Kadhafi says nobody can "steal power from the people" after son's comments
AFP, September, 2006
AL-BAIDA, Libya (AFP) — Libya Friday celebrates the 37th anniversary of the coup that overthrew the monarchy as a rift has blown up between leader Moamer Kadhafi who said he would not let anyone "steal power from the people" and his son who called for an end to the revolutionary era. "We will not allow anyone to steal power from the people," Kadhafi said in a two-hour speech Thursday to officials at Al-Baida, 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Tripoli, on the eve of the anniversary of his ousting of King Idris.
"When we led the revolution we did not want power for ourselves, but we assumed it for the people," he declared. "In consequence, we will not allow anyone to steal it from the people." Libya is celebrating the 37th anniversary of the coup that then captain and now Colonel Kadhafi and a group of fellow army officers led ...