Posted on 03/29/2011 2:44:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Note that the Saudi King Abdullah is 87 this year and is rumored to have recently suffered a stroke. I would suspect the guy’s not thinking too clearly. Maybe his last wish is to have Gaddafi killed, no matter what the long term consequences are for the al Saud family.
Taliban Condemn Attacks on Libya - KABUL, Afghanistan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has at least one good friend in the outside world the Taliban in Afghanistan. "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan strongly condemns this politically motivated and uncalled-for intervention and adventure by the Western countries in the internal conflict of the people of Libya..."Do you have a theory to explain why that is?
Are the Taliban now "good muslims" along with Khadafi, while the evil Saudis are the bad muslims, because they supported the Taliban?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Personally I'm all for bombing the holy hell out of Libya and I think we should bomb lots more muslim countries too.
The Taliban is beginning to pick up on a growing theme in the media - that al Qaeda is in fact a significant element of the rebel force - and are ginning up a disinformation campaign to convince us that we should be attacking Gaddafi because the Taliban "supports" Gaddafi. It's the oldest trick in the book. We don't do that kind of dissembling much because we're Americans. Muslims will say whatever seems convenient at the moment.
The one thing that sticks out in my mind is the prevalence of variants of the burka among the female Libyan population, despite the fact that Gaddafi doesn't actually require it. The following West Point chart confirms my initial impression - that Libyan society is much more Islamist than the press either knows about or lets on:
Just as the Saudi Royal Family keeps a lid on Islamism in Saudi Arabia by parroting many of its shibboleths, Gaddafi more or less performs the same function in Libya. But to have al Qaeda actually in power in Libya would be a serious problem.
Note that the 84% of the jihadists came from Darnah and Benghazi, both rebel strongholds that were (as pointed out in the West Point study) previously the scene of Islamist uprisings in the mid-1990's.
To think the Pom-Pom Media would even glace in the direction of Barry's relationships with Daffy's well-connected friends in America.
You don't think Gaddafi doesn't deal with Al Qaeda.
Gaddafi released hundereds of LIFG/Al Qaeda over the past two years from his prisons. Those are the same Al Qaeda that we captured on the Afganistan and Iraq battlefields and gave to Gaddafi.
Gaddafi also funds Muslim Brotherhood causes around the world.
People around here need to wise up.
How do you know al-qaeda is not running disinformation campaign to keep us from supporting the rebels?
The Taliban can't be trusted when they say they support Khadafi, because they are muslims, but Khadafi CAN be trusted when he says he support the war on terror against al-qaeda, because he is a "good muslim," the kind who don't lie?
March 2, 2011 The Muslim Brotherhood and Gaddafi Were Partners
We released thousands of al Qaeda and LIFG. These are are the same al Qaeda we captured on battlefields and found unimportant enough to summarily execute or simply disappear. Unlike American presidents, leaders of Muslim countries have to worry about Islamist infiltration of their personal guard. Gaddafi is still getting flak from Libyan Islamists for putting down a 1996 prison revolt by killing 1200 Islamists who killed 200 prison guards - Islamists who tried to assassinate him.
What kind of flak would Gaddafi get for killing al Qaeda operatives who had laudably (in Muslim eyes) gone forth to fight the Western infidel in Iraq? As I never get tired of reminding people - the current anti-Gaddafi revolt arose out of demonstrations staged by relatives of the Islamists killed by Gaddafi during the prison revolt in 1996 - Islamists who had tried to kill him and overthrow the regime.
Muslim leaders are not god emperors in the Chinese or Japanese mode. Muslims already have a god. His name is Allah. To a Muslim, there is no such thing as being too devout, especially if it involves killing infidels. Gaddafi's hands were tied, as are the hands of the other Muslim governments to which we have handed al Qaeda operatives captured in Iraq. Most or all have been released. Many have gone back to attacking American troops. This is why I think these individuals should be imprisoned indefinitely - to release them to Muslim governments is the equivalent of catch-and-release.
Or is it Iran that's behind them?
Or al-qaeda?
Or the muslim brotherhood?
Maybe it's all of them!
Is this a Saudi/Iranian plot? Maybe the Saudis are only pretending to be against Iran like the Taliban is pretending to support Kadhafi? How diabolical!
What about the Republicans? They are silent as well.
This is why claims of support from various parties needs to be looked at with a skeptical eye. We need to go back to basics:
(Q1) How did the rebellion come into being?
(A1) Relatives of Islamists killed in a prison revolt (imprisoned after a revolt and an assassination attempt in 1996) staged demonstrations against Gaddafi.
(Q2) What is the background of the area from which the revolt arose - Darrah and Benghazi?
(A2) It is the scene of Islamist revolts against Gaddafi and the source of the assassins who tried to kill him in the mid-1990's. It is also the source of 84% of the jihadists who went to Iraq to kill GI's. Libya itself sent more jihadists per capita to attack GI's in Iraq than any other country on Earth.
(Q3) What happened the last time we backed Islamists against a Communist government (Gaddafi's regime, more or less) to the tune of billions of dollars?
(A3) The mujahideen graduated men like Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, who went on to found the Taliban with Pakistani backing, and sheltered and fed the al Qaeda terrorists who went on to stage the 9/11 terror attacks.
Barack flat-out SURPRISE-ATTACKED Libya! That’s why they call him President oBOMBa!
That's one thing that bothers me. I thought the sneak attack was an underhanded Japanese (Pearl Harbor) or a Chinese (Korean War) thing. Whatever happened to giving someone fair warning before going to war with him?
It's okay, this isn't a war-war.
thanks SunkenCiv; bookmark post #29
Muslims have been told to LIE to infidels (us).
Go on and spread those Korans around. People should read them to see how evil and violent Islam is, then use one to get the brushpile flame started.
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