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From: Gregory Brown To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bcc: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: Libyan News - President Mohamed Yousef Al-Magarief resigns to honor the law to rid the country of former Qaddafi Regime officials and insiders Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:28:01 +0000 Attachments: Head_of Libya's_top_political_body_resigns_over former role_Al_Arabiya_28_May_20 13.pdf; Libya's_revolutionary_president_resigns_for not_being_revolutionary_enough_Mohamed_ Eljarh_FP_May_30,_2013.pdf; Opinion,_My_2_Cents_—_Libya_=?WINDOWS-1252?Q? =92s_priorities_for the_next_?=_two_years_Hafed_Al- Ghwell_Libya_Herald_3_June_2013.pdf; Some 300_contracts worth $40 billion_to_be reactivated_Sami_Zaptia_Libya_Herald_5_ June 1)13.pdf; LibykGDT)_Th—e_Economist 11_21_12.docx Inline-Images: image.png Dear Friends.... If you haven't already heard my dear friend, Libya's President Mohamed Yousef Al-Magarief and parliament chief, resigned from his post last Tuesday following the passing of a law banning anyone who held a senior post in Muammar Qaddafi's regime from government. In a televised speech to congress, Megaryef announced his resignation - which had been expected - after the passing of the "political isolation"law, which critics and diplomats fear could strip government of experienced leaders, further complicating the transition to an orderly democracy. "The people's representatives have expressed their word -the political isolation law - and it must be respected," Reuters quoted him as saying. "And I will be thefirst ... I place my resignation in your hands." Magarief said that "everyone must obey the law out of respectfor legality and democracy." The Former President was Libya's ambassador to India in the 198cos under the regime of now slain dictator Qaddafi before he defected to become a leader of the exiled opposition for three decades. "I leave with my head held high and my conscious clear," AFP quoted him as saying. He stressed that he EFTA01188986 was the first of Qaddafi-era officials to conform to the law. The General National Congress passed the law on May 5 under pressure from gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries for several days to press the government to sack officials linked to Qaddafi. The President's eyes welled up as he spoke before the General National Congress in Tripoli. He decried what he described as the empowerment of some lawmakers backed by gunmen and warned of the need to eradicate Qaddafi-era schemes, including "revenge, antagonism ... and hatred" that still plague Libya, the Associated Press reported. The President received a standing ovation from congress members after he ended his speech, which touched on his own exile and opposition to Qaddafi and which paid tribute to the former rebel fighters who ousted the dictator. A Britain-educated economist, he was born in 1940 in the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of the uprising that toppled Qaddafi. He spent 31 years in exile, including 20 years as a political refugee in the United States. Along with other dissidents, he founded an opposition group that had tried to overthrow Qaddafi. During his exile he was hunted by Qaddafi's intelligence services, who had launched a campaign in 198o to liquidate his opponents. For those of you who would like to know how this affects the stability of democracy in Libya, my answer is that it strengthens it. To show that no one in Libya is above the law, President Al-Magaryef, who is considered the "Nelson Mandela" of Libya voluntarily resigned, as an example to the many other Qaddafi Regime ambassadors, ministers, governors, mayors, department heads, police and military officials who are trying to hold on to their positions. As for how it affects some of the things that I would like to do in Libya, Dr. Al-Magarief (who is revered both at home in Libya and internationally) is now free of politics to work freely with us. So a good thing As such I urge everyone to work with former President Magarief in supporting democracy and development in the rebuilding of the New Libya, in a similar way that President Clinton has been able to do with the Clinton Initiative internationally. Sincerely, Greg Brown Cirewny Brown Chairman & CEO GlobalCast Panne'. LLC EFTA01188987 EFTA01188988