Biar Libya jadi kayak Afghan di jaman Taliban, dgn begitu orang Libya akan terbuka matanya akan betapa bejadnya ajaran Islam yg benar.
>________________________________ >From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:51 PM >Subject: [proletar] How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripol > > > >http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH30Ak01.html >Aug 30, 201 > >How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripol >By Pepe Escobar > >His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in >the West and across the world would have heard of him. > >Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be >the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound to >shatter - once again - that wilderness of mirrors that is the "war on terror", >as well as deeply compromising the carefully constructed propaganda of the >North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) "humanitarian" intervention in >Libya. > >Muammar Gaddafi's fortress of Bab-al-Aziziyah was essentially invaded and >conquered last week by Belhaj's men - who were at the forefront of a militia >of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli. The militia is the >so-called Tripoli Brigade, trained in secret for two months by US Special >Forces. This turned out to be the rebels' most effective militia in six months >of tribal/civil war. Already last Tuesday, Belhaj was gloating on how the >battle was won, with Gaddafi forces escaping "like rats" (note that's the same >metaphor used by Gaddafi himself to designate the rebels). > >Abdelhakim Belhaj, aka Abu Abdallah al-Sadek, is a Libyan jihadi. Born in May >1966, he honed his skills with the mujahideen in the 1980s anti-Soviet jihad >in Afghanistan. > >He's the founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and its de facto >emir - with Khaled Chrif and Sami Saadi as his deputies. After the Taliban >took power in Kabul in 1996, the LIFG kept two training camps in Afghanistan; >one of them, 30 kilometers north of Kabul - run by Abu Yahya - was strictly >for al-Qaeda-linked jihadis. > >After 9/11, Belhaj moved to Pakistan and also to Iraq, where he befriended >none other than ultra-nasty Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - all this before al-Qaeda in >Iraq pledged its allegiance to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and >turbo-charged its gruesome practices. > >In Iraq, Libyans happened to be the largest foreign Sunni jihadi contingent, >only losing to the Saudis. Moreover, Libyan jihadis have always been >superstars in the top echelons of "historic" al-Qaeda - from Abu Faraj al-Libi >(military commander until his arrest in 2005, now lingering as one of 16 >high-value detainees in the US detention center at Guantanamo) to Abu al-Laith >al-Libi (another military commander, killed in Pakistan in early 2008). > >Time for an extraordinary rendition >The LIFG had been on the US Central Intelligence Agency's radars since 9/11. >In 2003, Belhaj was finally arrested in Malaysia - and then transferred, >extraordinary rendition-style, to a secret Bangkok prison, and duly tortured. > >In 2004, the Americans decided to send him as a gift to Libyan intelligence - >until he was freed by the Gaddafi regime in March 2010, along with other 211 >"terrorists", in a public relations coup advertised with great fanfare. > >The orchestrator was no less than Saif Islam al-Gaddafi - the >modernizing/London School of Economics face of the regime. LIFG's leaders - >Belhaj and his deputies Chrif and Saadi - issued a 417-page confession dubbed >"corrective studies" in which they declared the jihad against Gaddafi over >(and illegal), before they were finally set free. > >A fascinating account of the whole process can be seen in a report called >"Combating Terrorism in Libya through Dialogue and Reintegration". [1] Note >that the authors, Singapore-based terrorism "experts" who were wined and dined >by the regime, express the "deepest appreciation to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and >the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation for making this >visit possible". > >Crucially, still in 2007, then al-Qaeda's number two, Zawahiri, officially >announced the merger between the LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb >(AQIM). So, for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one >and the same - and Belhaj was/is its emir. > >In 2007, LIFG was calling for a jihad against Gaddafi but also against the US >and assorted Western "infidels". > >Fast forward to last February when, a free man, Belhaj decided to go back into >jihad mode and align his forces with the engineered uprising in Cyrenaica. > >Every intelligence agency in the US, Europe and the Arab world knows where >he's coming from. He's already made sure in Libya that himself and his militia >will only settle for sharia law. > >There's nothing "pro-democracy" about it - by any stretch of the imagination. >And yet such an asset could not be dropped from NATO's war just because he was >not very fond of "infidels". > >The late July killing of rebel military commander General Abdel Fattah Younis >- by the rebels themselves - seems to point to Belhaj or at least people very >close to him. > >It's essential to know that Younis - before he defected from the regime - had >been in charge of Libya's special forces fiercely fighting the LIFG in >Cyrenaica from 1990 to 1995. > >The Transitional National Council (TNC), according to one of its members, Ali >Tarhouni, has been spinning Younis was killed by a shady brigade known as >Obaida ibn Jarrah (one of the Prophet Mohammed's companions). Yet the brigade >now seems to have dissolved into thin air. > >Shut up or I'll cut your head off > >Hardly by accident, all the top military rebel commanders are LIFG, from >Belhaj in Tripoli to one Ismael as-Salabi in Benghazi and one Abdelhakim >al-Assadi in Derna, not to mention a key asset, Ali Salabi, sitting at the >core of the TNC. It was Salabi who negotiated with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi the >"end" of LIFG's jihad, thus assuring the bright future of these born-again >"freedom fighters". > >It doesn't require a crystal ball to picture the consequences of LIFG/AQIM - >having conquered military power and being among the war "winners" - not >remotely interested in relinquishing control just to please NATO's whims. > >Meanwhile, amid the fog of war, it's unclear whether Gaddafi is planning to >trap the Tripoli brigade in urban warfare; or to force the bulk of rebel >militias to enter the huge Warfallah tribal areas. > >Gaddafi's wife belongs to the Warfallah, Libya's largest tribe, with up to 1 >million people and 54 sub-tribes. The inside word in Brussels is that NATO >expects Gaddafi to fight for months if not years; thus the Texas George W >Bush-style bounty on his head and the desperate return to NATO's plan A, which >was always to take him out. > >Libya may now be facing the specter of a twin-headed guerrilla Hydra; Gaddafi >forces against a weak TNC central government and NATO boots on the ground; and >the LIFG/AQIM nebula in a jihad against NATO (if they are sidelined from >power). > >Gaddafi may be a dictatorial relic of the past, but you don't monopolize power >for four decades for nothing, and without your intelligence services learning >a thing or two. > >From the beginning, Gaddafi said this was a foreign-backed/al-Qaeda operation; >he was right (although he forgot to say this was above all neo-Napoleonic >French President Nicolas Sarkozy's war, but that's another story). > >He also said this was a prelude for a foreign occupation whose target was to >privatize and take over Libya's natural resources. He may - again – turn out >to be right. > >The Singapore "experts" who praised the Gaddafi regime's decision to free the >LIFG's jihadis qualified it as "a necessary strategy to mitigate the threat >posed to Libya". > >Now, LIFG/AQIM is finally poised to exercise its options as an "indigenous >political force". > >Ten years after 9/11, it's hard not to imagine a certain decomposed skull in >the bottom of the Arabian Sea boldly grinning to kingdom come. > >Note >1. Click here > >Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is >Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot >of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan >(Nimble Books, 2009). > >He may be reached at [email protected]. > >To follow Pepe's articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please click here. > >(Copyright 2011 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. 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