Peace be upon you. In recent days, events have been speeding up
and the regime has suffered some consecutive defeats
but they are still divorced from reality, living a fantasy
imagining they can turn back the wheel of time
still not understanding that people can say "No" to them
I mean, they are still bewildered
Everyone who knows anything in politics knows this regime is finished
If you bet on them, for your own interest, you're going to loose
by every measure
Even the international powers, that study their interests at each step, have abandoned them
It has become shameful to have a relationship with this regime
What I still can't understand is those people who are still defending the regime
The problem is, these people are free to think, they live outside Libya
and they try to find excuses, they lie and say this is a "crusader war" or whatever
What "crusader war"? He was about to burn Benghazi.
Then, when countries came and stopped this, you tell me "it's a crusader war"?
OK, so what is it he is doing? What do you call it?
There is no power or strength but in God.
To be honest I can't comprehend this, I can't understand those who are saying this.
It is bewildering.
Just quickly, I want to ask a question to all Libyans listening.
Who doesn't have a relative, or friend who was murdered in what is called April 7?
From '76 up to the mid-80's in the universities
Hangings in universities. Who? Who doesn't have a friend or relative who dissappeared at that time?
Who doesn't have a friend or relative who was killed in Chad? A pointless war, where in the end he said
"Here's Ozu, take it," and nothing happened.
Who of us doesn't know someone killed in Uganda, or disappeared in Uganda?
Or who was wounded and so was thrown into the sea?
Who among us doesn't have relatives who were injected with aids?
And those responsible were sentenced first to death then to life imprisonment, then released.
It's a farce.
The incident of the stadium. Youth who were cheering on a team, and as they were cheering
they were shot at with live ammunition.
And when you go to take the body of your son
you have to sign to say he was a criminal.
In 1984, in May, I remember this. They broadcast the executions and hangings at Iftar time
You go to break your fast, and they're showing people - martyrs Godwilling - on the gallows
and the humiliation of them, and worse than that
that the hangings and executions took place in their areas
where they were born, in front of their families and their children
the destruction of homes, each village in Libya has homes unjustly destroyed
the stealing of people's money and property.
Brothers, I can't comprehend. When we are close to getting rid of this tyrant
we find there are people still standing by him.
No one who has been forced into the compulsory military training
who has been tortured and dehumanized
as they say, break their pride so no one can think of doing anything
The terror at the checkpoints, at the borders, the invasions of homes and the rapes
Brothers, we are not in a country. I swear to you we are not in a country.
What has happened in Libya happens only in Israel. And Israel doesn't do this to their own people.
They do it to those they think they're in conflict with.
What I'm saying, and especially to those intellectuals abroad
who say they are educated and are still excusing and defending the regime.
Yesterday one of them sent me an email, saying this is a crusader war.
Crusader war? When he was going to burn Benghazi, why didn't you speak then?
Crusader war? All your friend has to do is step down. Go and stop the bloodletting.
If he was human, and felt anything, he would go to save the bloodletting.
The other thing I still can't understand, you who have people in the army, call them, tell them to stop
This is wrong, that young men should be led astray and be isolated, to burn in tanks so he can stay in power
The owner of the farm, like Libya is his farm
with people in it he doesn't consider people, he considers them rats, not even human.
And young men die for him. If even a fly were to die for him I'd say it's too much.
So please, keep calling, a thousand times to save even one person.
If you save even one, it would be like you've saved all humanity.
Let's all cooperate on this.
Look, the more the noose tightens around the regime
the more violent their response will be
and the more dirty tactics they will use
now we hear them stirring up tribalism, to light a tribal war
and he will do everything you can imagine
When you want to understand how they think
imagine there's a devil in front of you and imagines what he will be prepared to do
Now I expect him to take soldiers in civilian clothes and ask them to go to an area
and make it seem like it's a war between two civilian sides, between pro-Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi
make it seem like a tribal war, a civil war, to derail the revolution and move it out of it's target
so our efforts abroad should be focused on two things
both in liberated areas and areas still not liberated
We can't let this chance go. We must carry on raising awareness
because in the end he is going. If they reach an agreement, his plane will carry ten or fifteen
and the others will stay. The Libyans will stay, and will live together on this earth and he will go.
There is no discussion about this. So we don't want any kind of his traps remaining.
We need to keep the contacts going so the revolution is not derailed from its goals
which are setting up a democratic country, freeing the land totally, a country of insititutions and law
and social justice, a Libya for all. Law, that's it.
Racial or tribal labelling must end. Our origins should be geographic - from this city or that.
We don't have a loyalty other than to this country.
We will be victorious and we will be rid of this mentality.
In Libya or abroad, we have to work for Libya because we will live in it, and it is our children's future
We must think about this and work for this.
Don't say I have no role or no part to play.
Don't just try and give up. Keep going. Because when we're all working from abroad
and keeping the pressure on those who have people in the army
we will be victorious and we will make his chances dwindle
Because as the ring tightens he will be more...
as they say the dancing of the slaughtered
So we ask God to protect Libya, and that we can do something to help.
We ask God to protect our terrorized children
who have been cut off from their education and from everything, and are in constant terror
God protect them and terrorize those who terrorized them
But victory is near God willing
All this doesn't break the people's will
Especially when their cause is just in God's eyes, to lift injustice from the people
and to create a country of justice and equality
God willing we will be victorious and our will can't be broken
God willing the Libyan people will bind their wounds and live in peace and unity