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To: haffast
U.S. officials in Libya have begun to look for recruits for a commando force which they plan to train to fight militants, a former commander of Libyan rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday.

After World War II, Genoud served as the financial advisor to the Grand Mufti. In 1958, the Swiss Nazi set up the Arab Commercial Bank in Geneva to manage the war chest of the Algerian National Liberation Front, whose partisans were fighting to free their country from French colonial rule. Several Third Reich veterans, including Maj. Gen. Otto Ernst Remer, who had served as Hitler's bodyguard, smuggled weapons to the Algerian rebels, while other German advisors provided military instruction. Under the guise of supporting the Arabs' struggle against French colonialism, Genoud and his Nazi cohorts were following the same geopolitical strategy that Hitler had pursued in the Middle East. -----------The Swastika and the Crescent

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

6 posted on 11/07/2012 1:10:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

“The more things change, the more they stay the same... “

Yes, and that is because people are ignorant and/or willfully ignorant and they do not know history.


7 posted on 11/07/2012 6:04:57 PM PST by Cindy
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