>>> The attempt to silence the government’s TV broadcasts comes at a sensitive time for Libya’s rebels, who appear to be in disarray after the death of their chief military commander.
That’s not disarray. That’s consolidation. The slain commander was a rival to Khalifa Hifter, our own CIA man we placed in the rebel council.
“Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia”
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/26/111109/new-rebel-leader-spent-much-of.html#ixzz1SELwb7TX
“Suburban Virginia” refers to Vienna, Va. That’s five miles down the road from Langley.
A 2001 book, Manipulations africaines, published by Le Monde diplomatique, traces the CIA connection to 1987, reporting that Hifter, then a colonel in Gaddafi’s army, was captured fighting in Chad in a Libyan-backed rebellion against the US-backed government of Hissène Habré. He defected to the Libyan National Salvation Front (LNSF), the principal anti-Gaddafi group, which had the backing of the American CIA.
He organized his own militia, which operated in Chad until Habré was overthrown by a French-supported rival, Idriss Déby, in 1990.According to this book, “the Haftar force, created and financed by the CIA in Chad, vanished into thin air with the help of the CIA shortly after the government was overthrown by Idriss Déby.”
The book also cites a Congressional Research Service report of December 19, 1996 that the US government was providing financial and military aid to the LNSF and that a number of LNSF members were relocated to the United States.
Thanks for the link. Interesting.