Tripoli, Libya

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Tripoli, Libya

French foreign minister Alain Juppe announced on Wednesday that Muammar al Qaddafi could stay in his country as long as he wanted, if he stepped down from power, in an attempt to boost a solution for the crisis in Libya that has been going on for months now, without significant outcome.

Alain Juppe presented in front of the press this idea as a possible scenario and added that the ceasefire in Libya depends mainly on Qaddafi’s commitment to surrender along with the forces that protect his rule.

Juppe’s proposition comes as a result of repeated assurances from both Qaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam that they would never leave the country to go into exile.

However, the proposition seems to have little chances of success, because it is highly improbable that Qaddafi could step down and then live as a free man in Tripoli or elsewhere in Libya, because of the crimes committed against the people of this country.

Then it is possible that the rebels themselves would turn down such an idea, as they did when it came from African Union along with a proposition to ceasefire.

Even though the casualties grow in number as every day goes by, it would seem that the rebels favor the idea of continue fighting rather than allowing Qaddafi to go unpunished.

Rebel in Benghazi

Hatred towards Qaddafi runs far deeper in the society as the executions in this country had been carried out at an industrial scale long before this uprising.

When compared to Mubarak, who is expected to stand on trial and even be acquitted on the account of ill health condition, whose execution was never asked but the people, and would be impossible given that he enjoys the support of the military corps, to whom he belongs, Qaddafi doesn’t stand a chance to reconcile with the people who have been terrified of his random executions and massacres for four decades

More than that, Qaddafi has called the rebels dogs, traitors, Western spies who will be hunted “house by house, alley by alley,” and people still think that if he had overrun Benghazi, the people would have been killed by thousands.

This is why it is thought that at the present time any talk about remaining in Libya without power is unsubstantial, because Qaddafi has few options when it comes to insisting on staying in Libya: either he keeps power and wins over rebels, or he dies or goes to jail. Or he can go into exile. Or be extradited to the international tribunal.

Last week, at the Contact Group on Libya, convened in the capital of Turkey, Istanbul, the Transitional National Council in Benghazi was recognized as the only authority in Libya.

The group declared Qaddafi’s regime as illegitimate and promised to support the rebels in their endeavor to conquer the rest of the country.

France already admitted it had airdropped ammunition to the rebels, and the U.S. promised that some of the frozen goods of the Qaddafi family would be unfrozen, and the money would be given to the rebels.

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