Things that make you go hmmm...

[Peter_Puget]

From the BBC

 

2002 August - Libya says it is ready, in principle, to pay compensation to families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing.

 

2003 January - Libya is elected chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Commission despite opposition from the US and human rights groups.

 

2003 August - Libyan government and lawyers representing families of Lockerbie bombing victims sign compensation agreement worth $2.7bn. Libya formally takes responsibility for the bombing in a letter to the UN Security Council.

 

2003 September - UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya.

 

From MEMRI: October 4, 2003 speech delivered to women in the city of Sabha, by Col. Mu'ammar Al-Qaddafi:

 

The war changed and moved from the battlefields we learned about in books, into the homes. In the past, soldiers fought soldiers, and today soldiers fight women and children in Baghdad and Gaza...As long as the woman is home and she is the one targeted, she must be trained...The woman must be trained how to fight within the home, how to put together an explosive belt and blow herself up together with the enemy soldiers. Anyone who has a car must make preparations and know how to booby trap it and turn it into a car bomb...In the past they would say [to us in Libya]: "Why do you train the women? It is not logical that the woman will go out to the battlefield..." Today the face of the battle has changed, and the arenas of fighting have moved to the place where the woman is...We must train the women how to booby-trap the car and blow it up among the enemy, how to blow up the house so it falls on the enemy soldiers. Traps must be prepared. You have seen how [the enemy] check luggage. These suitcases should be rigged so that when they open them they blow up. The women must be taught how to booby-trap their clothes closets, booby-trap their purses, booby-trap their shoes, booby-trap the children's toys, so they blow up on the enemy soldiers.