Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor: Benghazi link to Islamic militancy

Asian Tribune ^ | March 17, 2011 | Daya Gamage

[Zhang Fei]

Well known to the United States policymakers in Obama White House and Clinton State Department along with the National Security Council but not widely known to American mainstream media, the U.S. West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center document reveals that Libya sent more fighters to Iraq’s Islamic militancy on a per-capita basis than any other Muslim country, including Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps more alarmingly for Western policymakers, most of the fighters came from eastern Libya, the center of the current uprising against Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The analysis of the Combating Terrorism Center of West Point was based on the records captured by coalition forces in October 2007 in a raid near Sinjar, along Iraq’s Syrian border.

The eastern Libyan city of Darnah sent more fighters to Iraq than any other single city or town, according to the West Point report. It noted that 52 militants came to Iraq from Darnah, a city of just 80,000 people (the second-largest source of fighters was Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has a population of more than 4 million).

Benghazi, the capital of Libya’s provisional government declared by the anti-Qaddafi rebels, sent in 21 fighters, again a disproportionate number of the whole.

If the 2007 captured records revealed the Eastern Libyan participation in the anti-coalition forces militancy in Iraq one could imagine the Banghazi-Darnah export of Islamists since then.

“Libyans were more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Arabic-speaking world,” Andrew Exum, a counterinsurgency specialist and former Army Ranger noted in a blog posting recently. “This might explain why those rebels from Libya's eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya's rebels.”

[fabian]

Fox is not pro Obama...and these people are obviously fighting and dieing to rid themselves of this whacko ans once they do, please God, he will no longer be a menace.

[arrogantsob]

Fox is as clueless as the rest of the media. Daffy has not been a menace for years and is only one now because there is an insurrection going on.

Islamist takeover will not add to any one’s freedom. And, unfortunately, the odds are that is what you are watching. The last place you will hear of this will be the mass media.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from March 17, 2011. Thanks Zhang Fei.