Posted on 03/27/2011 12:22:27 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
The latest claims of MI6 involvement with Libya's fearsome Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of bin Laden's trusted lieutenants, will be embarrassing to the Government, which described similar claims by renegade MI5 officer David Shayler as 'pure fantasy'.
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The Libyan al-Qaeda cell included Anas al-Liby, who remains on the US government's most wanted list with a reward of $25 million for his capture. He is wanted for his involvement in the African embassy bombings. Al-Liby was with bin Laden in Sudan before the al-Qaeda leader returned to Afghanistan in 1996.
Astonishingly, despite suspicions that he was a high-level al-Qaeda operative, al-Liby was given political asylum in Britain and lived in Manchester until May of 2000 when he eluded a police raid on his house and fled abroad. The raid discovered a 180-page al-Qaeda 'manual for jihad' containing instructions for terrorist attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Al Qaeda's Foreign Fighters in Iraq (2007 U.S. Military Academy Report)
MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden' (UK pays Al Qaeda in Libya, 1996)
Libyan Islamists 'join al-Qaeda' (November 2007)
Gaddafi regime fed names of jihadists to the CIA and to Britain
Libya frees 214 Islamists (March 23, 2010)
Libya frees 37 Islamist prisoners (September 1, 2010)
Libya frees 12 more political prisoners (February 4, 2011)
Libya Islamists 'seize arms, take hostages' (February 20, 2011)
Al Qaeda sets up 'Islamic emirate' (February 24, 2011)
Al-Qaeda commander calls for overthrow of Gaddafi and introduction of Sharia Law (March 14, 2011)
Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side
“FOllow the Yellowcake Road”
Larry Elder
From the article:
“In 2008, our military shipped out of Iraq — on 37 flights in 3,500 barrels — what even The Associated Press called “the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program”: 550 metric tons of the supposedly nonexistent yellowcake. The New York Sun editorialized:
“The uranium issue is not a trivial one, because Iraq, sitting on vast oil reserves, has no peaceful need for nuclear power. ... To leave this nuclear material sitting around the Middle East in the hands of Saddam ... would have been too big a risk.”
Now the mainscream media no longer deem yellowcake — the WMD Bush supposedly lied about — a WMD. It was, well, old. It was degraded. It was not what we think of when we think of WMD. Really? Square that with what former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said in April 2004: “There were no weapons of mass destruction.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow goes even further, insisting, against the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that “Saddam Hussein was not pursuing weapons of mass destruction”!
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2010/12/larry-elder-wikileaks-vindicates-president-george-w-bush#ixzz1HpUZYo56
The war on terror was a hoax. If you want a war on terror, the administrations of Britain and the US need to go and the leftists to be stuffed away in dungeons.
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