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GADHAFI HEADS UN HUMAN RIGHTS? INSANE POCKETS
BULGE!
By Pastor Grant Swank, Jr. (posted 1/21/03)
It’s another shock wave throughout the sane global community. Libya has
just been voted to head the UN Commission on Human Rights. The US,
Canada and apparently Guatemala were the sole three to vote against the
proposition. Proceedings on January 20 were by secret ballot in Geneva.
It was the Africans’ turn to select the commission head. They went for
Libya, no doubt because Colonel Moammar Gadhafi has been courting them
vigorously, particularly by paying off various African countries’ debts.
All this adds up to a terrorist country surveying the state of global terrorism.
Gadhafi’s regime has been accused of kidnapping and torturing enemies to
his rule, openly endorsing terrorist groups such as the Irish Republican
Army and is alleged to have bombed in 1988 the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie,
Scotland.
Welcome, Chairman Gadhafi to this new power position where you may
once again parade your ad infinitum verbalizations, posh fashion outfits and
ever present honorable appearing smile.
The commission’s leadership is a rotating one, circling the UN’s five
geographical areas. It was the African region’s turn at the headship. Libya
was the only country nominated by the African delegation. Libya has not
enjoyed a free election since Gadhafi took power in 1969.
His election "poses a real test" for the UN commission, stated Joanna
Weschler, the UN rep for Human Rights Watch. Amnesty International
stated concern that approximately 150 persons opposed to Gadhafi are
facing trial later this month; it is feared they may not receive a fair hearing.
But Hassuna Shawush, Libyan Foreign Ministry spokesman, said from
Tripoli, that the vote for Gadhafi was "a shining victory which gives back their
rights to the oppressed peoples. It showed "historic world recognition that
Libya has a clean sheet with regards to human rights."
As to Libya’s terrorist linkups, the US State Department and Council on
Foreign Affairs add them up to include:
An American in Lebanon sold to Libya and then murdered in 1986.
Libyans try to blow up the US embassy in Togo in 1986.
The bombing of a West Berlin disco in 1986. American soldiers
frequented there. Three persons were killed, two being US service
personnel.
Abu Nidal, representing Libya, hijacks Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi,
Pakistan in 1987 with several Americans murdered during the ordeal.
In 1988, a ***anese Red Army operative with bombs was kept in
custody in New Jersey. He planned to attack a US military base,
such coinciding with the second anniversary of the US air strikes on
Libya.
Two Libyan agents in 1988 were alleged to have bombed Pan Am
Flight 103 — 270 killed, 200 being Americans.
In 1988 Libyans bombed US libraries in Peru, Colombia, and Costa
Rica.
Libyan masterminds engaged Chicago hoodlums to shoot down in
1989 US airliners with shoulder-fired missiles. The plot was foiled.
Libya is alleged to have been involved in the 1989 bombing of a
French airliner over Niger. Also, in 1999, six Libyans were convicted
by a French court for their part in the attack.
Libyans are believed to have killed Libyan opposition political leaders
living in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. Also, experts conclude that
Libya supported schemes to assassinate the heads of Chad, Egypt,
Suda, Tunisia and Zaire.
Libya has given training and weaponry, money and safety to
Palestinian terrorist organizations as well as to the Irish Republican
Army, the Basque separatist group ETA, and Sierra Leone’s
Revolutionary United Front.
In 1999, Libya gave aid to a Philippine terrorist outfit with ties to
Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
Monday’s vote will simply further Gadhafi’s revolutionary goal of establishing
himself and his regime as a legitimate voice in the world community, while
all along continuing ties with terrorists groups worldwide.
Further, he has made it known that one day his agents will see through
their attacks in North America. In 1986, Gadhafi spoke to the
Organization of Non-Aligned States: "I will do everything in my power
to divide the world into imperialists and freedom-fighters."
He went on to elaborate that any violence against an "imperialist" nation
would be honorable. Those perpetrating the violence would not be
"terrorists" but "freedom fighters" for "national liberation can only be
achieved through armed struggle."
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