Libyan revolution - February 2011 - Youtube links. The road to a better Libya ?

Background:
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Libya has been ruled from 1969 to the present by Muammar al-Gaddafi, who rose to power in a military coup. In February 2011 mass protests and demonstrations broke out across Libya against Gaddafi's government.
By 23 February 2011, the Libyan opposition was reported to be in control of several coastal towns and cities in eastern and central Libya,[7][8][9] with other sources stating that the Gaddafi government only retained control of a few parts of Tripoli and the southern desert town of Sabha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya

From 1972, when Gaddafi relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorific ''Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya'' in government statements and the official press.

Gaddafi's Revolutionary committees resemble similar systems in socialist countries and reportedly 10 to 20 percent of Libyans work in surveillance for these committees, a proportion of informants on par with Saddam Hussein's Iraq or Kim Jong Il's North Korea.....

Gaddafi ''highlights'':
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In 1972 Gaddafi tried to get the People's Republic of China to sell him a nuclear bomb.
He then tried to get a bomb from Pakistan, but Pakistan severed its ties before it succeeded to build a bomb.

Gaddafi was a close supporter of Ugandan President Idi Amin. In gratitude, Amin even married Gaddafi's daughter while in Libya, but she then divorced Amin.

Reportedly, Gaddafi was a major financier of the "Black September Movement" which perpetrated the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

For most of the 1990s, Libya was under economic and diplomatic sanctions as a result of Gaddafi's refusal to allow the extradition to the United States or Britain of two Libyans accused of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which came down on Lockerbie, Scotland.

Scared by the american led invasion of Iraq Gaddafi tried to restore relations
to the west. Abandoning the weapons of mass destructions program,,,
On 15 May 2006, the US State Department announced that it would restore full diplomatic relations with Libya, once Gaddafi declared he was abandoning Libya's weapons of mass destruction program.

In March 2004, British PM Tony Blair became one of the first Western leaders in decades to visit Libya and publicly meet Gaddafi. Blair praised Gaddafi's recent acts, and stated that he hoped
Libya could now be a strong ally in the international War on Terrorism.

The all of sudden western leaders liked Gaddafi again:
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_al-Gaddafi

Western leaders and Gaddafi - after 2003, when they ''forgave'' his attrocities and terrorist acts at home and abroad ....
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Gaddafi - Berlusconi:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192117/Colonel-Gaddafis-Mr-Berlusconi--Silvio-taken-Libyan-leaders-honour-guard.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1359014/Gaddafis-Libyan-massacre-shame-Tony-Blair.html
and
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693121,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/368124.stm
Mandela welcomes 'brother leader' Gaddafi

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/hugo-chavez/
Chaves and Gaddafi.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/09/obama_gives_libyas_gaddafi_two_shakes
Obama and Gaddafi: Here's one for the family photo album: U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands at the G-8 summit with a visiting Muammar al-Qaddafi on Thursday. The Libyan leader, who in 2003 agreed to abandon his country's weapons of mass destruction, has attempted to improve his relationship with the United States after decades of mistrust. The Obama encounter just might be the reward Qaddafi's been looking for.

http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/

Still, little changed in Libya, where his horror regime just continued.
But then came the peoples revolution of february 2011:
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Which also exposed the R E A L I T Y of the GADDAFI RULE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWFjYI3cY0
Green square Tripoli, Libya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUHTsJBVqE
Boy shot dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEeWlPel-o&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dlibya%2B2011%2Bmercenaries%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fverify_age%3Fnext_url%3Dhttp%253A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%253Fv%253D9GEeWlPel-o%2526oref%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.youtube.com%25252Fresults%25253Fsearch_query%25253Dlibya%25252B2011%25252Bmercenaries%252526aq%25253Df%2526has_verified%253D1

Mercenary shot dead in Beghazi, you must login to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo9y7Crb7bU&feature=related
Live ammo fires directly into protestors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ta1aN2t__A&feature=related
Libyan boy killed by Gaddadi loyalists...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlL9wJJ5Dy4
Protester shot dead, protesters furious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVV3CHow6Ng&skipcontrinter=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t_P5J_8p0Q&feature=related&skipcontrinter=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5UE4Jg32s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I28DjUlvZL4
Gunshots in the night Tripoli.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNws92jqjlQ
Mercenaries firing at Libyans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3CoZ_eCmU
Tripoli hospital

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOxxiqgF9qc
People vs. the evil dictator and his mercenaries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ithQN3F5Epo&feature=related
Revolutionary video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecL-ZcNLPAQ
Qaddafi & his sons hiring foreign mercenaries to kill their people cuz the Libyan police standing with the people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZWfrjxNs8
Chaos in Tripoli 23 feb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVx6Rx7x7Po
Helicopter gunships kill protestors. Dead man carried away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC7_UKY3pY
running from police

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGap4OgiPb8&feature=related
mercenaries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVV3CHow6Ng&skipcontrinter=1
dead protestors


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23926320-libya-is-descending-into-hell-tripoli-airport-is-absolute-chaos.do
Jan McKeogh, 63, from Christchurch, New Zealand, said she had heard of "absolute atrocities" being committed that were too upsetting to describe. Ms
McKeogh, a teacher at an international school in Tripoli, has suffered massive distress as she tried to contact her family after the devastating Christchurch earthquake as well as escape from Libya. She said: "Monday night was the turning point for us.
'Libya is descending into hell... Tripoli airport is absolute chaos'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD1i94WT9FQ
Confusion at Tripoli airport

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/amateur-video-captures-chaos-at-tripoli-airport/191927
Amateur video captures chaos at Tripoli airport

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/feb/24/tripoli-violence-protesters-libya-video
Tripoli braced for violence as protesters fight for free Libya - video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWdWUu3GLqE
Heavy Gunfire and Fighting (Tripoli, Libya - 2011)

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4550782/libyan-leader-vows-to-go-down-fighting/
Libyan Leader Vows to Go Down Fighting
Mercenaries hired out of Ghana for 30.000 dollars, strike back against protestors..
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/libya-hires-mercenaries-protesters-fight-back/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUb-Akdlxw4
brave Libyans fighting against the police.

Time to leave:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/02/libyas_uprising