After Shooting bin Laden, Is Gadhafi America’s Next Target?
Published in Nanfang Daily
(China) on 6 May 2011
by Liu Qingdong, He Zhou, Guo Yiming and Zheng Hanliang (link to
original)
After bin Laden was shot down by the U.S., many people associated the event with the still tenaciously resisting dictator, Gadhafi. What will be the consequence?
After bin Laden’s death, the Libyan opposition publicly requested that the U.S. make a persistent effort to kill Gadhafi. Rafael, the spokesperson of the National Transitional Council, headquartered in Benghazi, said that if the U.S. could kill Gadhafi after shooting down bin Laden, the opposition would consider it a “great gift.”
Yin Hong, professor of International Relations at Remin University in China, told a China News Service reporter that Gadhafi has long been a thorn in America's side, long before it began chasing bin Laden. This fact was also known by Gadhafi himself.
Back in the 1980s, the U.S. army launched an attack targeting Gadhafi. At that time, U.S. warplanes bombed Gadhafi’s official residence and killed his foster daughter, but Gadhafi got away.
Since April 25 this year, NATO warplanes have bombed Gadhafi’s residence repeatedly; the April 30 air raid was more precise and directly blasted Gadhafi’s youngest son and three grandsons. Gadhafi himself escaped again.
Everyone knows about America’s habit of using armed forces to remove the thorns from its side. In 1989, the U.S. army started Operation Just Cause to invade Panama and captured Panama’s former dictator Manuel Noriega; in 2003, it initiated Operation Red Dawn and hanged Saddam after capturing him in Iraq; in 1961, it attacked Castro in the Bay of Pigs, which failed and Castro is still living today.
Will Gadhafi be America’s next target after eliminating its biggest adversary, bin Laden?
After bin Laden’s death, the Libyan opposition publicly requested that the U.S. make a persistent effort to kill Gadhafi. Rafael, the spokesperson of the National Transitional Council, headquartered in Benghazi, said that if the U.S. could kill Gadhafi after shooting down bin Laden, the opposition would consider it a “great gift.”
Yin Hong, professor of International Relations at Remin University in China, told a China News Service reporter that Gadhafi has long been a thorn in America's side, long before it began chasing bin Laden. This fact was also known by Gadhafi himself.
Back in the 1980s, the U.S. army launched an attack targeting Gadhafi. At that time, U.S. warplanes bombed Gadhafi’s official residence and killed his foster daughter, but Gadhafi got away.
Since April 25 this year, NATO warplanes have bombed Gadhafi’s residence repeatedly; the April 30 air raid was more precise and directly blasted Gadhafi’s youngest son and three grandsons. Gadhafi himself escaped again.
Everyone knows about America’s habit of using armed forces to remove the thorns from its side. In 1989, the U.S. army started Operation Just Cause to invade Panama and captured Panama’s former dictator Manuel Noriega; in 2003, it initiated Operation Red Dawn and hanged Saddam after capturing him in Iraq; in 1961, it attacked Castro in the Bay of Pigs, which failed and Castro is still living today.
Will Gadhafi be America’s next target after eliminating its biggest adversary, bin Laden?