Al-Fitouri on the 38th anniversary of the American aggression against Libya: They tried to assassinate Gaddafi based on fabricated charges
In a group of tweets, writer Mustafa Al-Fitouri recalled the events of the barbaric American Atlantic aggression against Libya in 1986, in which they destroyed Tripoli and Benghazi, noting that this aggression attempted to assassinate the martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi based on fabricated charges.
Al-Fitouri said in a group of tweets via his account on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter), that on this day in 1986, Libyans woke up to scenes of the destruction of the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi following the American raids the previous night, which caused the death and injury of nearly 100 civilians . The most famous of them at the time was Bouzid Dorda, Secretary of the General People’s Committee in Libya.
He continued by saying, “One of the most famous civilian buildings destroyed was the home of Muammar Gaddafi personally in an attempt to assassinate him while he was a head of state. It is a precedent in the history of the contemporary world for a superpower to attempt to assassinate a head of state and his family in his home based on fabricated charges whose truth has not been proven to this day.”
He went on to say, “Muammar Gaddafi survived that night, Bouzid was injured, and he was hospitalized. Gaddafi later visited him in the hospital. Until 2011, Libya was keen to commemorate the aggression every year in a celebration in front of Gaddafi’s house, which was called the Steadfast House. On the 20th anniversary in 2006, the American star Lionel Richie participated. And the Spaniard, Jose Carreres, attended the occasion, where they sang for peace from Tripoli.
Al-Fitouri criticized the removal of the statue that was erected in front of the remains of Gaddafi’s house in Bab al-Aziziya during the events of the February Catastrophe, with the help of Qatari forces. The statue then disappeared and appeared in Misrata in 2011 and appeared next to it in the gloating of the American ambassador at the time, Gene Kurtz, and inscribed on the statue next to it “The failed barbaric American Atlantic aggression.” “.
He pointed out that Al-Dabaiba restored the statue, but decided to delete the marble plaque on which was written, “The failed barbaric American Atlantic aggression,” after Western colonialism returned to Libya in various forms and images. It had become almost entirely subservient to the West, especially America, and there should be no trace indicating occupation and crime. American before 1969.
He concluded by saying, “The goal is to erase history, including its important events, and Libya, since 2011, has given up commemorating all the important events it experienced from 1969 to 2011, as if they had never happened.”
