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احدى راهبات القذافي تفضح حقيقة موت حسن اشكال القذافي

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    What connects the town of Ainata to Tripoli of the West?
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    In this small town, a woman called Aziza was once one of Gaddafi's bodyguards.
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    Aziza Ibrahim comes to us bearing only her memories. 17 years following her return from Libya
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    the "revolutionary nun" as Gaddafi calls his bodyguards
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    decided to speak out about being one of these women.
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    She has no photos or evidence, but we have to believe her, because she knows more than she should.
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    "If you want to be a bodyguard, you don't marry, because he calls them nuns and nuns don't marry."
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    "Secondly, she has to have a strong personality, have no need for her family."
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    "She might have to kill her family."
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    "One guard for example, Jamile Gurnan, she used to terrify us,
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    she killed his cousin Hassan Shkal, Shkal are also Qaddadfa (of his tribe)."
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    "He raised his voice against Muammar in a discussion
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    in front of us all, as soon as he raised his voice, she shot him, in front of Muammar."
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    In 1982, after the Israeli invasion of Beirut, Aziza travelled to Libya with a Nasserite student group
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    As events turned out, she met Muammar, and accompanied him in his first visit to China
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    as one of his chosen guards.
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    "The real guards who are with him, if you notice, some are black and have a certain rank, and the other ten or so
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    were there to give the appearance that all his guards are women. That women guard him not men
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    This is intended to lift women's standing, to show he believes women are equal to men
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    Equal in all duties and rights. As he said in his Green Book, "the woman is female and the man is male."
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    [Laughs.] That's the only difference between them.
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    "And the woman bears children and the man doesn't."
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    This is in the Green Book, the social section.
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    One day, the Popular Commitee took Aziza and other bodyguards and students
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    to a university campus where Gaddafi was giving a speech.
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    What happened there couldn't be imagined.
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    "They brought in the students they wanted to hang."
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    "One was from law school, his accusation was that he called someone he knew in Iraq."
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    "Another was an economics student. They were four hanged altogether."
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    "The first person, he didn't die. They pulled on his legs till he died, and I was sat there frozen."
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    "At 2 am they came to us and said you need to go to the sport stadium. They took us to the winter arena."
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    "He executed 17 people, students, shooting not hanging."
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    "17, in front of us, in this gym so the sound was amplified."
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    "You weren't allowed to scream. You had to chant."
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    "These are traitors. One of them, he wasn't even the traitor, his cousin was a defected pilot."
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    "They couldn't arrest his cousin so they took him instead."
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    Aziza watches the man she used to guard face the end of his rule and wishes he would die
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    She says if she was still his bodyguard, she would have killed him herself.
Title:
احدى راهبات القذافي تفضح حقيقة موت حسن اشكال القذافي
Video Language:
Arabic
Duration:
04:38

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