7 Facts about Libya

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Comments

1. In sec 51' the 4th word in the line " Conquer"!!! Are you serious? king Idris was a man of peace not a conquerer.
2. Libyan lose his father Cadaffi. Traitors of patria everyone Libyan who no fighting for Cadaffi.
3. this video is pathetic, do some proper research before you upload.
4. Muammar BuMinyar AlGhaddafi who he made that river by Russian tech. & No taxes on the papulation & his. Gov. Use to pay 50% of the new cars payers & the lowest electro & water bills & he refuse To sale his country welth by fake papere money only gold& silver & many many similar benefits & that's why he was bad & dictator by the bankers with zionist
5. In the mass media I read articals that Lybia has water problems and Ghaddafi wasn't interested about this problems. I learned a simmular statemeant by my teacher.
6. 1:54 min Carthagians are Phoenicians! Phoenicians builded up Carthag (new name of Cathage as capital is Tunis & Carthage as state is Tunisia) and Hannibal a phoenician fighter and leader was born there. Tripoli (new name as state: Libya) was a part of Phoenicia, of Carthage, but smaller. The french empire & british empire made a boder between Carthage & Tripoli and of the phoenician reich/ empire of North Africa and middle east!
7. gaddafi was ruthless dictator or not.....you shouldn't be politically biased, you should be neutral.
8. I weep for you Libya :'(
   Things are going to get better one day ♥
9. Fact 8 : America and Europe destroyed Libya under the pretext of "democracy" in 2011
10. Nice video!
11. Muammar Gaddafi will always be missed
12. that fantastic irrigation plan was thought up by the so called dictator Ghaddaffi
13. first! oh wait no one cares...