Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the military coup which brought him to power as Libya’s head of state. It is well known that Gaddafi has been a prominent supporter of international terrorism over the years, running a number of terrorist training camps in Libya and using Libya’s vast oil revenues to fund numerous different terrorist groups. Gaddafi has masterminded and supported numerous terrorist attacks including the Lockerbie bombing.
However, the only misadventures of Gaddafi which are widely reported in the Western press are those which affect Western interests. His greatest achievements remain largely unreported. Gaddafi has made a greater contribution to world poverty than any other person. He has been intimately involved in causing the poverty which now exists in many of the world’s poorest countries, including the five listed as poorest in the current CIA World Factbook:
1. Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF thugs have been trained and funded by Gaddafi. 2. Democratic Republic of the Congo: Libya has been an active participant in the civil war which has killed 5 million people. 3. Burundi: Jean-Baptiste Bagaza’s attempted coup in 1993 was sponsored by Gaddafi, and followed by many years of inter-ethinc conflict. 4. Liberia: Charles Taylor’s guerrillas, whose reign of terror lasted more than a decade, were trained and funded by Gaddafi. 5. Somalia: Gaddafi has been sponsoring Somalian insurrectionists for many years.