DAVOS-Gaddafi son says Iraqi resistance is legitimate

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2747525.htm

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's politically influential son said on Thursday that armed resistance to U.S.-led multinational forces in Iraq was legitimate but condemned the killing of innocent hostages.

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had called the war in Iraq illegal, key members of the Security Council had opposed it and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction -- the main reason Washington gave for invading Iraq -- removed any moral justification for military action.

"The result is clear -- that it's an illegal occupation and therefore people should resist it," Gaddafi told journalists at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

He said U.S. soldiers had robbed Iraqis of their honour and dignity by entering homes and humiliating men in front of their families.

"Then every rational person would say it's legitimate and they have a right (to resist)," he said.

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[David__77]

1. US aggression murdered his sister.

I'd say that he has every right to be angry.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Gaddafi was injured and his infant daughter killed in April 1986...

when the US bombed Libyan sites in response to terrorism allegedly traced to Libya.

[Dhalgren]

3. He's right, I don't care who he is.

He is just stating the rational facts. Any rational person, being honest, would agree with him.