Libya's Ambassador Calls for Qadhafi to Step Down

By U.S. News Staff

February 22, 2011 RSS Feed Print

Libya's ambassador to the United States, Ali Suleiman Aujali, called for Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qadhafi to step down and "leave our people alone." The United States needs "to raise their voice very strongly," the ambassador told ABC's Good Morning America. "This regime is shaking, and this is the time to get rid of it." Aujali said there have been brutal killings and violence since the antigovernment protests broke out in the North African nation last week. "Please help the Libyan people," he said. "They are burning." However, Qadhafi, who has been in power since 1969, has refused to step down. In his first major speech since the protests began, Qadhafi said, "It is not possible that I leave this place," and also said that he "will be a martyr in the end."

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Send an e-mail to President Obama in support of the Heroic Libyan People that is being massacred while the rest of the world watches. Here is a sample message that you could use in its entirety or that you could modify (address at bottom of this note.) Please do your part, do not remain silent in the face of injustice, share with all your friends:

Dear President Barack Obama,

The massacres perpetrated by the Libyan regime against a defenseless civilian population are not acceptable and our country should not remain silent in the face of what is happening there now. Your administration should immediately recall the US Ambassador to Libya and who should not have been sent there in the first place given the history of the Khaddafi terrorist regime.

I urge you Mr. President to take action today to save the Libyan people.

Thank you.

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ACMP of CA 3:28PM February 22, 2011

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