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Colonel Gaddafi warned Tony Blair of Islamist attacks on Europe, phone conversations reveal
Transcripts of two telephone conversations between the two leaders which took place on February 25, 2011, are made publicColonel Muammar Gaddafi issued a 'prophetic' warning to Tony Blair that jihadists would attack Europe if his regime was allowed to collapse, phone conversations reveal.
Gaddafi's dire prediction was made in two desperate telephone calls with Mr Blair on February 25, 2011 - as civil war was engulfing Libya.
In the first call at 11.15am, Gaddafi said: "They [jihadists] want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe."
Gaddafi's dire prediction was made in two desperate telephone calls with Mr Blair on February 25, 2011 - as civil war was engulfing Libya.
In the first call at 11.15am, Gaddafi said: "They [jihadists] want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe."
LINK Telegraph UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12086505/Tony-Blairs-phone-conversations-with-Colonel-Gaddafi-revealed.html
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Colonel Gaddafi warned Tony Blair of Islamist attacks on Europe, phone conversations reveal (Original Post)
CJCRANE
Jan 2016
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. Quite ironic, considering that the UK hired Bin Laden in the 1990s to assassinate Gaddafi
That was when UBL was still viewed as one of our own.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/nov/10/uk.davidshayler
MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden'
Startling revelations by French intelligence experts back David Shayler's alleged 'fantasy'about Gadaffi plot
Martin Bright, home affairs editor
Saturday 9 November 2002 20.48 EST
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
The latest claims of MI6 involvement with Libya's fearsome Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of bin Laden's trusted lieutenants, will be embarrassing to the Government, which described similar claims by renegade MI5 officer David Shayler as 'pure fantasy'.
The allegations have emerged in the book Forbidden Truth , published in America by two French intelligence experts who reveal that the first Interpol arrest warrant for bin Laden was issued by Libya in March 1998.
According to journalist Guillaume Dasquié and Jean-Charles Brisard, an adviser to French President Jacques Chirac, British and US intelligence agencies buried the fact that the arrest warrant had come from Libya and played down the threat. Five months after the warrant was issued, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in the truck bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The arrest warrant was issued in connection with the murder in March 1994 of two German anti-terrorism agents, Silvan and Vera Becker, who were in charge of missions in Africa. According to the book, the resistance of Western intelligence agencies to the Libyan concerns can be explained by MI6's involvement with the al-Qaeda coup plot.
The Libyan al-Qaeda cell included Anas al-Liby, who remains on the US government's most wanted list with a reward of $25 million for his capture. He is wanted for his involvement in the African embassy bombings. Al-Liby was with bin Laden in Sudan before the al-Qaeda leader returned to Afghanistan in 1996.
Astonishingly, despite suspicions that he was a high-level al-Qaeda operative, al-Liby was given political asylum in Britain and lived in Manchester until May of 2000 when he eluded a police raid on his house and fled abroad. The raid discovered a 180-page al-Qaeda 'manual for jihad' containing instructions for terrorist attacks.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)2. Gaddafi and the dollar
Gaddafis Threat To The US Petro Dollar And Why He Had To Die
http://anonhq.com/gaddafis-threat-to-the-us-petro-dollar-and-why-he-had-to-die/
Gadhafis Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar
Libya: another neocon war | David Swanson - The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/21/libya-muammar-gaddafi
All Wars are Bankers War
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/allwarsarebankerswars.pdf
From the film the international
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)3. K&R Thanks for posting. eom