Osama Bin Laden was a wanted man well before the 9/11 attacks, before the attack on the USS Cole and before the US Embassy bombings in east Africa. Bin Laden was first named a wanted manin 1998 by no other than Libyan leader Gaddafi.
Bin Laden was on Gaddafi’s radar well befor 9/11On March 16, 1998, five months before the al Qaeda bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the Libyan Ministry of Justice named Bin Laden as the main suspect in a double murder that had taken place in the Libyan town of Sirte four years earlier. The warrant was forwarded to Interpol in France, where it was formalised on April 15, 1998.
Al Qaeda hasn’t stopped meddling in Libya’s affairs since then. In face, the rebel’s army fighting Gaddafi’ss forces now, is spearheaded by Al-Qaeda terrorists who are supposedly the target of a multi-decade “war on terror” that is now in its tenth year and has cost the US trillions of dollars. Just a few weeks ago a militia group with Islamist tendencies has been accused of assassinating the Libyan rebel military commander Abdel Fattah Younes, raising concerns about loose discipline within rebel groups and the emergence of extremist groups.
But for some reason the US is turning a blind eye to Al Qaeda’s involvement with the rebels. In addition to supporting the rebels at war through Nato’s African offensive, the US has allowed the Libyans rebels to take over Libya’s embassy in the US. This actually gives Al Qaeda a diplomatic foot base in the US – an unprecedented move.
The American people are not blind to the terror connections of the rebels. Inside the U.S., polls show only 30 percent support for the war on Libya. The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have failed to pass any resolutions endorsing the war, even though both legislative branches have approved funding for its continuation.
Gaddafi is no saint and its regime has its fair share of problems. But is supporting Al Qaeda backed rebels the answer?
Some time ago I posted a list of interventions and non-interventions by Obama that revealed a pattern of Obama picking Islamists every time.
IF the ”rebels” oppose an Islamist government, like in Iran, Obama sits on the sidelines.
IF the ”rebels” oppose someone who has been either moderate or contained or at peace with, say, the USA or Israel, Obama quickly opposes the established government.
HMMmmmmmmmmmm………..
While Obama has been in office:
Turkey is going Islamist.
Egypt is going Islamist,
Iraq is going Islamist,
Afghanistan is going Islamist,
Yemen is going Islamist,
Pakistan is going Islamist,
some Russian areas are going Islamist,
and so on.
Iran’s rebels, OTOH, have been strangled on the vine.
This AM the Islamists in Detroit are decrying America as ”racist,” because of a legislative move that would ban Michigan courts from considering “foreign laws” — including Sharia, or Islamic law.
America accepts people from all over the planet….but we do NOT import their legal systems.
Islamists in Detroit are insisting we do.
“Move forward?”
To WHAT?
That question needs to be answered.
Obama has been amazingly silent….dithering…. on issues inside the USA regarding blacks and Muslims since his ”the police acted stupidly,” gaffe.
He needs to show his true colors before riots (bigger than the flash mobs we already have) start.
@Nan G:
Nan,
If you were a man, married to the woman he’s married to. . . wouldn’t you be interested in 70 virgins? He is fulfilling his mission to cripple the “Great Satan”. The main question I have is how long it will be until he “converts” after leaving office.
it has been told by an EUROPEAN JOURNALIST at the beginning of the revolts,
all of them are being suspected of having the AL QUADA help.
and to think of all the deaths occur from their side also, and
they blame the police and military side for their own killings,
the COMMANDER of the LIBYA’s rebels fired 14 top people on his command not so long ago when his commander was brutaly killed with his mans, and there was not enough investigation on it by the 14 men on top. the suspicion was made public, and FRANCE did not think of anything wrong,
there is something suspicious with FRANCE SENDING AN AMBASSADOR RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLT
George W Bush may have cozied up to a head of state who personally ordered a terrorist attack that killed 178 US citizens, but that’s no reason why Barack Obama should.
Libyan Draft Constitution: Sharia is ‘Principal Source of Legislation’
A draft constitutional charter for the transitional state of Libya has appeared online.
Link to Scribd version here.
Islamist forces “appear to make up a small but not insignificant part of the opposition coalition.” http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/04/How-the-US-Should-Help-Libyas-Struggling-
@Wilson: Right, Bush “cozzied up” by making an example of Sadam and getting rid of Libya’s WMD’s the way the socialists (excuse me, democrats) say they wanted it done, without firing a shot. Now, just to reinforce that no good deed goes unpunished, Obama helps to depose someone who agreed to our terms and renounced terrorism, while, at the same time, helping those who have killed over 1,700 Americans in Afghanistan. That should certainly teach other despots to lay down their WMD’s in order to gain favor with the US, now shouldn’t it?
You really aren’t very good at this whole “trolling” business, are you?