Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Libya: The Italian Government intends to do what?

The revolution in slippers and a Kalashnikov against Gaddafi is ill in Ras Lanuf, 700 kilometers away from Tripoli and the huge military compound of Colonel. Seen from near the rebels are a bunch of young idealists, military deserters, religious fanatics, criminals in search of booty. There's pretty much everything on the eastern front of this civil war.

The universities, unlike in Cairo or Tunis, crushed by decades of propaganda and maxid of green books, are not points of debate and fail to organize an idea of revolution and was an alternative to the existing one. No ruling class, a few intellectuals, no military coordination: to overthrow the dictator of millions of anger against a Libyan-style dictatorship of Burma - but with the open sewers in the cities, in spite of petrodollars - might not be enough.

One of the leaders of the revolt in Cyrenaica, whom I met at the Battle of Brega a week ago, yesterday on the phone begging me: "You say that we need to Berlusconi of Italy. Tell Berlusconi that Italy and Europe should recognize as soon as the transitional government of Benghazi. Apparently, these days our premier has more to think about.

As Foreign Minister, there has yet to explain how you can prevent the Gaddafi family raking money by selling shares of Unicredit. Dear Frattini, since we are talking about freezing the assets of the rais, explains what it means to the Italian government?

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