Gadhafi's daughter dares West
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April 16, 2011, Saturday
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FROM her father's compound, struck by United States bombs exactly 25 years ago, Moammar Gadhafi's daughter sent a defiant message early yesterday: Libya was not defeated by airstrikes then and won't be defeated now, she told a cheering crowd in Tripoli, the capital.
The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by US warplanes in 1986. "Leave our skies with your bombs," she said, referring to NATO airstrikes that had struck Tripoli just hours earlier.
Gadhafi, in power for 42 years, has been testing the international community's resolve on the battle field.
The Libyan leader has a long and troubled history with the West. In the 1980s, Libya's secret service was held responsible for the April 5, 1986, bombing of a Berlin disco that killed two US servicemen. Ten days later, US warplanes struck targets in Benghazi and Tripoli, including Gadhafi's Bab Aziziyah compound. Dozens were killed in the strikes.
"Let me go back to the past when I was a child, when I was nine years old, in this house," Aisha said. "A rain of missiles and bombs. They tried to kill me."
"Now, after 25 years, the same missiles, the same bombs, rain on our children's heads. We are a people that cannot be defeated," she added.
The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by US warplanes in 1986. "Leave our skies with your bombs," she said, referring to NATO airstrikes that had struck Tripoli just hours earlier.
Gadhafi, in power for 42 years, has been testing the international community's resolve on the battle field.
The Libyan leader has a long and troubled history with the West. In the 1980s, Libya's secret service was held responsible for the April 5, 1986, bombing of a Berlin disco that killed two US servicemen. Ten days later, US warplanes struck targets in Benghazi and Tripoli, including Gadhafi's Bab Aziziyah compound. Dozens were killed in the strikes.
"Let me go back to the past when I was a child, when I was nine years old, in this house," Aisha said. "A rain of missiles and bombs. They tried to kill me."
"Now, after 25 years, the same missiles, the same bombs, rain on our children's heads. We are a people that cannot be defeated," she added.
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