Wednesday May 11th 2011 Gaddafi comes to one of the most safe places for him now-a-days the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli where most of the international journalists accredited by the Libyan Government are staying, though they are having dinner elsewhere in the hotel and know nothing about this meeting of Gaddafi and a whole parade of Libyan tribal leaders that come to him one by one and shake his hand, all the while being photographed as loyal chiefs. On a screen in the room a program of Libyan state television is projected in the background so the date and time of the meeting is documented. The video of this broadcast by Libyan State Television can be seen at YouTube under the title: “Gaddafi Live on Libya State TV May 11 – NATO Assassination Attempt Fails Again !” The video is not subtitled and not translated. It leaves the non Arabic speaking with only the body language of those acting out this scene.
It looks to me very much like a farewell meeting with someone who is going to die soon, knowing his day are counted.
I look in some old archives with different spellings of his name: Khadaffi, Qadhafi and see a young man right after having taken power in 1969: with sparkling open eyes and a smile, looking ahead. Gaddafi has been born – it says – in a Berber tent in 1942, where will he die and how, nobody can look into his eyes anymore to find the answer…
The Guardian of Friday May 13th. uses a subheading about the Gaddafi unexpected meeting: “Gaddafi sneaks into hotel.” I reacted with the following short lines:
In spite of a most common felt disgust for Gaddafi which I share, I do not like the suggestive language of your reporting “sneaks.” The Rixus Hotel is one of the safest places for Gaddafi in his country as long as a part of the foreign accredited press resides there. As he has been constantly been targeted, in spite of whatever blunt denials by NATO spokesmen, it makes good sense that he uses the relative safety of this place. We do not need to paint a black sheep black.
the limping messenger 
“In spite of a most common felt disgust for Gaddafi which I share…”
Autor, why you feel an aversion to Gaddafi? What do you know about him? There are specific reasons?
You create the impression of a reasonable and thoughtful person. Please ask about his background and history of Libya. Find out what’s really going on there. Do not believe what the media think. Read his “Green Book” – see why Gaddafi wicked New World Order
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I never liked authoritarian rulers whatever their ideology. I am well aware of the history of Libya since many years. I know the ‘Green Book’ from the time it first appeared, as I have been librarian documenting modern social movements for thirty years. It is a mixture of truisms and twisted maxims taken from all kind of sources in its attempt to create a new ideology as thought up by the supposed master mind of Gaddafi, beyond both capitalism and communism. The movie link you send me also is a mirror image of Allied Forces related news, and in its method and way of proof remaining in the same realm of ‘propaganda’. Nevertheless as I think one always can learn from statements made that do not fit my own opinion, I accepted your comment and hereby also communicate your suggested link. As for the violence perpetrated by Libyan insurgent forces, I do not doubt their ability to do so. These facts – by the way – have also been communicated by several of the Western Media.
I hope you will agree with me that politichnskoe device state must come from the traditions and realities of this nation. U.S. education system is different to their complete destruction of the local population and slavery, which at segozhdnyashny day transformed into a dependence on the dollar and credit. This “democracy “is not like most countries. But! All of them are immediately recorded in the U.S. “axis of evil. ” So they come and with Libya, which featured an alternate path of social development.
About the “dictatorial regime”, see “National Conference of Libyan Tribes”:
And more videos from NikolaySOLO, a correspondent who witnessed the meeting: http://www.youtube.com/user/NikolaySOLO
Tribes determine what should be life in Libya, that is, the people themselves determine. This is the Jamahiriya. “Western democracy” can boast of this?
Unfortunately, you live in the illusions created by your media. Do you like the movie “The Matrix”? This is not exactly a fairy tale.
And sorry if you seem intrusive. 🙂