Recently attended a Stop the War Coalition rally on Libya, where George Galloway, in his inimitable fashion came out with the line: "the last time the Italians were in Libya they were wearing the black shirt of Benito Mussolini!" This reminded me of the film 'Lion of the Desert' which I saw some years ago and which was financed, apparently, by Gaddafi. The story of the Italian war crimes in Libya are a matter of historical record and it is also a huge historical irony, that Berlusconi's government, which includes the political descendants of Mussolini paid reparations to Gaddafi only a couple of years ago for Italian war crimes.
Even more ironic now that Italy is one of two governments to recognise the regime in Benghazi. One is tempted to say, with friends like that....
Anyway here is the clip from the film where Mussolini expresses his frustration that the Italian army cannot crush the Libyans and appoints General Graziani to mastermind his torture and oppression of the Bedouin. Has a ring of contemporary events about it.
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