"Foreign powers wanted Gaddafi killed"
Former Libyan transitional prime minister and leader of the armed rebellion Mahmoud Jibril has said that "foreign powers demanded that Gaddafi be killed".
Tuesday, 15.11.2011.
11:32
Former Libyan transitional prime minister and leader of the armed rebellion Mahmoud Jibril has said that "foreign powers demanded that Gaddafi be killed". The reason for this, he told the Bloomberg news agency, was "to silence him for good". "Foreign powers wanted Gaddafi killed" Jibril was quoted as saying that "one or more foreign powers” he declined to name had an interest in ensuring the former Libyan leader, who was captured and killed last month, "stayed quiet". “Too many secrets could have been discovered. He was the black box of the whole country. He had too many wheelings and dealings with too many leaders in the world. With him, unfortunately, a lot of information is gone," Jibril said, and added that his foreign allies, who helped topple the Gadaffi regime, are now pursuing their own interests in the country that holds the largest oil reserves on the African continent. “Because of the lack of state apparatus right now, every foreign power you can think of is trying to look after its own interests in Libya. No one is excluded,” Jibril said. He also stated that he resigned on October 23 "honoring a commitment to step down once the regime fell". The news agency noted that Jibril was succeeded by Abdurrahim El-Keib, "an engineer studied and taught in the U.S". Jibril added that there was rivalry and divisions in the country: "Libyans started competing with each other and as a result, the country is divided." Meanwhile, the AP is reporting that several hundred members of the newly formed Libyan military were for the first time deployed to prevent bloody showdowns between rival armed groups, that have been taking place west of Tripoli for the past four days, leaving at least 13 people dead. The soldiers set up checkpoints and were searching vehicles for weapons, said reports. The rival groups spent the past several days firing automatic weapons and rockets at each other, fighting to establish control over a former army base - now held by the "new army". A file photo of Moammar Gaddafi (FoNet)
"Foreign powers wanted Gaddafi killed"
Jibril was quoted as saying that "one or more foreign powers” he declined to name had an interest in ensuring the former Libyan leader, who was captured and killed last month, "stayed quiet".“Too many secrets could have been discovered. He was the black box of the whole country. He had too many wheelings and dealings with too many leaders in the world. With him, unfortunately, a lot of information is gone," Jibril said, and added that his foreign allies, who helped topple the Gadaffi regime, are now pursuing their own interests in the country that holds the largest oil reserves on the African continent.
“Because of the lack of state apparatus right now, every foreign power you can think of is trying to look after its own interests in Libya. No one is excluded,” Jibril said.
He also stated that he resigned on October 23 "honoring a commitment to step down once the regime fell".
The news agency noted that Jibril was succeeded by Abdurrahim El-Keib, "an engineer studied and taught in the U.S".
Jibril added that there was rivalry and divisions in the country:
"Libyans started competing with each other and as a result, the country is divided."
Meanwhile, the AP is reporting that several hundred members of the newly formed Libyan military were for the first time deployed to prevent bloody showdowns between rival armed groups, that have been taking place west of Tripoli for the past four days, leaving at least 13 people dead.
The soldiers set up checkpoints and were searching vehicles for weapons, said reports.
The rival groups spent the past several days firing automatic weapons and rockets at each other, fighting to establish control over a former army base - now held by the "new army".
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