when we went after gaddafi, we went after khan. he went into the black market operation himself and was selling nuclear weapons technology to the libyans. they were his best customer. to the iraqis, north koreans, and we shut down khan's black market operation. we took out three major sources of proliferation. that in and of itself is reason enough for what we did to saddam hussein in iraq. the threat has not gone away. you may remember it was discovered in the spring of 2007 that a few months after north korea set off their first nuclear test that the north koreans had built a nuclear reactor a couple of producing plutonium in the eastern syrian desert. syria's a mess today. imagine what would have happened if the israelis had not taken out that nuclear reactor. we also found from khan that pakistani officials were bribed for the latest technology for enriching uranium. we know from a scientist who has seen it that the north koreans now have 2000 centrifuges operating to produce enhanced uranium. the nuclear program is better now

which has brought the country to the rock to the edge of ruin and not just this country but on the gaddafi point say for. the favorite son of the late dictator was ensconced here in london he was in and out of number ten downing street mr blair even helped him with his ph d. and the london school of economics became for a brief and inglorious period the libyan school of economics when safe was and scorns there and giving them money even the green room in the london school of economics was effectively inspired by him this grisly story of the blair arse and the gaddafi this will be an important centerpiece of the documentary the making the killing of tony blair and if they can participate in funding at being a part of it on kickstarter dot dot dot com look at george galloway thanks like i'm a thanks being on the kaiser but i think you max thanks always. all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i read like to thank our guest george galloway if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report until next time ask out and buy oh. ok.

the libyan situation in which they thought we were doing good in the world, and we helped overthrow gaddafi, and then we had ambassador chris stevens, who was really a hero in the benghazi area killed in that very city when he was ambassador and then they have seen egypt and yemen erupt and i think they writely believed that america's apparent america'sability to flinfluencee evenltsdz would be limited and it's costly to try. >> almost a year anniversary of the benghazitac. it was airstrikes on libya. that was what many are proposing now for syria, and now, it seems like the situation in libya is much worse than it was under gaddafi in certain ways. >> i think any time you get involved in a war, you cannot entirely predict the outcome. so i think there is certainly a war weariness in the u.s. but a war wariness as well. people really are worried about these sorts of things. but i do believe that the use of chemical weapons, the use of these banned weapons by this regime is something that the obama administration absolutely must react to. again, i don't think the obama administration is inte

. >> maybe there was a point to having muammar gaddafi in power. he could keep a lid on these things. that is how he served in the west in some way. >> some of these dictators that there were to keep a lid on it, even in the former soviet countries. the strong man, the hit man was there to keep a lid on things. i would like to go back to benghazi in follow up on what scott bates said. the highest literacy rate compared to what you have on both sides is in libya. was keeping people down and pork. if i can go back to the point, what scott said earlier about benghazi, i think we have been gauzy as an example. the new fbi director coming n has asked -- we have been gauzbi as an example. the overreaction is shutting down the 21 indices, probably there is a reason. they said the chatter was higher, at center, but i would like to follow up on what scott said as well. the u.s. provides an enormous amount assistance as well, saying they provide $3 billion in health assistance in economic development $2 billion, and humanitarian assistance, $1 billion. it is

was it a mistake to overthrow gaddafi in that manner? >> well, first of all, it doesn't work that way. there is no way that you could -- unless you thought the united states or you should do it directly, should invade the country. he was overthrown in no small measure by a popular uprising that other countries supported. >> gave them guns, gave rebels arms. >> yes. but was it a mistake to help them overthrow him without knowing what the outcome would be? i don't think so. >> and in syria, what should america do? >> what we are finally getting around to doing, which is provide arms and other support, do it through the channel that we believe is the most trustworthy, and hope for the best. the syrians have not asked us to put boots on the ground, nor should they, no -- nor should we. there is no good choice there, but if iran, and russia have made a choice and they have jimenez jimenez -- blah as forces to fight. this is something you should do. sometimes you are not going to win them all. >> doing nothing is better than doing something? >

on the gaddafi you know again whatever its flaws was a fairly tolerant it a fairly multicultural state again it was destroyed in two and now into a kind of a. series of warring militias so. you know i think yes it professes democracy but in reality it destroys the very states that tend to. embody suppose that american values then the new than the allies the and of course there's the the eight hundred pound gorilla which is the israel ok bruce that i don't i just want fishes eight hundred pound gorilla. there i mean that you know as far as the. middle east the arabs in the world think this is an absolutely outrage that the united states professes to be an honest broker and you know advocating peace in the middle east reservedly supports israeli policy ok lott said there bruce go ahead. he. but i mean i do think we risk here putting this issue us in a situation where it's damned if you do and damned if it don't and other words there was in place that george's implicit suggestion was that the tacit u.s. lack of opposition to assad or to khadafi in the latter years suggested that. that tha

london school of economics was effectively inspired by him this grisly story of the blair and the gaddafi this will be an important centerpiece of the documentary the making the killing of tony blair and if they can participate in funding at being a part of it on kickstarter dot of dot com look at george galloway thanks mike i think being on the kaiser you max thanks always. all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i read like to thank our guest george galloway if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report until next time ask others and. that was the new alert animation scripts scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news maybe ill alexander's family cry tears and so why it great things out there that had gathered at a court of law found online this is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. limitations free cretaceous free in-store charges free arrangement three lists three stooges free look. the old free broadcast quality video for your media proj

r t years on from the fall of colonel gaddafi in libya the euphoria of the revolution has all but gone today armed militias and islamist rule much of the country fighting over territory smuggling routes and shares of drilling oil revenue to top that off desperate government is quietly reactivating colonel gadhafi is feared surveillance parrot is using it to hunt down dissenters arches policy or reports on these sobering anniversary. anniversaries are often a time of celebration for two years on libya has pushes little to be applauding. i'm not sure it will be right to assume that there's a government in libya there's no army no police militias are in control is violent chaos the. militia violence stalks the land jihadist groups are growing strength wishing to cripple the oil industry and economic stagnation is everywhere with all the bad negative things that they will say about that they those that control it by force the situation of these device divided countries libya mr duffy is far from the key days of the with the new should never before in human rights watch says a wave of assas

they feel that britain went in on a military intervention with france against libya against colonel gaddafi without coming to parliament and they feel that it's not worked out very well in libya and they don't want the government to try and get this sort of decision through through without coming to parliament so at the moment the western allies of the syrian opposition look fairly reluctant to arm them and my colleague kevin owen though he had a bit of a discussion with. that's the free syrian army spokesman who said that despite calls for more weapons opposition fighters don't really know how the arms will end up falling into the hands of extremists and ultimately don't really know how to stop that from happening. so you want more arms them from the west but what would you say to the extremely worried politicians in both europe and the us that have raised concerns of extremist elements within the opposition could get hold of those sophisticated western arms what guarantee can you give them that that won't happen . we're talking about extremists or terrorists that entered syria they didn't

london school of economics was effectively inspired by him this grisly story of the blair and the gaddafi this will be an important centerpiece of the documentary the making the killing of tony blair and if they can participate in funding at being a part of it on kickstarter dot dot dot com look at george galloway thanks mike i think being on the kaiser thank you max thanks always. all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i read like to thank our guest george galloway if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report until next time ask. me in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro look. when a sunday shows the taj back by the officials both hostility and suspicion encouraged by the government these operations against cuba were known to the attorney general of the united states the president united states himself the defendants intelligence arms had to infiltrate to resist. freedom fighters terrorists. who is who. the real terrorist please stand up on our cheek. interview. put it on your. fa

he city was buzzing with -- until the downfall of gaddafi.y was buzzing with visitors, activist, media people, it was really the olden days of the city of benghazi. some of you have seen the benghazi uprising. on al jazeera. it really showed the people were engaged in the whole of some work to bring down the dictator. it was a revolution in may 2000 in which i attended -- my work focused on democracy, education, and political development. since then, the center for citizenship forum united close to 40 workshops around the country. we have successfully trained over 1500 participants, and among them are member of the gnc. they covered the basic pencils of democracy and compatibility with values. with the end of gaddafi, a regime which started off as a group of people working together informally, began to evelop structurally. and soon, organizations were formed. i have to cut short. there is also a nice and wonderful example of civil society organizations taking care of all issues. n example is women in ming ghazi decided to clean up the situati

london school of economics was effectively inspired by him this grisly story of the blair and the gaddafi this will be an important centerpiece of the documentary the making the killing of tony blair and if they can participate in funding at being a part of it on kickstarter dot dot dot com look at george galloway thanks like i'm a thanks being on the kaiser thanks always. all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i read like to thank our guest george galloway if you'd like to tweet us at kaiser report until next time ask on the thing by oh. ok. i dave across you welcome you to ted you're all of virginia edge a little while in the middle of the chesapeake bay and of virginia shot. back out a. ramp a year all in the chesapeake bay probably one of the best areas in the phone call fred. this is an old picture of ten year island before the channel was cut oh here. they are. as go all. right here are some of the headstones from graves it for you this is a fruits that's what we don't want to happen to change your all and we want to get s

that was severed by muammar gaddafi.host: 4 10,000 years the location attracted colonizers as a population of each wave of newcomers is slowly forge the libyan identity. today evidence of other cultures and history, a greek theaters and italian cafes is stamped on this predominantly-arab country. how has it retained arab identity? guest: there is a problem with the last part of your question, because when muammar gaddafi became the leader of libya in 1969, he said about erasing history or rather reconfiguring it to suit his own means. among the things he did was preached to libyans that the west kept libya under its boot heel. part of this was true, but essentially what he was trying to do is sever connections to the world across the mediterranean, with one exception, he built a pipeline from libya to sicily. beyond that in and figured it ways, a very profound sweeping ways to move libya away from the rest of the world. host: we're seeing a picture of children in libya. how much do children know about the greco roman inf

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with the end of gaddafi, a regime which started off as a group of people working together informally,began to develop structurally. and soon, organizations were formed. i have to cut short. there is also a nice and wonderful example of civil society organizations taking care of all issues. an example is women in benghazi decided to clean up the situation by bringing back at the traffic lights and giving it to drivers -- [indiscernible] meaning it is a bag in the car. that is one of the examples of creative working. there were also people who took care of cleaning up the mess in the public squares, bringing chairs and flowers so people could sit in them. volunteering. the evolution of civil society in this short timeframe has empowered the mission. it has led people to see it is not up to the government to do everything. this is a new culture. the people have started to say, it was done by the private sector, not the government. which means that people have really changed the tide in many ways. in terms of numbers, cso's in benghazi, 750. a small city in the cornerstone, more than 50 m

gaddafi was essentially assassinated in a battlefield situation. we could go before and that saddam hussein and other military leaders who was ultimately hung. this is very symbolic. this is big in a subconscious sense of what happens. host: ousting the old and bringing in the new. guest: does mubarak into executed or walking free in cairo? what what happens to his family? his son was being groomed to take over the dictatorship in egypt. what happens is very important. host: is his son in captivity? guest: no. i think he got out of the country. host: let's go back to the calls. republican caller. think you for your comments. caller: good morning. i appreciate them acknowledging that we do not really know what has happened in syria in regards to these chemical attacks. i think you have got to look at the fact that why would syria even use chemical weapons? the last month the rebels used terrorist tactics. they engage in assassinations. they are killing christians and desecrating churches. they are the ones that have the most interesting getting gett

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then he looks at him and says okay, the guy says gaddafi has got to go and takes no action. it's the french and brits who make him go. he is weak. two weeks ago he says bashar assad got to go. two years later is he still in power. he looks that the guy and says. putin looks at him and he is is he is weak. it's like the 90-pound >> bill: finally. >> it ain't going to happen. better not to do this. >> bill: now it's time for obama that call him out and slap him around verbally. >> i bet it hurt him deeply. i bet is he in fetal position crying because he has now been called a slouch in the back of the classroom. >> bill: putin is a little he takes it personally if you dishim. he will probably do something. it's over can't reason with putin anymore just call him out why you deal with putin is policy. feckless -- we can importune him and not being tough. >> bill: should we boycott the limps? that's tough. >> no, no, that's boycotting an international event. it's not boycotting -- putin could careless. >> bill: you don't want to say is he a sloucher. >> i agree with president obam

helping to oust muammar gaddafi, the president made the grand speech, never letting dictators slaughter, i don't understand how he gets a free pass. there is nothing but dictator slotting your own people. >> winners your foreign policy at the breast of the united nations you get this idea that if somebody does something atrocious you will send the letter and if you keep doing it you will send a strongly worded letter and if they don't stop and you will send them a very strongly worded letter in your going to underline all the big words. that is how useless the un and foreign policy has become, nobody fears us, nobody respects us, nobody understands us. >> the rationale for intervening in libya where there was no slaughter happening yet, once the responsibility to protect, samantha power is is a u.n. ambassador, that was her philosophy. responsibility to project to protect christians and the middle east. >> i don't feel there is any. we have not said anything. and the irony is the other arab nations in the gulf states, whether it is the saudis or poured money into the egyptian military a

with the end of gaddafi, a regime which started off as a group of people working together informally, began to evelop structurally. and soon, organizations were formed. i have to cut short. there is also what you can say - a nice and wonderful example of civil society organizations taking care of all issues. an example is women in benghazi decided to clean up the situation by bringing back at the traffic lights and giving it to drivers -- meaning it is a bag in the car. that is one of the examples of creative working. there were also people who took care of cleaning up the mess in the public squares, bringing chairs and flowers so people could sit in them. volunteering. the evolution of civil society in this short timeframe has empowered the mission. it has led people to see it is not up to the government to do everything. this is a new culture. the people have started to say, it was done by the private sector, not the government. which means that people have really changed the tide in many ways. in terms of numbers, cso's in benghazi, 750. a small city in the cornerstone, more than 5

>> gaddafi had some in his arsenal and not one of them used in the war. so there is a lot about this that doesn't add up. >> when you hear this story, your mind, and i don't know where it came from. it could have come from the whistle-blower that he represents as we watched him in congress, the idea they were moving missiles to aid the rebels in syria was an idea float by paul given to hillary clinton and she had a similar response and skeptical and unaware of anything along those lines. >> there is a number of reasons that that doesn't add up. if you sploi the syrians with arms, it is unlikely you would say you are not when you are. and you would be quiet. you would procure the russian weapons and send them to turkey and syria and transfer them. there would be no reason to acquired used material. that would blow the mission. the night before ambassador stephens was killed. he was looking forward to getting back to bepg bengthe next day. it is highly unlikely if he would be moting with militia and arms dealer. >> what was happening in the outpost in bengh

president obama participated in that was sold almost entirely on the basis of liberating the people from gaddafi was a dictator and they never should have supported him neither. yet what happens is there is a lack of a tension span where americans are very excited about the war and what it has supposedly done for these people and then they stopped paying attention. so they don't realize that it's unleashed this horror against blacks and immigrants being put into detention camps. they don't really look into the circumstantial allies of the u.s. and libyan which were al qaeda affiliate's. and this happens over and over. so americans seem to toggle between the two rationales and it's a very convenient and very useful recipe for constant intervention because a lot of americans don't believe so watching the national security threats as they are presented but they really do want to help foreigners and a lot of other americans are less concerned about that. even if they feel threatened as this fall or miniscule as the terrorist threat they are willing to sacrifice unbelievable amounts of their liberty

when we went after gaddafi, we went after khan.went into the black market operation himself and was selling nuclear weapons technology to the libyans. they were his best customer a. to the iraqis, north koreans, khan's blackdown market operation. we took out three major sources of proliferation. that in and of itself is reason enough to for what we did to saddam hussain anorak. the threat has not gone away. you may remember it was discovered in the spring of 2007 that a few months after new earth korea set off their first nuclear test that the north koreans had built a nuclear reactor a couple of producing cerealum in the eastern -- syrian desert. serious a mess today. imagine what would have happened if the israelis had not taken out that nuclear reactor. khan thatound from pakistani officials were bribed for the latest technology for and reaching uranium. we know from a scientist who has seen it that the north koreans now have 2000 centrifuges operating to produce enhanced uranium. the nuclear program is better now than it has ev

with the end of gaddafi, a regime which started off as a group of people working together informally,n to develop structurally. and sort of -- and soon, organizations were formed. . have to cut short there is also a nice and wonderful example of city -- civil society organizations taking care of all issues. in mingle is women ghazi decided to clean up the situation by bringing back at the traffic lights and giving -- o drivers, [indiscernible] that is one of the examples of creative working. there were also people who took care of cleaning up the mess in the public squares, bringing chairs and flowers so people .ould sit in them. volunteering the evolution of civil society in a short timeframe has empowered the mission. it has led people to see it is not up to the government to do everything. this is a new culture. the people have started to say, it was done by this sect -- the private sector, not the government. he do have really changed in many ways. in terms of numbers, cso's in benghazi, evan hundred 50. in the cornerstone, more than 50 members of the civil society organizations.

gaddafi was essentially assassinated in a battlefield situation.hatuld go before and saddam hussein and other military leaders who were hung -- who was ultimately hung. this is very symbolic. this is big in a subconscious sense of what happens. host: ousting the old and bringing in the new. into: does mubarak executedeen cairo? what what happens to his family? his son was being groomed to take over the dictatorship in egypt. what happens is very important. host: is his son in captivity? guest: no. i think he got out of the country. host: let's go back to the calls. republican caller. think you for your comments. caller: good morning. i appreciate them acknowledging that we do not really know what has happened in syria in regards to these chemical attacks. i think you have got to look at the fact that why would syria even use chemical weapons? usedast month the rebels terrorist tactics. they engage in assassinations. they are killing christians and desecrating churches. are the ones that have the most interesting getting getting the united states to

role of the overthrow of gaddafi in the viet?d the third question is as a radical democrat whittier thoughts of the key of africa because he faces a situation that he has named himself president for life as a necessity against the imperialists efforts to remove him. thank you very much. >> host: are your originally from ghana? >> caller: yes i am. >> host: thank you. imperialism compared to the roman empire? >> guest: we have the united -- the united states as a military footprint in over did the country's. with of the reasons we're so resistance to ratify the criminal court is we don't want to see a circumstance in which any american might ever of old the international criminal court for anything at any time. so for those that don't have that kind of exposure in a number of wars at the same time not involved with so many countries in the end military fashion didn't have that same risk united states has had. so i think it describes what we are doing. we are interested after world war ii opening for american trade and products to

several thousand new civil society or the stations have sprung up in the country starting even before gaddafi'smise. with the liberation of the eastern part of the country. these organizations are involved in a broad array of issues but everything from traditional development issues, environmental concerns, to election monitoring, civic education and discourse, women's rights, and the promotion of civic and political liberties. in a country rife with political polarization, these organizations can and do play key role in articulating citizens demands. crystallizing issues of importance to the public and then presenting them to the central government. in absence of an effective government of what we're seeing lately, civil society can play a key role in driving progress and focusing attention on issues which really do matter for the daily lives of many libyans. us, civil society is poised to play key role in libya's troubled but ongoing democratic transition. like other institutions these organizations face severe challenges including a lack of organizational capacity, and a lack of domestic fun

two years ago, the house and the public approved action against the gaddafi regime. the need for that action to prevent a massacre in and around benghazi was palpable. it was approved by the security council and it was plainly lawful. but iraq has made the public much more questioning and more worried about whether we should put troops in harm's way, especially when intelligence is involved. the question before us now is whether the use of chemical weapons changes the considerations that, up to now, have determined that we should not intervene militarily in syria. we need to decide whether, as the government motion proposes, a "strong humanitarian response" to the use of chemical weapons may, if necessary, "require military action" by the united kingdom's armed forces. my conclusion at the moment is that the government have yet to prove their case. i think we are clear that chemical weapons were used, but we will get more information on that from the inspectors. we are also pretty clear that culpability for that is likely to have been with the assad regime, but i say