The New Libya - October 2003

After years of isolation from the international community it looks as though Libya is on the road to reform.
Colonel Gadhafi is the longest serving Arab leader in power. After seeing the deposal of his old ally Saddam Hussein, it appears that Gadhafi is willing to make changes which might protect his regime. To end sanctions placed on Libya since the infamous Lockerbie bombing, Gadhafi is to pay a compensation package. "It's not compensation. It's a price," claims Gadhafi. The 'price' for acceptance in the world community. It now seems that part of this 'price' is open disarmament. True to form, the timing of Gadhafi's announcement to disarm was impeccable -- it came just two days before the 15th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. He has also dropped Libya's compensation claims for America's 1986 bombing. But Libya is currently facing it's own economic failure and reform is necessary. Gadhafi's unique blend of socialist/Islamic thought is not working in the nation's best interest. "Our public sector has proven to be sluggish, sometimes even corrupt," states P.M. Shukri Ghanem. He hopes to privatise large sections of the economy in order to speed economic growth. But the key to Libya's success in securing positive international acceptance lies in it's vast, unexplored oil fields. "American companies will stampede in" states Tarek Hassan Beck. But some Libyans are cynical about the reforms. If external pressure is removed from Libya then the regime will be strengthened. And for some this does not bode well for the people. "Gadhafi will feel that he's secure with the West and he's going to be free to be even more oppressive with his own people."
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When Gaddafi died, he said he would take Libya's greatness with him. He did.

[@Himlibya]

bro you keep posting that to every video

[@JamalSaud-bn1ds]

Only there was no greatness

[@nico2292]

What NATO did to Libya is enough to call them a terrorist organization, one of the most heinous crimes of modern history, a great country looted and destroyed, everything was surgically planned, they left lots of different groups fighting for power, if NATO would have left a stable government they wouldn't have been able to steal all the gold and also some oil without consequences ... When you look at what they did with Libya you are looking at what modern colonialism looks like.

[@abubardewa939]

Gaddafi achievements is quite phenomenal for African country. Free education, free electricity and free housing .

[@dragnar12]

Yea that is why the west merked him. Cant have the poeple in the west demand it as well now can we

[@monuri8488]

THE BIG LESSON we learned about what is happened to Libya and mr Gaddafi that is NEVER EVER trust United states in United Kingdom

[@LetsGoGetThem]

@Dark Rain Has nothing to do with "white", all to do with the ruling elites in these countries. Black and brown countries both participate and even contribute to these wars of plunder, see Saudi Arabia.

[@harold5337]

RIP Gaddafi. Sad to see what NATO did to your country.

[@woozyz2769]

You should see what the UN Army did to my country

[@redfront6707]

@@woozyz2769 where are you from?

[@woozyz2769]

@@redfront6707 Sudan, US sent the UN army instead of NATO

[@janosb23]

@@woozyz2769 be careful what you wishing for ...as you see todays wars

[@woozyz2769]

@@janosb23 What wars? you mean one war, war in Ukraine that's it, the west is inducing everyone with unwanted propaganda on it

[@Donknowww]

As Someone from a western Country i'm very very sorry for what our Countries have done to you Libyans and your beautiful prosperous Country. Its such a big Shame...

[@abdullahilaboabubakar5983]

Very honest and nice professor. May God bless you. shame on U.k government, America, and France. May God have mercy on ghaddafi. A great leader that have ever lived in the land marks of Africa.

[@FM-ej6kt]

That was caused by his enemies that wanted to divide Libya into the pieces of cake as they did in the rest of Africa.. So they squeeze had to put his people against him..

[@profcephas24.]

the UN was unfair with LIBYA

[@malcolmallerton3946]

It’s 2019 now and look how Libya’s is today with out him it’s stuffed

[@vinrazor7222]

Brian wash poor people can emagine nw

[@AliAbrahem]

That makes no sense.

[@BrunoAlves-zp3qy]

I feel sad by the lybian people for what eu and us did to them. Ghaddafi, a true hero of the people live in our hearts and minds. May he rest in the right of God.

[@AliAbrahem]

The part about the Africans is a giant huge LIE. My father had an African English teacher in one of the best schools in Libya and many of my family members know about Africans who worked in Libya. Back then when Libya was prosperous, people used to come to Libya to work and get some of the highest salaries in the world. After they stole the money, they would return back home. Gaddafi used to love Togo, the South African leader Nelson Mandela, and many more African and Spanish countries like Venezuela. These guys could have worked but enjoyed there lives in the dirty areas and as shoeshiners, they are asking for it.

[@Mohamed-yp9fv]

You are a racist. Gaddafi was a criminal lyer only interested in his power.

[@theorbo1]

There is lots of Western propaganda in this "documentary" but we can still learn much about the despora rats living outside of Libya who were and are willing to do anything to disrupt the Great Jamairya and take Libya's wealth for themselves--- which under the Great Jamahiriya refused to share with all the Libyan people--and thus were given the ultimatum [which required them to leave the country if the did not agree with the process].

[@Mohamed-yp9fv]

Gaddafi was a criminal lyer only interested in his power.

[@theorbo1]

Muammar has not"ruled" since 1974; The Great Jamahiriya does not have PMs but rather Committee Secretaries who do only the people's will (not their own)....The people themselves, under the Great Jamairiya system of the Third Universal Theory, ran their own affairs---there was no "government" or "representatives" (whom the people had to pay for) ...only themselves... and they could be loudly voiceing themselves in their meeting Halls of the local Congresses and Committees.

[@davidhat2446]

Krebs the 'people' couldn't even decide where a manhole drain was to be placed - and you know it !

[@van31003]

The situation has far worsened since Gadhafi is gone.

[@gsxxxrk5]

I wonder why doesn't Fox news doesn't air these types of documentaries?

[@Gracekeys5]

Come now.. you know that would be too much like right 😊

[@SsecnirpNamdor]

This makes me angry and want to cry seeing this at the same time.

[@chechenets1]

they killed brother qaddafi

[@Mohamed-yp9fv]

They killed a criminal lyer named qaddafi.

[@Sserbian]

19:00, they don't want Africans to stay, its a good thing i live in the USA (a country that welcomed Africans with open arms and gave them amazing jobs and important economic positions, (sarcasm)

[@ElMakz]

its mad man reagan that lost his mind and got alzheimers and now crawls on all fours HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@Warkopers]

7:35 Gadhafi with indonesian president megawati

[@Videotubelord]

Well said.

[@Videotubelord]

Americans don't need to know 22:27 - 22:39 that would fail propaganda they usualy air.

[@supra1722]

Enough with the BS tabloid lies and nonsense about 'virgin bodyguards'. Even the western documentary interviewing them in the 90s showed that they're just normal women, many with families and children, who devote their lives to al Fateh Revolution.

[@Redstripe921]

Damn the virgin guard was beautiful

[@davidknight7117]

I wonder if professor black did resign or if he was just full of bs

[@user-fv8qk9kt6u]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@maleyasdf5376]

✊

[@VossPL]

Than WHAT African states?

[@MChiave]

The Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem (12:25) was assassinated and thrown into a canal in Vienna in 2012.

[@notoriousfly9260]

First of all, he wasn’t assassinated. He died of heart failure whilst falling into it. Second of all, he didn’t fall into a canal but into a river.

[@chechenets1]

its sounds like they say pidaraz 01:31

[@biggsnype]

Yooo... libyen women 😍😍😍😍😍

[@erickimanthi2619]

No virgins there.

[@englishman9020]

Libya under Gaddafi was a totalitarian nightmare but the country is even worse in 2019.

[@xxxfaze_cumshotxxx7946]

tf kind of statement is that? does "the people rule themselves" mean nothing to you?

[@ee-mp4zz]

Can’t really call it totalitarian when the government has been abolished and Gaddafi is nothing but a figurehead, can ya? Since 1977 Libya was ruled by the people, that is until America and its allies introduced “freedom and democracy”

[@cuber5003]

@@ee-mp4zz interesting, only problem... Why did they kill him.

[@WiseSilverWolf]

Alot of good those Virgin Female bodyguards did him.

[@vinrazor7222]

Jah knw datz tru royalty

[@H1TMANactual]

Yes he gave back SOME of the money he stole from the people. How generous of him. Propaganda huh? Journeyman have plenty of videos showing thousands of Libyans celebrating after the fall of Gaddafi. Ironically your fellow nutjobs called that propaganda.

[@hanbyol19]

Yes, criminals dragged out from jails and Al-Qaeda members who were all but Libyans. These were the kind of people who celebrated Gaddafi's downfall.

[@nico2292]

Wow, 10 years ago, that comment really aged badly, but not as badly as the guys who were recorded in the scene where Gadaffi was murdered, all those mercenaries and criminals were captured, tortured and executed.

[@blacksteel81]

thank nato viva the united states

[@furkankara9658]

Ahahahaha are you serious

[@hanbyol19]

Saif will restore the land and you rats will be thrown in the cesspool once and for all.

[@hkmhbvv3590]

مارايك الان في وضعكم

[@user-bb1xu5lv6z]

لعنة الله عليك دعوة شرفاء لاترد

[@Sami-ov2bt]

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