Posted on 03/21/2011 3:27:47 PM PDT by americanophile
COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi's regime secretly provided information to Britain and the US on Islamic extremists in the east of Libya, according to leaked diplomatic cables and intelligence sources. The names of hundreds of suspects were passed to the CIA and British intelligence.
“There was a strong, shared concern between Gaddafi and the US and UK Governments about radical Sunni jihadist terrorists, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),” Paul Pillar, a CIA veteran who negotiated with Libya over its nuclear program, told The Times.
Diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks paint eastern Libya as a fertile ground for radical extremism. One source told US officials in 2008 that for young men from Derna, a city east of Benghazi, “resistance against coalition forces in Iraq was an important act of 'jihad' and a last act of defiance against the Gaddafi regime”.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. .End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. However, Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of the CIA's Libya branch, said that Colonel Gaddafi had “sucked in” the West with allegations of terrorism in the east of Libya.
“Gaddafi conflated the LIFG with al-Qa'ida and that obviously caught the attention of the Americans and the British who, post-9/11, were hungry for terrorism intelligence,” he said. “There wasn't a lot of reporting sources and Gaddafi was providing it - but his motivation was to protect himself.”
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Reckin he won’t be doing that anymore.
Bottom line: who is funding the rebels?
Well, that makes it darn sure that if the bombs don’t get him, the islamist “extremists” do. He will be hated by everybody.
They have planes too. There are apparently plenty of defections from Gaddafi’s army...and they took their equipment.
No wonder itty bitty bama decided MG had to go.
bfl
When something makes no sense - look for the thing that would seem the farthest of reasons.
Quadaffi is an enemy of the Al Qaeda and jihardists =
buuumer boy is their friend and protector. (His new ROE has resulted in DOUBLING the deaths of OUR troops - and protecting the enemy - is proof. (the media no longer reports on troop deaths = have you noticed? Have you cared? Has America cared?
If so, y'all are keeping it mighty quiet.
You watch, they will spin this that Bush made deals with the “Mad Man” Gadhafi.
So is this who we are protecting?
If not - just WHO ARE we protecting? anyone know?
This did not appear to be a genocide nor a pending genocide - but a CIVIL WAR in a SOVEREIGN country that was threatening no other country and not a threat to us.
With the reasons bummer boy gives for this action, it sets a precedence to bomb the hell out of any country, any time we want.
My thoughts exactly.
LLS
so that’s why Ghaddaffi-Duck was calling Sarkozy mental- Duck must have been thinking that his info would provide him a little protection.
what a duck
LLS
Some of us have always noticed... GOD bless them all... we have not forgotten them. We have no cameras and no microphones. Even fox news has turned a blind eye.
LLS
Now we know why 0bama wanted to bomb Gaddafi.
To stop him from outing Islamic terrorists
so that’s why Ghaddaffi-Duck was calling Sarkozy mental- Duck must have been thinking that his info would provide him a little protection.
what a duck
According to Drudge (radio show) the region in Lybia fighting hardest against Gaddaffi (sp?) is the same region where most of the foreign fighters in Iraq were from and fighting against U.S. Apparently in Lybia, we are aiding the terrorists who fight against us in Iraq, probably Afghanistan.
“I’ve been in a Walmart, but I don’t remember seeing any tanks there”
Check the garden section.
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