Saturday 26 March 2011

Bombshell Report: Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links

Why the hell is the United States fighting on behalf of people that want to kill them?

No matter how the Obama regime may want to whitewash the reasoning why the U.S. has entered its 3rd war in the Middle East, the truth of the matter is Obama has been duped to fight for people that will turn around and kill Americans for the favor.

Does this make sense to any sane person?

UK Telegraph reports 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".


Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being "captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan". He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.

US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi in 1995 and 1996.

Even though the LIFG is not part of the al-Qaeda organisation, the United States military's West Point academy has said the two share an "increasingly co-operative relationship". In 2007, documents captured by allied forces from the town of Sinjar, showed LIFG emmbers made up the second-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq, after Saudi Arabia.

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This is the biggest blunder Obama has ever committed. I suspect he thought that a little carpet bombing will make Ghadafi flee Libya. But this was a miscalculation by one of the most inept presidents in U.S. histpory.

Barack Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like Abraham Lincoln.

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