Saturday, March 19, 2011

The twelve small Libyan coup

And at the end of the 12 children there was only one Libyan coup. It is a plot of Agatha Christie the elimination of fellow Revolution Muammar Gaddafi: parties together to seize power, Colonel (then Captain) got rid of his fellow soldiers along. Of the 12 apostles who began to conspire with him in 1965 (as members of the Free Officers Movement) against the kingdom of Idris and formed the Revolutionary Command Council led the coup of September 1, 1969, only six years later he remained 5 and only 3 are still close to Gaddafi in the latest battle.

It takes knowledge and memory of Angelo Del Boca to trace and reconstruct the names and the fate of the officers, taking a lead by Nasser's seizure of power in neighboring Egypt and driven by the anger and frustration with the Arab defeat in the war against Israel '67, in two hours the first day of September 42 years ago, starting from Benghazi, deposed the king without a fight (which was treating in Turkey) and installs itself automatically in Tripoli.

According to legend became history were about seventy, but driving the 27 year-old Muammar Gaddafi and 11 other officers. Fresh course in the most famous British school of war, Sandhurst, and with clear ideas about where to Libya, where ten years before had been first discovered oil fields, had to go.

Gaddafi was initially a primus inter pares among soldiers who shared the vision of pan-Arab and the thirst for change history, but soon, both for the appearance of new "Che Guevara of the Maghreb" in Saharan and mirrored sunglasses that will fierce to prevail, the Colonel has become the face and body of power.

In the mid-'70s his fellow revolution already over and they could not have tried to set it aside, result: Omar Al Meheishei was forced to hastily repaired first to Egypt and then in Tunisia, Al Beshir Hamed Hamza Hawadi and were arrested (and only then partly rehabilitated); Abdel Al Monein Huni fled and then returned to the ranks, as Mohammed Najm.

Since 1975, the initial circle remained Kharrubi Mustapha, Hamdi Abu Bakr and Junes Khoulidi promoted general of unnecessary and ill-considered Saddam's army: they are still with him but without much voting power. Abdel Salam Jallud remains, initially dismissed the junta's number two a fortnight ago and which even in these days we discussed as a possible alternative.

Actually it would be out of the game. Gaddafi remains, some of his children, his tribe of Sirte. The revolution, and its end, are in his hands. The septuagenarian dictator is still master of his fate and that of his country which is bound by more than four decades of absolute control as the father of his country and king of kings.

Too much just to leave.

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