France-Libye: "L'affaire Amesys est gravissime!" En 2007, la société française Amesys, filiale du groupe Bull, a vendu au régime libyen du matériel d'interception des communications sur Internet qui aurait été utilisé pour identifier et traquer les opposants au régime de Mouammar Kadhafi.
En marge de ce contrat, selon des révélations du site Médiapart, la Libye aurait participé au financement de la campagne présidentielle du candidat Sarkozy. Amesys est visée par une enquête préliminaire ouverte à Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), à la suite d'une plainte du collectif de juristes Sherpa pour "atteinte à l'intimité de la vie privée d'autrui". A Tripoli, avec ceux "qui ont attendu ce moment toute leur vie" Muammar Gaddafi. Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[6] (/ˈmoʊ.əmɑr ɡəˈdɑːfi/; Arabic: معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي audio ) (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi,[nb 2] was a Libyan revolutionary and politician, and the de facto ruler of Libya for 42 years.
Taking power in a 1969 coup d'etat, he ruled as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brother Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011, when he was ousted in the Libyan civil war. After beginning as an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist, he later governed the country according to his own ideology, the Third International Theory. He eventually embraced Pan-Africanism, and served as Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010.
In 1977, he dissolved the Republic and created the Jamahiriya, a "state of the masses" part-governed by GPCs. Moammar Gadhafi in 60 Seconds. A life in pictures. The rise and fall of Colonel Gaddafi. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi commanded a brutal regime in Libya for over 40 years until the rebel uprising in February this year.
Here is a timeline of key dates in his downfall. 1951: Libya wins independence after three decades of Italian rule. 1969: Muammar al-Gaddafi, 27, an army captain, leads a peaceful coup to overthrow monarchy, becoming Libya’s undisputed ruler. Establishes socialist system and backs groups seen in West as terrorists. April 1986: US jets bomb the Gaddafi compound in Tripoli after Libya is found responsible for bombing a Berlin disco frequented by American troops. 1988: Suspected Libyan agents plant a bomb that blows up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, killing 270 people. 31 January, 2001 - Special Scottish court in the Netherlands finds one of the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment. 2004 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Libya, the first such visit since 1943.
From pariah to ally and back again. Infamy But while his early political manoeuvres closely mirrored those of his idol Nasser and pointed to potentially democratic foundations, Gaddafi soon whipped Libya in a different direction: one which led to autocracy and isolationism.
Fuelled by his anti-imperialist ideologies, he funded and supported militants and terrorists around the world and assassinated Libyan exiles. It was in 1986, when Libya was blamed for the bombing of a Berlin nightclub frequented by American soldiers, in which two soldiers and one civilian were killed, that Gaddafi first became an international pariah. In retaliation, US President Ronald Reagan sent warplanes towards Tripoli and Benghazi, with their mission to kill the "mad dog of the Middle East", a nickname that would endure.
Gaddafi: The Last Supervillain? Gaddafi's Craziest Quotes. Gaddafi as orator: a life in quotes. As soon as Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya in 1969, at the age of 27, he launched into a perplexing and controversial career as a speech-maker that now spans more than four decades.
In scattershot diatribes that at times stretched to several hours, Gaddafi astounded audience at Libya and abroad. Famously dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East" by Ronald Reagan, the former president of the US, Gaddafi did little to dispel that nickname in his wild orations and writings. In 1975, he outlined his political philosophy in "The Green Book" which carried the subtitle, ""The Solution to the Problems of Democracy; The Social Basis to the Third Universal Theory. " Gadhafi's influence on Africa. Reports : Gadhafi dead. NEW: Libyan prince happy there is now a "free country"Government wanted Gadhafi to be taken alive, diplomat tells CNNAnti-Gadhafi messages spray painted at pipe where he was foundLibyan liberation to be formally announced Saturday (CNN) -- Libyans cheered the fate of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi into the early hours of Friday after his death in what Libya's transitional prime minister described as a crossfire that followed his arrest by revolutionary forces.
"This is a time to start a new Libya, with a new economy, with a new education and with a new health system -- with one future," Mahmoud Jibril, Libya's transitional prime minister, said after proclaiming Gadhafi's death. Gadhafi was captured alive and unharmed as troops from the National Transitional Council overran his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, Jibril said. If Gaddafi is dead, that solves the problem of the trial – but we may never learn the truth about Lockerbie and other crimes. Anti-Gaddafi troops liberate Sirte (Photo: Reuters) Reports are coming out from that Colonel Gaddafi has been captured in the fall of Sirte, according to the Libyan National Transitional Council.
Libyans are celebrating on the streets of Tripoli, but Reuters hints that the Colonel may in fact have already died. Here's their tweet: Colonel Gaddafi is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, but the National Transitional Council is unlikely to agree to his extradition. Their information minister is quoted as demanding a Libyan trial: We are going to give him the fair trial he never gave the Libyan people. If the reports of Gaddafi's death are true (and they may not be: the US cannot even confirm his capture yet), it will make some things easier between the Libyans and their Western allies.