Gaddafi's daughter urges Libyans to overthrow the government
Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the slain Libyan leader, has called for the overthrow of Libya's interim government in an audio message aired on Syrian-based Arrai television.
"Avenge the blood of your martyr. Revolt against the new government," she said in the remarks broadcast yesterday.
Aisha fled to Algeria in August along with her mother and two of her brothers.
They were allowed to enter the country on humanitarian grounds.
She stressed that her father Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed on October 20 after his capture by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council, "did not abandon" Libya's people.
Her comments are thought to be in violation the an exile agreement with Algeria to refrain from any political activity.
However she already made similar comments back in September, when she denounced the NTC as "traitors" and called on the Libyan people to rise up against the new rulers.
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Joe Xuereb
Dec 2nd 2011, 12:59
Alfred Falzon, I take your point. Of course the RC Church has had its dark episodes before the Enlightenment. But I am talking about the here and now when I do not need to fear being infatu(fatwa)ted by the Church. Many of whose followers would no doubt lynch me and clamour for the death penalty generally. Yes Falzon, Europe is civilised in spite of the odd glitch here and there, but fatwas, never. What religions' followers wish and pray for, for the ungodly, that is so not my business. Not any more. Thanks for commenting. I love and appreciate feedback. It keeps me on my arthritic toes and my rheumatic fingers a-tapping-tap-tap-tap.
PS Yes, I remember the 'interdett', the mortal sin, the threat of burial on the 'miżbla'(rubbish dump). And don't I know it! My father in particular was a victim of that and as a boy I shared his anger and his despair. That was way after the Enlightenment. of course. And it would not surprise me if it happened again. But of course, we are talking of events in Malta, an island unique in the world and not always in a good sense of the word. It pains me.
John Azzopoardi
Dec 2nd 2011, 10:54
I think that she needs to be quiet and be careful she says in order to protect her remaining family members and young children. People never learn. I suppose she is getting suicidal.
Hossam Helwani
Dec 2nd 2011, 10:50
the day will soon come to her when she has to present her outstanding bills to the libyan people.
Then she can answer to her extremem wealth and her extreme extravagant way she was sucking on libyan assets.
I dont think she is taken seriously. But she will be brought to justice for sure.
Mr andreas bone
Dec 2nd 2011, 04:26
lol, seriously? instead of stuffing her mouth with a soft toy and keep a low profile she goes blabbering around? oh dear....
Joe Xuereb
Dec 2nd 2011, 12:35
The power crazy tend to blabber on, unaware of their madness. Even from the photograph, it is obvious that she is suffering from a deep-seated insanity, inherited, no doubt, from you know who. It is a family thingy. All because they were intoxicated with a power craze. Power is attained through personal (inner) growth, with true, no-nonsense humility, and not through flaunting one's 'riches' and blackmailing others into submission with stupid threats on YouTube. See what happens!
The best is yet to come.
I just lurv the defiant - l-isfida - look in the painted eyes, the arrogance, the controlling arm gestures, not unlike a bullfighter urging the beast to attack. Madness, total and utter madness. She'll be gored. And she won't be missed. Just like daddy. And we all know how he ended up.
And the best is yet to come. That much I promise. And I can say this, because, unlike some - you know who you are - I had no investment in Gaddafi's Libya. My hands and my heart are clean.
Joe Xuereb
Dec 2nd 2011, 00:58
When people go on about Gaddafi and his clan living in the lap of luxury; I think they are missing the point (and it also betrays the very common resentment of the 'poor' against the 'rich'). For sure, the clan lived in luxury. And interestingly, daddy gaddafi - may he rest in hell - always paraded his origins wearing traditional clothes and sleeping in tents when away from homebase. This was his provocative way of saying, 'you are dealing with a powerful oil-rich guy so eat my ass'. I was saying, yes they lived in luxury and not some dingy bedsitter in downtown Tripoli. But really, what they were about was power and wielding it. And this delirious intoxication and power - and keeping it - is the stuff of madness. Dawk li Alla jrid jeqred, l-ewwel iġenninhom (they whom god* would destroy, first he drives them mad).
Aisha, in appearance an attractive woman because of the artifice? in spite of it? She is spouting from the safety of another welcoming country. Careful there, madam. They could turn on you any minute. Certainly, you could not plead with the Libyans on Libyan soil. Your lipstick would be smudged something dreadful in next to no time. And you would end up pleading 'ridi pagliaccio' (laugh clown!) while savouring the dirt. Not a happy sight.
* There are instances when belief in god can be useful. And Christianity does not do fatwas which is equally useful. Thank god Europe is civilised, and enlightened with it.
Alfred Falzon
Dec 2nd 2011, 09:50
@ Joe Xuereb
Quoting from your highly interesting comment posted today:
"And Christianity does not do fatwas..."
You must be alluding to the REAL Christianity, the one espoused by Christ himself, and not to the one practised by the Medici Popes, Templars and Crusaders, the Spanish Inquisition and its branches overseas, and, more recently, by those who imposed mortal sin on anyone voting for a party that fell foul of the Catholic Church's favour as was the case in Malta in the early Sixties when exemplary Maltese citizens, who died in those dark days, were vilified by forcefully being buried in "unsacred" ground called "il-mizbla" (dung hill) in Malta's only public cemetery!
Is that also a definition of "enlightened Europe"?
Michael Camileri
Dec 1st 2011, 13:06
lol, Does she really want to draw attention to herself so the ICC can have her hanged, like Saif will be.
Mark Vella
Dec 1st 2011, 09:25
i don't think she saw how much libyans loved her father on youtube....
Patrick Gafa
Dec 1st 2011, 08:09
This is the greed to hang on to power as much as they can. Naturally it was good to live like Millionaires with no such real effort.
Perhaps she wants to continue on the steps of her beastly father. She should be thrown in with all her family for being partners in crime. If she's in favour of what her father did - she's to be locked away.
Ms.D. Galea
Nov 30th 2011, 23:47
Stop talking garbage woman and concentrate instead on preparing your brother Seif Al Islam's legal defence for when he gets dragged in court to face his consequences of his crimes against humanity.
Alfred Falzon
Nov 30th 2011, 22:16
Aisha Kadhafi must be living in a world of her own!
What cheek! What impudence!
She remains conveniently estranged from the state of medieval deprivation in which her father's inner clan had reduced the rest of the Libyan people!
Of course, Aisha Kadhafi, like the rest of the Kadhafis, was no ordinary mortal!
For the Kadhafis were all born with a silver spoon in their mouth!
Their hedonistic and lavish lifestyle, sumptuous villas and palazzos, unrestrainable arrogance and corruption, all bear bear witness to this!
Bill Khan
Dec 1st 2011, 20:09
@ Alfred Falzon
The question is has she the right to say and urge her people to rise up against the 'corrupt' government, which is not elecetd and has come through with the help of the outside powers. The reason her father was brutally murdered with the full conivance of these powers was to send out a message to people like her to stay way clear of Libya. But she seems brave enouigh to speak up. of course she should face trial if she is charged of anything beyond a life of luxuary. Otherrwise she should be free to come to Libya and stand for any future elections. if people depose their trust in her so be it. that is the essence of democracy i should think.
Alfred Falzon
Dec 1st 2011, 22:31
@ Bill Khan
The NTC is not Libya's Government, it's a transitional one which will pave the way to a democratically elected Government in due time.
If Aisha Kadhafi, who is still adamant in supporting her now defunct father's brutal regime in spite of its heinous crimes against humanity, feels strongly about contesting any future elections in her home country, let it be so, but with the proviso that she committed no crime and is ready to abide by the new Constitution of Libya in which the fundamental human rights of all citizens will be finally enshrined!
Her vindictive appeal to Libyans to revolt is pathetic and vitriolic in light of the 42-year one-party rule imposed on her people by a restricted clan led by her very father, the torture of thousands of political prisoners, the massacres committed by his corrupt and brutal regime responsible for the killing of more than 50,000 civilians, including children, and the maiming of around 20,000 others, not including the rasing of whole towns and villages by his murderous armed forces using tanks and heavy weaponry!
And who are her people? Those her father lambasted as "cockroaches" and "rats" or the ones that formed a privileged inner clan wallowing in sleaze and corruption, wealth and lavish spending, treating their servants like trash to the point of scalding them as a punishment for refusing to beat toddlers?
Those who led a miserable life in serfdom or the ones who called themselves "Muslims", while leading a hedonistic life in exclusive surroundings with large quantities of wines and spirits bottles hidden inside their sumptuous villas and five-star hotels abroad with luxurious cars and foreign maidens to boot?!!!
Is this the type of "democracy" and "social justice" that Aisha Kadhafi has in her twisted and fiendish mind?
Bill Khan
Dec 2nd 2011, 14:39
@Alfred Falzon
Listening to one Ameican professor/author who said that 'an esimated 150,000 lbans were kileld in the conflict cated and aided by the three stooges. That Attack on Iran will case the deaths of roughly 2 million people, but all off camera.' On caera we all saw the nuder of Gaddafi by those who held him. An American ex-congressman who was caught up in the Libyan conflict gave an interview hat the french and Dutch solders went round villages decapitating libyan both pro-and anti -Gaddafi just o drive home the message who was inchage in the area.
As i mentioned if there are any chages against Aisha Gaddafi aside from being the daghter of a leader who ruled Libya for almst half a century and who right up to febuary this year was hugged and kissed by most European leaders she shul be brought to justice thugh the courts and not through the way her father and brother suffered. If not she has every right to rally people against the cockroaches who may be interim but unelected nevertheless.
Jeusu (peace be upon him) did say he who is innocent cast the first stone.
As per ammnesty international and human rihts watch the violaton of human rights caried out by the cockroaches were far greater. But snce they were supported by the stooges no action wll ever be taken against them. But then perhaps they are innocent snce they have not yet been tried,
Alfred Falzon
Dec 2nd 2011, 22:42
@ Bill Khan
You don't seem to be too anxious to get the message or read between the lines in my comments, for you have always striven to minimize the Kadhafi regime's atrocities and kept on hammering the same apologetic stance since the very start of the Libyan Uprising.
You have nonetheless a right to your own opinion and I respect it as befits a member of a democratic society, but in the Kadhafi regime days this was NEVER the case and several were those Libyan citizens who had to seek exile rather than face a firing squad or death by hanging! This is the bare truth and nothing but the truth!
Pejorative terms like "cockroaches" and "rats" are a reminder of a time when serfs had to bow in humiliation to their mighty Overlord for fear of being sent to the gallows or butchered on site by his henchmen! It was Kadhafi who used such odious language in his orgy of hatred for his people who rose against the injustices of a brutal regime! Very much unbecoming of an assuming leader who even posed at times as an African Chieftan!
Aisha is lucky to have been spared together with her young one/s. May her innocent child/ren find shelter from the filth and the threats of fire and brimstone that their tyrant grandfather was wont to cast on Libya's innocent children and their parents prior to the start of the Revolution! May they be able to taste the joy of freedom in a new and democratic Libya and actively participate in their country's development and prosperity in the years to come!
Gone are the days when Libya was likened to a rogue country, blackmailing other nations and accused of being a haven for terrorists with an eye on chemical weapons!
Aisha must now decide: either atone for her father's heinous crimes against humanity or face oblivion in her hysterical folly and hallucinations!
The Algerian Government is now expected to abide by international law and warn Aisha that she can no longer abuse of their hospitality (she was granted asylum on "humanitarian grounds", we are told) and remain immune to extradition and face charges if any!
Abigail Attard
Nov 30th 2011, 20:28
She should keep her mouth shut or she will end up like her father and brother...i dont get it!! The whole family is not all there in the head!
D.Stallion stewart
Nov 30th 2011, 19:49
Blimey this tart got a mouth and half, will someone shut it for her permanently/-
Mr Philip Micallef
Nov 30th 2011, 19:32
It is all in the family. Madness galore..............
Wilfred Camilleri
Nov 30th 2011, 18:59
Aisha fled to Algeria in August along with her mother and two of her brothers and hey were allowed to enter the country on humanitarian grounds. This family is not human and Aisha should be prosecuted for inciting sedition.
Robert Calafato
Nov 30th 2011, 21:47
She would be inciting sedition if there were a democratically elected govenment in Libya. So far, this is not the case.
MALCOLM SEYCHELL
Nov 30th 2011, 18:56
She should contest the elections in Libya, she will surely get some votes as NTC is proving to be xejnsew.com
Mr Charles.C. Brown
Nov 30th 2011, 20:57
Yes i see no reason why Aisha shouldnt contest the comming libyan elections , its democratic libya now after all...or is it!!
Mr Marko Porenta
Nov 30th 2011, 17:06
isn't this his "dead" daughter??? I hope Algeria will exile her out from the country because she has offended the agreement with it
Charmaine Marmara'
Nov 30th 2011, 16:30
you are expired now aisha , its over and you will get what your father got ....
Malcolm Mifsud
Nov 30th 2011, 16:06
Get lost
Mr Carl Abela
Nov 30th 2011, 18:17
Can u refrain from putting Dr. Gonzi in this story??? and What does the prim minister got to do with this???
victor caruana
Nov 30th 2011, 16:01
Aisha, you are putting GonziPN in a fix. Gonzi+ is having nightmares of showering praise and honours on the Gaddafi's again in the future.
Joe Spiteri
Nov 30th 2011, 16:41
Very funny! You must be one of those poor guys who only live and dream Red or Blue! Such a pity.
Philip Hili
Nov 30th 2011, 15:55
Are the Algerina authorities going to extradite her to the International Court?
John Busuttil
Nov 30th 2011, 15:48
She is a monster with good looks...she should be given the same ritual as her monster daddy and brother..and hope the other brother will get his soon enough....If she wants a revolution she should do more than her mouse of a father did...(tried to run away and hiding where mice live)..go aisha to Libya and start the revolution....another monster must bite the dust!!!
Mr Tony Gatt
Nov 30th 2011, 14:51
I'm sure she and her cronies have taken enough loot out of Libya to be able to live in comfort for many years- if someone doesn't take it into their hear to end her exile permanently.
Kenneth Cassar
Nov 30th 2011, 14:44
Will she ever learn to shut up, or will she have to be made to?
Luke Stivala
Nov 30th 2011, 15:41
women ( and im not sexist) never shut up !!!!!
Cristina Cefai
Nov 30th 2011, 21:03
@ Luke Stivala : Your comment makes SO much sense. Great argument.
R ferriggi
Nov 30th 2011, 14:34
take care of her before she creates trouble.
unfotunately,,,,,,,,,,,,,thats the only way.
she only knows the method of the sword.
give her the sword.
Peter Agius
Nov 30th 2011, 14:46
Rightly so.
Carmel Farrugia
Nov 30th 2011, 15:04
I had thought that the Libyan people shed their blood for democracy and the freedom of speech. Well if what you are suggesting is carried the Libyan people will only have changed one dictator with another.
Please choose the reason of your report below: