Chemical weapons found in Libya
Mahmoud Jibril
Libya's interim prime minister has confirmed the presence of chemical weapons in Libya and said foreign inspectors would arrive this week to deal with the issue.
Mahmoud Jibril said Libya had no interest in keeping such weapons.
Ansa also quoted him as saying that nuclear weapons had also been found, and this would be confirmed by the International Atomic Agency in the coming days.
"We would like to assure you that the new Libya will be a peaceful Libya and that it is in our interest to have no weapons in Libya," he told reporters.
Last week, Ian Martin, the top United Nations envoy to Libya, told the UN Security Council that undeclared chemical weapons sites had been located.
At the time, he also expressed concern over command and control of chemical and nuclear material sites.
Mr Jibril, who has announced his resignation ahead of the formation of a new interim government, did not provide any details about the weapons.
"There are international organisations taking care of this issue," he said, adding that representatives of those groups were due to arrive in Libya later in the week.
A Russian-drafted UN resolution, to be voted on this week, calls on Libyan authorities to destroy stockpiles of chemical weapons in co-ordination with international authorities.
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Bill Khan
Nov 1st 2011, 18:54
@ Alfred Falzzon
You may find this video interesting. Gen. Wesley Clarke the former Supreme Commander NATO spaeks about seven countries which were to be taken out as per a memo written back in 2001.
From your point this may not be crdeible as this is not certified by Al Jazeera but still it is worth watching.
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/war/-libyan-invasion-was-planned10-years-in-advance-gen-wesley-clarke.htm
Alfred Falzon
Nov 1st 2011, 18:48
Some one-track minded people are inclined to read a lot of trash about Libya's darkest hours and are biased to the extreme paying tribute to tyrants notorious for their inhumanity!
They still refuse to acknowledge that murderer Kadhafi's era is over and, like just like ostriches, they enjoy burying their heads in the sands of time desperately hoping for a return to the good old corrupt Kadhafi clan days!
After all, they have likewise a right to such wishful thinking!
That's what we qualify as freedom of expression, a post-revolution phenomenon that has gripped Libya's free people after decades of oppression and repression during which all opposition was brutally silenced with dissidents vilified and murdered in their thousands by hanging in public or assassinated in filthy coffin-like prisons (Abu Salim in Tripoli) leaving their charred bodies rotting on pavements next to garbage bags!
Martin Cassar
Nov 1st 2011, 16:05
Libya: revolutionaries turn on each other as fears grow for law and order
Hundreds of revolutionaries fought each other at a hospital in Tripoli early on Monday, in the biggest armed clash between allies since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
If media calls those people freedom fighters, what terrorist are?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8860684/Libya-revolutionaries-turn-on-each-other-as-fears-grow-for-law-and-order.html
@ Bill Khan.
Some people down here are waste of time and are programmed not to understand! Please take note and ignore
Alfred Falzon
Oct 31st 2011, 22:33
@ Mark borg, Bill Khan, Victor Bonello and Martin Cassar
Do you really want to know who was this Middle Eastern Hitler and gangster Kadhafi?
Have a look at Memri TV you tube and follow closely what Kadhafi's former female bodyguard, the so-called "Revolutionary nun", had to say about his atrocities, and the way he treated his own people!
A member of his elite female force, recruited to protect the strutting peacock, Aziza Ibrahim in exile in Lebanon and now back in Libya after its LIBERATION, vividly relates how she could not stand any longer watching
young students being executed for manifesting their opposition to ruthless Kathafi in the presence of the killer himself!
As for his countless lies, there is evidence that his once-adopted baby daughter Hana Kadhafi, supposedly killed in a 1986 US airstrike which hit his Tripoli compound at Bab al-Aziziya, is still alive and was seen working as a surgeon at the Tripoli Medical Centre only to disappear some time before the Libyan capital fell to the FREE LIBYAN FIGHTERS.
In fact many are the Tripoli residents who claim to have seen her and expressed their belief that her presumed death was just a myth made up by tyrant Kadhafi to play the victim, drum up sympathy for himself and foment hatred for the West!
Unstable Kadhafi would go to any length to fool those who he thought would never dare question his dictatorship or even rise against his military might which had become a monstrous threat to the rest of the free world!
A dark era which ultimately closed with the ousting and death of a bloodthirsty dictator wallowing in corrupt practices, enjoying the company of foreign parasites and mercenaries bustling around him in a bid to share the spoils with him!
m. borg
Oct 31st 2011, 21:04
If truely chemical weapons were found it is a blessing that they were not used even thou Gadaffi was labelled as a madman.
The crux of the matter is, who provided the weapons or the "know how" to produce them?
mark borg
Oct 31st 2011, 19:39
Why is this Jibrill astonished anyway ?? He was side by side to Ghaddafi,forming part of his regim for many years,so he was aware of most things that were occuring .The man is an opportunist that was used by the west to get their hands on the natural resources of Libya ! He was riding the gravy train in the Ghaddafi days and now rest assured will get his fare share as well !!!
Victor Gelfo
Nov 1st 2011, 06:18
Mr Borg pls know the facts before speaking. Mr Jibril was never part of the gaddafi regime. He is an achademic and lived in exile.
Stop sowing doubts and hate towards the Libyan peole who were enslaved for 42 years.
One think you have to swollow-Gaddafi is now dust in the desert and erased from the people's mind.
Bill Khan
Oct 31st 2011, 17:39
Where did Libya get these chemical weapons from in the first place?
Libya has been a peaceful place for a long time. It invaded no other country e.g Iraq or Afghanistan. Leaders of europe were queueing up for an opportunity to hug and kiss Gaddafi and ask him for money sometimes for fighting their presidential elections.
Libya's peace was broken when the NTC, some call it the NATO Trained Criminals destroyed it.
John Borg
Oct 31st 2011, 23:43
Mr.Khan You seem that you were a very close friend in the circle of the Tyrant Dictator..Hmmm Libya has been peaceful??? Maybe for a guy like you....You must be ashamed to write such nonsence.. No one will believe you, about Libya was a peaceful country,,bcs every body knows the way we were living.. Under the iron Fist,,,
Why are you so surprissed about from where Libya get these chemicals?????? Nothing was difficult for the Dictator Murderer...With our money the Dictator bought every thing illegal in the world...He was the DEVIL,, and worst....
The europe leaders use to kiss the Dictator, bcs he use to give them our MONEY, not his....God help you with your stress, and with your Nasty days...
M Cachia
Nov 1st 2011, 01:38
Your grasp of History always astonishes me. Within the last 40 years Libya has invaded Chad, Egypt and Sudan as well as fighting proxy wars through insurgents in other african nations such as Liberia.
As to were the weapons came from - in all likelyhood Russia or Iran - seeing how these were present prior to thawing of relations with the west!
Bill Khan
Nov 1st 2011, 17:46
@ Mr. M. cachia,
the libyan conflict in Chad goes back even before Gaddafi taking over Libya. The conflict was concerning the Aouzou stip claimed by Libya on the grounds of of an unretified treaty of the colonial powers.
There were reports in July this year that Sudan invaded part of going almost 300km into its territory.
Eygpt i do not think was invaded by Libya. perhaps there were skirmishes but not invasion. Invasions are proper invasions as carried out by the Americans , the british and NATO, like Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya.
Libyans had one of the highest standard of living in the world. education was not only free but was compuislory. I am just quoting an American author;s words i heard on 'Russia Today' only yesterday.
I take your point that perhaps the Russians and the Iranians sold Gaddafi the chemical weapons.
The question remains why did so many waestern leaders queued up to kiss and hug the man? what was so special about him? And why were alleged Al qaida prsioners sent to him by british Mi5 for interrogation and torture. Why was the colonel so trusted by the brtitish and the french leaders?
Maria Brincat
Oct 31st 2011, 16:04
@Victor Bonello
'The torture and murder of Gaddafi' indeed!!
What about all the people who were tortured and executed under his regime??
Well done, NTC...getting rid of these weapons is a massive step forward.
M camilleri
Oct 31st 2011, 15:59
So now there is no problems for Libyans staying in Malta to go back to there country as now they have good rulers and soon they will have democracy .There is no more need to give them refuges status so I hope they will all go to there beloved country and do not forget us Maltese that have helped them for all this years.
Saviour Sam Agius
Nov 1st 2011, 01:50
There are very few Libyans with refugee status in Malta.
John A. Gauci
Oct 31st 2011, 14:06
Not much to comment about this news! It simply shows that Gandaffi was a great liar. Once he declared that he was going to destroy all his chemical weapons
mark borg
Oct 31st 2011, 19:31
If Ghaddafi was a liar (which yes is highly likley in many a cases) but what is this Jibrill than ? He was supposed to know about anything under Ghaddafi regime as he formed part of it for many years. This is a dirty war and an agenda for many countries . Jibrill is just a turcoat that was used by other countries to get what they wanted !
Alfred Falzon
Oct 31st 2011, 11:57
A step in the right direction NTC!
Peace-loving peoples will deeply appreciate such a praiseworthy initiative in consonance with the objectives set by the Libyan interim Council to demilitarize the country and rid itself of stockpiles of dangerous weapons which could fall in the wrong hands!
There are other challenges which the NTC will have to face and hopefully overcome with the help of those who stood by the Libyan people during the dark days following the 17th February Popular Uprising.
victor bonello
Oct 31st 2011, 13:35
the NTC has already started o nthe wrong foot.. hundred of murders have been committed out of vengence. hundreds of people have been exterminated by executions by trigger happy "rebels".. so far we have been promised investigations will be made, but so far we have not heard about the people all the world saw torture and murder Col. Gaddafi.
no replies have been given to the Amnesty report of torture by CIA and M16 in LIbya.. all politicians talk but when it comes to action...... Allaha uwa L Akbar.. He is the one to see and judge!
Bill Khan
Oct 31st 2011, 17:31
@Alfred Falzon
'There are other challenges which the NTC will have to face and hopefully overcome with the help of those who stood by the Libyan people during the dark days following the 17th February Popular Uprising.''
In the horror movies of the past the person helping the helpless mostly used to be the fiend(s) themselves. I am afraid the scenario of Libya is going to unfold in a similar way. The fiends will unflod their fangs at some appropriate time just before the 'The end'!
Martin Cassar
Oct 31st 2011, 18:23
@Alfred Falzon
‘There are other challenges which the NTC will have to face and hopefully overcome with the help of those who stood by the Libyan people during the dark days following the 17th February Popular Uprising.’
--------------------------
Very well said, actually dark days has followed the 17th February chaos. This was not a popularly uprising Mr. Falzon.
What has happened in neighboring Tunis and Egypt, to at a certain extent can be refereed to as spontaneous popular revolutions. However the scenarios in oil-resourceful Libya are completely different. Libya is being raped and now robbed, thanks to what the media still insisting to refers to as rebels and in my books they are just a bunch of turncoats mingled with carpetbaggers to say the least.
Within 9 months Libya has become one of the top ten Africa’s poor countries! Democratic and free Libyans can today join democratic and free Americans along with their English peers to bite the dust and or to protest in Wall Street or London!
Libya: NATO introduces a 480 billion dollar bill in Libya, that is 50 years of Libya’s oil
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/10/30/2625933_libye-l-otan-presente-une-facture-de-480-milliard-de-dollars-a-la-libye-soit-50-ans-de-petrole-libyen-ah-kaddhafi-ou-es-tu.html
You can download the IM translator to read the full article in English please. Thank you and good eve.
mark borg
Oct 31st 2011, 20:26
Instead of supporting lynch mobs by camouflaging them with dreams of democracy, you could try asking them to abstain from looting, raping and vandalizing a defenceless people and trying to bring in Sharia Law.
Jo Meli
Oct 31st 2011, 11:01
Ahh THAT'S a sensible initiative in the right direction for true democracy in Lybia.
WELL DONE to the new Leaders of Free Lybia.
Ian Vella
Oct 31st 2011, 10:24
thank God he didn't use them!
John Micallef
Oct 31st 2011, 09:45
Interessanti nkunu nafu min lima gvern gew! ghax ma nghidux li Gaddafi kellu l-flus u literalment QAHHAB id-dinja!!!
Victor Vella
Oct 31st 2011, 10:17
John I agree with you 100% and the resolution by Russia is worrying to say the least.
michael fenech
Oct 31st 2011, 09:40
@ Silvio Loporto
No Gaddafi never had any decency in him at all, the man was a murderer. The only reason he never used these chemical weapons is because there was a no fly zone and the constant bombardment.
John Borg
Oct 31st 2011, 15:36
Your right Mr. Fenech, There is two reasons why the MURDERER Gaddafi didnt use these chemical weapons, First bcs until the last minute of his misrable Life, he had the hope of taking control again,,, and second is bcs he never in his hole life dreamt that he will end the way he ended,, other wise this Murderer wont think twice to kill all the Libyans, The Dictator was a big Murderer, and im 100% sure that the world have to know more and more, about this Devil Gaddafi, we re not surpprised by any thing they found about him... One day all those people that simpythized with his killing they will know that they were mistaken..
The Libyans Suffered for 42 yrs under his iron fist,, we couldnt even breath....But thanks God, now were free, and at least we can breath...
Mr Paul Borg
Oct 31st 2011, 09:37
Hope that they will indicate the country of origin of these chemical weapons. Well, thay had Mirage Fighters from France....what else??
Martin Cole
Oct 31st 2011, 11:02
What does having French Mirage aircraft have to do with chemical weapons? All large Western countries, Russia, China as well as rogue countries sell military equipment. Suggest you look to rogue states like North Korea and the proxy and terrorist specialist Iran.
victor bonello
Oct 31st 2011, 09:13
We will hear more and more anti Gaddafi propaganda, that will influence the majority of people who have no brains to think with, but allow the media to fill in the little space of grey matter they have in thier skull.
Had Gaddafi really been what they try to portray him to be, he would have used these weapons. He did not use them because either they do not exist ( I never really liked him, but must give him the benefit of the doubt) or because he would not use them on is own people..These weapons were defensive weapons against alien invasion..it happened, but the West was cleaver enough to have some Libyans and Al qada merceniaries do the job for them..
Martin Cole
Oct 31st 2011, 11:15
What's clever about installing a government tied in with Al-Qa'ida and the Muslim Brotherhood, it's a case of going from the frying pan into the fire. It is only a matter of time (during this time the West will use the business opportunity to rebuild Libya making a quick buck while appeasing hideous Islamic ideology) when more aggressive pressure on the West from the future Caliphate.
Lino Sant
Oct 31st 2011, 11:17
Lino s.
No one was capable how to use them, and perhapes they where out date it, also maintance and service for such delicate weapens does'nt exist in Libya.
However they where dangerous to use them also for them selves.
victor bonello
Oct 31st 2011, 13:31
all of this is brought about for money.. it is now an open secret that Gaddafi like Saddam and to some extent the old Shah of Persia were removed because they posed an economcal Threat to USA and /or Europe. Each time any country tries to hold its head up at the same level of America, this is chopped off at any expense, even human lives.
Like Sadam, Gaddafi was trying to unite the arab states to become independent of the US$. Why must they sell thier oil in US currency? The minute Gaddafi suggested to the Arab world the introduction of the Gold dinar.. he was murdered.
To day Iran is labelled a rouge country( again I stress that I am not fan of this place or its leaders) because it will not crawl at US feet..
Some day, all this will become clear to many people who like to investigate what to believe rather than just believe what the American Media dishes out.
Christian Sciberras
Oct 31st 2011, 08:36
Guys, guys!
You'd think the guy that disarmed Malta and southern Europe would go around without defense?
victor caruana
Oct 31st 2011, 08:14
Daqt jghidu li sabu li l-libjani telghu fil-qamar ezatt wara l-amerikani...u halluna ghax l-ahbarijiet saru redikoli u jibilghawhom biss l-imzazen.....l-istorja imbiddlet minn kriminal ghal qabda kriminali.....
Charles J. Buttigieg
Oct 31st 2011, 08:06
Did they find an Alcohol?
Dominic Fenech
Oct 31st 2011, 07:47
"nuclear weapons had also been found"? Steady on.
Joe Attard
Oct 31st 2011, 07:47
Dan messu jaqra KMB tajjeb li tiddefendi lill Gaddafi dawk l-armi kollha hdejna
Charles Busuttil
Oct 31st 2011, 09:20
Isma' bilfors, emmen jekk trid.
mark borg
Nov 1st 2011, 00:16
Waqa l-ghazz ! Ipprova idhol fuq l-internet u fittex fuq l eluf ta bombi li tefghu l Americani gol Libja u tara l-URANIUM li jikkontjenu il CRUISE MISSILES u tara x effeti koroh jistu jolqotna lilna hawnhekk bil BLOW -BACK taghhom ! tinsiex li Tripoli anqas min mitejn kilometro bghod hawn sa Malta . Ara gewwa FALLUGIA go L-Iraq x effeti koroh qed ibghatu it tfal li qed jitwieldu illum sa 10 snin wara !! qabel ma toqghod titkaza b' KMB !
Carmel Cilia
Oct 31st 2011, 07:41
Kos hux jaf konna f'periklu car u ma konniex nafu, anzi hadd ma qalilna xejn. Min jaf x'kien dak il-hoss kbir li sehh il-Hadd wara nofinhar f'Gunju li ghadda. Dik il-gimgha kumbinazzjoni gie b'girja l-Ammirall kap tan Nato.Forsi xi darba tletin jew hamsin sena ohra ikollna xi Wikileak u nkunu nafu ezatt x'sehh.
VV Bartolo
Oct 31st 2011, 07:52
jekk dak il--hoss kien konness ma xi missila jew xi haga simili u jekk il-ammiral kap tan-nato zarna b'konnesjoni ma dan l-incident, il-gvern malti hu responsabbli li jinfurma lic-cittadini maltin u ghawdxin. dan hiuwa fl-interess taghna li nkunu nafu! mhux barranin jafu x'inhu ghaddej u lilna jdawrulna l-fatti!! sur prim ministru ftakar li l-gzejjer maltin huma taghna daqs kemm huma tieghek!!!
Wenzu Vella
Oct 31st 2011, 07:55
Sur Cilia, Dawk kienu ajruplani ta NATO jabbuzaw mil-larja spazjali Maltijja b’velocita ta sound barrier. Dak lammiral gi Malta biex taparsi jar il Port il Kbir kemm hu sabieh. Ha ha..
Jay Oatmon
Oct 31st 2011, 07:34
Obviously Ghadaffi was a dedicated liar as well as a tyrant, and those that supported him outside Libya were easily misled by him it seems.
To me I saw no reason to believe him on anything - he was so weird and unpredictable.
Wenzu Vella
Oct 31st 2011, 07:49
Mr Oatmon, simply, Gaddafi was of the same mould of George Bush and Tony Blair.
silvio loporto
Oct 31st 2011, 08:10
What really baffles me is ,how come Gaddafi being such a ruthless person,did not use any of these dangerous weapons,when he found himself back to the wall,and there were no chances for him to win.
Are we to understand that he had a small streak of decency in him,after all?
Joe Gatt
Oct 31st 2011, 08:53
Any guarantees that all the Warships entering our Grand Harbour do not carry Nuclear, Chemical and or Biological Weapons?
Weapons of Mass Destuctions they are called. Can anyone guarantee that no accident will happen during their stay.
Something tells me that, Weapons of Mass Destruction are not manufactured out of an Act Of Love, are they??
Philip Grech
Oct 31st 2011, 09:28
Then Ghaddafi was more a gentleman than was pictured by the west, because if he was the tyrant they were saying he was, he would have used them.
Alfred Falzon
Oct 31st 2011, 12:09
Defunct tyrant Kadhafi was simply a gangster and murderer of his people!
Trigger-happy and a showbusinessman!
Wallowing in corrupt practices with a clan of parasites bustling around him!
Nostalgic of bedouin tents but living in posh villas and sumptuous palaces!
A so-called Muslim with large quantities of bottles of liquor, wine and spirits and a FATWA on his head!
George Smith
Oct 31st 2011, 07:29
Kemm irijdu nisemaw iktar. Grazzi Mulej li zammejtna il boghod minn dan kollu. Malta kien ikun l-ewwel pajjiez li jintlaqat.