I suggest that the Egyptian army invade Libya to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, before the colonel carries out his threat against his people. His speech was clear and the choice he gave in it was that either six million Libyans obey his will or be killed. The Egyptian army does not need to cross a thousand miles of desert. All it has to do is land in Tripoli and the area around it to end the regime of terror, murder and backwardness that has been burdening the Libyans for 42 years. If the Egyptian army saves Libya, its popularity in Libya, Egypt, the Arab world and even the rest of the world will overtake the one Gamal Abdel Nasser had up until 1967. Muammar Gaddafi had organized a march to Egypt in search for unity, but President Hosni Mubarak rejected the idea, and stopped the marchers dead in their tracks at the border. I told him that unity would mean saving Libya from Gaddafi, and creating huge job opportunities and prospects for mutual development in a country that has large potential, but which had extreme shortcomings in terms of human resources in those days. However, the Egyptian President, who rejected any kind of adventurism, mocked me and said something to the effect of that he talks to me in wholesale and I answer him in retail and hinted that my idea was some kind of madness. I do not think I'm mad. Instead, I believe that Gaddafi is, and his actions in recent days alone prove it. The problem is that if he indeed was proven to be insane, then he would escape the judgment of the people and end up in an asylum for the mentally ill instead. This is the most merciful fate that he could meet with. But for justice to be served, he and his henchmen must face trial. The Libyans and the whole world must learn the magnitude of the terrorism that the regime practiced in and outside of the country, and the fate of the people who disappeared. It must also be revealed how the resources of the country have been squandered, and where the colonel and his sons stashed what is left of the people's money. For years now, many Western pundits have been saying that there is a gap worth billions of dollars between Libya's annual oil revenues on one hand, and the annual budget and other public expenditure on the other. The Western countries were well aware of the crimes of the Gaddafi regime. However, oil was more important. These countries thus rushed to do business with the regime when the sanctions imposed on it were lifted in 2004, after the regime dismantled its nuclear program which only existed in the Colonel's imagination, a rather sick and unrestricted imagination. In truth, it was British Prime Minister Tony Blair who brokered BP's deal for oil exploration there. For several days now, London's newspapers have been commenting on how trade interests have been placed above human rights. Pictures have been published of Blair embracing Gaddafi and of his successor Prime Minister Gordon Brown with the Colonel and his medals-clad chest, perhaps earned for his heroic actions in downing civilian airplanes and suppressing the Libyan people, and murdering policewoman Yvonne Fletcher. The people are great. They were born in a big prison, and they were supposed to remain ignorant, scared and submissive. However, those who revolted against Gaddafi and who took to the streets and liberated the cities, were almost all born under the Colonel's regime, and had not known any other type of government. They were subjected to deliberate brainwashing, as they saw nothing in the media except that crazy buffoon. Today, I call on the Egyptian army to liberate Libya to prevent one last massacre as promised or threatened by Muammar Gaddafi, if the uprising against his regime is not stopped. The UN Security Council failed the people of Libya, when it issued a resolution calling on the Libyan regime to protect this people, when this regime is the primary and largest threat to the Libyans. The next step will be international sanctions that will hurt the Libyan people first and foremost, because the Colonel and his sons will not starve. This is evident from the example of the sanctions imposed on Iraq throughout the nineties. I also fear that the Security Council may ultimately decide to approve international military intervention in Libya, similar to the intervention in Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia. This would effectively put Libya under foreign occupation. In such a situation, what good would it be for Muammar Gaddafi to appear before the International War Crimes Tribunal like Slobodan Milosevic and some African warlords? What is needed instead is to rescue Libya before Muammar Gaddafi carries out his clear threat of taking revenge against his people if the people do not submit to him. He has unleashed African mercenaries in the capital, and used the rest of his loyalist air forces to bomb his people. Nevertheless, this people have proven that it wants to live a decent life, to the point of defying a barbaric regime whose first and last quality is that of being criminal. Decent life is their right and we are all with this people. [email protected]
