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Colonel Gadhafi: Dying Days
BROADCAST DATE: Friday, March 4, 2011
Due to rights issues, this documentary is no longer available online. It will be rebroadcast again in the summer. We will update this page when it is next scheduled to air on CBC-TV. As Libya's Mouammar Gadhafi makes his last stand, vowing to fight to the last drop of blood, this special presentation by the fifth estate tells the story of forty years of his erratic and violent rule, with first-hand accounts from Condoleezza Rice, Tony Blair and the insiders and diplomats who know the dictator personally. Through rare and revealing footage, the fifth estate takes you on an unpredictable and fascinating journey. From the young colonel's coup d'etat at age 27, to his murderous support of terrorism, Gadhafi has been at once the West's best enemy and worst friend. Eccentric and fascinating, Gadhafi has always been a master of disguises, a reckless gambler, and to some, a madman. As the domino effect of democratic protest spreads across the Middle East, no one expected Gadhafi to fall. A few short weeks into the rebellion in Libya, and he finds himself barely clinging to power, sustained by African mercenaries and a dwindling group of army loyalists. Will he really fight to the last drop? Colonel Gadhafi: Dying Days is an adaptation of Kadhafi Notre Meilleur Ennemi directed by Antoine Vitkine, and produced by Illégitime Défense and Les Films du Cabestan. |
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How right you are Julie, and for a woman to boot!
FYI the good Colonel has a website, filled with most of his speeches both in Word and in text to speech, all in English.
They are not only suprisingly intelligent but sadly very true as to todays political state of the "great powers" which is exactly the reason that all western "mainstream media" either completely ignore it, OR broadcast a 10 or 15 second spot, so that they can proudly say that it's been covered. What a sham ! It is however not any different than the reportage over the last
25 or so years namely either a complete blacout of the news, or coverage of all non news to "make
up" for it, like the current dance contest winner or other ridiculous distractions.
For this we fork over a Billion dollars a year to
the CBC so the executives can carry on in the style they've become accustomed to.Disgusting !
Oh im not sure if you have ever been to Russia but that place has a few rather large problems, please dont pick on the West until at least one good thing comes out of Russia. Tell me something, when is the last time Russia actually did anything on the world stage to help another country....funny because I have been on 7 UN missions and not once met a Russian, not even once. Im sure Russia has many good People, and really smart ones, its too bad they are still ruled by morons
please put this episode back on :) pretty please
i would really love to see this video. it's been in the lineup but unavailalbe for a month now.
i no longer look forward to checking out what docs are available at 5th estate. what gives???
It sure would be nice to see this episode. I cannot understand why the Fifth Estate is not showing this online. Is there something to hide?
Please repost this episode.
Please repost the video. I want my son to watch it for social studies.
Hi CBC. Please repost the documentary.
amazing
Please re-post the video.
Is it possible to get the video put back on line, or let us know where to find it?
Je ne peux pas visionner votre video.
Why doesn't this work? I would like to show it to my class. :(
Please put the video back on-line so we can watch it.
Hey! Where's the film?
Reply to CJ,
Obviously, no news agency on the planet is completely free of propaganda, nor distorting, lieing about
what is actually happening.
Though there are those which are worse than others.
Russia Today is reporting what the media here in Canada and the USA are failing to educate their citizenry about. This is why many American dissenters ,including but not limited to both republicans and democrats,who 've been sidelined by their media have been more than willing to be featured on Russia Today, and other foreign broadcasters.
Where was the American and Canadian mainstream media when Russia Today broadcasted Ray McGovern, a former CIA Analyst under the Reagan administration, getting beaten-up and forced out of the room for turning his back against Hilary Clinton during a speech she was giving last month??? Where was the CBC, CTV, ABC,NBS, CBS, CNN, FOX. ???
Thanks to Russia Today, we are repeatedly getting to hear republicans such as Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former official with the US treasury under Reagan, voicing his concern about the failure of the rule of law in the US and other western countries. All of whom brag about their own democracies. Not to mention his support for a new 9/11 investigation.
Unsurprisingly, Clinton cried out earlier this month about the threat of foreign media in undermining US 'news' reporting.
Really? Russia Today? Have you watched that station? Talk about propaganda...
I share the opinions of those who see this programme as shameful propaganda for war and irresponsible boilerplate journalism. Antoine Vitkine, whose programme this "Colonel Ghaadafi: Dying Days" is based on, is a member of the French Cercle de l'Oratoire and is on the editorial board of its paper Le meilleur des Mondes, which petitioned for the invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan. No surprise there!
And they forgot to mention carloss the jackle the plo the ira the mad dogs of panama nicaragua colomboia abu sayaf of the philipens and so many more the massacre of abu salem and the uta flight over chad cbc have you heard of google try that in your research and thanks for your efforets
Shame on Gaddafi!
Worst piece of Imperial boiler-plate from CBC since Rex Murphy told us the Coalition of the Willing was invading Iraq to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Shows how greedy and so easy to pull the wool over the United States eyes,Gadhafi seemed to have their number,and the other countries seemed so dumd,makes you wounder the wisdom of our so called leaders.
Thank you for this wonderful episode of Gadhafi's political life: his rise and fall. A question pops up after watching the show: why in 2009, during the UN Assembly, Gahafi backlashed the international community for being mistreated, during the time when he had succeeded, to some extent, in improving relationships with most of the Western power? Is it only because of his madness, or is there some deeper motive behind it?
This CBC documentary, like so often our media does, distorts history by omission. It very conveniently ignores the 1985 un-provoked US Mediterranean fleet attacks on Libyan military installations along the Sirte coast. It does not mention either the fact that US was warned by the German Intelligence that Libya was not involved in the Berlin club bombing, which was used by Reagan as pretext for the US bombing of Tripoli days later. Also, Linden MacIntyre fails completely to mention the 135 Libyans killed by the bombing , an act of barbaric modern piracy whose results no Western media has the courage to mention anymore. And while Libya, forced by the strangling sanctions, agreed to pay 2.3 billions to the victims of Panam 101, US and its UK allied simply brushed off requests to compensate the Libyan victims of the Tripoli attack.
So much for the so often praised so called objectivity of CBC. Shameful!
P.S. The Libyans getting rid of Quadhafi would be a very welcome news. The sooner the better, with the least number of victims, on either side.
It is painful to see dictators like Gadhafi using brutality... to get his point across. Yet I cringe when the likes of Blair, Rice et all come on acting as the righteous agents of the "good". How much blood, dishonesty, double-faceness is on their hands and hearts? One only needs to research the net and truly see that there are no winners here, that this is a World of terrible political manouvering for power and agendas of their own. It is to all visible and not so obvious "regimes" that people need to wake up. To read over the Sumerian Tablets on Youtube (and the links) may be a good start to educate oneself.
What a horrible piece of pure Western propaganda! This "report" is SOOOOO biased! You are obviously beating the drums of war. Shame on you! CBC and Radio-Canada are such propaganda machines and such a shame to journalism.
There is so much to say but I'll just say this: have you read Gadhafi's 2009 speech at the UN?
Obviously not, because then, you would understand why he threw the Charter on the floor. Or maybe you read it and are just deliberatly missinforming people.
ALL the Western media had to say about Gadhafi's speech at the UN was that it was non sense. Well, I read it, and, guess what? I found that what he had to say was SO TRUE. Here's an excerpt about the total lack of equality at the UN:
"The Preamble is very appealing, and no one objects to it, but all the provisions that follow it completely contradict the Preamble. We reject such provisions, and we will never uphold them; they ended with the Second World War. The Preamble says that all nations, small or large, are equal. Are we equal when it comes to the permanent seats? No, we are not equal.
The Preamble states in writing that all nations are equal whether they are small or large. Do we have the right of veto? Are we equal? The Preamble says that we have equal rights, whether we are large or small. That is what is stated and what we agreed in the Preamble. So the veto contradicts the Charter. The permanent seats contradict the Charter. We neither accept nor recognize the veto.
The Preamble of the Charter states that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest. That is the Preamble that we agreed to and signed, and we joined the United Nations because we wanted the Charter to reflect that. It says that armed force shall only be used in the common interest of all nations, but what has happened since then? Sixty-five wars have broken out since the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council — 65 since their creation, with millions more victims than in the Second World War. Are those wars, and the aggression and force that were used in those 65 wars, in the common interest of us all? No, they were in the interest of one or three or four countries, but not of all nations."
So go back to work and give us fair and balanced journalism, and please, do not look up to FOX News for examples.
Here's a link to the speech: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/521/79/PDF/N0952179.pdf?OpenElement
And here's the document's code: A/64/PV.3
Amazing film ! This guy Antoine Vitkine has gutts and knows how to explain Lybbia and the West. I loved watching.
What a piece of propaganda!
Good way of galvanizing public opinion to promote a war agenda against Libya.
Congratulations in simplifying and misinforming the public by painting a picture of how the US/NATO alliance are the good guys and Gadhafi the bad one.
The world of geopolitics is far more complex than what you propagated here.
Alright, Gadhafi is no saint but how does he compare to Mubarak of Egypt, Bin Ali of Tunisia and others from the Arab world?
Why haven't you done a hit piece on these other two, key puppets of the US/NATO/Israel alliance. ? Is it because Gadhafi hasn't always played ball with them?
Unlike Gadhafi ,Ben Ali and Moubarak have far more hogged the wealth of their country for themselves and their entourage while leaving the masses with the crumbs from the table. In spite of all Libyas political and social problems,it occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent,wrote Fidel Castro.
As exposed by former British spies Annie Machon and David Shayler,where was your reporting on how the Brits used Al Qaeda, an arm of US covert operations, to try and assasinate Gadhafi?
In regards to the Lockerbie bombing there is still no clear evidence as to who was to blame for it. Why didn't you report thAT a Scottish appeals court is due to revisit the case and is expected to overturn Al Megrahi's conviction as unsafe?
In addition,last month an Observer expose written by Alex Duval Smith reported "a key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake" with allegations of "international political intrigue and shoddy investigative work" levelled at "the British government, the FBI and the Scottish police".
Gadhafi financing terrorists! What about US/NATO/Israel alliance aiding and abetting terrorists such as Al Qaeda and islamic extremism? Gadhafi is correct when he referred to London as Londonistan due to its dirty secret of colluding with these terrorists, as documented by British scholar and researcher Mark Curtis in his book Secret Affairs.
What about the thousands of experts from around the world who don't believe that we were told truth about 9/11. Including but not limited to,former US Intelligence officers such as Ray Mcgovern have serious problems with the official narrative as to what happened on 9/11 and are calling for a new investigation. When will the CBC give adequate air time to these experts as have other alternative and foreign news agencies such as Russia Today?
How nice of you to have interviewed Tony Blair and to have given him the privilege to mention Gadhafi's crimes but to say no mention of Blair's war crimes (Iraq,Afghan.,torture,hundred of thousands of deaths ,people maimed,displaced) and others of his ilk like Condi Rice and all. The war crimes of these criminals dwarf whatever crimes have been committed by Gadhafi.
Mr.MacIntyre, how does it feel being an inadvertant/advertant tool of the criminal states of the US/NATO/Isreal war machine?
Dear Sirs~-
Is it possible to obtain a cassette or disk on yesterday's story about Kahdafi. It played lase night at 09~00 hrs on cbc. Thanks much.
This article is far from complete. In fact, such articles send the same wrong message to the Libyan people.
The article concentrated on what the Qaddafi did outside Libya, but ignored his crimes inside.
The true evil is not the horrible bombing of Lockerbie, but the suppression of a whole country for 40 years, the bombing of a Libyan plane, the hanging of Libyan students that was aired on TV for every one to see.
shame on you
shame on you
shame on you
Delirium is somewhat synonymous with the Arabs,hence Colonel Gadhafi is a personified Idiot !
NATO under the command and the flag of the USA is the only logical option for the people of Libya under the given circumstances.
Canadian mainstream propaganda tools are preparing Canadians for another illegal war. Let Libyans deal with their devil themselves.
Where was the international community last 42 years while Godafi was butchering Libyans. Oil oil sweet oil.
Why give such a "twisted" (your ad description)individual such high profile status. WHY, WHY, WHY??? The media could do so much in changing the negative thinking of this world. Profiling individuals who have a good positive impact is just one way.
I found the program quite informative. I just wish you never had the "old camera footage filter" that added dust and to show that it was old footage. I found to be bothersome.
He doesnt seem that bad, anybody in his shoes would do the same. Poeple should be happy they have a leader with that much passion.