Pengakuan Talitha van Zon, Bekas Kekasih Mutassim Qaddafi tentang Gaya Hidup Anak Qaddafi
RepublikaRepublika – Sen, 29 Agu 2011
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TRIPOLI - Model glamor mantan kekasih Mutassim Qaddafi, anak pimpinan Libya Moammar Qaddafi, nyaris dibakar hidup-hidup oleh pemberontak. Talitha van Zon, nama model itu, berhasil menyelamatkan diri dan bersembunyi.
Menurutnya, lama tak bertemu Mutassim, ia terkejut saat menjumpainya terakhir kali. "Dia berubah," katanya pada Sunday Telegraph di rumah sakit tempat ia dirawat karena luka-lukanya setelah terjun bebas dari balkon, saat menyematkan diri ketika hendak dibakar hidup-hidup pemberontak.
Pertemuan saat itu, katanya, adalah yang pertama sejak Februari 2011. "Dia kini memiliki jenggot panjang, duduk di sofa yang di atasnya berserakan senjata otomatis. Dia dijaga pemuda berusia 16 tahun dengan senapan mesin yang wajahnya garang," katanya.
Usia percintaan mereka hanya tiga bulan, ketika Talitha mengklaim ada perempuan lain yang membuat Mutassim tertambat hatinya. Mantan model Playboy ini menyatakan bergelimang kemewahan saat menjadi kekasih putra Qaddafi itu.
Dia, misalnya, mengaku pernah diterbangkan keliling dunia, dan singgah di Monaco untuk makan malam dengan Putri Caroline. Saat Natal, ia habiskan waktu di resort mewah di Kepulauan Karibia, diterbangkan dengan jet pribadi.
Menurutnya, jika Mutassim berada di Paris atau London, ia akan menyewa beberapa lantai dalam satu hotel yang paling mahal dan mengundang teman-temannya berpesta. Penata rambut asal Italia selalu menyertainya.
Suat saat, secara iseng dia pernah bertanya pada Muttasim berapa uang yang dihabiskannya untuk membiayai gaya hidupnya. Terlihat berhitung, putra Qaddafi itu kemudian menjawab: 2 juta dolar AS. "Aku bertanya, 'yang kau maksud selama satu tahun?' dan dia menjawab, 'tidak, satu bulan'," katanya.
Ia menyebut sederet hadiah yang pernah diberikan Mutassim, antara lain tas-tas koleksi Louis Vuitton dan arloji mewah.
Selama di Libya, ia tak pernah berjumpa dengan Muammar Qaddafi. Ia tinggal di rumah pantai Mutassim, yang terdiri dari beberapa vila dan perabotan mewah.
Talitha mengatakan bahwa Mutassim membantah bahwa rakyat Libya ditindas. Mereka digratiskan dari biaya perawatan rumah sakit dan biaya sekolah. "Roti murah dan beras juga mudah didapat," ia menirukan Muttasim.
Gaddafi to "fight to end" as rebels seize HQ
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By Peter Graff and Ulf Laessing
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli on Tuesday after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight "to the end."
Reuters journalists watched rebel fighters stream through the sprawling Bab al-Aziziya headquarters compound, firing in the air in celebration after hours of heavy clashes. But it was unclear whether the "Brother Leader" or his sons were still somewhere in the complex's maze of buildings and bunkers.
Defensive fire died away and hundreds of jubilant rebels poured in. Some smashed a statue of Gaddafi. Others hunted through dozens of buildings, unchallenged, seizing weaponry and vehicles. The rebels' envoy to the United Nations said the area was "totally in the hands of the revolutionaries."
One man shouted: "It's over. Gaddafi is finished."
The Russian head of the World Chess Federation, who visited Gaddafi in Tripoli in June, said he had received a call from him on Tuesday afternoon in which Gaddafi said he was still in the capital. He "is in Tripoli, he is alive and healthy and is prepared to fight to the end," Kirsan Ilyumzhinov told Reuters.
The rebels' envoy in Rome, Hafed Gaddur, said: "It seems clear that he is confined to his bunker complex."
"We thought Tripoli would be liberated in one month or perhaps even two months, instead that happened in just a few hours, a day, so we've made great progress," he told Reuters.
Western governments, which have backed disparate opposition groups, said they could not be sure where the 69-year-old leader was but urged him to surrender after six months of civil war which have put an end to his four decades of absolute power.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after speaking to U.S. President Barack Obama that the end of Gaddafi's rule was "inevitable and near."
NATO, which declined to confirm reports that its air forces bombed Gaddafi's compound to aid the rebels, said Gaddafi's whereabouts were unclear but no longer a major concern.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said he believed Gaddafi was still in Libya and that his forces remained a threat. He also said the United States was monitoring chemical weapons sites in Libya, amid worries that groups hostile to Western interests could try to seize stocks once built up by Gaddafi.
SWIFT END SOUGHT
Western leaders are anxious for a rapid end to fighting -- tensions among rebels are a concern for those hoping for a swift return of order and a reopening of Libyan oil exports.
"We hope this is over soon," said an unemployed engineer watching events near Gaddafi's compound. "I fear that the violence will continue until Gaddafi and his family have left the country," he added, giving his name only as Omar.
Another bystander said: "Gaddafi is finished, even if some snipers and mercenaries are still resisting. But there is no doubt that we are free and Gaddafi is finished."
There are growing concerns for civilians in the city, after days of siege and fighting in which officials have suggested hundreds of combatants may have been killed or wounded.
At a private house several miles from the center, wounded from the fighting were being treated, to the sound of gunfire.
"We need medication and stretchers, this situation is a disaster," medical student Shuaib Rais told Reuters.
CREDIBILITY
Speaking after Gaddafi's son and long-time heir-apparent Saif al-Islam confounded rebel claims of his capture by appearing to journalists at the Bab al-Aziziya compound early on Tuesday, several analysts said the credibility of the disparate opposition movement had suffered a serious setback.
Though the credibility of Saif al-Islam's claims that his father's supporters were winning the war was also threadbare, confusion among the rebels, who seemed to have allowed two of Gaddafi's sons to escape on Monday, embarrassed their backers.
Noman Benotman, senior analyst at Britain's Quilliam think tank and an associate of Gaddafi's former spy chief, said: "Gaddafi is banking on the rebels making a mess of Tripoli and causing chaos. He is relying on them to behave badly.
"They want rival militia zones to start springing up ... That's why it's critical for the rebels to get their act together."
Residents, many of whom had taken to the streets on Sunday to celebrate the end of Gaddafi's 42-year rule, stayed indoors as the irregular rebel armies that swept the capital ran into resistance from sharpshooters, tanks and other heavy weaponry.
DIVISIONS
The lack of clear control, however, has revived concerns the sprawling, thinly populated desert state could fall into the kind of instability that has beset Iraq since Saddam Hussein's overthrow. Gaddafi loyalists and anti-Western Islamists could exploit Libya's ethnic, tribal and political divisions.
Rebel officials say they have a force ready to impose order in the capital, as they have generally done in parts of the country they have taken since February. But it is not yet clear how they will handle traditional east-west divisions if they consolidate their grip on the country.
The uncharacteristically efficient rebel advance into the capital, coordinated with an uprising inside the city, seemed evidence to some analysts of the military advice and training Western and some Arab powers, including Qatar, have provided.
Many assume special forces are also active on the ground.
Outside powers, including U.S. President Obama, have been at pains to characterize the revolt against Gaddafi as quite different from the Western assault on Saddam, saying it is a home-grown uprising inspired by other Arab protest movements that overthrew Western-backed autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt.
Aid, some of it in the form of Libyan state funds seized from accounts controlled by Gaddafi, and advice will be plentiful, foreign governments assured the rebel leadership in Benghazi as it contemplates moving to Tripoli.
But all have ruled out sending in ground troops to bolster a new government which faces considerable difficulties in setting up a new administration given Gaddafi's four-decade reliance on informal governance and a personality cult.
"We've sought to learn the lessons of the failures of Iraq, which have very much influenced our thinking -- trying to make sure we don't make the same mistakes again," said British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
(Reporting by Missy Ryan, Peter Graff, Ulf Laessing, Zohra Bensemra and Leon Malherbe in Tripoli, Thomas Grove in Moscow, Robert Birsel in Benghazi, William Maclean and Peter Apps in London, Hamid Ould Ahmed and Christian Lowe in Algiers, Souhail Karam in Rabat, Richard Valdmanis and Giles Elgood in Tunis, Laura MacInnis and Alister Bull in Oak Bluffs, Mass., Nour Merza in Dubai, Deepa Babington in Rome and Alexandria Sage in Paris; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)
22 Agustus 2011, bisnis indonesia
JAKARTA: Pemberontak Libia mengatakan mereka menangkap dua putra Muammar Qaddafi setelah menguasai ibu kota Tripoli untuk memaksa Qaddafi setelah berkuasa hampir 42 tahun.
Pasukan Qaddafi sedikit melakukan perlawanan dan pecah di pusat kota. Juru bicara rezim Moussa Ibrahim mengatakan Qaddafi siap untuk bernegosiasi dengan Mustafa Abdel Jalil, kepala dewan pemberontak, dan meminta untuk segera gencatan senjata.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, sekretaris jenderal dari North Atlantic Treaty Organization, yang telah mendukung pemberontak dengan pemboman udara sejak Maret, mengatakan dalam sebuah pernyataan online bahwa "rezim jelas runtuh" dan "Qaddafi sebiknya cepat menyadari bahwa dia tidak dapat memenangkan pertempuran terhadap rakyatnya sendiri."
Putra Qaddafi itu, Saif al-Islam, dianggap ahli warisnya berkuasa, ditangkap di kota dan pemberontak sedang berupaya menangkap ayahnya, kata Mohamad Al Akari, seorang penasihat kepada Dewan Transisi Nasional, badan yang mengatur pemberontak. Anak kedua Qaddafi, Muhammad, juga ditangkap, Al Jazeera melaporkan.
"Saya di rumah saya, pemberontak ada sekitarnya," kata Mohammed Qaddafi dalam sebuah wawancara telepon dengan Al-Jazeera. "Mereka berjanji mereka tidak akan menyakiti saya dan itu adalah sinyal yang baik antara saudara."
Para pemberontak berharap akhir rezim dalam hitungan jam, Akari mengatakan.
"Ini adalah hari terbesar dalam hidup saya melihat orang-orang Libia kembali merasakan kebebasan mereka," kata Ali Suleiman Aujali, kuasa urusan Amerika Serikat, yang sebagai duta besar AS sebelum beralih ke sisi pemberontak. "Dia pergi dengan cara yang sangat halus," katanya dari Washington dalam wawancara dengan Al Jazeera.
http://www.bisnis.com/articles/pemberontak-kuasai-tripoli-dua-putera-qaddafi-ditangkap
Sumber : BISNIS.COM
Western warplanes, missiles hit Libyan targets
7:34pm EDT
By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Western forces hit targets along the Libyan coast on Saturday, using strikes from air and sea to force Muammar Gaddafi's troops to cease fire and end attacks on civilians.
French planes fired the first shots in what is the biggest international military intervention in the Arab world since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, destroying tanks and armored vehicles in the region of the rebels' eastern stronghold, Benghazi.
Hours later, U.S. and British warships and submarines launched 110 Tomahawk missiles against air defenses around the capital Tripoli and the western city of Misrata, which has been besieged by Gaddafi's forces, U.S. military officials said.
They said U.S. forces and planes were working with Britain, France, Canada and Italy in operation "Odyssey Dawn".
Gaddafi called it "colonial, crusader" aggression.
"It is now necessary to open the stores and arm all the masses with all types of weapons to defend the independence, unity and honor of Libya," he said in an audio message broadcast on state television hours after the strikes began.
State television said the "crusader enemy" hit civilian areas of Tripoli and fuel storage tanks that supplied Misrata.
Residents in Misrata said air strikes had targeted a military airbase where Gaddafi loyalists were based.
Several Tripoli residents said they heard an explosion near the eastern Tajoura district. "I heard an explosion. I saw a flash, it was a very strong explosion," said one.
In Benghazi, where earlier on Saturday rebels said they had beaten back an advance by Gaddafi's troops, residents welcomed the military intervention but were also apprehensive.
"We think this will end Gaddafi's rule. Libyans will never forget France's stand with them. If it weren't for them, then Benghazi would have been overrun tonight," said Iyad Ali, 37.
"We salute, France, Britain, the United States and the Arab countries for standing with Libya. But we think Gaddafi will take out his anger on civilians. So the West has to hit him hard," said Khalid al-Ghurfaly, a civil servant, 38.
"ALL NECESSARY MEANS"
Earlier on Saturday, leaders meeting in Paris announced the start of military intervention after Gaddafi's troops pushed into the outskirts of Benghazi in spite of a U.N. resolution passed on Thursday calling for an end to attacks on civilians.
"Those taking part agreed to put in place all necessary means, especially military, to enforce the decisions of the United Nations Security Council," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after the meeting of Western and Arab leaders.
"Colonel Gaddafi has made this happen," British Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters after the meeting. "We cannot allow the slaughter of civilians to continue."
Some analysts have questioned the strategy for the military intervention, fearing western forces might be sucked into a long civil war despite a U.S. insistence -- repeated on Saturday -- that it has no plans to send ground troops into Libya.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested that outside powers hoped their intervention would be enough to turn the tide against Gaddafi and allow Libyans to force him out.
"It is our belief that if Mr. Gaddafi loses the capacity to enforce his will through vastly superior armed forces, he simply will not be able to sustain his grip on the country."
A U.S. military slide showed some 25 coalition ships, including three U.S. submarines armed with Tomahawk missiles, are stationed in the Mediterranean.
The Libyan government has blamed rebels, who it says belong to al Qaeda, for breaking a ceasefire it announced on Friday.
In Tripoli, several thousand people gathered at the Bab al-Aziziyah palace, Gaddafi's compound that was bombed by U.S. warplanes in 1986, to show their support.
"There are 5,000 tribesmen that are preparing to come here to fight with our leader. They better not try to attack our country," said farmer Mahmoud el-Mansouri.
"We will open up Libya's deserts and allow Africans to flood to Europe to blow themselves up as suicide bombers."
U.S. SAYS NOT LEADING INTERVENTION
France and Britain have taken a lead role in pushing for international intervention in Libya and the United States -- after embarking on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- has been at pains to stress it is supporting, not leading, the operation.
In announcing the missile strikes, which came eight years to the day after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Obama said the effort was intended to protect the Libyan people.
"Today I authorized the armed forces of the United States to begin a limited action in Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians," Obama told reporters in Brasilia, where he had begun a five-day tour of Latin America.
He said U.S. troops were acting in support of allies, who would lead the enforcement of a no-fly zone to stop Gaddafi's attacks on rebels. "As I said yesterday, we will not, I repeat, we will not deploy any U.S. troops on the ground," Obama said.
But despite Washington's determination to stress the limits of its role, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, director of the U.S. military's Joint Staff, said the missile strikes were only the first phase of a multiphase action.
Many analysts do not think Western powers would be satisfied with a de facto partition which left the rebels in control in the east and Gaddafi running a rump state in the west.
One participant at the Paris meeting said that Clinton and others had stressed Libya should not be split in two.
And Obama on Friday specifically called on Gaddafi's forces to pull back from the western cities of Zawiyah and Misrata as well from the east.
But security analysts have questioned what western powers will do if Gaddafi digs in.
"It's going to be far less straightforward if Gaddafi starts to move troops into the cities which is what he has been trying to do for the past 24 hours," said Marko Papic at the STRATFOR global intelligence group.
"Once he does that it becomes a little bit more of an urban combat environment and at that point it's going to be difficult to use air power from 15,000 feet to neutralize that."
THOUSANDS FLEE BENGHAZI
Earlier on Saturday hundreds of cars full of refugees fled Benghazi toward the Egyptian border after the city came under a bombardment overnight. One family of 13 women from a grandmother to small children, rested at a roadside hotel.
"I'm here because when the bombing started last night my children were vomiting from fear," said one of them, a doctor. "All I want to do is get my family to a safe place and then get back to Benghazi to help. My husband is still there."
Those who remained set up make-shift barricades with furniture, benches, road signs and even a barbecue in one case at intervals along main streets. Each barricade was manned by half a dozen rebels, but only about half of those were armed.
In the besieged western city of Misrata, residents said government forces shelled the rebel town again early on Saturday, while water supplies had been cut off for a third day.
"I am telling you, we are scared and we are alone", a Misrata resident, called Saadoun, told Reuters by telephone.
(Reporting by Mohammed Abbas and Angus MacSwan in Benghazi, Tom Perry in Cairo, Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy in Tripoli, Hamid Ould Ahmed and Christian Lowe in Algiers; John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau in Paris, Missy Ryan in Washington, Writing by Myra MacDonald; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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