David Cameron welcomes Gaddafi’s death
October 21st, 2011 - 1:24 am ICT by IANS
London, Oct 20 (IANS) British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday welcomed the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death, saying it was a day to remember all his victims, Xinhua reported.
Speaking outside Downing Street No. 10, Cameron said: “I think today is a day to remember all of Colonel Gaddafi’s victims, from those who died in connection with the Pan-Am flight over Lockerbie to Yvonne Fletcher in a London street and obviously all the victims of IRA terrorism who died through their use of Libyan Semtex.”
“People in Libya today have an even greater chance, after this news, of building themselves a strong and democratic future,” he said.
He also said that he was proud of the role that Britain played in helping opposition forces bring down the Gaddafi regime.
Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who shared a close relationship with Gaddafi and even invited the then Libyan leader as a guest to the summit of Group of 8 industrialized nations in July 2009 in Aquila, Italy, used a Latin phrase to comment on the death of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, saying that everything is transitory.
“Sic transit gloria mundi,” or “So the glory of this world passes away,” local media quoted Berlusconi as saying, adding: “the war is over.”
Gaddafi had described Berlusconi as a traitor after Nato started bombing Libyan targets in March, the reports said.
Gaddafi was shot dead after being captured in Sirte, his hometown that fell to transitional government troops who have been fighting Gaddafi’s men for eight months.
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