Algeria : Ayesha Abusing Hospitality With Unacceptable Comments

The Algerian foreign ministry has expressed its anger at the comments it described as “unacceptable” by Ayesha Al Qathafi, the daughter of the former Libyan dictator that she made a few days ago calling for the overthrow of Libya's interim government. Ayesha is currently being given asylum in Algeria where she fled along with her mother Safiya and brothers Mohammed and Hannibal last August. She was given permission to stay on humanitarian grounds. At the time she and her family pledged not to make public statements at the risk of losing their status as humanitarian refugees. But for the second time she has put herself in direct conflict with that pledge and she is again being warned that she has abused the hospitality of Algeria by her comments. Amar Belani, spokesperson of Foreign Minister Murad Medelci said: "We deplore these unacceptable statements as much as we deplore the fact that Madame Ayesha Al Qathafi has violated, for the second time, the rules of the hospitality that was accorded to her in Algeria as a humanitarian gesture.” He went on to say in a statement, that the Al Qathafi family is hosted in Algeria “for a limited time,” and again warned on behalf of minister Medelci that “the new transgression" would carry consequences. Ayesha had aired an audio message on Syrian-based TV station “Arrai on Tuesday instigating Libyans by saying: "Avenge the blood of your martyr. Revolt against the new government." She also stressed that her father Muammar Al Qathafi who was captured and killed on October 20, "did not abandon" Libya's people. She had gone on to say: “My father has not left, he is always among us. Don’t forget the orders of your father urging you to continue fighting, even if you no longer hear his voice.” She went on to call for a revolt against the men who overthrew her father, the government, that she said, “arrived with the planes of NATO.” Way back in September Ayesha made similar comments. Then she denounced the National Transitional Council as "traitors" and called on the Libyan people to rise up against the new rulers. Her comments are thought to be in violation of an exile agreement with Algeria to refrain from any political activity and the Libyan government has requested the Algerian authorities to arrest and deport back to Libya together to face criminal charges.