Yet he fails to mention Omar Mukhtar, the Libyan hero whose insurrection against the Italian invaders lasted 20 years, and the brutal suppression of which entailed herding much of Libya's population into concentration camps, where many died.
"Rising fuel prices and the increasing concentration of the population in urban areas is bringing about serious logistical problems for the delivery of food, " he says.
The building of more freeways in relatively low-population areas will not solve the congestion problems in the cities where the concentration of buyers is located.