaded bully get bullied by one stronger and meaner. Except that Gaddafi was much bloodier than a school-yard bully. He was a mega bully of the entire North African region, and at times of all of Africa. (Not that I approved of America's part in killing Gaddafi...)
May his soul rest in peace? Yep, I think I'd eventually say that, except that there may be no rest in Hell. Unless Allah considers Gaddafi a martyr ... in that case, may the virgins perpetually slay handsome Muammar with cosmic romance.
Meanwhile, take a deep breath, Mother Africa; you have spewed out the big one! But your healing is not complete, as long as Robert Mugabe breathes your Zimbabwean air and preys on your beloved sons and daughters. May he be next in line, and at age 87, he may be a total waste of bullets!
~mogama~
Upon his staged escape, Charles Taylor found his way to Libya, probably invited there by a man who, like Taylor, harbored animus toward the Liberian leader. Muammar Gaddafi did more than host Taylor. Gaddafi trained the Liberian and his 168 recruits in gorilla warfare before unleashing them on Liberia.
Gaddafi's disdain for Doe began in the early 1980s after Samuel Doe overthrew the Liberian government on April 12, 1980 in a bloody coup. When the Liberian leader returned from a meeting of the OAU (Organization of African Unity), he ranted on national TV about how he almost got into a fist fight with Gaddafi. Whereas Doe boasted of settling scores with Gaddafi in a duo, the more flamboyant Gaddafi had a greater fight in mind.
The enmity between Doe and Gaddafi may have arisen from Doe giving in to American pressure to stop completion of the Libyan cultural center in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Up to that point, Doe and Gaddafi appeared to have a working relationship. When Doe converted the magnificent building to other use, Gaddafi counted him another American puppet on African soil.
In September 1990, the joint dream of Gaddafi and Taylor became reality, as Doe fell into the merciless hands of Prince Johnson, who led a breakaway faction of Taylor's NPFL (National Patriotic Front of Liberia). I will never forget the day; I was then one of some 20,000 struggling refugees cramped in the Liberian refugee camp in Ghana.
However, the death of Samuel Doe did not halt the Liberian War. If anything, Doe's death exacerbated the war, and it raged on for another thirteen years, eventually killing an estimated quarter million Liberians, dispersing nearly 1,000,000 as IDPs, refugees and exiles. Many Liberians identified three bloodstained pairs of hands in the Liberian carnage: Doe, Taylor, and Gaddafi.
Liberia was not the only victim of Gaddafi the wealthy, brutal bully. He weaponized unrests in Sudan, Chad, Egypt, etc. He funded terrorist attacks in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Germany. And who can forget Gaddafi's hand in the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103, killing all passengers and crew?
Did I glory in the gory displays of Gaddafi's body by Libya's NTC (National Transitional Council) fighters on Thursday, October 20, 2011? Ironically, Gaddafi was killed on our daughter's seventh birthday. A twisted birthday present for our girl from the mysterious fingers of fate?
And the way he was captured ... hiding inside a sewage hole, cowering from the fangs of death, seemingly his favorite entertainment when he was the one on stage! Naturally, something in me said, "Good riddance to the monster who caused the deaths of many fellow Liberians and the destruction of my beloved country! You reap what you sow, MG (which happens to be my initials too)!"
But my ethical sentiments connected with my wife's, who is the better Christian. Suddenly, I got the feelings of a kid who watches his dreaded bully get bullied by one stronger and meaner. Except that Gaddafi was much bloodier than a school-yard bully. He was a mega bully of the entire North African region, and at times of all of Africa. (Not that I approved of America's part in killing Gaddafi...)
May his soul rest in peace? Yep, I think I'd eventually say that, except that there may be no rest in Hell. Unless Allah considers Gaddafi a martyr ... in that case, may the virgins perpetually slay handsome Muammar with cosmic romance.
Meanwhile, take a deep breath, Mother Africa; you have spewed out the big one! But your healing is not complete, as long as Robert Mugabe breathes your Zimbabwean air and preys on your beloved sons and daughters. May he be next in line, and at age 87, he may be a total waste of bullets!
~mogama~
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Great article Mogama, I realize that the horrible things the man did were unforgiveable. But watching him being brutalized so by those who captured him, and shooting him without putting him through the proper process, made me shudder. And after I learned of the rebel leader's intent to put the country under Sharia law, I wondered if the nation is now much better off. Just thinking. Well written and interesting article.Please log in to respond to this comment."And after I learned of the rebel leader's intent to put the country under Sharia law, I wondered if the nation is now much better off. Just thinking."
Good thinking, Joel. Good thinking. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.Please log in to respond to this comment.
I will be neutral on this my brother. Great things happen in history - in fact the history of politics is the history of murder - you remember what Marcopolo did to the Chinese and Christopher Columbus and his entourage did to the Cherokee indians - most of their women were raped and making them sex slaves as they first did not arrive with their women on the shores of native America. This world throughout the dawn of man has been disgracefully mismanaged. Just consider how Abel was murdered by Cain just for arrogance. And he went on to built a city that he was considered great man of renown literally to the point of being worshiped- forgetting that he killed his brother
Politics equals murder. How many people suffered and died under George Bush in Iraq dropping bombs there for pleasuring and carousing - Americans laughing and calling it shock and awe toasting and drinking wine as they watch on TV bombs thrown down in Iraq as if they are watching action movies
Unfortunately through rhetoric others their bloody clothes are washed and ironed neatly while others through history their clothes remains bloody.Please log in to respond to this comment.Thanks, Chris, for taking time to post your thoughts.
This article is about how Gaddafi, Taylor and Doe destroyed Liberia and killed a quarter million Liberians, and about how "The Law of the Harvest" has worked to repay these men. That others have been murderers too does not diminish what these three big murderers did to Liberia and Liberians. All murderers will get their pay in this life or the next! The law of natural justice can hardly be thwarted. ~mogama~Please log in to respond to this comment.
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