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Thursday, June 11, 2009

[chottala.com] GADDAFI IN ROME: NO TO TERRORISM, DETECT REASONS BEHIND IT



GADDAFI IN ROME: NO TO TERRORISM, DETECT REASONS BEHIND IT
(ANSAmed) - ROME - ''We are against terrorism and we condemn it'' but ''we must try to understand the real reasons behind this pernicious phenomenon'', said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during his speech to the Italian Senate. We need to ''hold talks even with the devil, if that will help us understand terrorism''. ''What is the difference between the US attack against our homes'', he then asked, during his speech in the Sala Zuccari at Palazzo Giustiniani, ''and Bin Laden's terror attacks?''. ''While Bin Laden has no country and is an outlaw, the United States of America is a country abiding to international laws''. Due to the USA intervention, Gaddafi added, Iraq has become ''an open arena'' for al Qaeda terrorists. ''Iraq was a fortress against terrorism'', he explained, ''while Saddam Hussein was in charge, al Qaeda could not infiltrate the country. And now, thanks to the USA, Iraq is an open arena and al Qaeda can only benefit from it''.(ANSAmed).

Gadhafi attacks US in speech in Italy

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AP – Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi smiles prior to the start of a joint press conference with Italian Premier …

ROME – Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday urged the world to understand what motivates terrorists, and likened the 1986 U.S. strikes on Libya to Osama bin Laden's terror attacks.

Gadhafi, who was long accused of sponsoring terrorism, got tepid applause from the Italian lawmakers he addressed on the second day of a trip to Italy, Libya's former colonial ruler.

"It is not very intelligent to chase terrorists down the Afghan mountains or central Asia," Gadhafi said in the hour-long speech. "That's impossible. We must look at their reasons."

He called for dialogue with terrorists, saying, "One must talk to the devil, if it brings about a solution."

Sarcastically, he asked, "What's the difference between the U.S. airstrikes on our homes and bin Laden's actions?" If anything, he said, bin Laden is an outlaw, while the United States is a country that should abide by international law.

Former President Ronald Reagan ordered airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in April 1986 after an attack on a disco in Germany killed three people, including two U.S. servicemen. The Libyans say the retaliatory attacks killed 41 people, including Gadhafi's adopted daughter, and injured 226 others.

The Libyan leader told the lawmakers he was being intentionally provocative "in order to try and understand acts of terrorism."

Gadhafi had long been ostracized by the West for sponsoring terrorism, but in recent years sought to emerge from his pariah status by abandoning weapons of mass destruction and renouncing terrorism in 2003.

Libya has since agreed to pay compensation to the families of the Berlin disco victims as well as the families of the victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, including 189 Americans. Libyan Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted of blowing up the plane.

The United States restored diplomatic ties with Libya in 2006 and removed the North African nation from the State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

Gadhafi's visit to Italy continued that process of emergence from international isolation. But it also drew protests, including at La Sapienza university, where Gadhafi was addressing a group of few hundred students.

The speech to lawmakers was likely to raise more controversy.

He had been set to speak inside the Italian Senate, a rare honor for visiting dignitaries. But opposition lawmakers balked, forcing the speech to be moved to a palazzo next door.

Enrico Morando, a senator of the opposition Democratic Party, said Gadhafi's presence at the Senate would have been a "humiliation of this country's democratic and republican spirit."

"Only those who have the credentials — in terms of democracy and protection of human rights — are entitled to speak to Parliament, the inviolable temple of democracy," he told La Repubblica newspaper.

Human rights organizations and other critics have also denounced a recent deal that allows Italy to send immigrants back to Libya if they are intercepted at sea. They also decried Libya's treatment of the migrants and its poor human rights record.

Gadhafi attacks US in speech in Italy

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Gadhafi, who was long accused of sponsoring terrorism, got tepid applause from the Italian lawmakers he addressed on the second day of a trip to Italy, ...



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[chottala.com] Re: Chinese Hydro Electric project to dry up River Jomuna



 
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Shamim Chowdhury <veirsmill@yahoo.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, Bangladesh is going to end up with another human made disaster if Chinese government defying all international rules unilaterally decides to build largest hydroelectric dam in the world to generating 40,000 megawatts electricity controlling international mighty river Yarlung Tsangpo near Tibet.

 

Major source of water in Bangladesh, river Jomuna will be completely die down if China builds the Yarlung Tsangpo Hydroelectric and Water Diversion Project in the upstream of birthplace of this international river.

 

The construction of Yarlung Tsangpo Hydroelectric and Water Diversion Project may start this year. It is feared that there will be displacement of local populations, destruction of ecosystems, and an impact for downstream people in India and Bangladesh. Analysts think that the livelihood of up to 100 million people could be at stake.

 

The translation of the name Tsangpo (river) is purifier, however, if Yarlung Tsangpo Hydroelectric and Water Diversion Project takes off then the river will become killer instead purifier for China, India and Bangladesh.

 

In recent days when we are worried about the negative impact of Indian Tipaimukh dam in Manipur to generate 1500 MW electricity, Chinese Yarlung Tsangpo Hydroelectric and Water Diversion Project (40 thousand MW) came as a shock.

 

Bangladesh must act now to protest Indian and Chinese unilateral decision defying all international rules and norms to build dam which will bring humanitarian and ecological disaster not just for Bangladesh but for the entire continent . We urge Awami League government to form all party parliamentarian and technical expert probe body to comprehensibly investigate these disaster projects of India and China, which will peril our life and imbalance our ecological system. We must log our protest to Indian and Chinese authority as soon as possible before these killer dam takes permanent shape.

Sincerely

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland, USA





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