retreat of resignation Whether the hairdresser or the bazaar, in Damascus, Beirut and Rabat - where ever you ask for Muammar al-Gaddafi, is held under the nose of the fingers and simulations of a cold cocaine addicts. Anything that suggests the man on the street to the Libyan leader would explain to his drowsy feeling and its unpredictability. Gaddafi in early August halted all oil shipments to Switzerland after dort einer seiner sechs Söhne wegen Misshandlung der eigenen Angestellten verhaftet worden war. Schweizer Firmen in Libyen, inklusive Nestlé, wurden geschlossen, zwei Schweizer Staatsbürger verhaftet.
Für Muammar Gaddafi ist das alles business as usual, schließlich diktiert er die Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Politisch Andersdenkende werden verfolgt, unliebsame Presseberichte bestraft und unabhängige Nichtregierungsorganisationen nicht zugelassen. Punkte, die Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, der zweitgeborene und politisch engagierte Sohn des Revolutionsführers - im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Libyern - ungestraft kritisierte. Vergangene Woche hielt er in Sebah, einer Wüstensiedlung im Süden des Landes, eine seiner kritischen live televised speeches. Seif al-Islam demanded better living conditions for the population, the structure of the non-existent civil society, an honest judiciary and a free press. Although it sounded like a campaign speech, the 36-year-old announced after his retirement from politics. "I have decided to tell me to stop interfering in state affairs," said the junior, toying with the West as a welcome successor Muammar. Finally, Seif al-Islam led his country out of the total and back into the international community: the role of the Libyan WMD program, the admission of guilt for the attack on the U.S. aircraft on Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 and the release of six Bulgarian doctors who were due to HIV-infected children before the court, al-Islam have come about at the initiative of Seif. "I have my program implemented, for me there cause no more big fights," he told thousands of cheering people.
Gaddafi junior had said in a speech in August 2006 of problems with "mafia and bandits." Meant he had the apparatus of the state officials who are tyrannized by corruption and enriched normal Libyans on the vehicle of the press and the judiciary. "The people being held captive and tortured in the name of the people," said Seif al-Islam in this speech also broadcast live. There was an unholy marriage between the overfed and the technocrats in the state. Obviously made Seif al-Islam then his anger. A few months ago was his liberal allies, Mohammed Choukri Ghanem, was voted out as prime minister by the Libyan Congress.
Gaddafi father had for the public Criticism but little understanding. In a televised address counter, he tried to clip the wings of the rebellious son of the Libyan Revolution of 1969 and defended their values. The revolution was the power has been secured for the people, Gaddafi said senior, and "we will not allow anyone to steal the people." A clear warning to the son, whom, if not also span stretchable sheet. Only now moved Seif al-Islam clearly the consequences.
Since the opening of Libya, which officially began in 2004 with the visit of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Seif al-Islam was a reliable negotiating partner of the West. He secured billions of dollars in development aid from the U.S. und Handelsabkommen mit Frankreich und Italien. Zudem wurden Konzessionen an internationale Ölkonzerne vergeben, die das größte Ölvorkommen des afrikanischen Kontinents ausbeuten. Nur deswegen kann Libyen heute täglich zwei Millionen Barrel fördern, 700 000 mehr als noch im Jahr 2003. Entwicklungen, die ohne das politische Engagement von Seif al-Islam Gaddafi nicht möglich gewesen wären. Die ihm verhasste "Mafia von Gaunern und Agenten" erfreut sich derweil über das stetige ökonomische Wachstum, ohne aber die Demokratie, Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit voranzubringen. In Libyen läuft es eben nicht anders als in Marokko oder der sozialistischen Volksrepublik Syrien. Ein seit Jahrzehnten gewachsenes System von Machteliten gibt seine lang erarbeiteten Privilegien nicht von heute auf morgen auf. Auch nicht für die Söhne der Diktatoren oder Könige.