pa malo o tome,sto su se digli protiv gadafija
As a young man in his 20s, Abubaker Saad was taken in by the dashing,
27-year-old Moammar Gadhafi, who seized power in Libya in a bloodless
coup in 1969.
"It was not only me. Most of the young educated guys
were really excited. … We thought this is the bright future for the
country," said Saad, who worked closely with Gadhafi for nine years as a
diplomat and, at times, his personal interpreter. "He's going to
promote the country and development."
But within a few months, Saad, who is now a professor at Western
Connecticut State University in Danbury, and others who worked closely
with the new leader, saw Gadhafi's dark and brutal side."He was
horrible, very horrible. Very rude," Saad said. "You didn't know which
word you say is going to tick him off. He was very rude, very impolite.
He used to spit in people's face."
"There were occasions, we would
be sitting at the Bab al-Aziziya [Gadhafi's palace and headquarters].
We used to work there at his offices, and if he walks in, you always
pray that he will talk to somebody else, not you," Saad said.
"Basically, the best expression I could use: 'walking on eggshells.'
When you are around him, you are walking on eggshells. If you crack one,
you're done."
After about a year, Saad said, the people of Libya caught on. The
first of many foiled coup attempts took place and Gadhafi found the
people behind it and had them killed.
"That's really when the reign of fear began," Saad said. "The majority became afraid of him because he was really brutal."
With
the death of Gadhafi last week, Saad has been in demand by national and
international media for his insights on the despot and his reflections
on the future of his native land. Saad, who has been teaching Middle
Eastern and Islamic studies at Western since 1996, fled Libya for the
U.S. 34 years ago, gaining status here as a political refugee. He's now a
U.S. citizen.
For nine years, Saad worked closely with Gadhafi,
managing to avoid his wrath most of the time. But, he said, there were
moments when he did rile him.
Once when Saad was translating
Gadhafi's words into Italian for a dignitary, he did not translate a
"cuss word" into the Italian equivalent.
Gadhafi realized this and
lashed out at him: "You little monkey, I told you to say this." Saad
said he apologized, continued with his translation, but he said, "I
pride myself on never translating the cuss words."
"He acted crazy
to make you think he was crazy, but he was one of the shrewdest people
you can encounter," Saad said. "One of the most devious people you could
encounter. He was very calculating. He actually put on that crazy
façade." ....
nije ba nista djaba,al eto pukovnik je to(btw kapetan),imaju djaba gorivo,hljeb do djaba,mogu ako hoce i u skolu..
