Gaddafi Says Africa Should Have Continental Army

[Mamazen]

** Note; Gaddafi is speaking truth and the media still tried to get it twisted....***


New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world...a-gaddafi.html

April 4, 2007
Gaddafi Says Africa Should Have Continental Army
By REUTERS

Filed at 9:14 p.m. ET

DAKAR (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged Africa on Wednesday to form a unified continental army to defend its interests, and he said former colonial powers should pay compensation for the raw materials they had extracted.

In a fiery speech at a military parade in Dakar marking Senegal's National Day, Gaddafi said African nations had the right to demand reparations from their former colonial masters for the diamonds, gold and other resources they had ``pillaged.''

Military and political unity would help Africa resist any attempts to re-colonize it, the Libyan leader said.

``If we manage to unify all of Africa's armies in a single army, Africa will have such power,'' Gaddafi said, wearing a double-breasted white jacket with medal ribbons pinned on the left and a green outline of Africa emblazoned on the right.

``We must be strong so as not to be an easy prey for the colonizers,'' said the Libyan leader, standing beside Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who was sworn in for a second term in office on Tuesday after winning elections last month.

While Gaddafi advocated a mighty African army, a top African Union official in Sudan appealed for better logistical support and weapons for the struggling, overstretched AU peacekeeping force serving in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.

Gaddafi, who often portrays himself as a champion of African unity, said the thousands of Africans who tried to migrate to Europe each year were merely following the route of the natural riches shipped out of Africa by European ex-colonial powers.

``Today, they contest our departure for Europe, they say it's illegal migration ... after they came from Europe and elsewhere to occupy Africa ... was that legal?'' he added, speaking through an interpreter.

``They have left us in poverty. They have carried off our resources and raw materials to their countries ... so we want to go after them, or they should send them back ... in the form of compensation for their colonization of Africa,'' Gaddafi said.

Suggesting that racism colored Europe's view of Africa, the Libyan leader added: ``Who says white is better than black?.''

``Both black and white cows give white milk,'' he said, before finishing his speech with a revolutionary slogan borrowed from the guerrilla legend Che Guevara: ``The struggle continues. Ever onwards unto victory!.''

[Kushnology]

HOTEP!

Gaddafi often says all the right things when pertaining to Afrika. However he doesn't practice what he preaches. And as of late Gaddafi has been becoming a little too cozy when the u.s. True Afrikan revolutionaries on the contitnent should watch him closely.

Thank you for the article.

[Armtruth]

Its so wonderful to here truth spoken like this!

[Interested]

That's probably why Chavez likes this clown, citing Che as a referrence.

In any case, Gaddafi is way past his prime, I didn't even know the old cow could still milk that good. I'll give him points for still clinging to his old pan-africanist image, he's no Nasser or Boumédiène (real North African pan-africanists), but he tries. Honestly though, his whole image fell through when he said he wouldn't de-board an airliner in Nigeria unless he had several body guards with him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6192630.stm

Nigerian officials say Col Gaddafi was accompanied by more than 200 heavily armed Libyan bodyguards.

I do like the idea of a continental army though. I don't know why I didn't think of it.

[Jalili]

When you sit down and think of it the idea has been out there but there is to many out side influences that are keeping this and the Afrikan people from coming together as one.