BEIRUT - not a shred of formal solidarity. Not a word of support from other dictator, presidents, kings and sultans with eyes that look indifferent, if not complacent, the inexorable fall of the Colonel. Indeed, in fact, already there are opinions in favor of a no-fly zone on Libya which would be a military target.
And they are opinions that weigh, like that of the President of the Conference of Islamic countries, the turkish Ekemelledin Ihsanoglu, or that of the versatile secretary of the Arab League, Egypt's Amr Mussa. So a question arises: why is it Muammar Gaddafi on his stomach to his own "brother" Arabs and Muslims? "That true Arab hatred Gaddafi is an old story," he recalled Saad Kiwanis, journalist and director of the Foundation "Samir Kassir, in Beirut.
A story that dates from his rise to power after the coup against King Idris, September 1, 1969. Exactly one year later, in September of 1970, Gaddafi makes his political debut in the living room of the Middle East, the League of Arab States, meeting in Cairo, as they say, you immediately recognize.
The discussion is the bloody clash that pits the armored troops of King Hussein of Jordan to the fedayeen Yasser Arafat, the tragic "Black September" of Palestinians. The Hashemite King explains his motives, accusing Arafat of having forced him to use an iron fist. Gaddafi, then a young officer, not yet thirty, arises: "Is there a fool of us who want to kill his people - shouting from the gallery - you have to send someone to catch him in a mental hospital to close it." Speakers Saudi King Fahad, to call the young Gaddafi to a more respectful attitude.
Then he took the floor Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose ideology of pan-Arabism Gaddafi is a follower. Nasser throws water on the fire. It is curious that in that distant curtain are already all players in the controversy which contrasted in the coming years, the PLO, and Gadhafi, Qaddafi and the Saudis, Qaddafi and Jordan.
"Since then - said Kiwanis - have emerged that difference of character, style, vision which raised Gaddafi's leadership and particularly the traditional Arab monarchies of the Gulf. Gaddafi, had no need of Saudi oil because Libya had much of that oil and gas can compete with anyone. Politically he enjoyed the support of Nasser, and most believed to be a revolutionary, Che Guevara North Africa.
" He has not changed. Indeed, over time, Gaddafi has topped that disagreement with the theatrical context, the challenge free rubbing, for example, high-sounding titles such as "King of Kings of Africa" or "Dean of Arab leaders" and he, who, emphasize the difference with the other, it still boasts that it did not own any public office.
Until the turn of bad education ostentatious cigars on the floor of the room where we met with other Arab leaders. With Arafat knows how it ended. Having chosen to support the cause and to finance it handsomely, Gaddafi feel entitled to ask to put Abu Ammar available to its agents to kill Libyan dissidents fled to Europe.
Arafat refused, and in response Gaddafi ordered the expulsion of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Libya, the PLO offices closed, and the freezing of funds. But Arafat needed the aid of Libya, and in 1978 he asked the Imam Mussa Sadr, a Shiite Lebanese personalities recognized and respected to intercede with the Colonel.
Sadr left for Tripoli, arrived in the Libyan capital, but the day of his departure was gone and since then he knows nothing. Allegations, moved, not hours, from Lebanon, Qaddafi said that the Imam had taken a flight to Rome. Italians see what happened. For over 40 years Gaddafi has continued to think of an Arab world populated by "stupid" as he called the Israelis and Palestinians, or, worse, leaders in the service of British and American, as the rulers of the Gulf, the level of which, he cried Emir of Qatar in the face, he would never come down. 
And they are opinions that weigh, like that of the President of the Conference of Islamic countries, the turkish Ekemelledin Ihsanoglu, or that of the versatile secretary of the Arab League, Egypt's Amr Mussa. So a question arises: why is it Muammar Gaddafi on his stomach to his own "brother" Arabs and Muslims? "That true Arab hatred Gaddafi is an old story," he recalled Saad Kiwanis, journalist and director of the Foundation "Samir Kassir, in Beirut.
A story that dates from his rise to power after the coup against King Idris, September 1, 1969. Exactly one year later, in September of 1970, Gaddafi makes his political debut in the living room of the Middle East, the League of Arab States, meeting in Cairo, as they say, you immediately recognize.
The discussion is the bloody clash that pits the armored troops of King Hussein of Jordan to the fedayeen Yasser Arafat, the tragic "Black September" of Palestinians. The Hashemite King explains his motives, accusing Arafat of having forced him to use an iron fist. Gaddafi, then a young officer, not yet thirty, arises: "Is there a fool of us who want to kill his people - shouting from the gallery - you have to send someone to catch him in a mental hospital to close it." Speakers Saudi King Fahad, to call the young Gaddafi to a more respectful attitude.
Then he took the floor Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose ideology of pan-Arabism Gaddafi is a follower. Nasser throws water on the fire. It is curious that in that distant curtain are already all players in the controversy which contrasted in the coming years, the PLO, and Gadhafi, Qaddafi and the Saudis, Qaddafi and Jordan.
"Since then - said Kiwanis - have emerged that difference of character, style, vision which raised Gaddafi's leadership and particularly the traditional Arab monarchies of the Gulf. Gaddafi, had no need of Saudi oil because Libya had much of that oil and gas can compete with anyone. Politically he enjoyed the support of Nasser, and most believed to be a revolutionary, Che Guevara North Africa.
" He has not changed. Indeed, over time, Gaddafi has topped that disagreement with the theatrical context, the challenge free rubbing, for example, high-sounding titles such as "King of Kings of Africa" or "Dean of Arab leaders" and he, who, emphasize the difference with the other, it still boasts that it did not own any public office.
Until the turn of bad education ostentatious cigars on the floor of the room where we met with other Arab leaders. With Arafat knows how it ended. Having chosen to support the cause and to finance it handsomely, Gaddafi feel entitled to ask to put Abu Ammar available to its agents to kill Libyan dissidents fled to Europe.
Arafat refused, and in response Gaddafi ordered the expulsion of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Libya, the PLO offices closed, and the freezing of funds. But Arafat needed the aid of Libya, and in 1978 he asked the Imam Mussa Sadr, a Shiite Lebanese personalities recognized and respected to intercede with the Colonel.
Sadr left for Tripoli, arrived in the Libyan capital, but the day of his departure was gone and since then he knows nothing. Allegations, moved, not hours, from Lebanon, Qaddafi said that the Imam had taken a flight to Rome. Italians see what happened. For over 40 years Gaddafi has continued to think of an Arab world populated by "stupid" as he called the Israelis and Palestinians, or, worse, leaders in the service of British and American, as the rulers of the Gulf, the level of which, he cried Emir of Qatar in the face, he would never come down.
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