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"L'heure H a sonné. Les rebelles se sont soulevés à Tripoli", a-t-il dit.
Les avions de l'Otan, qui interviennent en Libye depuis le 31 mars dans le cadre de la résolution 1793 du Conseil de sécurité de l'Onu, ont lancé des raids pour distraire les forces de Mouammar Kadhafi, a-t-il ajouté.
L'ancien numéro deux du régime, Abdel Salam Jalloud, qui a rejoint les rangs de la rébellion vendredi, est apparu à la télévision à Rome et a appelé les habitants de Tripoli à se soulever contre "le tyran".
Major Abdessalam Jalloud was a close friend of Muammar Gaddafi since their school days at the preparatory school of Sebha. They both entered the military academy of Benghazi where they formed the hard core of the "free officers" who staged a military coup in September 1969 launching the Libyan Revolution. Jalloud became Gaddafi’s closest adviser and deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya. He was entrusted with the supervision of the oil sector, which represented 96% of the country's income. In September 1970 Jalloud succeeded in imposing a rise in oil prices to all companies operating in Libya, opening the way for the other oil producers and for the subsequent rises of the 1970s. Andrew F. Ensor, who negotiated the oil prices on behalf of the world's seven largest oil companies said that during the negotiations Jalloud kept a pistol on the table in front of him.[1]
In March 1970, six months after the Libyan Revolution, Jalloud went to Beijing looking for a Chinese nuclear bomb at a price of $100 million in order to "solve the Arab-Israel conflict once and for all", but Libya's demand was flatly refused by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.[2] In May 1974, Jalloud traveled to Moscow and concluded the first in a series of arms sales agreements that remained the largest ever reached by the Soviets.[3]
Considered a hard liner, Jalloud (from the Magariha tribe) was the second most powerful man in the Libyan regime for over two decades. After several disagreements with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (from the Gaddadfa tribe), Jalloud fell out of favour in August 1993, having been replaced by Captain Mohammad Emsied al-Majdoub al-Gaddafi as the general coordinator of the Revolutionary Committees.[4] Allegations that the Magariha backed the coup attempt against the regime by officers of the Warfalla tribe in October 1993 may have led to Gaddafi's order to place Jalloud under house arrest.[5] The London-based newspaper Al Hayat reported in April 1995 that the authorities had confiscated Jalloud's passport and kept him under surveillance because of growing disagreement between him and Gaddafi. This disagreement was shown in public after the visit of a delegation of 192 Libyan pilgrims to Israel in May 1993. The paper added that Jalloud had submitted a note to Gaddafi blaming him personally for the suffering that the country was going through. The decision to confiscate Jalloud's passport was taken after he insisted on the need to carry out changes he had called for in his note.
The two Libyan suspects extradited to the Netherlands in the Lockerbie case, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, belonged to an important branch of Jalloud's Magariha tribe. Jalloud was understood to have resisted the idea of extradition.[6]
On 19 August 2011, during the 2011 Libyan civil war, it was reported that Jalloud had defected to the rebel forces opposing Gaddafi and was on his way from Zintan to Europe.[7] [8]
Les avions de l'Otan, qui interviennent en Libye depuis le 31 mars dans le cadre de la résolution 1793 du Conseil de sécurité de l'Onu, ont lancé des raids pour distraire les forces de Mouammar Kadhafi, a-t-il ajouté.
L'ancien numéro deux du régime, Abdel Salam Jalloud, qui a rejoint les rangs de la rébellion vendredi, est apparu à la télévision à Rome et a appelé les habitants de Tripoli à se soulever contre "le tyran".
Major Abdessalam Jalloud was a close friend of Muammar Gaddafi since their school days at the preparatory school of Sebha. They both entered the military academy of Benghazi where they formed the hard core of the "free officers" who staged a military coup in September 1969 launching the Libyan Revolution. Jalloud became Gaddafi’s closest adviser and deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya. He was entrusted with the supervision of the oil sector, which represented 96% of the country's income. In September 1970 Jalloud succeeded in imposing a rise in oil prices to all companies operating in Libya, opening the way for the other oil producers and for the subsequent rises of the 1970s. Andrew F. Ensor, who negotiated the oil prices on behalf of the world's seven largest oil companies said that during the negotiations Jalloud kept a pistol on the table in front of him.[1]
In March 1970, six months after the Libyan Revolution, Jalloud went to Beijing looking for a Chinese nuclear bomb at a price of $100 million in order to "solve the Arab-Israel conflict once and for all", but Libya's demand was flatly refused by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.[2] In May 1974, Jalloud traveled to Moscow and concluded the first in a series of arms sales agreements that remained the largest ever reached by the Soviets.[3]
Considered a hard liner, Jalloud (from the Magariha tribe) was the second most powerful man in the Libyan regime for over two decades. After several disagreements with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (from the Gaddadfa tribe), Jalloud fell out of favour in August 1993, having been replaced by Captain Mohammad Emsied al-Majdoub al-Gaddafi as the general coordinator of the Revolutionary Committees.[4] Allegations that the Magariha backed the coup attempt against the regime by officers of the Warfalla tribe in October 1993 may have led to Gaddafi's order to place Jalloud under house arrest.[5] The London-based newspaper Al Hayat reported in April 1995 that the authorities had confiscated Jalloud's passport and kept him under surveillance because of growing disagreement between him and Gaddafi. This disagreement was shown in public after the visit of a delegation of 192 Libyan pilgrims to Israel in May 1993. The paper added that Jalloud had submitted a note to Gaddafi blaming him personally for the suffering that the country was going through. The decision to confiscate Jalloud's passport was taken after he insisted on the need to carry out changes he had called for in his note.
The two Libyan suspects extradited to the Netherlands in the Lockerbie case, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, belonged to an important branch of Jalloud's Magariha tribe. Jalloud was understood to have resisted the idea of extradition.[6]
On 19 August 2011, during the 2011 Libyan civil war, it was reported that Jalloud had defected to the rebel forces opposing Gaddafi and was on his way from Zintan to Europe.[7] [8]