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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
New theory: the US was shamed into producing Bin Laden (or his corpse) recently because their inability to do so, given their demonstrated power to lure millions of willing dupes onto the streets of the middle east in the face of brutal repression, strained the credulity of itulip readers.Comment
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
Maybe it's time for Al Qaeda to be our best buddy again in Libya for example, or maybe the war against Pakistan can now be justified by saying, they were hiding OBL all the time and need to be punished.
Gaddafi’s Libya reminds U.S. who issued the first bin Laden arrest warrant
By Simon Denyer, Published: May 4
TRIPOLI, Libya — In an attempt to portray itself as an ally in the battle against al-Qaeda, Libya reminded the United States on Wednesday that Moammar Gaddafi’s government, not anyone in Washington, was the first to issue an arrest warrant against Osama bin Laden, back in 1998.
The warrant, approved by Interpol, came after two German anti-terrorism agents were gunned down in the Libyan city of Sirte in 1994, an attack the government in Tripoli blamed on the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a militant organization linked to al-Qaeda.
Five months after the warrant was issued, al-Qaeda carried out coordinated bombings on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people.
“At the time, they didn’t listen to us, because no one listened to Libya then,” said one senior Libyan government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Gaddafi’s open endorsement of terrorist attacks against Western nations, as well as Libya’s involvement in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1986 and the downing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, turned the country into a pariah state and led President Ronald Reagan to nickname its leader “the mad dog of the Middle East.”
According to former British intelligence agent David Shayler, eight years after Lockerbie, Britain’s MI6 sponsored the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in a 1996 attempt to kill Gaddafi.
It was as a result of this connection, two former French intelligence agents alleged, that the British secret service subsequently thwarted Libya’s attempt to turn the spotlight on Libyan Islamists and bin Laden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...JqF_print.html
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
Noir de l'eau
Head of French Company Is Killed in Libyan City
By KAREEM FAHIM and MAÏA de la BAUME
BENGHAZI, Libya — The president of a French private security company who had scheduled a meeting on Thursday to discuss business opportunities with opponents of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi died in a hospital here on Wednesday, apparently after he was shot in the stomach, the French Foreign Ministry and rebel officials here in Benghazi said.
The circumstances that led to the shooting were murky on Thursday, as was the status of four of the executive’s colleagues, who were reported to have been detained. No one seemed to be sure who was holding them: Benghazi’s civil prosecutor referred questions to military prosecutors, who in turn said they could not comment on a continuing case.
Agence France-Presse reported in 2008 that the company had brokered a deal with the Somali government to create a unified coast guard and to train the bodyguards of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, then Somalia’s president.
A former employee at Secopex who spoke only on condition of anonymity said, “Mr. Marziali went to Libya on a mission which, I believe, had been ordered by France.”
Because France has not sent troops to Libya, Secopex was engaged for “protection missions,” the man said. Those assertions could not be independently confirmed, but several countries, including France, have sent military advisers to aid the rebels, who have struggled against Colonel Qaddafi’s more seasoned and better equipped forces.
The former employee described Mr. Marziali, a former paratrooper, as “pleasant, audacious and well connected.”
A rebel spokesman said that Mr. Marziali had been scheduled to speak with the vice chairman of the opposition’s Transitional National Council, Abdul Hafidh Ghoga, on Thursday morning. By Thursday afternoon, rebel officials were at the morgue at Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, apparently trying to identify Mr. Marziali, who had what appeared to be a bullet hole in his stomach.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/wo...html?ref=libyaComment
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
real news
russia, wikileaks, eni, gazprom
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?...4&jumival=6759Comment
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
Yepp, this certainly sounds right. It never is about Democracy or Rebel Groups
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
Lesser evil=Qaddafi(or whichever spelling you choose).Comment
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Re: Libya: Curiouser & Curiouser
Good post, thanks. Everyone seemed to be included except China. Overlooked?real news
russia, wikileaks, eni, gazpromComment
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