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Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing
Former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, who recently returned from a self-sanctioned peace mission to Libya, said he went into hiding for about a month in Libya after witnessing horrifying events in Libya's bloody civil war -- a war that Fauntroy claims is backed by European forces.
Fauntroy's sudden disappearance prompted rumors and news reports that he had been killed.
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
"'What the hell' I'm thinking to myself. I'm getting out of here. So I went in hiding," Fauntroy said.
The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, "'Look at what you did.' In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
"The truth about all this will come out later," Fauntroy said.
While in Libya, The former congressman also said he sat down with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi for a one-on-one conversation. Gaddafi has ruled Libya since 1969, when he seized power in a military coup.
Fauntroy said he spoke with Gaddafi in person and that Gaddafi assured him that if he survived these attacks, the mission to unite African countries would continue.
"Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
Several months ago, Gaddafi's leadership faced its biggest challenge. In February, a radical protest movement called the Arab Spring spread across Libya. When Gaddafi responded by dispatching military and plainclothes paramilitary to the streets to attack demonstrators, it turned into a civil war with the assistance of NATO and the United Nations.
Fauntroy's account could not be immediately verified by the Afro and the U.S. State Department has not substantiated Fauntroy's version of events. Fauntroy was not acting as an official representative of the U.S. in Libya. He returned to Washington, D.C. on Aug. 31.
When rumors spread about Fauntroy being killed he went underground, he told the Afro in an interview. Fauntroy said for more than a month he decided not to contact his family but to continue the mission to speak with African spiritual leaders about a movement to unify Africa despite the Arab uprisings.
"I'm still here," Fauntroy said, pointing to several parts of his body. "I've got all my fingers and toes. I'm extremely lucky to be here."
After blogs and rumors reported Fauntroy had been killed, the congressional office of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced on Aug. 24, that she had been in touch with authorities who confirmed Fauntroy was safely in the care of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Inside his home, Fauntroy pulled out several memoirs and notebooks to explain why he traveled to Libya at a time when it was going through civil unrest.
"This recent trip to Libya was part of a continuous mission that started under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave me orders to join four African countries on the continent with four in the African Diaspora to restore the continent to its pre-colonial status," Fauntroy said.
"We want Africa to be the breadbasket of the world," he said. "Currently, all the major roads in every country throughout Africa lead to ports that take its natural resources and wealth outside the continent to be sold to the European markets."
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Permalink Reply by Walter Simtec Simmons on -
Walter Fauntroys trip to Libya brought back some interesting news. "Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
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Permalink Reply by PR Joe Felix on -
No Doubt!!!
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Permalink Reply by Professor C. L. Sanders on -
Wow!!!!That is very enlightening and I hope that they are successful in their endeavors....
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Permalink Reply by Mark Wells on -
There were videos of him with Cynthia McKinney at a couple of her press conferences but I can't find them now.
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Permalink Reply by Teresa on -
Exactly
Walter Simtec Simmons said:Walter Fauntroys trip to Libya brought back some interesting news. "Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
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Permalink Reply by Penguin Board of Directors on -
Fauntroy is writing some jaundiced nonsense. How did he get his 90 percent argumentative base? Listen to the man; he relied on what he "heard and observed." Really? These are some of the nitwit types that America sometimes relies on to make critical judgment calls and strategic decisions. Fauntroy went out on the street; he was cornered by a few Gaddafi apologists and fed the stuff he loved to hear. He summed up his amateurish journalistic escapades as representing the position of 90 percent Libyans and went to print. Obviously, Fauntroy never covered Libya's entire 6.6 million people (CIA Fact Book; July 2011 estimate.); neither did he employ any form of representative sampling of the population! So, how did he obtain his loose-canon 90 percent?
He saw a few people killed (unfortunate in war situations), feared for losing a life he would love to keep for at least a century, and made for a hideout; desperately calling on the Holy name of Jesus the Christ. Never mind that he probably missed church for preceding months without a flicker of guilt! Then, he proceeded to write some 'Tales from the Arabian Nights' to serve gullible sections of the American populace. Give me a break!
Many should take time out to read and read critically. For starters, they may wish to try their hands on a work called "How to Lie with Statistics," a 1954 masterpiece by Darrell Huff. You can still get a copy in your local library or visit the nearest Barnes & Noble.
Fauntroy emerges from his hibernation; heads for the homeland just about when his hero-mentor makes a dash for one of his numerous rat-h*** bunkers built with Libyan people's oil money. Sooner than later, like Iraq's Saddam Hussein before him, Gaddafi is going to be fished out dead or alive from his rat h***, and Pauntroy can return to Tripoli and get a fresh 90 percent reaction.
Africa should stop crying wolf and address the challenge of its "misleaders" (courtesy of Drucker) looting the continent dry of its human and material resources. Those who know Africa on the pages of books do not know Africa as much as intellectuals who grew up in it, breathed it, lived it, and knew it first-hand, inside-out. Wise up and face up. Stop shedding more tears than the bereaved.
Walter Simtec Simmons said:
"Walter Fauntroys trip to Libya brought back some interesting news...."
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Permalink Reply by LibyaWest on -
"The truth about all this will come out later," Fauntroy said.
The truth is out there now! Too bad the majority of African-Americans have degenerated into a bunch of war mongering murderers.
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Permalink Reply by Professor C. L. Sanders on
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Its called "foreign policy" and has been going on for centuries. Wake up from your stupor.
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