3. “Bush is saying that America is
fighting for the triumph of freedom.
When we were supporting liberation
movements in the world, we were
arguing that it was for the victory of
freedom. We both agree. We were
fighting for the cause of freedom.”
-Muammar Qaddafi (in an interview with TIME magazine)
4. “Gaddafi's powers of survival
notwithstanding, once the hurricane
of the Arab democratic revolution
began to blow, nothing seemed
more obvious – or fitting – than that
he, cruellest, most capricious and
ruinous of Arab dictators, should be
among the first three to be swept
away.”
-“Colonel Muammar Gaddafi obituary” from The
Guardian UK
5. “Bin Laden’s people would come
to impose ransoms by land and
sea. We will go back to the time
of Redbeard, of pirates, of
Ottomans imposing ransoms on
boats.”
– Muammar Qaddafi
6. “The jihadi groups were flush with
cash, and were in a position to buy
whatever was within reach…How
many arms depots did Gaddafi have?
Well over a thousand. So there is still
a lot of stuff sloshing its way in all
directions.”
-François Heisbourg, a security expert and chairman
of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in
London
7.
8.
9.
10. “There are many scheming to snatch all or part of your victory away from
you, headed by the NATO gang in the West…the first thing they will
demand is that you give up your Islam…that you relinquish your desire for
rule by Sharia and agree, instead to abide by the West’s ideological legal
systems.”
-Ayman al-Zawahiri’s concerns for Libya’s future on audiotapes (“After Bin Laden”: Al
Waeda, the next generation.”
11. “Our brothers will be a bone in the throat of the
American and French crusaders and their allies.”
-Ayman al-Zawahri (current Al Qaeda leader; then deputy to Osama Bin Laden)
12.
13.
14. “Oh lions of Algeria, your brothers
in Tunisia and Libya have sent two
tyrants to the
wasteland of history…so why are
you silent before the corrupt
oppressors who wish to
turn Algeria into a service agency to
safeguard the interests of America
and France
In the Maghreb and on
Mediterranean coastline?”
-Ayman al-Zawahiri post on Jihadi forum (“After Bin
Laden”)
15.
16.
17. “There is a saying amongst the
elders of North Africa that the
Maghreb is an eagle whose body is
Algeria and the wings Morocco and
Tunisia. Without the body, the
wings are useless. Without the
wings, the body cannot fly. And
when Algeria catches cold, Tunisia
coughs and the entire Maghreb is in
pain.”
-Abdelkader Abderrahmane, North Africa Senior
Researcher, Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis
Division, ISS Addis Ababa
18. “A coherent and coordinated approach can go a long
way towards improving the chances States in the area
have to prevent terrorists from organizing and moving
freely across borders. This means national authorities
in different agencies need to share information with
each other, follow a common strategy and transfer
this spirit of cooperation to the regional level.”
-Mike Smith, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
19. Information and pictures were all taken from the following:
http://world.time.com/2012/10/19/gaddafis-ghost-how-the-tyrant-haunts-libya-a-year-after-his-death/
http://rt.com/news/missiles-algeria-security-libya-801/
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2092333,00.html
http://www.euronews.com/2012/08/08/abandoned-libyan-weapons-fuel-insecurity/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/06/libya-s-uncontrolled-weapons-problem.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/ozatp-libya-un-adviser-idAFJOE7830AO20110904
http://www.france24.com/en/20110110-niger-kidnapping-french-defence-minister-alain-juppe-niamey-
hostage-killings
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137796/yahia-h-zoubir/qaddafis-spawn?page=2
http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/StrForum/SF-268.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01algeria.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/libyan-violence-disrupts-international-oil-company-
operations/2013/04/29/e4b07724-b0df-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?wprss=rss_africa
http://allafrica.com/stories/201202080278.html?viewall=1
http://www.un.org/en/sc/ctc/news/2011-04-13_mauritania.html
http://studies.aljazeera.net/en/events/2013/04/201342104624548637.htm
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00842.x/pdf
http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/472961
http://www.examiner.com/article/gaza-bound-weapons-intercepted-egypt
http://www.voanews.com/content/libyan-arms-stockpiles-in-egypt-causing-concern/1615973.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21299153
