2011/08/03

Pravda: Gaddafi's Troops Booby Trap Installations in Brega Oil Port!

Moammar Gaddafi's troops have booby-trapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega, so that they can be easily blown up, if his troops have to vacate that town. Mahmoud Jibril, who is with the "rebels" also indicated that Libya's leader has booby-trapped his oil fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert. Almost a quarter of a century after his release from jail, for plotting a coup against Colonel Muammer Gaddafi, ex-Libyan air force officer Atia Omer Elmansouri has rebelled again. Wearing an outsize grey jacket that made his already small frame look shrunken, the 67 year-old former pilot styled himself a "wise man", who saw the Libyan leader's true nature soon after he took power in 1969, but I am sorry for others who co-operated with him, if they knew his reality or not, reflected Mr. Elmansouri. If they have done some corruption, they have to face the law, when we build our government and our democratic institutions. The effort to find more assets connected to Gaddafi's regime will continue, so that the opposition can try to claim that these assets belong to the Libyan people. Jibril's visit to Spain came a day after France's foreign minister suggested that a possible way out of Libya's civil war would be to allow Moammar Gaddafi to stay in the country, if he relinquishes power. Jiminez said that Spain's position is that it would be up to Libya's people to decide whether Gaddafi should stay or go, echoing comments issued a day earlier by White House spokesman Jay Carney. Gaddafi has insisted he will neither step down nor flee the country he has led for more than four decades.

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