Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links

[stockholmer]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html

"Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".

Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".

His revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, "including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries"....................


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flashback 2 years (including Young Turks video) more US support of terrorist groups

Saudis and CIA back Khalid Sheikh Mohammad’s Jundullah in Pakistan and Iran?

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/saudis-and-cia-back-khalid-sheikh-mohammads-jundullah-in-pakistan-and-iran/

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flashhback to 2007 (BBC)

Libyan Islamists 'join al-Qaeda'

Zawahri called for North African leaders to be overthrown
A Libyan Islamist group has joined al-Qaeda, according to an audio message on the internet attributed to the radical network's second-in-command.
Ayman al-Zawahri purportedly said the Fighting Islamic Group in Libya was becoming part of al-Qaeda.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7076604.stm

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flasback to 2002 (Guardian UK) French intelligence experts revealed how western intelligence agencies bankrolled a Libyan Al-Qaeda cell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/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

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'


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al-Qaeda is a West-created/funded insta-war/invasion/liberty crackdown/fear machine, an artificial hydra, utilizing the 150 year-old methods the British practised in the middle east


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20907



The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a 3 part BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis.
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5lByw7kvS0&feature=related part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai6LhnW4Oa8&feature=related part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvzR8w1z2g&feature=related part 3

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remember, the USA seeds of al-Qaeda started in 1978 and 1979, under Robert Gates of the Carter regime, now he has been the Sec of Defense under both Bush and Obama

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[David__77]

1. Should not surprise. Nor does it mean much in itself.

Al Qaeda fighters are capable of fighting on the right side of a conflict. But then all should be clear on the subject. The US supported Pol Pot too, and that wasn't a bad decision, was it?

[stockholmer]

2. the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, killed almost half of the remaining Cambodian population

perhaps I missed your sarcasm, if so, I apologize

[David__77]

3. There was more than a bit in there.

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[LoZoccolo]

7. Actually, it helps the case for an intervention.

Without it, we potentially let al Quaeda gain even more influence by contributing to the revolution. If we don't co-opt it, we leave things more open for terrorists to do so.

[rug]

11. That's logical.

Protecting al qaeda with U.S. air power to prevent it from influencing the government is as brilliant as launching Tomahawk missiles to save lives.

[LoZoccolo]

13. You have a lot to prove if you want to establish that everyone rising against Gadafi is al Qaeda.

[bluestate10]

10. There are socialists on DU. Does that mean all of us are socialists?

Revolutions pull in people of all stripes. The OP chose one slice of revolutionaries.

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[LoZoccolo]

6. There were communists in the anti-war movement.

[L. Coyote]

8. HUGE DO'H!!!

[Poll_Blind]

9. No no, please stop this talk! See, this ruins it for me. This really WILL be the war they thank...

...us for!

Ticker tape in Tripoli or BUST!

PB

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Well, our support for the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan really paid off.

For the MIC and Al Qaeda.