It appears that the late Muammar Qaddafi was the richest person in the world, worth over $200 billion. Here.
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2 Comments
$200 Gigabucks doesn’t buy as much as it used to …
Richern’ Oprah?
(At the risk of reigniting an engagement with Guess Who? I’m gonna copy and paste a comment I’ve left somewhere else.)
Gollee Mike, “Now comes the unenviable task of keeping the previously oppressed from becoming as bad as the original oppressors. Good luck, its not an easy task.”
Bit of an understatement coming from you isn’t it? I doubt many have ever heard of the Sinjar Raid in Iraq (2005) and what was found. From West Point’s CTC (that’s Counter Terrorism Center) study on where the foreigners killing Americans were coming from, published in 2007:
“Saudi Arabia was by far the most common nationality of the fighters’ in this sample; 41% of the 595 records that included the fighter’s nationality indicated they were of Saudi Arabian origin. Libya was the next most common country of origin, with 18.8%…” (These were just the one’s in the AQ In Iraq records.)
http://tarpley.net/docs/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
Fortunately the Libyans “repented” – a later CTC study:
“In September 2009, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a militant Libyan jihadist group whose leaders have deep personal ties to al-Qa`ida’s top figures, published a 417-page revisions document. The treatise publicly repudiated al-Qa`ida’s ideology, ended the LIFG’s campaign to overthrow Libya’s leader Mu`ammar Qadhafi from power,…”
Of course that was before Tunisia.
But, from that second study too: “The document was the culmination of nearly three years of peace talks between the imprisoned leadership of the LIFG and the Libyan government.”
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CTCSentinel-Vol2Iss12-2-art2.pdf
Nothing like a good old fashioned “jailhouse conversion” to offer inspiration and joyful feelings.
Makes a feller feel all fuzzy and warm inside doesn’t it?