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US Allies With Al
Qaeda In Libya
Did.
Not. See. This. Coming.
Posted by streiff (Profile)
Sunday, March 27th
As we’ve noted over the past weeks, we know precious little about the
alleged “rebels” on whose behalf we’ve intervened in Libya.
Now a little more information is available:
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.
This is probably only a shock in the office of Samantha Power.
Throughout the Iraq war Libya was the second leading source of foreign
fighters and suicide bombers. That they should be driving the train on
the insurrection in Libya should be unsurprising to anyone allowed to
develop national policy. Should be, but apparently the Obama
Administration’s foreign policy — or domestic policy for that matter —
is nothing more than a series of unpleasant surprises.
So how long will we continue our alliance with al Qaeda? Will we
continue this ill-conceived assault on Libya even though it places us
in a direct, face-to-face alliance with the organization which carried
out the attacks on 9/11? Does anyone in Congress care?
Read it at Redstate
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