Port city of Derna, Libya
Posted on 04/03/2011 11:46:32 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Former detainee at Guantánamo Bay has taken a leading role in the military opposition to Col Muammar Gaddafi, it has emerged, alongside at least one other former Afghan Mujahideen fighter.
Rebel recruits in the eastern port city of Derna are being trained by Sufyan Bin Qumu, a Libyan who was arrested following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and held at Guantánamo for six years.
Port city of Derna, Libya
Abdel Hakim al-Hasidi, a senior Libyan rebel commander in Derna, was also held following the invasion of Afghanistan and handed over to Libyan custody two months later.
Both men were said to have been released from prison in Libya in 2008 as part of a reconciliation process with Islamists in the country.
Mr Qumu, 51, a Libyan army veteran, was accused by the US government of working as a truck driver for a company owned by Osama bin Laden, and as an accountant for a charity accused of terrorist links.
The appearance of Islamists in the country's revolution, and supportive statements by Islamist groups, has led to fears that Western military action may be playing into the hands of its ideological enemies.
Last week Admiral James Stavridis, Nato's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, said that, while the Libyan opposition's leadership appeared to be "responsible men and women," US intelligence had detected "flickers" of terrorist activity among rebel groups. The comments were described by British government sources as "very alarming."
However, Islamists are said to form only a small minority within the rebel forces, and there is not said to have been any disagreement with the opposition's political leadership, which says it is secular.
Mr Hasidi, who spent several years in a training camp in Afghanistan, told a newspaper he does not support a Taliban-like state and
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Hey! Now we know where to release out Gitmo People! Give them arms and send them to Libya! What a great idea.
If only we could promise Osama Bin Laiden the presidency of Libya he may be able to pull strings and get some more Islamic radicals in there to help topple Gadaffi.
Has Obama apologised to him yet or is Obama from a different branch of Al Qaeda?
Obviously we’ve already become friends with Al Qaeda again and we’re repeating the 80s again and just like we did for them in Afghanistan against the Soviets we are again arming them to go against our new enemy Gadaffi.
But apparently the greatest enemy of the U.S. is some pyromaniac in Florida. /s
This proves that it was correct to release him, because he really is rehabilitated! He’s fighting for the Good Guys now, against the Bad Guys! /sarc
Great bunch of overpaid idiots we have running the CIA, that is where spineless gates came from isn’t.
Islamists are said to form only a small minority within the rebel forces ...
Similar to: “Good news! This broken MRI found only a few thousand cancer cells in your brain. So we`re just going to ignore the problem.”
This just can’t be because NOBAMA IS AWESOME!
“Boots on the Ground” in Libya?
While Obama said in his speech on Libya last Monday that “America’s role would be limited” and he “would not put ground troops” into the North African country, the British were contemplating doing just the opposite. Reports in British newspapers on Sunday state Great Britain is preparing to send 600 Royal Marines to the Libyan conflict, marking an escalation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) military intervention. According to reports, a Royal Navy fleet composed of six warships and marines will make up a mission to provide humanitarian aid to rebel-held towns.
In making this controversial move, the British government probably believes it has no choice, if NATO wants to accomplish its objectives of regime change, restarting the oil supply,
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/04/%E2%80%9Cboots-on-the-ground%E2%80%9D-in-libya/
“The appearance of Islamists in the country’s revolution, and supportive statements by Islamist groups, has led to fears that Western military action may be playing into the hands of its ideological enemies.
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Is it asking to much that we just kill these murders?
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