A STATEMENT FROM THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION, 16th November 2005, 11:10 Last Friday night, on the Libyan TV, the Leader of the Revolution hand over a statement to the Secretary of Information Affairs at the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, to convey to Arab and world mass media. The text of the leader's statement is as follows: " We were helped by the ingenuity of this director, Mustapha al-Aqad - God 's Mercy upon him- in projecting to (the whole world) a painful page experienced by the Libyan people, as a result of the unjust Italian invasion, in the film "Omar al-Mukhtar", the symbol of Libyan resistance. It was only one part of the atrocities of that heinous barbaric invasion. The ingenuity of al-Aqad in the Libyan film “The Message" had also helped. I was preparing a film about the years of torture (injustice) which is projecting pages- not only one page- of that tragedy, to which the Libyan people were subjected at the hands of the Italians invaders. I was intending, to seek again the ingenuity of al-Aqad to direct this film, of which the historic tragic story I wrote myself, but we are deprived of the ingenuity of al-Aqad, by a heinous crime, not less in atrocity than what the Italians did in Libya in Omar al-Mukhtar film which he directed. The act which claimed the life of al-Aqad, his daughter, and scores of others are the worst lunatic illogical, nonobjective acts which are not subjected to any justification. The Muslims fighting for freedom and the genuine Mujahdeen have not but exculpate themselves from it, for it is an evil's act". The Editorial Board.