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Gaddafi son says Iraqi resistance is legitimate
Reuters | January 28, 2004

Posted on 01/27/2005 11:40:25 PM PST by HAL9000

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's politically influential son said on Thursday that armed resistance to U.S.-led multinational forces in Iraq was legitimate but condemned the killing of innocent hostages.

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had called the war in Iraq illegal, key members of the Security Council had opposed it and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction -- the main reason Washington gave for invading Iraq -- removed any moral justification for military action.

"The result is clear -- that it's an illegal occupation and therefore people should resist it," Gaddafi told journalists at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

He said U.S. soldiers had robbed Iraqis of their honour and dignity by entering homes and humiliating men in front of their families.

"Then every rational person would say it's legitimate and they have a right (to resist)," he said.

However, he said there were also gangsters and "crazy people" operating in Iraq and there was no moral justification for kidnapping innocent people, journalists or contract workers or beheading hostages.

Militants have taken large numbers of people hostage in Iraq in the past year, including more than 120 foreigners. Many have been killed by their captors.



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1 posted on 01/27/2005 11:40:27 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Should one care what the dictators son, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi has to say? I am now quite upset that I wasn't invited to Davos. The riff raff they let in. Hey Seif, here's a hard question...forget about Iraq...what is your opinion on Libyan democracy?


2 posted on 01/27/2005 11:52:22 PM PST by spyone
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To: HAL9000
As much as I hate to admit it, this sheethead is correct.

US servicemen and Iraqi police/army members are legitimate targets.

However, the chicken-shiz terrorists don't have the cojones to come after armed and alert men; they have to capture and behead unarmed innocents instead.

3 posted on 01/27/2005 11:54:31 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: HAL9000
His dictator father is responsible for the murder of hundreds of other peoples' children.
He should shut up.
4 posted on 01/28/2005 12:02:42 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: HAL9000

We killed the wrong kid in the bombing raid.


5 posted on 01/28/2005 12:15:05 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: HAL9000

Watch your mouth boy or all the work your daddy has done to change things in our relations will be for naught.


6 posted on 01/28/2005 6:23:07 AM PST by conservativecorner
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