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.
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?
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.
We killed the wrong kid in the bombing raid.
Watch your mouth boy or all the work your daddy has done to change things in our relations will be for naught.
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