The Qaddafi regime received CIA support, funding, arms and equipment from 1977 to 1984( some say earlier) and then again from 1999 till the present.
No complaining from the so called "anti imperialists" then. This is an on again/off again falling out among thieves and the CIA is playing all sides. As for the WSWS they are the grandsons of Gerry Healyites who have recieved funding from Qaddafi since the 1970's ... Cort On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Romi Elnagar <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels By Patrick Martin > 4 April 2011 Numerous > press reports over the weekend add to the evidence that the Libyan > rebels fighting the regime of Muammar Gaddafi are under the direction of > American intelligence agencies. Despite the repeated claims by Obama > administration officials that the rebels are a largely unknown quantity, > it is becoming increasingly clear that key military leaders of the > anti-Gaddafi campaign are well known to the US government and have > longstanding relations with the CIA. > For better than two weeks > there had been a virtual ban in the US media on reporting the name of > Khalifa Haftar, the long-time CIA collaborator who was appointed chief > rebel commander March 17, on the eve of the US-NATO bombing campaign > against Libya. Only the regional McClatchy Newspapers chain reported > Haftars appointment, and ABC News ran a brief interview with him on > March 27. Otherwise, silence prevailed. > This de facto censorship > abruptly ended April 1, when a right-wing US think tank, the Jamestown > Foundation, published a lengthy study of Haftars background and record, > which was cited extensively by Reuters news service, and then more widely > in the US and British media. > The > Jamestown Foundation report declared: Today as Colonel Haftar finally > returns to the battlefields of North Africa with the objective of > toppling Gaddafi, his former co-conspirator from Libyas 1969 coup, he > may stand as the best liaison for the United States and allied NATO > forces in dealing with Libyas unruly rebels. > The Jamestown > study noted Haftars role in organizing the Libyan National Army (LNA), > which he founded on June 21, 1988 with strong backing from the Central > Intelligence Agency, and cites a 1991 interview with him conducted in > an LNA camp in rural Virginia. Not only did the CIA sponsor and fund > the LNA, it engineered the entry of LNA officers and men into the United > States where they established a training camp. > Reuters added, > using a variant spelling of the name, that it has repeatedly asked for > an interview with Hefta but he could not immediately be contacted. The > news service added, The CIA declined to comment on its relationship to > the former Libyan military leader. Other references to Haftars role > appeared in the online blog of the New Yorker magazine, in Africa > Confidential, on National Public Radio, the British daily Guardian, and in > the Independent on Sunday, another British newspaper. > The Independent > column, headlined The Shady Men Backed by the West to Displace > Gaddafi, described the Libyan rebel commanders as follows: The careers > of several make them sound like characters out of the more sinister > Graham Greene novels. They include men such as Colonel Khalifa Haftar, > former commander of the Libyan army in Chad who was captured and changed > sides in 1988, setting up the anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Army > reportedly with CIA and Saudi backing. For the last 20 years, he has > been living quietly in Virginia before returning to Benghazi to lead the > fight against Gaddafi. > Finally, the Washington Posts > Sunday edition carried several references to Haftar, including a > front-page article profiling the divisions within the rebel military > leadership. Khalifa Haftar, a former army colonel who recently returned > to Libya after living for many years in Falls Church, was initially > hailed by the Transitional National Council as a leader who could help > discipline the new army and train its largely volunteer ranks, Post > reporter Tara Bahrampour wrote. > She > then quoted TNC and rebel military spokesmen giving conflicting > accounts, one saying Haftar had been removed from command, the other > saying he remained in control of the military. A spokesman for the TNC, > asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of > Haftars appointment, said, This is the position of the council today. > The situation is fluid.... The political viewpoints change frequently. > Walter Pincus, the Posts > long-time reporter on intelligence activities, himself a former CIA > informer in the National Student Association, described Haftar as a > former Libyan army colonel who for years commanded the Libyan National > Army (LNA), an anti-Gaddafi group. The article > said Haftar had established the LNA, allegedly with backing from the > CIA and Saudi elements. It continued: In 1996, he was reported to have > been behind an alleged uprising in eastern Libya. By that time, he was > already settled with his family in Falls Church. > According to > Pincus, a senior intelligence official, asked about the Libyan > commanders connection to the CIA, said it was policy not to discuss > such issues. > The informal blackout on Haftars identity and CIA > connections still continues on the American television networks and in > the pages of the New York Timesa newspaper that openly admits > its subservience to the US military/intelligence apparatus. But the > significance of the weekend press reports is unmistakable: the Libyan > rebel military is not the independent organ of a popular uprising > against the Gaddafi dictatorship, but rather the creature of American > imperialism, the most reactionary political force on the planet. > The dubious character of the Libyan rebels was further underscored in a > remarkable profile published Saturday by the Wall Street Journal > of three Libyans who had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and > were now playing major roles in the rebel military effort. Two of the > three had been in US custody as alleged Al Qaeda operatives and one > spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before being turned over to the > Gaddafi regime in 2007. The three men are: Abdel Hakim > al-Hasady, described as an influential Islamic preacher and high school > teacher who spent five years at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan > and now oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 > rebel fighters from Darna, a city in eastern LibyaSalah al-Barrani, a > former fighter from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, who is > Hasadys field commanderSufyan > Ben Qumu, a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Ladens > holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in > Afghanistan, and who is training many of the citys rebel recruits. > Hasady > and Ben Qumu were arrested by Pakistani security after the US invasion > of Afghanistan in 2001 and turned over to the US. Hasady was transferred > to Libyan custody two months later, while Ben Qumu was moved to > Guantanamo and held there until 2007, when he, too, was sent to a Libyan > prison. The Gaddafi regime released both men in 2008, at a time when > US-Libya collaboration in the war on terror was at its height. Such an > action would certainly have been checked with Washington. > The > former Al Qaeda warrior was quite willing to speak to the leading US > business newspaper, which reported, his discourse has become > dramatically more pro-American. He told the Journal, If we > hated the Americans 100 percent, today it is less than 50 percent. They > have started to redeem themselves for their past mistakes. > Whether > these individuals are Al Qaeda operatives who were turned by their > American captors or have simply changed allegiance under changed > circumstances is unclear. But their role in the Libyan opposition > further undermines the longstanding propaganda of the US government > about the supposedly unbridgeable gulf between Al Qaeda and American > imperialism. > For a decade, the US government, under Bush and now > Obama, has used the terrorist actions of Al Qaeda and its alleged > supporters as a pretext for one military intervention after another in > the Muslim worldAfghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, the > Philippines, Indonesia and now Libya. > There has long been reason > to doubt the war on terror narrative, not least the fact that Al Qaeda > was effectively created by the CIA through its activities in recruiting > and mobilizing radical Islamists to go to Afghanistan in the 1980s and > join the mujaheddin guerrillas fighting the Soviet army there. Many of > the 9/11 suicide hijackers were known to the CIA as Al Qaeda operatives, > and in some cases under active surveillance, but were nonetheless > allowed to enter the country, receive training at US flight schools and > carry out the terrorist attacks. > An incident during a hearing > Thursday before the House Armed Services Committee demonstrates the > sensitivity of the US government concerning the links between US > intelligence services and Al Qaeda. Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman > questioned a witness, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, about > the role of Abdel Hakim al-Hasady. Steinberg refused to discuss the > matter, suggesting it could be taken up only in a closed-door session > where US covert operations are regularly reviewed. > https://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/liby-a04.shtml > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- *A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. (Also quoted as "The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.") 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