Keeping Kadafi on the air: Syria-based channel lets the Libyan leader talk
He’s in hiding and Libyan state TV doesn’t take his calls anymore, but Libya’s Moammar Kadafi can still count on one friendly place to air his calls to burn Libya down: Syria, where beleaguered leader Bashar Assad is allowing a satellite TV station to air all the deposed Libyan leader’s fervent appeals.
Al Oruba channel, linked to the privately owned Al Rai station in Syria, aired Kadafi’s two latest audio messages Thursday, both calling for any supporters he has left in Libya to keep battling.
“Let there be a long fight and let Libya be engulfed in flames,” Kadafi said in one of the messages broadcast Thursday throughout the Arab world.
Al Rai and Al Oruba are owned by Mishan Jabouri, an Iraqi exile and Sunni Arab once close to Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, who was later deposed and executed.