THE HISTORY IS REPEATED IN A BIG SCALE. READ THE " According to Sir Arthur Bryant
the British historian (Unfinished Victory, 1940, pp.136-144):
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This Video was stolen by JewTube
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Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so Stupid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gycNMf0xAc
Here are its mirrors:
http://vimeo.com/21508099 http://blip.tv/file/4936069
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"The big difference between Libya and Bahrain
is that Libya is an enemy and Bahrain is an ally."
— Adm. Mike Mullen
The Jew Lithmus Test:
Where isn't the US prepared to defend 'freedom'?
Wherever it finds friends of the Jews!
The Bahraini 'royal family' are virtual Jews, who
perhaps ought to be twice 'soicumcized'. They
stole some sixty percent of Bahrain’s real estate
and some ninety percent of the water frontage.
Some seventy percent of Bahrain’s population
are 'virtual Palestinians', most of whom were
robbed of their ancestral properties by the
so-called 'royal family' – a bunch of 'traditional'
cutthroats.
Bahrain’s police was, for decades, run by a
notorious British torturer with a long record
of human rights violations in colonial Africa.
George Galloway, MP, described this guy as
"Britain’s Klaus Barbie". Great many of the
police lower ranks were recruited in Pakistan –
and are not required to have any knowledge
of Arabic, the local language. It’s a deliberate
set-up for a routine 'failure to communicate' –
and for a ready resorting by the police to deadly
force – to willfull murder – and to mass murder.
Video — by AlJazeeraEnglish
Violent response to Bahrain protest - 2:51
If time is no object …
Video — warning: very emotional
Sectarian Cleansing in Bahrain: Stop the Genocide Now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXT_VCx3Xqo&feature=player_embedded#at=110 - 36:03
An appeal by a Bahraini cleric, who speaks good American English.
One minute or so is spoken in Arabic.
Video — by David Irving *****
The Zionist Influence Over Winston Churchill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BpENdKqu0U&feature=related - 9:27
Video
If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! - 3:23
Cool Britannia …
Book bound in human skin discovered
DON'T BLAME THE NUTZIS!
BBC News
February 26th, 2011
When Devon murderer George Cudmore was sentenced to hang
at the Lent Assizes in 1830, he knew that part of his sentence
was that his dead body would be taken to an Exeter hospital
to be dissected. What he probably was not aware of was that a
chunk of his skin would eventually be flayed, tanned and used
to cover an 1852 copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton.
The book will go on show to the public for the first time on
26 February as part of Devon's annual Local History Day.
...
Many of the books covered in human skin were medical books –
the skins were primarily from amputated body parts and
unclaimed corpses. Occasionally, as in the case of Cudmore,
the skin of executed prisoners was used.
[NB. No 'human skin products' were ever seen in the Third Reich.]
From: John Bayldon
Re: 'Jews' were mongrels even 2000 ago
Who I wonder, has so little to do in life that they should wish
to waste it in conversing with a jew?
What's the point?
The Hebraic Holocaustist won't/ can't be convinced of truth,
and will only drive you insane, as well.
Why not hit your head with a hammer, or better still, pick some
sane human to converse with?
Conversing with a judaicoster is just like trying to swat mosquitoes
in a swamp – the jew just fires out lies faster than you could ever
answer them – it's probably what nature designed them for –
to weed out the weak-of-mind nations because it would never do
for a shitty, stupid race to be let loose to travel the galaxy.
Therefore, every developing world of beings gets their jew – or
equivalent of, and in the same way that our planetary life system
is protected from mass infection by the dual hygiene system of
gravity and air – which ensures that most objects burn and are thus
disinfected before they hit earth, so also the system that demands
considerable intellect, hard work, dedication, daring and cooperation
to get people safely off the planet and away, ensures that very few
developed planets will succed – most will remain where they are,
fighting, primitive and unhappy untill their sun dies and envelopes
their world in a red giant before blowing to atoms.
This is us, too, if we continue to allow the world parasite to dominate us
and lead us astray from our true destiny. The way we are going, pretty
soon, this world will resemble a lifeless, dried up moonscape with the
tattered, jewish UN flag fluttering in the acid irradiated breeze.
JB
Video
Anti Semitic Holocaust Denial with David Duke & Iran Meeting - 5:51
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According to Sir Arthur Bryant
the British historian (Unfinished Victory, 1940, pp.136-144):
‘It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities.. They did so with such effect that, even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
Most of it came into their hands during the inflation.. But to those who had lost their all this bewildering transfer seemed a monstrous injustice. After prolonged sufferings they had now been deprived of their last possessions. They saw them pass into the hands of strangers, many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and who cared little or nothing for their national standards and traditions.. The Jews obtained a wonderful ascendancy in politics, business and the learned professions (in spite of constituting) less than one percent of the population..
The banks, including the Reichsbank and the big private banks, were practically controlled by them. So were the publishing trade, the cinema, the theatres and a large part of the press – all the normal means, in fact, by which public opinion in a civilized country is formed..
The largest newspaper combine in the country with a daily circulation of four millions was a Jewish monopoly.. Every year it became harder and harder for a gentile to gain or keep a foothold in any privileged occupation.. At this time it was not the ‘Aryans’ who exercised racial discrimination. It was a discrimination that operated without violence. It was exercised by a minority against a majority. There was no persecution, only elimination.. It was the contrast between the wealth enjoyed – and lavishly displayed – by aliens of cosmopolitan tastes, and the poverty and misery of native Germans, that has made anti-Semitism so dangerous and ugly a force in the new Europe. Beggars on horseback are seldom popular, least of all with those whom they have just thrown out of the saddle.’
Goodness gracious, Sir Arthur! What made you get out of the wrong side of the bed?
Strangely enough, a book unexpectedly published by Princeton University Press in 1984, Sarah Gordon (Hitler, Germans and the “Jewish Question”) essentially confirms what Bryant says. According to her,
‘Jews were never a large percentage of the total German population; at no time did they exceed 1% of the population during the years 1871-1933.’
But she adds ‘Jews were over-represented in business, commerce, and public and private service.. They were especially visible in private banking in Berlin, which in 1923 had 150 private Jewish banks, as opposed to only 11 private non-Jewish banks..
They owned 41% of iron and scrap iron firms and 57% of other metal businesses.. Jews were very active in the stock market, particularly in Berlin, where in 1928 they comprised 80% of the leading members of the stock exchange.
By 1933, when the Nazis began eliminating Jews from prominent positions, 85% of the brokers on the Berlin Stock exchange were dismissed because of their “race”.. At least a quarter of full professors and instructors (at German universities) had Jewish origins.. In 1905-6 Jewish students comprised 25% of the law and medical students.. In 1931, 50% of the 234 theatre directors in Germany were Jewish, and in Berlin the number was 80%.. In 1929 it was estimated that the per capita income of Jews in Berlin was twice that of other Berlin residents..’ etc etc.
Arthur Koestler confirms the Jewish over-involvement in German publishing. ‘Ullstein’s was a kind of super-trust; the largest organization of its kind in Europe, and probably In the world. They published four daily papers in Berlin alone, among these the venerable Vossische Zeitung, founded in the eighteenth century, and the B.Z. am Mittag, an evening paper.. Apart from these, Ullstein’s published more than a dozen weekly and monthly periodicals, ran their own news service, their own travel agency, etc., and were one of the leading book publishers. The firm was owned by the brothers Ullstein – they were five, like the original Rothschild brothers, and like them also, they were Jews.’ (The God that Failed (1950) ed. RHS Crossman, p 31).Edgar Mowrer, Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote an anti-German tract called Germany Puts the Clock Back (published as a Penguin Special and reprinted five times between December 1937 and April 1938). He nevertheless notes
‘In the all-important administration of Prussia, any number of strategic positions came into the hands of Hebrews..
A telephone conversation between three Jews in Ministerial offices could result in the suspension of any periodical or newspaper in the state.. The Jews came in Germany to play in politics and administration that same considerable part that they had previously won by open competition in business, trade, banking, the Press, the arts, the sciences and the intellectual and cultural life of the country. And thereby the impression was strengthened that Germany, a country with a mission of its own, had fallen into the hands of foreigners.’
Mowrer says
‘No one who lived through the period from 1919 to 1926 is likely to forget the sexual promiscuity that prevailed.. Throughout a town like Berlin, hotels and pensions made vast fortunes by letting rooms by the hour or day to baggageless, unregistered guests. Hundreds of cabarets, pleasure resorts and the like served for purposes of getting acquainted and acquiring the proper mood..’ (pp. 153-4).
Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds ‘Most of them (the night clubs and vice-resorts) were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews.. among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.’ (pp. 144-5).
Douglas Reed, Chief Central European correspondent before WWII for the London Times, was profoundly anti-German and anti-Hitler. But nevertheless he reported:
‘I watched the Brown Shirts going from shop to shop with paint pots and daubing on the window panes the word “Jew”, in dripping red letters. The Kurfürstendamm was to me a revelation. I knew that Jews were prominent in business life, but I did not know that they almost monopolized important branches of it. Germany had one Jew to one hundred gentiles, said the statistics; but the fashionable Kurfürstendamm, according to the dripping red legends, had about one gentile shop to ninety-nine Jewish ones.’
(Reed Insanity Fair (1938) p. 152-3).
In Reed’s book Disgrace Abounding of the following year he notes
‘In the Berlin (of pre-Hitler years) most of the theatres were Jewish-owned or Jewish-leased, most of the leading film and stage actors were Jews, the plays performed were often by German, Austrian or Hungarian Jews and were staged by Jewish film producers, applauded by Jewish dramatic critics in Jewish newspapers.. The Jews are not cleverer than the Gentiles, if by clever you mean good at their jobs. They ruthlessly exploit the common feeling of Jews, first to get a foothold in a particular trade or calling, then to squeeze the non-Jews out of it.. It is not true that Jews are better journalists than Gentiles. They held all the posts on those Berlin papers because the proprietors and editors were Jewish’ (pp238-9).
The Jewish writer Edwin Black notes
‘For example, in Berlin alone, about 75% of the attorneys and nearly as many of the doctors were Jewish.’
(Black, The Transfer Agreement (1984) p58.
· To cap it all, Jews were perceived as dangerous enemies of Germany after Samuel Untermeyer, the leader of the World Jewish Economic Federation, declared war on Germany on August 6 1933.
(Edwin Black The Transfer Agreement: the Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Palestine (1984) pp272-277) According to Black, ‘
The one man who most embodied the potential death blow to Germany was Samuel Untermeyer.’ (p 369). This was the culmination of a worldwide boycott of German goods led by international Jewish organizations.
The London Daily Express on March 24, 1933 carried the headline Judea Declares War on Germany.
The boycott was particularly motivated by the German imposition of the Nuremberg Laws, which ironically were similar in intent and content to the Jewish cultural exclusivism practiced so visibly in present-day Israel
(Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem p 7). ERROR! The Jewish action was taken in March of 1933. The Nuremberg Laws, which curtailed Jewish domination of German institutions, were not enacted until 1935) RG
Hitler saw the tremendous danger posed to Germany by Communism. He appreciated the desperate need to eliminate this threat, a fact that earned him the immense hatred and animosity of the Jewish organisations and the media and politicians of the west which they could influence. After all, according to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant, although Jews formed less than five percent of Russia’s population, they formed more than fifty percent of its revolutionaries.
According to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant in his book The Jews (1977, chapter 8):
‘It must be added that most of the leading revolutionaries who convulsed Europe in the final decades of the last century and the first decades of this one, stemmed from prosperous Jewish families.. They were perhaps typified by the father of revolution, Karl Marx.. Thus when, after the chaos of World War I, revolutions broke out all over Europe, Jews were everywhere at the helm; Trotsky, Sverdlov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in Russia, Bela Kun in Hungary, Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, and, most improbable of all, Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin.
‘To many outside observers, the Russian revolution looked like a Jewish conspiracy, especially when it was followed by Jewish-led revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe. The leadership of the Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of Jews.. Of the seven members of the Politburo, the inner cabinet of the country, four, Trotsky (Bronstein), Zinoviev (Radomsky), Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Sverdlov, were Jews.’
Other authors agree with this:
“There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist Party, and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1.. The prominence of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable, and this was a very serious contributing cause for increased anti-Semitism in post-war years.. It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists and communists.. led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation.”
(Sarah Gordon Hitler, Germans and the ‘Jewish Question’ Princeton University Press (1984) p 23).
“The second paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s… Anti-Semitism intensified throughout Europe and North America following the perceived and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution.. Such feelings were not restricted to Germany, or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis. All over Northern Europe and North America, anti-Semitism became the norm in ‘nice society’, and ‘nice society’ included the universities.” (Martin Bernal, Black Athena vol. 1 pp. 367, 387).
“The major role Jewish leaders played in the November (Russian) revolution was probably more important than any other factor in confirming (Hitler’s) anti-Semitic beliefs.” (J&S Pool, Who Financed Hitler, p.164).
Hitler came to power in Germany with two main aims, the rectification of the unjust provisions of the Versailles Treaty, and the destruction of the Soviet/ Communist threat to Germany.
Strangely enough, contrary to the mythology created by those who had an opposing ethnic agenda, he had no plans or desire for a larger war of conquest. Professor AJP Taylor showed this in his book The Origins of the Second World War, to the disappointment of the professional western political establishment. Taylor says,
“The state of German armament in 1939 gives the decisive proof that Hitler was not contemplating general war, and probably not intending war at all” (p.267), and
“Even in 1939 the German army was not equipped for a prolonged war; and in 1940 the German land forces were inferior to the French in everything except leadership” (p104-5).
What occurred in Europe in 1939-41 was the result of unforeseen weaknesses and a tipping of the balance of power, and Hitler was an opportunist ‘who took advantages whenever they offered themselves’ (Taylor). Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Hitler wanted peace with Britain, as the German generals admitted (Basil Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill 1948, Pan Books 1983) with regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk, where Hitler had the opportunity to capture the entire British Army, but chose not to. Liddell Hart, one of Britain’s most respected military historians, quotes the German General von Blumentritt with regard to this Halt Order:
“He (Hitler) then astonished us by speaking with admiration of the British Empire, of the necessity for its existence, and of the civilisation that Britain had brought into the world. He remarked, with a shrug of the shoulders, that the creation of its Empire had been achieved by means that were often harsh, but ‘where there is planing, there are shavings flying’. He compared the British Empire with the catholic Church – saying they were both essential elements of stability in the world. He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she should acknowledge Germany’s position on the Continent. The return of Germany’s colonies would be desirable but not essential, and he would even offer to support Britain with troops if she should be involved in difficulties anywhere..” (p 200).
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On 28 March 2011, Dr. Gunther Kümel wrote:
STOP RAILROADING EDGAR STEELE
By free-edgar-steele.com
Edgar Steele
The US Government falsely arrested and falsely imprisoned First Amendment attorney Edgar J. Steele on trumped up murder-for-hire charges, naming his wife, Cyndi and mother-in-law as the supposed intended victims. Both Cyndi and her mother know Edgar is innocent and they support him by raising money for his defense. What follows is not fiction, this really happened in June of 2010 and is still unresolved.
Real people like you and me and Good Samaritans like Edgar Steele, a defender of the Constitutional rights of others, many pro bono, continue to be prime targets of the Government's attack on the innocent who make themselves "politically incorrect." If you dare to speak out against tyranny, oppression and the growing police state in Amerika, you will be targeted, prosecuted and sent away for a long prison sentence. There are malevolent forces in and around the Government that are hate groups, pointing fingers at others to take the heat off of themselves, while they promote persecution of the innocent. One such group is the Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC", a so called non-governmental organization or "NGO"), which may have started as a "bully buster" but now has become the "bully." Along with the FBI, the SPLC regularly attacks innocent people such as Edgar J. Steele. Mr. Steele is a father of three, husband, attorney, champion of free speech and a justice seeker. He and his wife Cyndi Steele, who have been married 25 years, have served many individuals oppressed by the government.
The Government version is that, on June 9th and 10th, the Government's "Confidential Source," Mr. Fairfax, allegedly recorded two conversations where Mr. Steele was purportedly plotting the murder of his wife and her mother. These "recordings," are the only evidence the Government has against Edgar Steele. If the defense has an opportunity to show that those recordings are fictitious (and the evidence is not excluded at trial) then there is no case. On June 11, 2010, while at his home, Mr. Steele was "cuffed and stuffed" then incarcerated on charges which allege he and his handyman, Larry Fairfax, were plotting to commit murder. Four days later, Mr. Fairfax who had been free, was arrested on charges that he manufactured a lethal pipe bomb, which he admitted attaching to Cyndi's vehicle; a fact that the government knew about for a minimum of six days before the bomb was discovered by Mrs. Steele and the FBI chose to do nothing about it. The government also knew about one or more of the Fairfax accomplices, but has failed to arrest, charge or prosecute any of them (as if the FBI is in cahoots with them).
Interestingly, while the confessed and now convicted felon Mr. Fairfax was held in a local jail under soft conditions, free-speech attorney Edgar Steele was held in solitary confinement under harsh, freezing conditions for months until public outcry finally forced minimal privileges and contact with the outside world. (Shades of an Amerikan Gulag?).
On June 15, 2010, as she was on her way to a court hearing regarding her husband's case, and with time to spare, she stopped for an oil change a few blocks from the Federal Courthouse in North Idaho. The oil change mechanic pointed out the bomb. The bomb squad was called, they arrived and used the water cannon to neutralize it, then after being interrogated as if she had something to do with the bomb, Cyndi Steele went to court to attend her husband's hearing. While at court, Cyndi Steele was told by a US Marshal that the Government would not provide her with any protection against the accomplices still at large, one of whom was a neighbor of the Steeles….. What possible corruption would cause an official to tell the victim of a car bomb that she would not be receiving protection when part of the gang was still at large? Congress needs to ask this official, "what does it take to get you to do your job?"
Given that Mr. Steele has an established web presence from which he has authored incisive commentary on First Amendment, socio-political and financial matters, it is not surprising that most of his supporters feel that his incarceration is yet another jailing of a dissident for speaking his mind, making him just another political prisoner in America.
Edgar Steele always expressed himself with an edge (see www.conspiracypenpal.com) when it comes to telling it straight and naming names. Mr. Steele has also published a book, "Defensive Racism", which has seen wide distribution for the last five years. Also at his web site is a brief biography the capstone of which was his work-in-progress investigating human trafficking involving a "Russian Bride" scam out of the Ukraine, at the time of his arrest. Mr. Steele's aggressive representation of clients who have run afoul of the Government – in addition to his own use of free speech - may be just the reason the Government and its consulting NGOs colluded to silence him with bogus charges, pre-trial "detention" and no bond.
An archive of case progress, news articles, support efforts and more can be found at www.free-edgar-steele.com which was created to share the information critical to exonerating Mr. Steele. This web site also tracks a number of interviews given by Cyndi Steele and her attorney Wesley W. Hoyt, as well as donations received and supporter's comments.
At present, many caring souls and organizations have financially supported Mr. Steele, raising over $114,000.00 to date. There is a dedicated defense team working for him. The word has traveled far and wide about this travesty of justice with donations from Canada, Europe and Australia, and word of Edgar's fight for freedom.
The defense team has just announced that it engaged the finest audio and acoustical engineers in America to analyze the Government recordings. These recordings were supposedly made over a two day period, on June 9th and 10th, 2010. The expert's analysis, only obtained last week proves that the recordings are not one continuous recording of a conversation with the Government's witness, Larry Fairfax. Rather, it has now been proven that the recordings were spliced and dubbed with sound effects and dialogue from multiple people pretending to be Edgar Steele and that the recording did not happen all at once as falsely represented by the Government. The experts have now proven that these tapes were manufactured by the Government. This is criminal conduct. This is the height of Government misconduct and constitutes ‘bearing false witness against thy neighbor.' Edgar always said that he pictured himself as the "canary in the coalmine" and that he intended to push the boundaries of free speech so that the rest of us could say what we wished and be safe. He said that when the Government came for him it would be a sign that we were next. Well, they have come for the canary and he has been clapped in irons, carried off and thrown in a dungeon, all because of his political speech. So, are we next?
If you are outraged that the Government can do this to a First Amendment lawyer, and you think that this could happen to you or someone you love, we ask you to donate to the
Edgar Steele Defense Fund
P.O. Box 1255
Sagle, Idaho 83680
www.free-edgar-steele.com
Your donations will pay to have the experts testify during Edgar's April trial. Donations are administered by a non-profit corporation. Please make contributions payable to the "Edgar Steele Defense Fund." If the Government can railroad Mr. Steele into a death sentence (where he likely will die in prison), then what is to stop them from coming after you or me? We must stop them now by supporting the defense of Edgar Steele, before it is too late. Then we must demand that our Congressional leaders prohibit Rogue FBI Agents and US Attorneys from attacking the innocent. Give generously, because the life you save may be your own. Thank you.
http://www.globalfire.tv/nj/11en/persecution/edgar_steele.htm
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The Age of Man will extinguish in an aeon,
Just like every other age and time has done.
And when this current age is gone,
I know the Age of Spirits and Magick
Will awaken from its slumber again,
And then the dreams shall flesh.
Teloch .'. ZIN
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Πέμπτη, 31 Μαρτίου 2011
Τετάρτη, 30 Μαρτίου 2011
The invasion of Libya is disgusting
Most of those things are already known to many of us.
The " STAXNET" virus is deadly. It can destroy even some harware of MILITARY equipment, mostly those made in Finland but many others as well.
A lot of hardware have secret memories which can be reached by those who know and so they can dissable permantly something. Imagine the implications.
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Subject: Fwd: Kaminski: The invasion of Libya is disgusting
The invasion of Libya is disgusting
Total hypocrisy rules coalition of predator states;
comatose Americans watch TV as radiation spikes
THE JEWISH CIRCUMCISION OF CIVILIZATION
By John Kaminski
pseudoskylax@gmail.com
http://johnkaminski.info/
The invasion of Libya is disgusting. And the people who support it are disgusting. Name me one world leader who has done more for his own people than Muammar Gaddafi. Maybe you can come up with one or two — like Aung San Suu Kyi or Hugo Chavez — but I doubt it. And all these hypocritical skunks who write on the Internet who are saying we have to go in there to protect the Libyan people, and all the while the Mossad and CIA have hired African mercenaries to foment this "revolution" in the first place, while at the same time Israel has provided us with the Stuxnet virus, the use of which is about to kill tens of millions of people. Anybody who believes what the U.S. government says about anything is disgusting, not to mention immoral, and delusional.
And anybody who hasn't yet realized that Jewish financial power has utterly destroyed and prostituted every government on this planet is either a raving idiot or a paid liar.
Yes, I'm talking to you, my gutless, immoral and drug dependent American compatriots.
The invasion of Libya is disgusting. If a truly moral republic that the USA has always claimed to be were to rescue an oppressed Arab people, it would first be the people of Palestine, who are routinely murdered and debauched by insane Israeli Jews; then it would be the people of Yemen, whose leader recently ordered his Blackwater mercenary troops to shoot his own people, while protesting, in the head. And they did.
But the USA isn't about to rescue anyone except the Jewish bankers who have stolen all its money and taken it to Israel, trillions at a time. Besides, it's too busy following Jewish orders and savaging ordinary people in all Muslim countries to have time to reverse its policy and actually help Muslim people in Libya — no, it's a lie. The Muslims who really needed help were the ones on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, where Israel shot one Turkish teenager four times in the head while he was lying wounded on the deck of the Mevi Marmara, not to mention the Muslims being rapidly exterminated in their evaporating country of Palestine.
Countries the Jewish controlled USA plans to destroy are countries that are trying to look after their own people instead of the interests of the bankers.
According to ex-General Wesley Clark (himself a Jew), in "Winning Modern Wars" (p. 130):
"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x512604
As I said on numerous occasions back in 2005-06 while being interviewed on Iranian TV, it doesn't matter who the U.S. president is, the Americans will always have the same plan for the Muslim world, which is its annihilation. This attitude will continue as long as Jews control the U.S., which it is now undeniable that they do.
Why the rank and file citizens cannot see this is the story of Jewish money and Jewish media, which has totally locked down the Western world into contrived triviality and endless aggression against and exploitation of the less twisted people of the world. Predator society. It's Jewish. And it has no heart. Those who are not Jewish but who have ascribed to its pathological principles are really responsible for this Jewish circumcision of civilization, which even now shortens our lives as we watch for the new weather forecasts of cesium, iodine and xenon.
Because their consciousnesses have been dulled by TV, Jewish sabotage of school curricula, fluoride, radiation, vaccines, white flour, robot (a.k.a., secret Jew) politicians and other demented social experiments, the American people have no clue that they should even want to see — never mind to finally understand — the most important political and social meme in human history that would suddenly illuminate the cause of all the wars and diseases inflicted upon the world, and then all covered up in each generation by the people who wrote the history, and who wrote to please the people who had won that particular war.
Funny thing about that. The people with the most money almost always won the war. Since time immemorial (and here comes the hard part), it has always been the same people, the people who, number one, control the crime. The ancient Greek god Hermes was the god of businessmen and the god of thieves. The philosophers say the world is run by force, and this is the problem. Humanity has not yet really agreed to be civilized, which gives the states the right to suppress individuality in the name of security, and this is precisely what has crushed the humanity right out of us.
I was thinking the other day that, really, the two countries, today, who built the most respected nations of our time were Germany and Japan. Germany, for its academic genius and productive spirit, and Japan for its marvelously respectful culture and technological expertise.
Perhaps these are the two countries of the 20th century which have been destroyed the worst. Japan, a continuing nuclear devastation, both generated by the same insane warmongers, once from above and once through cyberspace. And Germany, obliterated first from within, then from above, and now reviled throughout the world for crimes they never committed. Hitler never wanted to conquer the world, he was only terrified of the Russians because he knew they were the same Jews who had thrown his country into chaos. The thing Hitler failed to realize until it was too late was that Russia was not his only Jewish peril; the U.S. and Britain were, and continue to be, the really most disgusting components of the Jewish monster, simply for their lack of moral certitude which enabled them to emulate and adopt the pathological customs of these monstrous Mongolian nomad killers.
The most important meme
Dark as these days may seem, screwing in this lightbulb to your panel of interior lights may yet save the world. In fact, it is an essential step — one that cannot be done without — to have any future at all for humanity as we know it (or already we may possibly say, as we used to know it).
In fifty — let's see, I had my first front page newspaper byline in 1957, when I was in the seventh grade; I did my first newspaper in 1954, at the age of 9, in pencil, with a banner headline of "H-bomb tests in Pacific" — so that would be 57 years. In 57 years of practicing journalism, this is the most important piece of information I have discovered.
This is without question the most important meme on the road to peace, the most important component of any thought process whose aim is an honest world. (Another gift from Brother Anthony.)
The Symbolic Snake of Judaism
Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols, Sergei Nilus gives the following interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion. [Zion was an actual town in the Egyptian delta, according to the historian Redford.] As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question.
"These learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people - the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF.
"As this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has encompassed the whole world.
"This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French, Italians, etc..
"These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the lives of the leading men at the heads of nations.
"A map of the course of the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows:
• Its first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that country.
• The second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C..
• The third in Madrid in the time of Charles V, in A.D. 1552.
• The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of Louis XVI.
• The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the downfall of Napoleon).
• The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war.
• The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the Snake under the date of 1881.
[This "Snake" is now being drawn through the Americas and in the United States of America, it has been partially identified as the "Council on Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the "Trilateral Commission"].
All these States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no exception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany are spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter cities form the centres of the militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before the occurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish - Revolution in Turkey).
[Editors note: This list began in Greece so therefore omits the Jewish takeover of ancient Egypt from which all the ancient Jewish "historical" figures derive their identities (i.e., Abraham, Moses, David etc. were all Hebrew pharaohs whose identities have been transposed into an Israelite framework at a time archeology has proven no civilization yet existed there 10th century BC). Also, everyone involved with the creation of Christianity were apostate Jews, although most of the authors' names in the Bible are fictitious entities. (e.g., Cerinthus really wrote the Gospel of John, and Eusebius changed it around to suit the Jewish religion machine that had been created.]
And since Sergei Nilus revealed the Protocols in 1905, many additions to this list can be added to account for the encircling of this same snake over the entire corpus (or perhaps "corpse") of human endeavor. In fact, I think this list is about to go fractal, sort of like Google maps.
The symbolic snake of Judaism in the last hundred years:
1. Federal reserve, income tax, buying of senators, 1913
2. World War I, 1916-18
3. Great agricultural depression (where the banks stole all the farms), 1921
4. Great Depression, 1929, federal bankruptcy, 1933.
5. World War II, 1939-45
6. Korean War, 1950-53
7. Vietnam War, 1954-75
8. Iraq war, 1990-2011
9. Afghanistan war 2001-2011
10. Scalar tectonic attack on Japan, designed to destroy U.S. and Europe, 2011.
Notice none of these wars actually benefited Americans.
The symbolic snake of Judaism in the last twenty years.
1. Ruby Ridge, 1991
2. WTC1, 1993
3. Oklahoma City, 1995
4. WTC2, 2001
5. Afghanistan, shock & awe in Iraq, 2003
6. Induced Indonesia tsunami, 2004
7. London, Madrid, Mombasa, Bali false flag blasts, 2004-07
8. Final financial looting of U.S., 2008
9. Gulf of Mexico oil volcano (precursor to and facilitator of New Madrid quake fault?), 2010
10. HAARPing of earthquake fault off coast of Japan, tsunami, six nuke plant meltdowns because of Israeli Stuxnet virus, guaranteed illness for Northern Hemisphere in perpetuity, 2011.
And, lastly . . . progress of the symbolic snake in the last ten minutes.
1. Tokyo is radioactive; 30 million people are displaced and/or permanently poisoned, and worse, not welcome anywhere else for fear of contamination. Amid predictions the main island is about to fall into the sea, the Japanese are condemned to an agonizingly slow and inevitably painful death, plus a quarantine on all their products for the foreseeable future. Radiation is seeping into the Pacific and likely will kill or mutate everything in it.
2. Amid government pronouncements there are no fallout worries in America, intrepid Internet sleuths track European sites for the dispersion of carcinogenic clouds manipulated by HAARP weather controllers over densely populated U.S. urban areas. The population control team has unsheathed an effective new corpse collector.
3. After taking the precaution of destroying crop production in all the world's major farming areas in 2010, the stage is set for mass starvation and general anarchy (and subsequent slaughter) all over America in 2011 once the supply lines are broken by a HAARP engineered "natural" disaster.
4. Headline just received: Radiation reaches Tampa Bay. I know it sounds facetious to say, but I can feel it in the air; I have for a couple of days. There's a sweetness to the humidity and a dryness in the throat that wasn't there before.
5. Much of the Islamic world is in danger of being slaughtered outright in the next weeks, if not from all out war, then from the continuing destabilization policies emanating from Israel and being carried out by their deranged hitmen, the American military.
6. Henning Kemner's recent video pointed out that the purpose of the Gulf of Mexico disaster was not an oil spill, but an excuse to lubricate the tectonic foot of the New Madrid fault and facilitate an earthquake. According to Dutchsinse, HAARP cones are being used to destabilize a 120 degree triangle along the Mississippi River near Memphis to achieve the same end.
7. Since 1913, Jewish bankers have taken 50 percent of American productivity off the top by their federal reserve scam. With next taxes, non profits, and derivatives, the Jewish ripoff of the American economy is well over 100 percent, why is why they have robbed us of trillions of dollar well into the bank accounts of unborn generations. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin warned us about these guys, but we didn't listen.
8. There is a government-industry health fixing scheme that robs us of our wealth as it destroys our health.
9. All the religious leaders in the world are meaningless whores to the Jewish bankers.
10. You're going to die an awful death because of all this, but especially because of your failure to adequately see what is going on.
And always remember. If you survive the radiation, World War III, the pole shift, Ebola, the tsunamis and volcanoes, and of course the earthquakes and 700 mph winds, and then you are about to be beheaded by the rabbis who are running the new government for the crime of simply surviving, be sure to look up at him and say, "It's not all Jews," and observe how much good that does you.
Until we realize that this 360 degrees of sickness that now engulfs us is all about the Jews and the sick influence they have imposed upon the world, we're not going to solve a damned thing.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida preaching the message that no problem in the world can be authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly derived from people who can understand what he’s saying and know what it means. http://johnkaminski.info/ 250 N. McCall Rd. #2, Englewood FL 34223 USA
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The " STAXNET" virus is deadly. It can destroy even some harware of MILITARY equipment, mostly those made in Finland but many others as well.
A lot of hardware have secret memories which can be reached by those who know and so they can dissable permantly something. Imagine the implications.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kaminski
To: Blanche
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:57 AM
Subject: Fwd: Kaminski: The invasion of Libya is disgusting
The invasion of Libya is disgusting
Total hypocrisy rules coalition of predator states;
comatose Americans watch TV as radiation spikes
THE JEWISH CIRCUMCISION OF CIVILIZATION
By John Kaminski
pseudoskylax@gmail.com
http://johnkaminski.info/
The invasion of Libya is disgusting. And the people who support it are disgusting. Name me one world leader who has done more for his own people than Muammar Gaddafi. Maybe you can come up with one or two — like Aung San Suu Kyi or Hugo Chavez — but I doubt it. And all these hypocritical skunks who write on the Internet who are saying we have to go in there to protect the Libyan people, and all the while the Mossad and CIA have hired African mercenaries to foment this "revolution" in the first place, while at the same time Israel has provided us with the Stuxnet virus, the use of which is about to kill tens of millions of people. Anybody who believes what the U.S. government says about anything is disgusting, not to mention immoral, and delusional.
And anybody who hasn't yet realized that Jewish financial power has utterly destroyed and prostituted every government on this planet is either a raving idiot or a paid liar.
Yes, I'm talking to you, my gutless, immoral and drug dependent American compatriots.
The invasion of Libya is disgusting. If a truly moral republic that the USA has always claimed to be were to rescue an oppressed Arab people, it would first be the people of Palestine, who are routinely murdered and debauched by insane Israeli Jews; then it would be the people of Yemen, whose leader recently ordered his Blackwater mercenary troops to shoot his own people, while protesting, in the head. And they did.
But the USA isn't about to rescue anyone except the Jewish bankers who have stolen all its money and taken it to Israel, trillions at a time. Besides, it's too busy following Jewish orders and savaging ordinary people in all Muslim countries to have time to reverse its policy and actually help Muslim people in Libya — no, it's a lie. The Muslims who really needed help were the ones on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, where Israel shot one Turkish teenager four times in the head while he was lying wounded on the deck of the Mevi Marmara, not to mention the Muslims being rapidly exterminated in their evaporating country of Palestine.
Countries the Jewish controlled USA plans to destroy are countries that are trying to look after their own people instead of the interests of the bankers.
According to ex-General Wesley Clark (himself a Jew), in "Winning Modern Wars" (p. 130):
"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x512604
As I said on numerous occasions back in 2005-06 while being interviewed on Iranian TV, it doesn't matter who the U.S. president is, the Americans will always have the same plan for the Muslim world, which is its annihilation. This attitude will continue as long as Jews control the U.S., which it is now undeniable that they do.
Why the rank and file citizens cannot see this is the story of Jewish money and Jewish media, which has totally locked down the Western world into contrived triviality and endless aggression against and exploitation of the less twisted people of the world. Predator society. It's Jewish. And it has no heart. Those who are not Jewish but who have ascribed to its pathological principles are really responsible for this Jewish circumcision of civilization, which even now shortens our lives as we watch for the new weather forecasts of cesium, iodine and xenon.
Because their consciousnesses have been dulled by TV, Jewish sabotage of school curricula, fluoride, radiation, vaccines, white flour, robot (a.k.a., secret Jew) politicians and other demented social experiments, the American people have no clue that they should even want to see — never mind to finally understand — the most important political and social meme in human history that would suddenly illuminate the cause of all the wars and diseases inflicted upon the world, and then all covered up in each generation by the people who wrote the history, and who wrote to please the people who had won that particular war.
Funny thing about that. The people with the most money almost always won the war. Since time immemorial (and here comes the hard part), it has always been the same people, the people who, number one, control the crime. The ancient Greek god Hermes was the god of businessmen and the god of thieves. The philosophers say the world is run by force, and this is the problem. Humanity has not yet really agreed to be civilized, which gives the states the right to suppress individuality in the name of security, and this is precisely what has crushed the humanity right out of us.
I was thinking the other day that, really, the two countries, today, who built the most respected nations of our time were Germany and Japan. Germany, for its academic genius and productive spirit, and Japan for its marvelously respectful culture and technological expertise.
Perhaps these are the two countries of the 20th century which have been destroyed the worst. Japan, a continuing nuclear devastation, both generated by the same insane warmongers, once from above and once through cyberspace. And Germany, obliterated first from within, then from above, and now reviled throughout the world for crimes they never committed. Hitler never wanted to conquer the world, he was only terrified of the Russians because he knew they were the same Jews who had thrown his country into chaos. The thing Hitler failed to realize until it was too late was that Russia was not his only Jewish peril; the U.S. and Britain were, and continue to be, the really most disgusting components of the Jewish monster, simply for their lack of moral certitude which enabled them to emulate and adopt the pathological customs of these monstrous Mongolian nomad killers.
The most important meme
Dark as these days may seem, screwing in this lightbulb to your panel of interior lights may yet save the world. In fact, it is an essential step — one that cannot be done without — to have any future at all for humanity as we know it (or already we may possibly say, as we used to know it).
In fifty — let's see, I had my first front page newspaper byline in 1957, when I was in the seventh grade; I did my first newspaper in 1954, at the age of 9, in pencil, with a banner headline of "H-bomb tests in Pacific" — so that would be 57 years. In 57 years of practicing journalism, this is the most important piece of information I have discovered.
This is without question the most important meme on the road to peace, the most important component of any thought process whose aim is an honest world. (Another gift from Brother Anthony.)
The Symbolic Snake of Judaism
Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols, Sergei Nilus gives the following interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion. [Zion was an actual town in the Egyptian delta, according to the historian Redford.] As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question.
"These learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people - the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF.
"As this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe and has encircled it - and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has encompassed the whole world.
"This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French, Italians, etc..
"These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the lives of the leading men at the heads of nations.
"A map of the course of the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows:
• Its first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that country.
• The second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C..
• The third in Madrid in the time of Charles V, in A.D. 1552.
• The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of Louis XVI.
• The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the downfall of Napoleon).
• The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war.
• The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the Snake under the date of 1881.
[This "Snake" is now being drawn through the Americas and in the United States of America, it has been partially identified as the "Council on Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the "Trilateral Commission"].
All these States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no exception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany are spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter cities form the centres of the militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before the occurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish - Revolution in Turkey).
[Editors note: This list began in Greece so therefore omits the Jewish takeover of ancient Egypt from which all the ancient Jewish "historical" figures derive their identities (i.e., Abraham, Moses, David etc. were all Hebrew pharaohs whose identities have been transposed into an Israelite framework at a time archeology has proven no civilization yet existed there 10th century BC). Also, everyone involved with the creation of Christianity were apostate Jews, although most of the authors' names in the Bible are fictitious entities. (e.g., Cerinthus really wrote the Gospel of John, and Eusebius changed it around to suit the Jewish religion machine that had been created.]
And since Sergei Nilus revealed the Protocols in 1905, many additions to this list can be added to account for the encircling of this same snake over the entire corpus (or perhaps "corpse") of human endeavor. In fact, I think this list is about to go fractal, sort of like Google maps.
The symbolic snake of Judaism in the last hundred years:
1. Federal reserve, income tax, buying of senators, 1913
2. World War I, 1916-18
3. Great agricultural depression (where the banks stole all the farms), 1921
4. Great Depression, 1929, federal bankruptcy, 1933.
5. World War II, 1939-45
6. Korean War, 1950-53
7. Vietnam War, 1954-75
8. Iraq war, 1990-2011
9. Afghanistan war 2001-2011
10. Scalar tectonic attack on Japan, designed to destroy U.S. and Europe, 2011.
Notice none of these wars actually benefited Americans.
The symbolic snake of Judaism in the last twenty years.
1. Ruby Ridge, 1991
2. WTC1, 1993
3. Oklahoma City, 1995
4. WTC2, 2001
5. Afghanistan, shock & awe in Iraq, 2003
6. Induced Indonesia tsunami, 2004
7. London, Madrid, Mombasa, Bali false flag blasts, 2004-07
8. Final financial looting of U.S., 2008
9. Gulf of Mexico oil volcano (precursor to and facilitator of New Madrid quake fault?), 2010
10. HAARPing of earthquake fault off coast of Japan, tsunami, six nuke plant meltdowns because of Israeli Stuxnet virus, guaranteed illness for Northern Hemisphere in perpetuity, 2011.
And, lastly . . . progress of the symbolic snake in the last ten minutes.
1. Tokyo is radioactive; 30 million people are displaced and/or permanently poisoned, and worse, not welcome anywhere else for fear of contamination. Amid predictions the main island is about to fall into the sea, the Japanese are condemned to an agonizingly slow and inevitably painful death, plus a quarantine on all their products for the foreseeable future. Radiation is seeping into the Pacific and likely will kill or mutate everything in it.
2. Amid government pronouncements there are no fallout worries in America, intrepid Internet sleuths track European sites for the dispersion of carcinogenic clouds manipulated by HAARP weather controllers over densely populated U.S. urban areas. The population control team has unsheathed an effective new corpse collector.
3. After taking the precaution of destroying crop production in all the world's major farming areas in 2010, the stage is set for mass starvation and general anarchy (and subsequent slaughter) all over America in 2011 once the supply lines are broken by a HAARP engineered "natural" disaster.
4. Headline just received: Radiation reaches Tampa Bay. I know it sounds facetious to say, but I can feel it in the air; I have for a couple of days. There's a sweetness to the humidity and a dryness in the throat that wasn't there before.
5. Much of the Islamic world is in danger of being slaughtered outright in the next weeks, if not from all out war, then from the continuing destabilization policies emanating from Israel and being carried out by their deranged hitmen, the American military.
6. Henning Kemner's recent video pointed out that the purpose of the Gulf of Mexico disaster was not an oil spill, but an excuse to lubricate the tectonic foot of the New Madrid fault and facilitate an earthquake. According to Dutchsinse, HAARP cones are being used to destabilize a 120 degree triangle along the Mississippi River near Memphis to achieve the same end.
7. Since 1913, Jewish bankers have taken 50 percent of American productivity off the top by their federal reserve scam. With next taxes, non profits, and derivatives, the Jewish ripoff of the American economy is well over 100 percent, why is why they have robbed us of trillions of dollar well into the bank accounts of unborn generations. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin warned us about these guys, but we didn't listen.
8. There is a government-industry health fixing scheme that robs us of our wealth as it destroys our health.
9. All the religious leaders in the world are meaningless whores to the Jewish bankers.
10. You're going to die an awful death because of all this, but especially because of your failure to adequately see what is going on.
And always remember. If you survive the radiation, World War III, the pole shift, Ebola, the tsunamis and volcanoes, and of course the earthquakes and 700 mph winds, and then you are about to be beheaded by the rabbis who are running the new government for the crime of simply surviving, be sure to look up at him and say, "It's not all Jews," and observe how much good that does you.
Until we realize that this 360 degrees of sickness that now engulfs us is all about the Jews and the sick influence they have imposed upon the world, we're not going to solve a damned thing.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida preaching the message that no problem in the world can be authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly derived from people who can understand what he’s saying and know what it means. http://johnkaminski.info/ 250 N. McCall Rd. #2, Englewood FL 34223 USA
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Τρίτη, 29 Μαρτίου 2011
Who Are The Libyan Freedom Fighters And Their Patrons?
Who Are The Libyan Freedom Fighters And Their Patrons?
By Peter Dale Scott
Preface
March 28, 2011 "JapanFocus" - -The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics - the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt - has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old habits: America, already mired in two decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sporadic air attacks in Yemen and Somalia, now bombing yet another Third World Country, in this case Libya.
The initially stated aim of this bombing was to diminish Libyan civilian casualties. But many senior figures in Washington, including President Obama, have indicated that the US is gearing up for a quite different war for regime change, one that may well be protracted and could also easily expand beyond Libya.1 If it does expand, the hope for a nonviolent transition to civilian government in Tunisia and Egypt and other Middle East nations experiencing political unrest, may be lost to a hard-edged militarization of government, especially in Egypt. All of us, not just Egyptians, have a major stake in seeing that that does not happen.
The present article does not attempt to propose solutions or a course of action for the United States and its allies, or for the people of the Middle East. It attempts rather to examine the nature of the forces that have emerged in Libya over the last four decades that are presently being played out.
To this end I have begun to compile what I call my Libyan Notebook, a collection of relevant facts that underlie the present crisis. This Notebook will be judgmental, in that I am biased towards collecting facts that the US media tend to ignore, facts that are the product in many instances of investigative reporting that cuts to the heart of power relations, deep structures, and economic interests in the region including the US, Israel, and the Arab States as these have played out over the last two decades and more. But I hope that it will be usefully objective and open-ended, permitting others to draw diverse conclusions from the same set of facts.2
I wish to begin with two ill-understood topics: I. Who Are the Libyan Opposition, and II. Where Are the Libyan Rebel Arms Coming From?
I. Who Are the Libyan Opposition
1) Historically:
"If Muammar Al Gaddafi behaved paranoid, it was for good reason. It wasn't long after he reached the age of 27 and led a small group of junior military officers in a bloodless coup d'état against Libyan King Idris on September 1, 1969, that threats to his power and life emerged - from monarchists, Israeli Mossad, Palestinian disaffections, Saudi security, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL), the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO), British intelligence, United States antagonism and, in 1995, the most serious of all, Al Qaeda-like Libyan Islamic fighting group, known as Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya. The Colonel reacted brutally, by either expelling or killing those he feared were against him."3
2) National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL)
"With the aim of overthrowing Libyan strongman Muammar Khadafy, Israel and the U.S. trained anti-Libyan rebels in a number of West and Central African countries. The Paris-based African Confidential newsletter reported on January 5th, 1989, that the US and Israel had set up a series of bases in Chad and other neighboring countries to train 2000 Libyan rebels captured by the Chad army. The group, called The National Front for the Salvation of Libya, was based in Chad."4
"US official records indicate that funding for the Chad-based secret war against Libya also came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Israel and Iraq. The Saudis, for instance, donated $7m to an opposition group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (also backed by French intelligence and the CIA). But a plan to assassinate Gadafi and take over the government on 8 May 1984 was crushed. In the following year, the US asked Egypt to invade Libya and overthrow Gadafi but President Mubarak refused. By the end of 1985, the Washington Post had exposed the plan after congressional leaders opposing it wrote in protest to President Reagan."5
"The FNSL [National Front for the Salvation of Libya] was part of the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition held in London in 2005, and British resources are being used to support the FNSL and other 'opposition' in Libya.... The FNSL held its national congress in the USA in July 2007. Reports of 'atrocities' and civilian deaths are being channeled into the western press from operations in Washington DC, and the opposition FNSL is reportedly organizing resistance and military attacks from both inside and outside Libya."6
3) National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO),
"The main group leading the insurrection is the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition which includes the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL). The NFSL, which is leading the violence, is a U.S.-sponsored armed militia of mostly Libyan expatriates and tribes opposed to al-Qaddafi."7
4) Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, LIFG)
"The LIFG was founded in 1995 by a group of mujahideen veterans who had fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Upon their return to Libya they grew angry about what they viewed as the corruption and impiety of the Libyan regime and formed the LIFG to create a state that would show what they believed to be the true character of the Libyan people.
The most significant LIFG attack was a 1996 attempt to assassinate Gadhafi; LIFG members led by Wadi al-Shateh threw a bomb underneath his motorcade. The group also stages guerilla-style attacks against government security forces from its mountain bases. Although most LIFG members are strictly dedicated to toppling Gadhafi, intelligence reportedly indicates that some have joined forces with al-Qaida to wage jihad against Libyan and Western interests worldwide. ....
As recently as February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that "one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include ... the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group."8
"In recent days Libyan officials have distributed security documents giving the details of Sufiyan al-Koumi, said to be a driver for Osama bin Laden, and of another militant allegedly involved in an "Islamic emirate" in Derna, in now-liberated eastern Libya. Koumi, the documents show, was freed in September 2010 as part of a "reform and repent" initiative organised by Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son....
The LIFG, established in Afghanistan in the 1990s, has assassinated dozens of Libyan soldiers and policemen. In 2009, to mark Gaddafi's 40 years in power, it apologised for trying to kill him and agreed to lay down its arms. MI6 [British Intelligence] has been accused in the past of supporting it. Six LIFG leaders, still in prison, disavowed their old ways and explained why fighting Gaddafi no longer constituted "legitimate" jihad. Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi, another freed LIFG member, denied the official claims. "Gaddafi is trying to divide the people," he told al-Jazeera. "He claims that there is an Islamist emirate in Derna and that I am its emir. He is taking advantage of the fact that I am a former political prisoner."
Derna is famous as the home of a large number of suicide bombers in Iraq. It is also deeply hostile to Gaddafi. "Residents of eastern Libya in general, and Derna in particular, view the Gaddadfa (Gaddafi's tribe) as uneducated, uncouth interlopers from an inconsequential part of the country who have 'stolen' the right to rule in Libya," US diplomats were told in 2008, in a cable since released by WikiLeaks.
The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began. One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida's top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya.9 US counter-terrorist experts have expressed concern that al-Qaida could take advantage of a political vacuum if Gaddafi is overthrown. But most analysts say that, although the Islamists' ideology has strong resonance in eastern Libya, there is no sign that the protests are going to be hijacked by them.10
"Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi's] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi's government "an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty" and declaring its overthrow to be "the foremost duty after faith in God." [3] This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain.... The involvement of the British government in the LIFG campaign against Qadhafi remains the subject of immense controversy. LIFG's next big operation, a failed attempt to assassinate Qadhafi in February 1996 that killed several of his bodyguards, was later said to have been financed by British intelligence to the tune of $160,000, according to ex-MI5 officer David Shayler. [4] While Shayler's allegations have not been independently confirmed, it is clear that Britain allowed LIFG to develop a base of logistical support and fundraising on its soil. At any rate, financing by bin Laden appears to have been much more important. According to one report, LIFG received up to $50,000 from the Saudi terrorist mastermind for each of its militants killed on the battlefield." [2005]11
"Americans, Britons and the French are finding themselves as comrades in arms with the rebel Islamic Fighting Group, the most radical element in the Al Qaeda network [to bring down Gaddhafi]. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted the risks of the unholy alliance in a congressional hearing, saying that the Libyan opposition is probably more anti-American than Muammar Gaddhafi. A decade ago, this very same delusion of a Western-Islamist partnership in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya ended abruptly in the 9/11 attacks."12
5) Transitional National Council
"A RIVAL transitional government to the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi looks set to win US and other international support as momentum builds to oust the longtime dictator.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed yesterday that the Obama administration was reaching out to opponents of Colonel Gaddafi. She said the US was willing to offer ‘any kind of assistance' to remove him from power.
Protest leaders who have taken control in Libya's eastern cities claim to have established a transitional "national council" that amounts to rival rule. They have called on the country's army to join them as they prepare for an attack on the capital, Tripoli, where the Libyan leader retains control.
Confident the Libyan leader's 42-year rule was coming to an end, Mrs Clinton said yesterday: ‘We are just at the beginning of what will follow Gaddafi.'"13
6) Facebook
"He [Omar El- Hariri, Chief of Armed Forces for the Transitional National Council] remained under close surveillance by the security forces until Feb. 17, when the revolution started. It was not initiated by prominent figures of the older generation, he said, but began spontaneously when Tunisia and Egypt inspired the youth. ‘Children of Facebook!' he declared, in English, with a broad smile."14
7) Oil
"Libyan rebels in Benghazi said they have created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by leader Muammar Qaddafi whose assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council.
The Transitional National Council released a statement announcing the decision made at a March 19 meeting to establish the ‘Libyan Oil Company as supervisory authority on oil production and policies in the country, based temporarily in Benghazi, and the appointment of an interim director general" of the company.
The Council also said it "designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi."15
II. Where Are the Libyan Rebel Arms Coming From?
Robert Fisk, "Libya in turmoil: America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels;
Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi," Independent, March 7, 2011:
"Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago.
Washington's request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply involved in the Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, gave immediate support to American efforts to arm guerrillas fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan in 1980 ....
But the Saudis remain the only US Arab ally strategically placed and capable of furnishing weapons to the guerrillas of Libya. Their assistance would allow Washington to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain - even though the arms would be American and paid for by the Saudis.
The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafi's armour, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers.
Supplies could reach Benghazi within 48 hours but they would need to be delivered to air bases in Libya or to Benghazi airport. If the guerrillas can then go on to the offensive and assault Gaddafi's strongholds in western Libya, the political pressure on America and Nato - not least from Republican members of Congress - to establish a no-fly zone would be reduced.
US military planners have already made it clear that a zone of this kind would necessitate US air attacks on Libya's functioning, if seriously depleted, anti-aircraft missile bases, thus bringing Washington directly into the war on the side of Gaddafi's opponents.
For several days now, US Awacs surveillance aircraft have been flying around Libya, making constant contact with Malta air traffic control and requesting details of Libyan flight patterns, including journeys made in the past 48 hours by Gaddafi's private jet which flew to Jordan and back to Libya just before the weekend.
Officially, Nato will only describe the presence of American Awacs planes as part of its post-9/11 Operation Active Endeavour, which has broad reach to undertake aerial counter-terrorism measures in the Middle East region.
The data from the Awacs is streamed to all Nato countries under the mission's existing mandate. Now that Gaddafi has been reinstated as a super-terrorist in the West's lexicon, however, the Nato mission can easily be used to search for targets of opportunity in Libya if active military operations are undertaken.
Al Jazeera English television channel last night broadcast recordings made by American aircraft to Maltese air traffic control, requesting information about Libyan flights, especially that of Gaddafi's jet.
An American Awacs aircraft, tail number LX-N90442 could be heard contacting the Malta control tower on Saturday for information about a Libyan Dassault-Falcon 900 jet 5A-DCN on its way from Amman to Mitiga, Gaddafi's own VIP airport.
Nato Awacs 07 is heard to say: "Do you have information on an aircraft with the Squawk 2017 position about 85 miles east of our [sic]?"
Malta air traffic control replies: "Seven, that sounds to be Falcon 900- at flight level 340, with a destination Mitiga, according to flight plan."
But Saudi Arabia is already facing dangers from a co-ordinated day of protest by its own Shia Muslim citizens who, emboldened by the Shia uprising in the neighbouring island of Bahrain, have called for street protests against the ruling family of al-Saud on Friday.
After pouring troops and security police into the province of Qatif last week, the Saudis announced a nationwide ban on all public demonstrations.
Shia organisers claim that up to 20,000 protesters plan to demonstrate with women in the front rows to prevent the Saudi army from opening fire.
If the Saudi government accedes to America's request to send guns and missiles to Libyan rebels, however, it would be almost impossible for President Barack Obama to condemn the kingdom for any violence against the Shias of the north-east provinces.
Thus has the Arab awakening, the demand for democracy in North Africa, the Shia revolt and the rising against Gaddafi become entangled in the space of just a few hours with US military priorities in the region. "16
"Libya rebels coordinating with West on air assault," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011
"Reports from the region suggest that the Saudis and Egyptians have been providing arms. Though U.S. officials could not confirm that, they say it is plausible."17
"Egypt Said to Arm Libya Rebels," Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011:
"CAIRO-Egypt's military has begun shipping arms over the border to Libyan rebels with Washington's knowledge, U.S. and Libyan rebel officials said.
The shipments-mostly small arms such as assault rifles and ammunition-appear to be the first confirmed case of an outside government arming the rebel fighters. Those fighters have been losing ground for days in the face of a steady westward advance by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The Egyptian shipments are the strongest indication to date that some Arab countries are heeding Western calls to take a lead in efforts to intervene on behalf of pro-democracy rebels in their fight against Mr. Gadhafi in Libya. Washington and other Western countries have long voiced frustration with Arab states' unwillingness to help resolve crises in their own region, even as they criticized Western powers for attempting to do so.
The shipments also follow an unusually robust diplomatic response from Arab states. There have been rare public calls for foreign military intervention in an Arab country, including a vote by the 23-member Arab League last week urging the U.N. to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.
The vote provided critical political cover to Western powers wary of intervening militarily without a broad regional and international mandate. On Thursday evening, the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution endorsing a no-fly zone in Libya and authorizing military action in support of the rebels.
Within the council, Lebanon took a lead role drafting and circulating the draft of the resolution, which calls for "all necessary measures" to enforce a ban on flights over Libya. The United Arab Emirates and Qatar have taken the lead in offering to participate in enforcing a no-fly zone, according to U.N. diplomats.
Libyan rebel officials in Benghazi, meanwhile, have praised Qatar from the first days of the uprising, calling the small Gulf state their staunchest ally. Qatar has consistently pressed behind the scenes for tough and urgent international action behind the scenes, these officials said.
Qatari flags fly prominently in rebel-held Benghazi. After pro-Gadhafi forces retook the town of Ras Lanuf last week, Libyan state TV broadcast images of food-aid packages bearing the Qatari flag.
The White House has been reluctant to back calls from leaders in Congress for arming Libya's rebels directly, arguing that the U.S. must first fully assess who the fighters are and what policies they will pursue if they succeeded in toppling Col. Gadhafi. U.S. officials believe the opposition includes some Islamist elements. They fear that Islamist groups hostile to the U.S. could try to hijack the opposition and take any arms that are provided.
The Egyptian weapons transfers began ‘a few days ago' and are ongoing, according to a senior U.S. official. ‘There's no formal U.S. policy or acknowledgement that this is going on,' said the senior official. But ‘this is something we have knowledge of.'
Calls to Egypt's foreign ministry and the spokesman for the prime minister seeking comment went unanswered. There is no means of reaching Egypt's military for comment. An Egyptian official in Washington said he had no knowledge of weapon shipments.
The U.S. official also noted that the shipments appeared to come "too little, too late" to tip the military balance in favor of the rebels, who have faced an onslaught from Libyan forces backed by tanks, artillery and aircraft.
"We know the Egyptian military council is helping us, but they can't be so visible," said Hani Souflakis, a Libyan businessman in Cairo who has been acting as a rebel liaison with the Egyptian government since the uprising began.
"Weapons are getting through," said Mr. Souflakis, who says he has regular contacts with Egyptian officials in Cairo and the rebel leadership in Libya. "Americans have given the green light to the Egyptians to help. The Americans don't want to be involved in a direct level, but the Egyptians wouldn't do it if they didn't get the green light."
Western officials and rebel leaders in Libya said the U.S. has wanted to avoid being seen as taking a leadership role in any military action against Mr. Gadhafi after its invasions of Iraq and Afganistan fueled anger and mistrust with Washington throughout the region.
But the U.S. stated clearly it wants Mr. Gadhafi out of power and has signaled it would support those offering help to the rebels militarily or otherwise.
A spokesman for the rebel government in Benghazi said arms shipments have begun arriving to the rebels but declined to specify where they came from.
"Our military committee is purchasing arms and arming our people. The weapons are coming, but the nature of the weapons, the amount, where it's coming from, that has been classified," said the spokesman, Mustafa al-Gherryani.
The U.S. official said Egypt wanted to keep the shipments covert. In public, Egypt has sought to maintain a neutral stance toward the rebel uprising in Libya. Egypt abstained during the Arab League's vote calling for the U.N. to impose a no-fly zone on Mr. Gadhafi, according to people familiar with the internal Arab League deliberations.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian laborers are believed to still be in Libya.
On the other hand, the Egyptian military's covert support for the rebels suggests that it has calculated that Mr. Gadhafi is unlikely to remain in power, at least in the eastern half of the country, and therefore Egypt is eager to begin to build good relations with the rebels.
Rebel forces in the past 24 hours appeared to make some progress fending off pro-Gadhafi forces' assaults and have rolled out new weapons for the first time since the uprising began last month. Among them are rebel tanks that have taken up positions on the front lines in recent days. Rebels also launched fighter-jet attacks on government positions on Wednesday for the first time so far.
The tanks and fighter jets are believed to have been among the weapons seized by rebels from defected units of the Libyan army in the eastern half of the country, but they have received spare parts or trained mechanics from outside the country to help them deploy them, some rebel officials have speculated.
-Sam Dagher and Adam Entous contributed to this article.18
Benjamin Gottlieb, "Egypt Arms Libyan Rebels As Gaddafi's Conquest Continues," NeonTommy Annenberg Digital News, March 17, 2011:
Arms shipments from Egypt's military have begun flowing across the border into Libya with U.S. knowledge, Libyan rebels and U.S. officials said Thursday.
Made up mostly of small arms, such as assault rifles and ammunition, the shipments are the first confirmed reports of an outside government supporting rebel fighters with weapons. Rebels have been loosing ground for days against pro-Gaddafi forces aiming to end the conflict before foreign intervention plans are finalized.
Although the U.N. approved a "no-fly zone" over Libya late Thursday, rebel forces fear that any planned foreign intervention would be too little to late.
The shipment of arms indicated an unusually bold response by an Arab nation intervening in a conflict outside its borders. There have also been rare public decrees for the West to intervene in the conflict - the Arab League voted 23-0 last week encouraging the U.N. to impose the "no-fly zone" over Libya.
In spite of reports of arms flowing across the Egyptian boarder, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Menha Bakhoum told Reuters that Egypt would not be involved in any military intervention in neighboring Libya.
"Egypt will not be among those Arab states. We will not be involved in any military intervention. No intervention period," Bakhoum said.
Bakhoum was responding to comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said Thursday that discussions were on the table regarding Arab involvement in U.S. and European intervention in the conflict.
Clinton has said repeatedly that the U.S. desires involvement from a neighboring Arab nation in any planned intervention.
A Libyan rebel government spokesman in Benghazi, Mustafa al-Gherryani, said rebels have begun receiving arms shipments from neighboring nations, however he declined to reveal their origin.
"Our military committee is purchasing arms and arming our people. The weapons are coming, but the nature of the weapons, the amount, where it's coming from, that has been classified," he said.19
Yoichi Shimatsu, "Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar," New America Media, March 1, 2011
"It may puzzle and perhaps dismay young protesters in Benghazi, Cairo and Tunisia that their democratic hopes are being manipulated by an ultra-conservative Arab elite which has underhandedly backed a surge of militant Islamist radicals across North Africa. Credible U.S. intelligence reports have cited evidence pointing to Qatar's long-running support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and jihadist fighters returning from Afghanistan.
The links to Qatar uncovered by anti-terrorism investigators in the wake of 9-11 need to be reexamined now that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an on-and-off affiliate of Al Qaeda, has seized armories across half of the North African country. Libya's well-stocked arsenals contain high-power explosives, rocket launchers and chemical weapons. LIFG is on the State Department's terrorist list.
Most worrying, according to a U.S. intelligence official cited by CNN, is the probable loss of chemical weapons. The Federation of American Scientists reports that, as of 2008, only 40 percent of Libya's mustard gas was destroyed in the second round of decommissioning. Chemical canisters along the Egyptian border were yet to be retrieved and are now presumably in the hands of armed militants.
After initially letting slip that the earliest Libyan protests were organized by the LIFG, Al Jazeera quickly changed its line to present a heavily filtered account portraying the events as ‘peaceful protests'. To explain away the gunshot deaths of Libyan soldiers during the uprising, the Qatar-based network presented a bizarre scenario of 150 dead soldiers in Libya having been executed by their officers for ‘refusing to fight'. The mysterious officers then miraculously vacated their base disappearing into thin air while surrounded by angry protesters! Off the record, one American intelligence analyst called these media claims an ‘absurdity' and suggested instead the obvious: that the soldiers were gunned down in an armed assault by war-hardened returned militants from Iraq and Afghanistan....
According to a Congressional Research Service report of January 2008, ‘Some observers have raised questions about possible support for Al Qaeda by some Qatari citizens, including members of Qatar's large ruling family. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Qatar's Interior Minister provided a safe haven to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed during the mid-1990s, and press reports indicate other terrorists may have received financial support or safe haven in Qatar after September 11, 2001.'
The national security chief, Interior Minister Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani, is further mentioned as paying for a 1995 trip by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ‘to join the Bosnia jihad.' The report recalls how after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, FBI officials "narrowly missed an opportunity to capture" the suspect in Qatar. ‘Former U.S. officials have since stated their belief that a high-ranking member of the Qatari government alerted him to the impending raid, allowing him to flee the country.'"20
III. Postscript: U.S. Intelligence, March 26, 2011
Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011:
"Reporting from Washington-
Despite fears that Islamic extremists may be playing a hidden role in the rebellion against Moammar Kadafi, the U.S. intelligence community has found no organized presence of Al Qaeda or its allies among the Libyan opposition, American officials say.
A U.S. intelligence-gathering effort that began shortly after anti-Kadafi forces started seizing towns in eastern Libya last month has not uncovered a significant presence of Islamic militants among the insurgents.
‘We're keeping an eye out for extremist activity in Libya, but we haven't seen much, if any, to date,' said a U.S. counter-terrorism official. A Defense official added that the U.S. had not seen a direct link between the opposition and extremists."21
New York Times, March 7, 2011:
DARNAH, Libya-
This fiercely independent port city on the Mediterranean coast, once the center of a simmering Islamist insurgency in the 1990s, is now branded by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as an Islamic emirate infiltrating his embattled country....
But Darnah offers a more complex reality: a mélange where secular currents are intersecting with religious ones, drawn together by nationalist opposition to Colonel Qaddafi's four decades of often bizarre rule. This old Barbary port, with a reputation as one of Libya's most pious cities and, in the words of a WikiLeaks cable, a "wellspring for foreign fighters in Iraq," suggests a more nuanced picture of what role militant Islam may play in a city and country fumbling to forge a body politic in a land without one....
Here, leaders of tribes like the Obeidat, Zliten, Tajjoura and Misratah already exercise authority, along with judges and a three-member council: Mr. Abu Rashed, a judge and a former diplomat, all secular figures.
Other than them, only the Muslim Brotherhood and more militant strands thought to number in the hundreds show signs of organization, many having forged bonds in prison or fighting the government in the 1990s. One of those men is Abdul-Hakim al-Hasidi, who fought for five years in Afghanistan, ended up in Colonel Qaddafi's jails for four years and now, with hundreds of armed men, runs the defenses of Darnah and its hinterland.
He helps run much of the city's rump bureaucracy as well, drawing on a formidable talent for logistics recognized by many in the town.22
Daily Telegraph [London] March 25, 2011:
"In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited ‘around 25' men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are ‘today are on the front lines in Adjabiya.
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters ‘are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists,' but added that the ‘members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader'.
His revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, ‘including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries'.
Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against ‘the foreign invasion' in Afghanistan, before being ‘captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan'. He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.
US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi in 1995 and 1996."23
Wikileaks Cable extract "Die Hard in Derna," June 2, 2008:
"Rejecting the idea that Derna was uniformly extremist, xxxxxxxxxxxx and his business partner described the town as being divided between religiously conservative and secular residents. A "large number" of Derna's citizens were not happy about the increasingly conservative religious atmosphere that had prevailed since the 1980's, he claimed. Elaborating, al-Mansuri attributed adherence to more extreme iterations of Islam to "unnatural foreign influences" on religious practices in Derna. A number of Libyans who had fought and in some cases undergone "religious and ideological training" in Afghanistan, Lebanon and the West Bank in the late 1970's and early 1980's had returned to eastern Libya, including Derna, in the mid to late 1980's. Claiming their return was "not coincidental", he described a deliberate, coordinated campaign to propagate more conservative iterations of Islam, in part to prepare the ground for the eventual overthrow by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) of Muammar Qadhafi's regime, which is "hated" by conservative Islamists. (Note: After taking pains to curry favor with the 'ulema' in Libya in the years immediately after the 1969 revolution, Qadhafi broke with them in the late 1970's, criticizing aspects of Islam as "un-revolutionary". Although he renewed efforts to cultivate Muslim leaders in the 1990's, deep suspicions remain....).... Most young men watched a mix of al-Jazeera news, religious sermons and western action films on English language satellite channels broadcast from the Gulf. The result was a heady mixture of violence, religious conservatism and hatred of U.S. policy in Iraq and Palestine. The consensus view in Derna is that the U.S. blindly supports Israel and has invaded Iraq to secure oil reserves and position itself to attack Iran, he said. He dismissed P/E Chief's attempts to clarify U.S. policy, stressing that most people base their judgments on information they receive from satellite television and at the mosque. PRIDE IN DERNA'S HISTORY AS A TOWN OF FIGHTERS 11. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx attributed the flow of foreign fighters from Derna in part to local pride in the town's reputation as a historical locus of resistance to occupation. While many of the town's citizens were uncomfortable with the town's increasingly conservative Islamist bent, the fact that young men from Derna traveled to Iraq in disproportionate numbers to fight against coalition forces was viewed through a different lens. Not everyone liked the "bearded ones" (a reference to conservative imams) or their message, xxxxxxxxxxxx said, but the duty of a Muslim in general - and of a son of Derna in particular - was to resist occupation of Muslim lands through jihad. "It's jihad - it's our duty, and you're talking about people who don't have much else to be proud of." Derna's residents might take issue with attempts to ban smoking or restrict social activities, but there was consensus on "basic issues" like jihad. Depictions on al-Jazeera of events in Iraq and Palestine fueled the widely-held view in Derna that resistance to coalition forces was "correct and necessary".24
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and War, The Road to 9/11, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War. His most recent book is American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan.
His website, which contains a wealth of his writings, is here.
Recommended citation: Peter Dale Scott, "Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?," The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 13 No 3, March 28, 2011.
Notes
1 “Defense Secretary Gates, who recently warned against any further protracted US ground war, said on March 23 that the end of military action in Libya is unknown and could last longer than a few weeks. ‘I think there are any number of possible outcomes here and no one is in a position to predict them,’ Gates told reporters in Egypt” (C-Span, March 24, 2011).
2 Interested readers may wish to consult my first exploration, “Googling ‘Revolution’ in North Africa.”
3 Dan Lieberman, “Muammar Al Gaddafi Meets His Own Rebels,” CounterCurrents.org, March 9, 2011.
4 Joel Bainerman, Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA & Israel's Mossad (New York: S.P.I. Books, 1994), 14.
5 Richard Keeble, “The Secret War Against Libya,” MediaLens, 2002.
6 "Petroleum and Empire in North Africa. NATO Invasion of Libya Underway," By Keith Harmon Snow, 2 March 2011.
7 Ghali Hassan, “U.S. Love Affair with Murderous Dictators and Hate for Democracy.” Axis of Logic, Mar 17, 2011.
8 Center for Defense Information, “In the Spotlight: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),” January 18, 2005
9 Qadhafi was concerned about Al Qaeda terrorism in Libya, and in 1996 Libya became the first government to place Osama bin Laden on Interpol’s Wanted List (Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror [New York: Columbia UP, 2002], 142). Thereafter American and Libyan intelligence collaborated closely for some years against Al Qaeda. Beginning when?
10 Ian Black, “Libya rebels rejects Gaddafi's al-Qaida spin,” Guardian, March 1, 2011.
11 Gary Gambill, "The Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Jamestown Foundation," Terrorism Monitor, May 5, 2005,; citing Al-Hayat (London), 20 October 1995 [“communiqué”]; "The Shayler affair: The spooks, the Colonel and the jailed whistle-blower," The Observer (London), 9 August 1998; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, Ben Laden: La Verite interdite (Bin Ladin: The Forbidden Truth). Cf. also Annie Machon, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 And the Shayler Affair (Book Guild Publishing, 2005) [Shayler].
12 Yoichi Shimatsu, “Attack on Libya: Why Odyssey Dawn Is Doomed,” New America Media, March 20, 2011.
13 “US reaches out to Libyan insurgents,” The Australian, March 1, 2011,
14 “How a onetime friend to Gadhafi became his rival,” Globe and Mail [Toronto], March 4, 2011.
15 Libyan Rebel Council in Benghazi Forms Oil Company to Replace Qaddafi’s,” Bloomberg, March 22, 2011.
16 Robert Fisk, “America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels,” Independent, March 7, 2011.
17 “Libya rebels coordinating with West on air assault,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011.
18 “Egypt Said to Arm Libya Rebels,” Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011,
19 Benjamin Gottlieb, “Egypt Arms Libyan Rebels As Gaddafi's Conquest Continues,” NeonTommy Annenberg Digital News, March 17, 2011.
20 Yoichi Shimatsu, “Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar,” New America Media, March 1, 2011. The al-Thani family’s protection of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is confirmed by former CIA officer Robert Baer (Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2003). Cf. Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil (New York: Crown, 2003); Peter Lance, Triple Cross (New York: Regan/HarperCollins, 2006), 234-37.
21 Ken Dilanian, "U.S. finds no organized Al Qaeda presence in Libya opposition, officials say," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1011
22 Anthony Shadid, "Diverse Character in City Qaddafi Calls Islamist," New York Times, March 7, 2011.
23 "Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links," Daily Telegraph [London], March 25, 2011.
24 Wikileaks cable, "Die Hard in Derna," June 2, 2008, 08TRIPOLI 430, CONF/NOFORN. (Cached copy available here)
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+4 Vote up Vote down Harvey Reading · 10 hours ago
The west is a conglomeration of self-entitled hypocritical idiots who pretend to be smart. Where's the no-fly zone over Israel, Syria, Bahrain, etc.? What we need here is an old-fashioned purge of the elite.
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+1 Vote up Vote down brian · 10 hours ago
FYI very inportant":
Open Letter From Russian Doctors In Libya To The President Of The Russian FederationPost Categories: Africa Share:
By The 4th Media | 15:31 BeiJing Time,Monday, March 28, 2011316 viewsComments(0)
OPEN LETTER
...March 24, 2011, Tripoli, Libya
Dear Mr. Medvedev and Vladimir Putin,
...
Today, there is blatant external aggression of USA and NATO against a sovereign country – Libya. And if anyone can doubt this, then we say this obvious fact is well known, because all this is happening before our eyes, and the actions of U.S. and NATO threaten the lives of not only the citizens of Libya, but to us who are on its territory. We are outraged by the barbaric bombing of Libya, which is currently carried out by a coalition of U.S. and NATO.
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+1 Vote up Vote down brian · 10 hours ago
FYI: proof the MSM and NATO/US are lying when they say no civilians are benig killed by their humanitarian bombing:
'Bombs and rockets struck residential houses and fell near the hospital. The glass of the Cardiac Center building was broken, and in the building of the maternity ward for pregnant women with heart disease a wall collapsed and part of the roof. This resulted in ten miscarriages whereby babies died, the women are in intensive care, doctors are fighting for their lives. Our colleagues and we are working seven days a week, to save people. This is a direct consequence of falling bombs and missiles in residential buildings resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries, which are operated and reviewed now by our doctors' http://en.m4.cn/archives/6734.html
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+1 Vote up Vote down humanbeing · 8 hours ago
It's tedious to read all of this post, but possibly important to understand various perspectives on what may or may not be happening.
No wonder the Saudis just bought billions of $$ worth of weapons from the US. They needed those weapons to kill their own people as well as to support the CIA troops in Libya.
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JOHANN GALTUNG
Johan Galtung appears to agree with Professor Peter Dale Scott that the Empire's hand is very visible in their fake-Libyan-colonialists's coup.
Radio interview. Interesting and informative, if you can stomach the constant interruptions whenever Galtung is about to give a clear and very pithy anti-empire answer. Which is pretty much all the time. - March 24, 2011 - Youtube -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-S7Iguh0o
Wide Awake News - another disinformation web site which pumps out ninety nine percent disinformation with 1% Peter Dale Scott / Johann Galtung / Professor Chris Busby? _Just_like_ motor-mouth Fat_!@#$_Radio host Alex Jones?
- Professor Chris Busby on Alex Jones. 'It's a radiation catastrophe' -
- Alex Jones. 2011 - 03 -17 - Thurs. Part 5/14 -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lio-P47CdzE
- Alex Jones 2011 - 03 -17 - Thurs. Part 6/14, or find links (unidentified. (ER, To protect credibility? Nah, Occam's razor!) ; ) ) - http://www.llrc.org/ -
- http://tinyurl.com/4ujz72s
- Wide Awake News - "99% Pure Kr@p Radio - _Do_ accept any substitute." ; ) Particularly, accept truly progressive and liberal radio - TUC radio! -
- http://www.wideawakenews.com/
TUC Radio from Maria Gilardin, who has found and interviewed every sane progressive and liberal since forever, including Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Hermann Scheer, David Ray Griffin, Ray McGovern, Michael Parenti, Robert Fisk, on and on - TUC Radio -
- http://www.tucradio.org/
Disinformation - hiding the truth in plain view, disguised as Pure Kr@p US motor-mouth Radio ?! -
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JOHANN GALTUNG
Johan Galtung appears to agree with Professor Peter Dale Scott that the Empire's hand is very visible in their fake-Libyan-colonialists's coup.
Radio interview. Interesting and informative, if you can stomach the constant interruptions whenever Galtung is about to give a clear and very pithy anti-empire answer. Which is pretty much all the time. - March 24, 2011 - Youtube -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-S7Iguh0o
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+1 Vote up Vote down Worldist · 5 hours ago
There's no question, these conflicts are generated by the International Zionist financial elite's in their quest to gain full ownership and control of the lands, resources and people of the world. As has been the case since Zionism was initiated about the time the oil fired engine became a success at the end of the 19th Century. The ONLY solution is; http://www.worldsocialism.org/
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0 Vote up Vote down Nidhal Al-Nakkash · less than 1 minute ago
Now I am very confused ... Are we writing and shouting for another era of TERROR ,,, Do we want a replacement for the dictators by extremists >???? Not me ,,no , no PLEASE ..if the Arab countries are turning into another Bin Laden + comp. NO thanks ,,, if they are turning into extremists who have brought nothing but chaos and destruction not only for the West but to the NAME OF ISLAM & Muslims ,.,,, they have turned all principles upside down ,,they have made our name ugly ,, they have changed every good + beautiful picture into ugly bad icon of nothing ,,, distorted ,,, malice and manipulation of facts ,,, I wish I have not written anything concerning the revolutions in the Arab World ,,, now I , myself, am very confuse ,,, No, please stop this CONFUSION ,, ,http://larknmn.blogspot.com
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Dear Harvey Reading, you have forgoten another one.
WHERE is the no fly zone over the Turkish occupied Kurdistan? They straff then frequently and have demolished a VERY large number of villages who were forced to move to controllable centers.
The Kurdish people have been fighting for a homeland for many decades and withing Anotolia they are more than 15 million.
But who cares... Many other people within that military state wish to be free too.
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By Peter Dale Scott
Preface
March 28, 2011 "JapanFocus" - -The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics - the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt - has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old habits: America, already mired in two decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sporadic air attacks in Yemen and Somalia, now bombing yet another Third World Country, in this case Libya.
The initially stated aim of this bombing was to diminish Libyan civilian casualties. But many senior figures in Washington, including President Obama, have indicated that the US is gearing up for a quite different war for regime change, one that may well be protracted and could also easily expand beyond Libya.1 If it does expand, the hope for a nonviolent transition to civilian government in Tunisia and Egypt and other Middle East nations experiencing political unrest, may be lost to a hard-edged militarization of government, especially in Egypt. All of us, not just Egyptians, have a major stake in seeing that that does not happen.
The present article does not attempt to propose solutions or a course of action for the United States and its allies, or for the people of the Middle East. It attempts rather to examine the nature of the forces that have emerged in Libya over the last four decades that are presently being played out.
To this end I have begun to compile what I call my Libyan Notebook, a collection of relevant facts that underlie the present crisis. This Notebook will be judgmental, in that I am biased towards collecting facts that the US media tend to ignore, facts that are the product in many instances of investigative reporting that cuts to the heart of power relations, deep structures, and economic interests in the region including the US, Israel, and the Arab States as these have played out over the last two decades and more. But I hope that it will be usefully objective and open-ended, permitting others to draw diverse conclusions from the same set of facts.2
I wish to begin with two ill-understood topics: I. Who Are the Libyan Opposition, and II. Where Are the Libyan Rebel Arms Coming From?
I. Who Are the Libyan Opposition
1) Historically:
"If Muammar Al Gaddafi behaved paranoid, it was for good reason. It wasn't long after he reached the age of 27 and led a small group of junior military officers in a bloodless coup d'état against Libyan King Idris on September 1, 1969, that threats to his power and life emerged - from monarchists, Israeli Mossad, Palestinian disaffections, Saudi security, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL), the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO), British intelligence, United States antagonism and, in 1995, the most serious of all, Al Qaeda-like Libyan Islamic fighting group, known as Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya. The Colonel reacted brutally, by either expelling or killing those he feared were against him."3
2) National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL)
"With the aim of overthrowing Libyan strongman Muammar Khadafy, Israel and the U.S. trained anti-Libyan rebels in a number of West and Central African countries. The Paris-based African Confidential newsletter reported on January 5th, 1989, that the US and Israel had set up a series of bases in Chad and other neighboring countries to train 2000 Libyan rebels captured by the Chad army. The group, called The National Front for the Salvation of Libya, was based in Chad."4
"US official records indicate that funding for the Chad-based secret war against Libya also came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Israel and Iraq. The Saudis, for instance, donated $7m to an opposition group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (also backed by French intelligence and the CIA). But a plan to assassinate Gadafi and take over the government on 8 May 1984 was crushed. In the following year, the US asked Egypt to invade Libya and overthrow Gadafi but President Mubarak refused. By the end of 1985, the Washington Post had exposed the plan after congressional leaders opposing it wrote in protest to President Reagan."5
"The FNSL [National Front for the Salvation of Libya] was part of the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition held in London in 2005, and British resources are being used to support the FNSL and other 'opposition' in Libya.... The FNSL held its national congress in the USA in July 2007. Reports of 'atrocities' and civilian deaths are being channeled into the western press from operations in Washington DC, and the opposition FNSL is reportedly organizing resistance and military attacks from both inside and outside Libya."6
3) National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO),
"The main group leading the insurrection is the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition which includes the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL). The NFSL, which is leading the violence, is a U.S.-sponsored armed militia of mostly Libyan expatriates and tribes opposed to al-Qaddafi."7
4) Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, LIFG)
"The LIFG was founded in 1995 by a group of mujahideen veterans who had fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Upon their return to Libya they grew angry about what they viewed as the corruption and impiety of the Libyan regime and formed the LIFG to create a state that would show what they believed to be the true character of the Libyan people.
The most significant LIFG attack was a 1996 attempt to assassinate Gadhafi; LIFG members led by Wadi al-Shateh threw a bomb underneath his motorcade. The group also stages guerilla-style attacks against government security forces from its mountain bases. Although most LIFG members are strictly dedicated to toppling Gadhafi, intelligence reportedly indicates that some have joined forces with al-Qaida to wage jihad against Libyan and Western interests worldwide. ....
As recently as February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that "one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include ... the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group."8
"In recent days Libyan officials have distributed security documents giving the details of Sufiyan al-Koumi, said to be a driver for Osama bin Laden, and of another militant allegedly involved in an "Islamic emirate" in Derna, in now-liberated eastern Libya. Koumi, the documents show, was freed in September 2010 as part of a "reform and repent" initiative organised by Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son....
The LIFG, established in Afghanistan in the 1990s, has assassinated dozens of Libyan soldiers and policemen. In 2009, to mark Gaddafi's 40 years in power, it apologised for trying to kill him and agreed to lay down its arms. MI6 [British Intelligence] has been accused in the past of supporting it. Six LIFG leaders, still in prison, disavowed their old ways and explained why fighting Gaddafi no longer constituted "legitimate" jihad. Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi, another freed LIFG member, denied the official claims. "Gaddafi is trying to divide the people," he told al-Jazeera. "He claims that there is an Islamist emirate in Derna and that I am its emir. He is taking advantage of the fact that I am a former political prisoner."
Derna is famous as the home of a large number of suicide bombers in Iraq. It is also deeply hostile to Gaddafi. "Residents of eastern Libya in general, and Derna in particular, view the Gaddadfa (Gaddafi's tribe) as uneducated, uncouth interlopers from an inconsequential part of the country who have 'stolen' the right to rule in Libya," US diplomats were told in 2008, in a cable since released by WikiLeaks.
The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began. One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida's top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya.9 US counter-terrorist experts have expressed concern that al-Qaida could take advantage of a political vacuum if Gaddafi is overthrown. But most analysts say that, although the Islamists' ideology has strong resonance in eastern Libya, there is no sign that the protests are going to be hijacked by them.10
"Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi's] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi's government "an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty" and declaring its overthrow to be "the foremost duty after faith in God." [3] This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain.... The involvement of the British government in the LIFG campaign against Qadhafi remains the subject of immense controversy. LIFG's next big operation, a failed attempt to assassinate Qadhafi in February 1996 that killed several of his bodyguards, was later said to have been financed by British intelligence to the tune of $160,000, according to ex-MI5 officer David Shayler. [4] While Shayler's allegations have not been independently confirmed, it is clear that Britain allowed LIFG to develop a base of logistical support and fundraising on its soil. At any rate, financing by bin Laden appears to have been much more important. According to one report, LIFG received up to $50,000 from the Saudi terrorist mastermind for each of its militants killed on the battlefield." [2005]11
"Americans, Britons and the French are finding themselves as comrades in arms with the rebel Islamic Fighting Group, the most radical element in the Al Qaeda network [to bring down Gaddhafi]. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted the risks of the unholy alliance in a congressional hearing, saying that the Libyan opposition is probably more anti-American than Muammar Gaddhafi. A decade ago, this very same delusion of a Western-Islamist partnership in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya ended abruptly in the 9/11 attacks."12
5) Transitional National Council
"A RIVAL transitional government to the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi looks set to win US and other international support as momentum builds to oust the longtime dictator.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed yesterday that the Obama administration was reaching out to opponents of Colonel Gaddafi. She said the US was willing to offer ‘any kind of assistance' to remove him from power.
Protest leaders who have taken control in Libya's eastern cities claim to have established a transitional "national council" that amounts to rival rule. They have called on the country's army to join them as they prepare for an attack on the capital, Tripoli, where the Libyan leader retains control.
Confident the Libyan leader's 42-year rule was coming to an end, Mrs Clinton said yesterday: ‘We are just at the beginning of what will follow Gaddafi.'"13
6) Facebook
"He [Omar El- Hariri, Chief of Armed Forces for the Transitional National Council] remained under close surveillance by the security forces until Feb. 17, when the revolution started. It was not initiated by prominent figures of the older generation, he said, but began spontaneously when Tunisia and Egypt inspired the youth. ‘Children of Facebook!' he declared, in English, with a broad smile."14
7) Oil
"Libyan rebels in Benghazi said they have created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by leader Muammar Qaddafi whose assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council.
The Transitional National Council released a statement announcing the decision made at a March 19 meeting to establish the ‘Libyan Oil Company as supervisory authority on oil production and policies in the country, based temporarily in Benghazi, and the appointment of an interim director general" of the company.
The Council also said it "designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi."15
II. Where Are the Libyan Rebel Arms Coming From?
Robert Fisk, "Libya in turmoil: America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels;
Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi," Independent, March 7, 2011:
"Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago.
Washington's request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply involved in the Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, gave immediate support to American efforts to arm guerrillas fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan in 1980 ....
But the Saudis remain the only US Arab ally strategically placed and capable of furnishing weapons to the guerrillas of Libya. Their assistance would allow Washington to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain - even though the arms would be American and paid for by the Saudis.
The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafi's armour, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers.
Supplies could reach Benghazi within 48 hours but they would need to be delivered to air bases in Libya or to Benghazi airport. If the guerrillas can then go on to the offensive and assault Gaddafi's strongholds in western Libya, the political pressure on America and Nato - not least from Republican members of Congress - to establish a no-fly zone would be reduced.
US military planners have already made it clear that a zone of this kind would necessitate US air attacks on Libya's functioning, if seriously depleted, anti-aircraft missile bases, thus bringing Washington directly into the war on the side of Gaddafi's opponents.
For several days now, US Awacs surveillance aircraft have been flying around Libya, making constant contact with Malta air traffic control and requesting details of Libyan flight patterns, including journeys made in the past 48 hours by Gaddafi's private jet which flew to Jordan and back to Libya just before the weekend.
Officially, Nato will only describe the presence of American Awacs planes as part of its post-9/11 Operation Active Endeavour, which has broad reach to undertake aerial counter-terrorism measures in the Middle East region.
The data from the Awacs is streamed to all Nato countries under the mission's existing mandate. Now that Gaddafi has been reinstated as a super-terrorist in the West's lexicon, however, the Nato mission can easily be used to search for targets of opportunity in Libya if active military operations are undertaken.
Al Jazeera English television channel last night broadcast recordings made by American aircraft to Maltese air traffic control, requesting information about Libyan flights, especially that of Gaddafi's jet.
An American Awacs aircraft, tail number LX-N90442 could be heard contacting the Malta control tower on Saturday for information about a Libyan Dassault-Falcon 900 jet 5A-DCN on its way from Amman to Mitiga, Gaddafi's own VIP airport.
Nato Awacs 07 is heard to say: "Do you have information on an aircraft with the Squawk 2017 position about 85 miles east of our [sic]?"
Malta air traffic control replies: "Seven, that sounds to be Falcon 900- at flight level 340, with a destination Mitiga, according to flight plan."
But Saudi Arabia is already facing dangers from a co-ordinated day of protest by its own Shia Muslim citizens who, emboldened by the Shia uprising in the neighbouring island of Bahrain, have called for street protests against the ruling family of al-Saud on Friday.
After pouring troops and security police into the province of Qatif last week, the Saudis announced a nationwide ban on all public demonstrations.
Shia organisers claim that up to 20,000 protesters plan to demonstrate with women in the front rows to prevent the Saudi army from opening fire.
If the Saudi government accedes to America's request to send guns and missiles to Libyan rebels, however, it would be almost impossible for President Barack Obama to condemn the kingdom for any violence against the Shias of the north-east provinces.
Thus has the Arab awakening, the demand for democracy in North Africa, the Shia revolt and the rising against Gaddafi become entangled in the space of just a few hours with US military priorities in the region. "16
"Libya rebels coordinating with West on air assault," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011
"Reports from the region suggest that the Saudis and Egyptians have been providing arms. Though U.S. officials could not confirm that, they say it is plausible."17
"Egypt Said to Arm Libya Rebels," Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011:
"CAIRO-Egypt's military has begun shipping arms over the border to Libyan rebels with Washington's knowledge, U.S. and Libyan rebel officials said.
The shipments-mostly small arms such as assault rifles and ammunition-appear to be the first confirmed case of an outside government arming the rebel fighters. Those fighters have been losing ground for days in the face of a steady westward advance by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The Egyptian shipments are the strongest indication to date that some Arab countries are heeding Western calls to take a lead in efforts to intervene on behalf of pro-democracy rebels in their fight against Mr. Gadhafi in Libya. Washington and other Western countries have long voiced frustration with Arab states' unwillingness to help resolve crises in their own region, even as they criticized Western powers for attempting to do so.
The shipments also follow an unusually robust diplomatic response from Arab states. There have been rare public calls for foreign military intervention in an Arab country, including a vote by the 23-member Arab League last week urging the U.N. to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.
The vote provided critical political cover to Western powers wary of intervening militarily without a broad regional and international mandate. On Thursday evening, the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution endorsing a no-fly zone in Libya and authorizing military action in support of the rebels.
Within the council, Lebanon took a lead role drafting and circulating the draft of the resolution, which calls for "all necessary measures" to enforce a ban on flights over Libya. The United Arab Emirates and Qatar have taken the lead in offering to participate in enforcing a no-fly zone, according to U.N. diplomats.
Libyan rebel officials in Benghazi, meanwhile, have praised Qatar from the first days of the uprising, calling the small Gulf state their staunchest ally. Qatar has consistently pressed behind the scenes for tough and urgent international action behind the scenes, these officials said.
Qatari flags fly prominently in rebel-held Benghazi. After pro-Gadhafi forces retook the town of Ras Lanuf last week, Libyan state TV broadcast images of food-aid packages bearing the Qatari flag.
The White House has been reluctant to back calls from leaders in Congress for arming Libya's rebels directly, arguing that the U.S. must first fully assess who the fighters are and what policies they will pursue if they succeeded in toppling Col. Gadhafi. U.S. officials believe the opposition includes some Islamist elements. They fear that Islamist groups hostile to the U.S. could try to hijack the opposition and take any arms that are provided.
The Egyptian weapons transfers began ‘a few days ago' and are ongoing, according to a senior U.S. official. ‘There's no formal U.S. policy or acknowledgement that this is going on,' said the senior official. But ‘this is something we have knowledge of.'
Calls to Egypt's foreign ministry and the spokesman for the prime minister seeking comment went unanswered. There is no means of reaching Egypt's military for comment. An Egyptian official in Washington said he had no knowledge of weapon shipments.
The U.S. official also noted that the shipments appeared to come "too little, too late" to tip the military balance in favor of the rebels, who have faced an onslaught from Libyan forces backed by tanks, artillery and aircraft.
"We know the Egyptian military council is helping us, but they can't be so visible," said Hani Souflakis, a Libyan businessman in Cairo who has been acting as a rebel liaison with the Egyptian government since the uprising began.
"Weapons are getting through," said Mr. Souflakis, who says he has regular contacts with Egyptian officials in Cairo and the rebel leadership in Libya. "Americans have given the green light to the Egyptians to help. The Americans don't want to be involved in a direct level, but the Egyptians wouldn't do it if they didn't get the green light."
Western officials and rebel leaders in Libya said the U.S. has wanted to avoid being seen as taking a leadership role in any military action against Mr. Gadhafi after its invasions of Iraq and Afganistan fueled anger and mistrust with Washington throughout the region.
But the U.S. stated clearly it wants Mr. Gadhafi out of power and has signaled it would support those offering help to the rebels militarily or otherwise.
A spokesman for the rebel government in Benghazi said arms shipments have begun arriving to the rebels but declined to specify where they came from.
"Our military committee is purchasing arms and arming our people. The weapons are coming, but the nature of the weapons, the amount, where it's coming from, that has been classified," said the spokesman, Mustafa al-Gherryani.
The U.S. official said Egypt wanted to keep the shipments covert. In public, Egypt has sought to maintain a neutral stance toward the rebel uprising in Libya. Egypt abstained during the Arab League's vote calling for the U.N. to impose a no-fly zone on Mr. Gadhafi, according to people familiar with the internal Arab League deliberations.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian laborers are believed to still be in Libya.
On the other hand, the Egyptian military's covert support for the rebels suggests that it has calculated that Mr. Gadhafi is unlikely to remain in power, at least in the eastern half of the country, and therefore Egypt is eager to begin to build good relations with the rebels.
Rebel forces in the past 24 hours appeared to make some progress fending off pro-Gadhafi forces' assaults and have rolled out new weapons for the first time since the uprising began last month. Among them are rebel tanks that have taken up positions on the front lines in recent days. Rebels also launched fighter-jet attacks on government positions on Wednesday for the first time so far.
The tanks and fighter jets are believed to have been among the weapons seized by rebels from defected units of the Libyan army in the eastern half of the country, but they have received spare parts or trained mechanics from outside the country to help them deploy them, some rebel officials have speculated.
-Sam Dagher and Adam Entous contributed to this article.18
Benjamin Gottlieb, "Egypt Arms Libyan Rebels As Gaddafi's Conquest Continues," NeonTommy Annenberg Digital News, March 17, 2011:
Arms shipments from Egypt's military have begun flowing across the border into Libya with U.S. knowledge, Libyan rebels and U.S. officials said Thursday.
Made up mostly of small arms, such as assault rifles and ammunition, the shipments are the first confirmed reports of an outside government supporting rebel fighters with weapons. Rebels have been loosing ground for days against pro-Gaddafi forces aiming to end the conflict before foreign intervention plans are finalized.
Although the U.N. approved a "no-fly zone" over Libya late Thursday, rebel forces fear that any planned foreign intervention would be too little to late.
The shipment of arms indicated an unusually bold response by an Arab nation intervening in a conflict outside its borders. There have also been rare public decrees for the West to intervene in the conflict - the Arab League voted 23-0 last week encouraging the U.N. to impose the "no-fly zone" over Libya.
In spite of reports of arms flowing across the Egyptian boarder, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Menha Bakhoum told Reuters that Egypt would not be involved in any military intervention in neighboring Libya.
"Egypt will not be among those Arab states. We will not be involved in any military intervention. No intervention period," Bakhoum said.
Bakhoum was responding to comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said Thursday that discussions were on the table regarding Arab involvement in U.S. and European intervention in the conflict.
Clinton has said repeatedly that the U.S. desires involvement from a neighboring Arab nation in any planned intervention.
A Libyan rebel government spokesman in Benghazi, Mustafa al-Gherryani, said rebels have begun receiving arms shipments from neighboring nations, however he declined to reveal their origin.
"Our military committee is purchasing arms and arming our people. The weapons are coming, but the nature of the weapons, the amount, where it's coming from, that has been classified," he said.19
Yoichi Shimatsu, "Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar," New America Media, March 1, 2011
"It may puzzle and perhaps dismay young protesters in Benghazi, Cairo and Tunisia that their democratic hopes are being manipulated by an ultra-conservative Arab elite which has underhandedly backed a surge of militant Islamist radicals across North Africa. Credible U.S. intelligence reports have cited evidence pointing to Qatar's long-running support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and jihadist fighters returning from Afghanistan.
The links to Qatar uncovered by anti-terrorism investigators in the wake of 9-11 need to be reexamined now that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an on-and-off affiliate of Al Qaeda, has seized armories across half of the North African country. Libya's well-stocked arsenals contain high-power explosives, rocket launchers and chemical weapons. LIFG is on the State Department's terrorist list.
Most worrying, according to a U.S. intelligence official cited by CNN, is the probable loss of chemical weapons. The Federation of American Scientists reports that, as of 2008, only 40 percent of Libya's mustard gas was destroyed in the second round of decommissioning. Chemical canisters along the Egyptian border were yet to be retrieved and are now presumably in the hands of armed militants.
After initially letting slip that the earliest Libyan protests were organized by the LIFG, Al Jazeera quickly changed its line to present a heavily filtered account portraying the events as ‘peaceful protests'. To explain away the gunshot deaths of Libyan soldiers during the uprising, the Qatar-based network presented a bizarre scenario of 150 dead soldiers in Libya having been executed by their officers for ‘refusing to fight'. The mysterious officers then miraculously vacated their base disappearing into thin air while surrounded by angry protesters! Off the record, one American intelligence analyst called these media claims an ‘absurdity' and suggested instead the obvious: that the soldiers were gunned down in an armed assault by war-hardened returned militants from Iraq and Afghanistan....
According to a Congressional Research Service report of January 2008, ‘Some observers have raised questions about possible support for Al Qaeda by some Qatari citizens, including members of Qatar's large ruling family. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Qatar's Interior Minister provided a safe haven to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed during the mid-1990s, and press reports indicate other terrorists may have received financial support or safe haven in Qatar after September 11, 2001.'
The national security chief, Interior Minister Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani, is further mentioned as paying for a 1995 trip by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ‘to join the Bosnia jihad.' The report recalls how after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, FBI officials "narrowly missed an opportunity to capture" the suspect in Qatar. ‘Former U.S. officials have since stated their belief that a high-ranking member of the Qatari government alerted him to the impending raid, allowing him to flee the country.'"20
III. Postscript: U.S. Intelligence, March 26, 2011
Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011:
"Reporting from Washington-
Despite fears that Islamic extremists may be playing a hidden role in the rebellion against Moammar Kadafi, the U.S. intelligence community has found no organized presence of Al Qaeda or its allies among the Libyan opposition, American officials say.
A U.S. intelligence-gathering effort that began shortly after anti-Kadafi forces started seizing towns in eastern Libya last month has not uncovered a significant presence of Islamic militants among the insurgents.
‘We're keeping an eye out for extremist activity in Libya, but we haven't seen much, if any, to date,' said a U.S. counter-terrorism official. A Defense official added that the U.S. had not seen a direct link between the opposition and extremists."21
New York Times, March 7, 2011:
DARNAH, Libya-
This fiercely independent port city on the Mediterranean coast, once the center of a simmering Islamist insurgency in the 1990s, is now branded by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as an Islamic emirate infiltrating his embattled country....
But Darnah offers a more complex reality: a mélange where secular currents are intersecting with religious ones, drawn together by nationalist opposition to Colonel Qaddafi's four decades of often bizarre rule. This old Barbary port, with a reputation as one of Libya's most pious cities and, in the words of a WikiLeaks cable, a "wellspring for foreign fighters in Iraq," suggests a more nuanced picture of what role militant Islam may play in a city and country fumbling to forge a body politic in a land without one....
Here, leaders of tribes like the Obeidat, Zliten, Tajjoura and Misratah already exercise authority, along with judges and a three-member council: Mr. Abu Rashed, a judge and a former diplomat, all secular figures.
Other than them, only the Muslim Brotherhood and more militant strands thought to number in the hundreds show signs of organization, many having forged bonds in prison or fighting the government in the 1990s. One of those men is Abdul-Hakim al-Hasidi, who fought for five years in Afghanistan, ended up in Colonel Qaddafi's jails for four years and now, with hundreds of armed men, runs the defenses of Darnah and its hinterland.
He helps run much of the city's rump bureaucracy as well, drawing on a formidable talent for logistics recognized by many in the town.22
Daily Telegraph [London] March 25, 2011:
"In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited ‘around 25' men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are ‘today are on the front lines in Adjabiya.
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters ‘are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists,' but added that the ‘members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader'.
His revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, ‘including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries'.
Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against ‘the foreign invasion' in Afghanistan, before being ‘captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan'. He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.
US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi in 1995 and 1996."23
Wikileaks Cable extract "Die Hard in Derna," June 2, 2008:
"Rejecting the idea that Derna was uniformly extremist, xxxxxxxxxxxx and his business partner described the town as being divided between religiously conservative and secular residents. A "large number" of Derna's citizens were not happy about the increasingly conservative religious atmosphere that had prevailed since the 1980's, he claimed. Elaborating, al-Mansuri attributed adherence to more extreme iterations of Islam to "unnatural foreign influences" on religious practices in Derna. A number of Libyans who had fought and in some cases undergone "religious and ideological training" in Afghanistan, Lebanon and the West Bank in the late 1970's and early 1980's had returned to eastern Libya, including Derna, in the mid to late 1980's. Claiming their return was "not coincidental", he described a deliberate, coordinated campaign to propagate more conservative iterations of Islam, in part to prepare the ground for the eventual overthrow by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) of Muammar Qadhafi's regime, which is "hated" by conservative Islamists. (Note: After taking pains to curry favor with the 'ulema' in Libya in the years immediately after the 1969 revolution, Qadhafi broke with them in the late 1970's, criticizing aspects of Islam as "un-revolutionary". Although he renewed efforts to cultivate Muslim leaders in the 1990's, deep suspicions remain....).... Most young men watched a mix of al-Jazeera news, religious sermons and western action films on English language satellite channels broadcast from the Gulf. The result was a heady mixture of violence, religious conservatism and hatred of U.S. policy in Iraq and Palestine. The consensus view in Derna is that the U.S. blindly supports Israel and has invaded Iraq to secure oil reserves and position itself to attack Iran, he said. He dismissed P/E Chief's attempts to clarify U.S. policy, stressing that most people base their judgments on information they receive from satellite television and at the mosque. PRIDE IN DERNA'S HISTORY AS A TOWN OF FIGHTERS 11. (C) xxxxxxxxxxxx attributed the flow of foreign fighters from Derna in part to local pride in the town's reputation as a historical locus of resistance to occupation. While many of the town's citizens were uncomfortable with the town's increasingly conservative Islamist bent, the fact that young men from Derna traveled to Iraq in disproportionate numbers to fight against coalition forces was viewed through a different lens. Not everyone liked the "bearded ones" (a reference to conservative imams) or their message, xxxxxxxxxxxx said, but the duty of a Muslim in general - and of a son of Derna in particular - was to resist occupation of Muslim lands through jihad. "It's jihad - it's our duty, and you're talking about people who don't have much else to be proud of." Derna's residents might take issue with attempts to ban smoking or restrict social activities, but there was consensus on "basic issues" like jihad. Depictions on al-Jazeera of events in Iraq and Palestine fueled the widely-held view in Derna that resistance to coalition forces was "correct and necessary".24
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and War, The Road to 9/11, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War. His most recent book is American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan.
His website, which contains a wealth of his writings, is here.
Recommended citation: Peter Dale Scott, "Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?," The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 13 No 3, March 28, 2011.
Notes
1 “Defense Secretary Gates, who recently warned against any further protracted US ground war, said on March 23 that the end of military action in Libya is unknown and could last longer than a few weeks. ‘I think there are any number of possible outcomes here and no one is in a position to predict them,’ Gates told reporters in Egypt” (C-Span, March 24, 2011).
2 Interested readers may wish to consult my first exploration, “Googling ‘Revolution’ in North Africa.”
3 Dan Lieberman, “Muammar Al Gaddafi Meets His Own Rebels,” CounterCurrents.org, March 9, 2011.
4 Joel Bainerman, Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA & Israel's Mossad (New York: S.P.I. Books, 1994), 14.
5 Richard Keeble, “The Secret War Against Libya,” MediaLens, 2002.
6 "Petroleum and Empire in North Africa. NATO Invasion of Libya Underway," By Keith Harmon Snow, 2 March 2011.
7 Ghali Hassan, “U.S. Love Affair with Murderous Dictators and Hate for Democracy.” Axis of Logic, Mar 17, 2011.
8 Center for Defense Information, “In the Spotlight: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),” January 18, 2005
9 Qadhafi was concerned about Al Qaeda terrorism in Libya, and in 1996 Libya became the first government to place Osama bin Laden on Interpol’s Wanted List (Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror [New York: Columbia UP, 2002], 142). Thereafter American and Libyan intelligence collaborated closely for some years against Al Qaeda. Beginning when?
10 Ian Black, “Libya rebels rejects Gaddafi's al-Qaida spin,” Guardian, March 1, 2011.
11 Gary Gambill, "The Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Jamestown Foundation," Terrorism Monitor, May 5, 2005,; citing Al-Hayat (London), 20 October 1995 [“communiqué”]; "The Shayler affair: The spooks, the Colonel and the jailed whistle-blower," The Observer (London), 9 August 1998; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, Ben Laden: La Verite interdite (Bin Ladin: The Forbidden Truth). Cf. also Annie Machon, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 And the Shayler Affair (Book Guild Publishing, 2005) [Shayler].
12 Yoichi Shimatsu, “Attack on Libya: Why Odyssey Dawn Is Doomed,” New America Media, March 20, 2011.
13 “US reaches out to Libyan insurgents,” The Australian, March 1, 2011,
14 “How a onetime friend to Gadhafi became his rival,” Globe and Mail [Toronto], March 4, 2011.
15 Libyan Rebel Council in Benghazi Forms Oil Company to Replace Qaddafi’s,” Bloomberg, March 22, 2011.
16 Robert Fisk, “America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels,” Independent, March 7, 2011.
17 “Libya rebels coordinating with West on air assault,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011.
18 “Egypt Said to Arm Libya Rebels,” Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011,
19 Benjamin Gottlieb, “Egypt Arms Libyan Rebels As Gaddafi's Conquest Continues,” NeonTommy Annenberg Digital News, March 17, 2011.
20 Yoichi Shimatsu, “Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar,” New America Media, March 1, 2011. The al-Thani family’s protection of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is confirmed by former CIA officer Robert Baer (Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2003). Cf. Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil (New York: Crown, 2003); Peter Lance, Triple Cross (New York: Regan/HarperCollins, 2006), 234-37.
21 Ken Dilanian, "U.S. finds no organized Al Qaeda presence in Libya opposition, officials say," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1011
22 Anthony Shadid, "Diverse Character in City Qaddafi Calls Islamist," New York Times, March 7, 2011.
23 "Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links," Daily Telegraph [London], March 25, 2011.
24 Wikileaks cable, "Die Hard in Derna," June 2, 2008, 08TRIPOLI 430, CONF/NOFORN. (Cached copy available here)
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+4 Vote up Vote down Harvey Reading · 10 hours ago
The west is a conglomeration of self-entitled hypocritical idiots who pretend to be smart. Where's the no-fly zone over Israel, Syria, Bahrain, etc.? What we need here is an old-fashioned purge of the elite.
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+1 Vote up Vote down brian · 10 hours ago
FYI very inportant":
Open Letter From Russian Doctors In Libya To The President Of The Russian FederationPost Categories: Africa Share:
By The 4th Media | 15:31 BeiJing Time,Monday, March 28, 2011316 viewsComments(0)
OPEN LETTER
...March 24, 2011, Tripoli, Libya
Dear Mr. Medvedev and Vladimir Putin,
...
Today, there is blatant external aggression of USA and NATO against a sovereign country – Libya. And if anyone can doubt this, then we say this obvious fact is well known, because all this is happening before our eyes, and the actions of U.S. and NATO threaten the lives of not only the citizens of Libya, but to us who are on its territory. We are outraged by the barbaric bombing of Libya, which is currently carried out by a coalition of U.S. and NATO.
...
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+1 Vote up Vote down brian · 10 hours ago
FYI: proof the MSM and NATO/US are lying when they say no civilians are benig killed by their humanitarian bombing:
'Bombs and rockets struck residential houses and fell near the hospital. The glass of the Cardiac Center building was broken, and in the building of the maternity ward for pregnant women with heart disease a wall collapsed and part of the roof. This resulted in ten miscarriages whereby babies died, the women are in intensive care, doctors are fighting for their lives. Our colleagues and we are working seven days a week, to save people. This is a direct consequence of falling bombs and missiles in residential buildings resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries, which are operated and reviewed now by our doctors' http://en.m4.cn/archives/6734.html
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+1 Vote up Vote down humanbeing · 8 hours ago
It's tedious to read all of this post, but possibly important to understand various perspectives on what may or may not be happening.
No wonder the Saudis just bought billions of $$ worth of weapons from the US. They needed those weapons to kill their own people as well as to support the CIA troops in Libya.
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0 Vote up Vote down Ex Pat · 8 hours ago
JOHANN GALTUNG
Johan Galtung appears to agree with Professor Peter Dale Scott that the Empire's hand is very visible in their fake-Libyan-colonialists's coup.
Radio interview. Interesting and informative, if you can stomach the constant interruptions whenever Galtung is about to give a clear and very pithy anti-empire answer. Which is pretty much all the time. - March 24, 2011 - Youtube -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-S7Iguh0o
Wide Awake News - another disinformation web site which pumps out ninety nine percent disinformation with 1% Peter Dale Scott / Johann Galtung / Professor Chris Busby? _Just_like_ motor-mouth Fat_!@#$_Radio host Alex Jones?
- Professor Chris Busby on Alex Jones. 'It's a radiation catastrophe' -
- Alex Jones. 2011 - 03 -17 - Thurs. Part 5/14 -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lio-P47CdzE
- Alex Jones 2011 - 03 -17 - Thurs. Part 6/14, or find links (unidentified. (ER, To protect credibility? Nah, Occam's razor!) ; ) ) - http://www.llrc.org/ -
- http://tinyurl.com/4ujz72s
- Wide Awake News - "99% Pure Kr@p Radio - _Do_ accept any substitute." ; ) Particularly, accept truly progressive and liberal radio - TUC radio! -
- http://www.wideawakenews.com/
TUC Radio from Maria Gilardin, who has found and interviewed every sane progressive and liberal since forever, including Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Hermann Scheer, David Ray Griffin, Ray McGovern, Michael Parenti, Robert Fisk, on and on - TUC Radio -
- http://www.tucradio.org/
Disinformation - hiding the truth in plain view, disguised as Pure Kr@p US motor-mouth Radio ?! -
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JOHANN GALTUNG
Johan Galtung appears to agree with Professor Peter Dale Scott that the Empire's hand is very visible in their fake-Libyan-colonialists's coup.
Radio interview. Interesting and informative, if you can stomach the constant interruptions whenever Galtung is about to give a clear and very pithy anti-empire answer. Which is pretty much all the time. - March 24, 2011 - Youtube -
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-S7Iguh0o
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+1 Vote up Vote down Worldist · 5 hours ago
There's no question, these conflicts are generated by the International Zionist financial elite's in their quest to gain full ownership and control of the lands, resources and people of the world. As has been the case since Zionism was initiated about the time the oil fired engine became a success at the end of the 19th Century. The ONLY solution is; http://www.worldsocialism.org/
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0 Vote up Vote down Nidhal Al-Nakkash · less than 1 minute ago
Now I am very confused ... Are we writing and shouting for another era of TERROR ,,, Do we want a replacement for the dictators by extremists >???? Not me ,,no , no PLEASE ..if the Arab countries are turning into another Bin Laden + comp. NO thanks ,,, if they are turning into extremists who have brought nothing but chaos and destruction not only for the West but to the NAME OF ISLAM & Muslims ,.,,, they have turned all principles upside down ,,they have made our name ugly ,, they have changed every good + beautiful picture into ugly bad icon of nothing ,,, distorted ,,, malice and manipulation of facts ,,, I wish I have not written anything concerning the revolutions in the Arab World ,,, now I , myself, am very confuse ,,, No, please stop this CONFUSION ,, ,http://larknmn.blogspot.com
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0 Vote up Vote down ibtheos · less than 1 minute ago
Dear Harvey Reading, you have forgoten another one.
WHERE is the no fly zone over the Turkish occupied Kurdistan? They straff then frequently and have demolished a VERY large number of villages who were forced to move to controllable centers.
The Kurdish people have been fighting for a homeland for many decades and withing Anotolia they are more than 15 million.
But who cares... Many other people within that military state wish to be free too.
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