Gaddafi Issued Arrest Warrant by the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Col Muammar Gaddafi, and it’s making Libya go crazy. The ICC claims it had grounds to believe that Libya’s leader personally ordered attacks on civilians during the country’s four-month long uprising. Who’s going to disagree? Nobody? Didn’t think so. (Except maybe the few mercenaries and supporters he’s paying to keep himself alive.)

Warrants were also issued for Gaddafi’s “top aides” a.k.a. his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi, according to BBC News.

Interesting enough, the warrants only refer to the early weeks of the uprising. What about the last 40 years of oppression and bullshit Libyans have had to put up with? Since Gaddafi overthrew King Idris in 1969, his Arab socialist and nationalist ideas have turned his country into what a lot of Western nations consider a pariah state. Though there is no official definition of this term, it has its negative connotations. The U.S. tends to use pariah nation when describing countries that support the use of terrorism and “pursue the development of weapons of mass destruction in violation of international agreements.” Thanks, Wikipedia!

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Anyway, since he’s been in office, Western countries have claimed oppression of internal dissent, state-sponsored terrorism, assassinations of opposition leaders and, my personal favorite, amassing a multibillion-dollar fortune for himself and his family.

So why hasn’t anything happened to him sooner?

Well, the U.S. attempted something akin to the badassery in Abottabad during Operation El Dorado Canyon, but the strikes failed to kill Gaddafi.

Here are some cool Snapple facts about what this piece of crap has been involved in.

In 1972, Gaddafi praised the Lod Airport massacre, carried out by the Japanese Red Army, and demanded that Palestinian terrorist groups do likewise. He was a close supporter of President Idi Amin. Gaddafi sent troops to fight against Tanzania on behalf of Amin. Roughly 600 Libyan soldiers lost their lives trying to defend the collapse of Amin’s presidency, throughout which Amin’s government killed hundreds of thousands of Ugandans. Gaddafi has also helped Islamist and Communist terrorist groups in the Philippines. Gaddafi also trained and supported Charles Taylor, who was indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict in that same country. The list goes on and on.

No wonder his people are optimistic about ousting him.

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