Peak Oil as 'Soap Opera': As the Gaddafi turns...

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Gaddafi call on 'foreign aggressors'
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0310/breaking34.htm

Muammar Gaddafi called on Libyans to devote themselves to military
training to deter "foreign aggressors" from occupying the country and
stealing its oil wealth.

Invoking the 2003, US-led invasion of Iraq, Gaddafi told a rally of
supporters in the southern desert oasis of Fezzane the United States
and Britain were trying to take control of Iraqi oil to "compensate
for their losses in Iraq".

"You must be the armed people so as foreign aggressors or foreign
invaders know Libya has armed people who cannot be attacked ... to
steal their oil, occupy their land and slaughter them like the Iraqi
people," the Libyan leader said in a speech broadcast on state
television.

Gaddafi frequently refers to the war in Iraq to warn Libyans about
what he says are threats from abroad. Dissidents say he makes such
comments to cement power and weaken his opponents' efforts at
political and economic reform.

Under the North African country's Jamahiriya, or state of the masses,
Libyans are required to perform military service.

The government, inspired by Gaddafi's Green Book, sees Western-style
democracy as a system that lets a small minority monopolise wealth and
political power.

After three decades in isolation, Gaddafi has slowly tried to improve
Libya's image abroad. In 2003, Libya accepted civil responsibility for
the bombing of a passenger jet over Scotland and abandoned efforts to
produce weapons of mass destruction.