Thursday, March 24, 2005

Libya

Fire of Liberty

According to The New York Sun, Libyan opposition leader Fathi el-Jahmi has taken a turn for the worse in his prison cell in Tripoli. He's been a chief concern of the State Department and the White House who are always concerned about advocates of democracy are held against their will by a tyrannical regime. Just look at this paragraph from the Sun:
Mr. el-Jahmi, a former governor of al-Khaleej province and an early ally of Colonel Muammar Gadhafi, was one of the first dissidents to publicly criticize Libya's leader during the 1970s. On March 26, 2004, he was released from jail only to be abducted by security services 14 days later - along with his wife and two sons. Today, he is being held at an undisclosed prison in Libya. While he is not charged with any crime, his most recent arrest coincides with a series of interviews he gave on Arab satellite television stations calling on Colonel Gadhafi to hold regular elections and allow basic political rights. Mr. el-Jahmi's wife and children were later released.
I hope that the wily Colonel in the oil-rich African nation sees the light and let el-Jahmi out to see a doctor but I highly doubt such will conspire. Though Gadhafi scrapped his WMD program, he's still a tyrant in bed with terrorists who has no respect for freedom or democracy. Pressure from State might work but I think a better solution is for some us to send some B-2's to Libya and finish what Reagan started in 1986.

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