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Gaddaffi’s Last Formal Speech To the People of Libya


Libya: Gaddafi’s Last Testament

~ by Muammar Gaddafi, April 17, 2011 ~

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful…

rescued for 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert.

I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.

I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more.

They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed “democracy” and “freedom” never realizing it was a cut throat system where “the biggest dog eats the rest”, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.

No matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination – from thieves who would steal from us.

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery called “capitalism”, but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.

So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters.

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.

When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself…

In the West, some have called me “mad”, “crazy”, but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.

— Mu’ammar Qaddafi.

Facts about Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
• There was no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free … for all its citizens.
• There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
• If a Libyan is unable to find employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
• Should Libyans want to take up a farming career, they receive farm land, a house, equipment, seed and livestock to kick start their farms –this was all for free.
• Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
• A home was considered a human right in Libya. (In Qaddafi’s Green Book it states: “The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others.”)
• All newlyweds in Libya would receive 60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start a family.
• A portion of Libyan oil sales is or was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
• A mother who gives birth to a child would receive US $5,000.
• When a Libyan buys a car, the government would subsidizes 50% of the price.
• The price of petrol in Libya was $0.14 per liter.
• For $ 0.15, a Libyan local could purchase 40 loaves of bread.
• Education and medical treatments was all free in Libya. Libya can boast one of the finest health care systems in the Arab and African World. All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines, completely free of charge.
• If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government would fund them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2,300/month accommodation and car allowance.
• 25% of Libyans have a university degree. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 87%.
• Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – though much of this is now frozen globally.




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People will still argue this is not true. But I know. I did a research work on Gadafi and Kiing Idris before him years ago in the university and when I watched on Al jazeera and CNN libya going down in flames with citizens beating Gadaffi to death, as a Nigerian with the kind of leadership we have had over the years, I wept for Libya. Many who were aware of the goodness of life Libyans had, wept for them when they bought into the treacherous plan of the west. One thing is certain the real Libya a country with the best living standard for her citizens in the world is gone forever. They may never know peace again.

them kill the man for nothing

food4otukotu:
them kill the man for nothing

Obama is a disappointment, he has a larger share in the cause of Qaddafi's death and he is a disappointment to the black race

azimibraun:
People will still argue this is not true.

Have you forgotten the local adage 'the truth is bitter' but the fact is that our people have chosen to believe what is false and avoid anything that is true

Aregs:
Have you forgotten the local adage 'the truth is bitter' but the fact is that our people have chosen to believe what is false and avoid anything that is true

My brother can I fit Shout? The west sang the praise of Nelson Mandela and condemned Gadafi yet Nelson Mandela held Gadafi in high respect as the Man who gave his all to ensure south Africa was free. Nigerians were singng " free Mandela" while Gadaffi was funding the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Madiba respected Gadaffi.

U don't know wat u have until u loose it. Isis don over run Libya finish

Libya was prosperous under Gaddaffi, the country was a paradise in Africa, a nation free from the grip of neo-colonialism, a model African state until Obama and his cronies started spreading lies and gullible Africans believed, they all stood by and watched as the usa and nato destroyed Africa's own.
What was the war for? To steal Libya's wealth of course.
Libya cannot be the same again.

Barack Obama!!! You have murdered sleep.

The western power destroyed a good legacy for their selfish intent

azimibraun:
My brother can I fit Shout? The west sang the praise of Nelson Mandela and condemned Gadafi yet Nelson Mandela held Gadafi in high respect as the Man who gave his all to ensure south Africa was free. Nigerians were singng " free Mandela" while Gadaffi was funding the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Madiba respected Gadaffi.

Africa was misinformed while they ought to have stood against the invasion of the continent

To us, we need America, but the real truth is America badly need other people's wealth to survive.

They steal without shame, all these has been happening since the time of slavery to colonization then to modern slavery /colonization.

Reason why Russia hates America and Europe with passion. They live on others wealth. Their atrocities against Africa is legendary.

Not their fault though, it was the extreme foolishness/cowardice of our forefathers that gave them the chance. Our forefathers down to our fathers today can still be seen as foolish and stupid with their level of corruption. Our generation still suffer this foolishness.

The deed has been done and above all I weep for Africa as a whole we will never have a United Africa. We've lost most of the true Pan-Africans, the likes Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara, Muammar Quaddafi, Nelson Mandela and others.

It's a classical example of chicken coming home to roost. The only true pan Africanist, who had the interest of the continent at heart. Who stood up to the colonialist.