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Al Qaedabacks
Libyanprotestersandcondemns
GaddafiDUBAI | Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:59amEST
(Reuters) - AlQaeda's NorthAfrican wing hascondemned Libyanleader MuammarGaddafi and expressed solidarity with protestersrevolting against his rule, the SITE IntelligenceGroup quoted it as saying on Thursday.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) accused Gaddafi of hiring Africanmercenaries and ordering aircraft to fire on protestors, SITE said, citing a
jihadist statement issued on Thursday.
AQIM urged Muslim scholars, thinkers and journalists to support the Libyanpeople in their uprising.
"We were pained by the carnage and the cowardly massacres carried outby the killer of innocents Gaddafi against our people and our unarmed
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Muslim brothers who only came to lift his oppression, his disbelief, histyranny and his might," AQIM was quoted as saying in the statement.
"We only came out to defend you against these despots who usurped yourrights, plundered your wealth, and prevented you from having the minimum
requirements of a dignified life and the simplest meanings of freedom andhuman dignity," AQIM said.
The group, under pressure from Algerian security forces in the north,moved some of its operations to the desert area straddling Niger, Mali,Algeria and Mauritania where the vast expanses and porous borders haveprovided it with a safe haven.
Massive protests have swept through Arab countries in past weeks,threatening Gaddafi's four-decade rule after toppling the leaders of Egypt
and Tunisia.
"We call upon the Muslim Libyan people to have steadfastness andpatience, and we incite them to continue their struggle and revolution andto escalate it to oust the criminal tyrant," the group said.
(Reporting by Martina Fuchs; Editing by Maria Golovnina)
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-libya-alqaeda-idUSTRE71N12B20110224
Bye-bye Gaddafi, welcome Al-Qaeda? PepeEscobar to RT
RussiaToday on Aug 27, 2011
While Tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship, analysts are skepticaldemocracy is next in line for Libya. Journalist Pepe Escobar told RT, Al-
Qaeda is already effectively in power in the capital.
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AL QAEDA FIGHTERS JOIN LIBYAN REBELSSat, 26 Mar 2011 | AL QAEDA
LIBYA has just turned into a no-win situation for America and one that will surely beused against Obama by Republicans that will run for President or ones trying to scorepolitical points, it also provides ammunition for the conspiracy theorists and tea partynuts.
Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has saidjihadists who fought againstallied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafisregime. [LINK]
Al-Qaeda snatched missiles in Libya: AL-QAEDAS offshoot in North Africa hassnatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there,Chads President says. Idriss Deby did not say how many surface-to-air missiles were
stolen, but told the African weekly Jeune Afrique that he was 100 per cent sure of hisassertion. [link]
Al-Qaida has traditionally recruited heavily from eastern Libya, where most of theanti-Gaddafi forces are based [link]
TheUS military study of insurgents in Iraqthatshowedthehighest per capitacontributors of fighters to Al Queda were two of the cities in Libya that arecurrently under revolt. [LINK]
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Gadhafi blames al Qaeda for uprising inLibya
Gunmen prepared to fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stand on a small militarytruck with weapons taken from a Libyan military base, in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday Feb. 24,2011. Army units and militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi struck back Thursday againstrebellious Libyans who have risen up in cities close to the capital, attacking a mosque wheremany were holding an anti-government sit-in and battling others who seized control of anairport. Medical officials said 15 people were killed in the clashes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
By Ashish Kumar Sen-
The Washington Times
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Col. Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday blamed Osama bin Laden for the
unrest sweeping Libya, even as forces loyal to the dictator waged fierce
battles in cities around Tripoli in an attempt to crush the pro-democracy
uprising.
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In the eastern and southern parts of the country, which are largely under
the control of the regimes opponents, scores of civilians and soldiers piled
into vehicles bound for Tripoli and Col. Gadhafis tribal stronghold of Sirte
for what is expected to be a deadly showdown with the regime.
Meanwhile, the White House said it was examining all options, including
imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and the Swiss government announced
that it had frozen assets belonging to Col. Gadhafi and his family.
Convoys of vehicles packed with heavily armed civilians and soldiers who
defected from the army were leaving Benghazi, Libyas second-largest city,
residents and eyewitnesses told The Washington Times in phone
interviews.
Rebel soldiers chanted slogans in support of Libyans in the west.
We are coming to free you, our capital, they shouted.
By Thursday night, residents in Tripoli were reporting that groups allied
against the regime had arrived on the outskirts of the capital.
Meanwhile, Col. Gadhafis forces unleashed retribution on in cities in the
western part of the country.
Libyans spoke of alarming levels of violence in Al-Zawiya, 30 miles west of
Tripoli, and in Misurata, 130 miles to the east of the capital. Several
sources confirmed that scores of people had been killed and hundreds
wounded in both cities.
Today has been a very bad day in Al-Zawiya, said Ahmed Bentaher, a
doctor based in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Dr. Bentaher said a colleague who works at a hospital in Al-Zawiya told him
that security forces and African mercenaries had used machine guns to fire
at people in the city. Hospitals were inundated with dead and wounded
victims of the carnage.
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People in Al-Zawiya were afraid to leave their homes out of fear that they
would be shot by snipers and mercenaries. Bodies piled up in the streets
and anyone trying to retrieve them risked being shot.
Fighting was also reported in Sabratha and Zuara, 50 miles and 75 mileswest of the capital respectively.
Benghazi, the scene of much celebration since it shook off the regime
earlier this week, was quiet on Thursday as residents anxiously awaited
news from the west.
Residents are going with the army to Tripoli, said Abdullah Al-Huni, a
Benghazi resident.
He said almost a million people are expected to gather in prayer on Friday
in solidarity with the residents of Tripoli.
A resident of Tripoli, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of
reprisal against his family, said people are busy planning a big protest on
Friday.
We are not scared any more. Tomorrow will be [Col. Gadhafis] last day in
power, he said.
Another Tripoli resident who only gave her first name, Rehna, said the city
resembled a ghost town as residents were in a state of self-imposed
lockdown.
Those brave enough to venture out faced security forces at checkpoints,
where they were arrested if they failed to display signs of allegiance to the
regime.
In a unusual phone call to state TV, Col. Gadhafi blamed Osama bin Laden
and al Qaeda for inciting Libyans against him.
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Our children have been manipulated by al Qaeda, Col. Gadhafi said.
Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night. They put hallucinatory pills
in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.
Those exploiting the youth have to be arrested, he added.
Libyans who heard the address were struck by the fact that Col. Gadhafi
spoke by phone, a marked departure from the dictators usual rambling
speeches delivered in front of crowds.
Some doubted that the speaker was in fact Col. Gadhafi.
We have heard so many of his speeches, we would recognize his voice!
This wasnt him, said a resident of Benghazi, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity.
Mr. Al-Huni burst into laughter when he heard Col. Gadhafi blame the
unrest on Bin Laden.
There is nothing like that happening here. He is lying, he said.
African mercenaries, who were trained by the Gadhafi regime to fight inother parts of the continent, have been called back to Libya. Some
residents in areas in and around Tripoli say they have seen the
mercenaries amassing for what appears to be a major offensive by the
regime.
The mercenaries are almost an official division of the military in Libya, Dr.
Bentaher said.
Meanwhile, Frances top human rights official said up to 2,000 peoplehave
possiblydied in the unrest.
The question is not if Gadhafi will fall, but when and at what human cost,
said Francois Zimeray. For now the figures we have, more than 1,000
have died, possibly 2,000, according to sources.
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A humanitarian crisis is brewing on Libyas eastern border with Egypt where
scores of Egyptian workers have crossed back into their home country.
However, people of other nationalities have been stranded in no-mans
land.
Ousama Abushagur, who is coordinating relief work at the Libya-Egypt
border, said about 3,000 Nepalese and Vietnamese workers employed with
a South Korean construction firm had been stuck at the border without food
or water. Workers from Chad, who were until recently employed by a
Turkish firm, were also stranded.
We are going to start seeing more and more people in this situation, Mr.
Abushagur cautioned in a phone interview with The Washington Times.
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Video: Herman Cain Suggests Taliban is Part of
Libya's New Government
Submitted by Michael Allen on Nov 18, 2011
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During a press conference in Orlando, Florida on Friday,Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was asked abouthis stumbling answer to a question earlier this week about theObama administrations policy on Libya.
Cain insisted that he was trying to get the interviewer to be morespecific about what part of the administrations policy he meant, butin doing so he may have opened himself up to further ridicule.
Do I agree with siding with the [Libyan] opposition? he asked. DoI agree with saying that Qadhafi should go? Do I agree that theynow have a country where youve got Taliban and Al Qaeda thatsgoing to be part of the government? I was trying to get him to bespecific, and he wouldnt be specific.
The Taliban is a militant Afghan group that also has bases inneighboring Pakistan, some 3000 miles away from Libya.
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