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The Man Behind the Myth: A Daughter’s Search in Qaddafi’s Shadow

My Father and Qaddafi is, on the surface, a daughter’s search for a man she barely remembers. But director Jihan’s documentary is far more than an act of remembrance; it is an excavation: of a father, of a country, of a century of wounds that refuse to close. In her quiet, unflinching way, Jihan makes a promise in the opening frames: that her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, will not disappear a…

The Man Behind the Myth: A Daughter’s Search in Qaddafi’s Shadow

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If you could be guaranteed full access to all the research or materials needed who would you write a biography about?

It would not be an American President. If I had the source material and all the access I needed, I would write a biography of Muammar Qaddafi. There's never been a really great biography about Qaddafi covering his life from birth to death, and he was one of the most fascinating figures of the past 100 years. Most of the books I've read about Qaddafi were not only written while he was still alive and in power, but were written around the time President Reagan called him the "Mad Dog of the Middle East". The majority were published even before Qaddafi tried to make amends with the West (and started to be accepted in many Western capitals) and definitely don't include the civil war that exploded in Libya following the 2011 Arab Spring which led to his overthrow and brutal death at the hands of the Libyan opposition (and with the help of NATO). Qaddafi's story is pretty incredible -- from being born in the Libyan desert to a Bedouin tribe that was so unsophisticated that nobody even knew or recorded exactly when he was born to helping lead the revolution that overthrow Libya's king when Qaddafi was believed to be about 27 years old. And then he held on to power for over 40 years with a cult of personality that makes Donald Trump jealous as Qaddafi become more-and-more bizarre and openly sponsored terrorism.

By the 1980s, Qaddafi had basically become a real-life James Bond villain with his crazy clothes, his Amazonian guard of female bodyguards (officially called "Revolutionary Nuns"), and his preference for bringing desert tents with him on overseas trips so he could sleep in them instead of hotels or guest houses. Throughout his rule, Qaddafi antagonized scores of countries and their leaders through his sponsorship of terrorism, his flat-out weird ideas (here's a gift link to Qaddafi's 2009 New York Times opinion piece "solving" the Israel/Palestine issue with one country called "Israstine"), his outlandish uniforms, and the extraordinarily weird things he'd say. At one Arab League summit, he openly feuded with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, who had enough and snapped at him publicly. Qaddafi idolized Gamal Abdel Nasser and wanted to unify all Arab nations and become the "King of Kings". When that failed because most Arab leaders thought he was nuts and couldn't stand him, Qaddafi turned to Africa with the hopes of becoming the leader of a "United States of Africa". Just imagine all of these stories (and more craziness) being told in-depth and you can see why we need a definitive Qaddafi biography. It would be like reading a book about a real-life Dr. Evil mixed with Sacha Baron Cohen's lead character from "The Dictator" (whose clothes in the film were almost as eccentric as Qaddafi's actual clothing).

I also would really like to see an up-to-date, definitive biography of Fidel Castro, who I would actually list among the Top 5 most interesting people since World War II. There are plenty of books about Castro -- especially books published in the 1980s and 1990s -- but there hasn't really been a complete biography featuring updated research since his death in 2016. I'm surprised that we haven't seen many in-depth, cradle-to-grave biographies of Fidel because he was clearly one of the most important and remarkable leaders of the 20th Century. I think the Cuban Revolution is one of the more overlooked historical events of the past few centuries. It's pretty astonishing what a ragtag group of rebels led by Castro and hiding in the Sierra Maestra were able to accomplish. I've always been hopeful that Jon Lee Anderson, who published his incredible biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) in 1998, would take on the challenge of writing a definitive biography on Fidel because of his knowledge of and connections with Cuba. There's undoubtedly a need for updated, in-depth biographies about both Qaddafi and Fidel and probably a lot more sources of research available since the deaths of both men.

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Завещание Муаммара Каддафи

Вот уже 40 лет, или больше, не помню, я делал всё, что мог, чтобы дать людям дома, больницы, школы; когда они были голодны, я кормил их, даже превратил Бенгази из пустыни в плодородную землю. Я противостоял атакам этого ковбоя Рейгана – пытаясь убить меня, он убил мою ни в чем не повинную приемную дочь, ребенка, у которого не было ни отца, ни матери.

Я помогал моим братьям и сестрам из Африки средствами для Африканского Союза, делал всё, что было в моих силах, чтобы помочь людям понять идею настоящей демократии, где, как в нашей стране, правят народные комитеты. Но этого было недостаточно, говорили мне, ведь даже те люди, у которых дома на 10 комнат, новая одежда и мебель, не были довольны. В своем эгоизме они хотели получить еще больше и, общаясь с американцами и другими нашими гостями, говорили, что нуждаются в "демократии" и "свободе", абсолютно не понимая, что это закон джунглей, где все достается самому большому и сильному. И всё же их зачаровывали эти слова. Они не понимали, что в Америке нет ни бесплатной медицины, ни бесплатных больниц, ни бесплатного жилья, ни бесплатного образования и пищи, за исключением лишь тех случаев, когда людям приходится просить милостыню или стоять в долгой очереди за тарелкой супа.

Нет, что бы я ни делал, некоторым всё было мало. Другие же знали, что я – сын Гамаля Абделя Насера, единственного истинного лидера арабов и мусульман со времен Салах-ад-Дина; он заявил о правах на Суэцкий канал для своего народа, а я, когда потребовал Ливию для своего, следовал его примеру, пытаясь оградить людей от колониального засилья – от тех воров, что нас обкрадывали.

И вот я стою под ударами самой сильной армии во всей военной истории, а мой младший африканский сын Обама пытается убить меня, забрать наше бесплатное жилье, медицину, образование, пищу и заменить всё это воровством на американский манер под названием "капитализм". Все мы в странах третьего мира знаем, что это значит. Это значит, что странами управляют корпорации, что люди страдают, и поэтому у меня нет иного пути.

Я должен удерживать свою позицию и, если Аллах пожелает, я отдам жизнь за этот путь – путь, который обогатил нашу страну плодородной землей, принес народу здоровье и пищу и даже позволил нам помогать нашим африканским и арабским братьям и сестрам работать с нами здесь, в Ливийской Джамахирии.

Я не хочу умирать, но если это необходимо ради спасения этой страны, моего народа, тысяч моих детей, то так тому и быть.

Пусть это завещание будет моим посланием миру, свидетельством, что я сопротивлялся атакам натовских крестоносцев, противостоял жестокости, предательству, выстаивал перед натиском Запада и его колониальных амбиций; был рядом со своими африканскими братьями, моими истинными братьями-арабами и мусульманами, был маяком, в то время как другие превращались в пылающие крепости.

Я жил в скромном доме, в бедуинском шатре, и никогда не забывал своей юности, проведенной в Сирте; я не расходовал наше национальное достояние неразумно, и, как и наш великий мусульманский лидер, Салах-ад-Дин, освободивший Иерусалим ради ислама, довольствовался немногим.

На Западе меня называют "сумасшедшим", "безумным", но они знают правду – и всё же продолжают лгать. Они знают, что наша страна независима и свободна, что она не в колониальных тисках; что моё видение, мой путь был и остается ясным для моего народа, и что я буду сражаться до последнего вздоха за нашу свободу, да поможет нам Всемогущий оставаться верными и свободными.

Воспоминания о моей жизни: Полковник Муаммар Каддафи, Лидер Революции, 5 апреля 2011 г. Перевод с арабского – профессор Сэм Хамонд, "Information Clearing House".

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Testament of Muammar Gaddafi For 40 years or more, I don't remember, I did everything I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools; when they were hungry, I fed them, even turned Benghazi from a desert into a fertile land. I resisted the attacks of this cowboy Reagan - trying to kill me, he killed my innocent adopted daughter, a child who had neither father nor mother.

I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with funds for the African Union, did everything in my power to help people understand the idea of ​​real democracy, where, as in our country, people's committees rule. But that was not enough, I was told, because even those people who had 10-room houses, new clothes and furniture, were not happy. In their selfishness, they wanted to get even more and, communicating with the Americans and our other guests, they said that they needed "democracy" and "freedom", absolutely not understanding that this was the law of the jungle, where everything goes to the biggest and strongest. And yet they were fascinated by those words.

They did not understand that in America there is no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and food, except when people have to beg or stand in a long line for a bowl of soup.

No, no matter what I did, it wasn't enough for some people. Others knew that I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true leader of the Arabs and Muslims since Salah al-Din; he claimed the rights to the Suez Canal for his people, and when I demanded Libya for mine, I followed his example, trying to protect people from colonial domination - from those thieves that robbed us.

And here I stand under the most powerful army in all military history, and my youngest African son Obama is trying to kill me, take away our free housing, medicine, education, food and replace it all with American-style theft called "capitalism". All of us in third world countries know what that means. It means that corporations run countries, that people suffer, and therefore I have no other way.

I must hold my ground and, if Allah wills, I will give my life for this path - a path that has enriched our country with fertile land, brought health and food to the people, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters work with us here in Libyan Jamahiriya.

I do not want to die, but if it is necessary for the sake of saving this country, my people, thousands of my children, then so be it. Let this testament be my message to the world, evidence that I resisted the attacks of the NATO crusaders, resisted cruelty, betrayal, withstood the onslaught of the West and its colonial ambitions; I was next to my African brothers, my true brothers, Arabs and Muslims, was a beacon, while others turned into burning fortresses.

I lived in a modest house, in a Bedouin tent, and never forgot my youth spent in Sirte; I did not spend our national wealth unwisely, and, like our great Muslim leader, Salah ad-Din, who liberated Jerusalem for the sake of Islam, was content with little.

In the West they call me "crazy", "mad", but they know the truth - and yet they continue to lie. They know that our country is independent and free, that it is not in the grip of colonialism; that my vision, my path was and remains clear to my people, and that I will fight to the last breath for our freedom, may the Almighty help us to remain true and free.

c: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, 4.5.11

Copyright  Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, - professor Sam Hamod - Information Clearing House.

[tonybconscious]

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