Stockholm, February 24: One of Moamer Gaddafi’s former ministers has predicted that the Libyan leader will follow in Adolf Hitler’s footsteps by committing suicide, rather than give up power.
Mustapha Abdeljalil, justice minister until he quit over the bloody crackdown on protestors, told Sweden’s Expressen that he expected Gaddafi to make good on his pledge to die on Libyan soil rather than slink into exile.
“Gaddafi’s time is up. He is going to go like Hitler, he is going to commit suicide,” Abdeljalil said in today’s edition of the newspaper.
Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin in April 1945 as he witnessed the disintegration of the Nazi German empire.
In comments published on the paper’s website yesterday, Abdeljalil said that Gaddafi had personally ordered the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing that killed 270 passengers, saying he had proof to back up his accusations.
–Agencies