Terrific… Libyan Rebel Leader Fought With Islamists Against US in Afghanistan

A 2007 West Point study showed that the Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk region in Libya was a world leader in Al Qaeda suicide bomber recruitment. (Mathaba)

The leader of the Libyan rebel forces fought against the US in Afghanistan until he was captured in 2002. He also admitted that his fighters have Al-Qaeda links.
The Telegraph reported:

Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

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.

More… Several of the rebel leaders remain anonymous. We have absolutely no idea who these fighters are that we are assisting.
Mathaba reported:

Many commentators have voiced anxiety because of the mystery which surrounds the anti-Qaddafi transitional government which emerged at the beginning of March in the city of Benghazi, located in the Cyrenaica district of north-eastern Libya. This government has already been recognized by France and Portugal as the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people. The rebel council seems to be composed of just over 30 delegates, many of whom are enveloped in obscurity. In addition, the names of more than a dozen members of the rebel council are being kept secret, allegedly to protect them from the vengeance of Qaddafi. But there may be other reasons for the anonymity of these figures…

…Almost one fifth of the foreign fighters entering Iraq across the Syrian border came from Libya, a country of just over 6 million people. A higher proportion of Libyans were interested in fighting in Iraq than any other country contributing mujahedin. Felter and Fishman point out: “Almost 19 percent of the fighters in the Sinjar Records came from Libya alone.

#1 March 25, 2011 at 5:53 pm
aprilnovember811 commented:

So Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power, Barack Obama, and our Military are aiding Al Qaeda.
#2 March 25, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Commonman commented:

these are the people we are defending a bunch of Jihadis,Obama’s regime is looking for
a legal loopholes to arm them to.Just like in Egypt it looks like Muslim Brotherhood has seized
control there.
#3 March 25, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Ginger commented:

I took this from another blog. I am so proud of these people. They are right! We need to join and get loud! It may quieten the union thugs down a little. I am afraid that if we do not get protection a lot of elderly people will stay home and not go to the rallys! Let us make a very very large movement. POWER IN NUMBERS

to usmc1833 first off let me thank you (sir or madam) as because i dont know your gender. for your service and bravery, my nephew served in iraq and i just thank god he got out right after barry came into power. but i would like to ask you a question how hard or difficult would it be to amass all retired and former military of any branch to become a movement or political force like the teaparty. because if you guys and the teaparty got together you could both fundamentally change the republican party to be total servant to the will of the people. and im sure you could just intimidate the hell out of the dems

I am a guy and thank you. I can tell you that the majority of the Military is on the side of the Tea Party. I think if some ex higher ups came out against what is happening that most of the retired or former Military would follow. I agree that if they had a Military backing it actually might change the way people think. It would also be a lot harder to just label everyone racist or crazy like they do with the Tea Party. The hard part is that most retired higher ups still have ties in the Gov’t. I don’t know if it will ever happen, but I sure hope so before while we still have a Country.
#4 March 25, 2011 at 5:59 pm
james commented:

obama is the worst president in american history.
#5 March 25, 2011 at 6:00 pm
rbosque commented:

This has been my assertion from the beginning. Why are we giving air cover to the Islamic Brotherhood???
#6 March 25, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Granny commented:

I’ve posted this link here a couple of times since 7 or so this morning.

What I want to know is this: Why are we spending the first red cent or the first drop of American blood on Libya? To support al-queda?

Let them kill each other.
#7 March 25, 2011 at 6:00 pm
MN Jim commented:

It seems pretty obvious by now that the obama regime does not have a clue as to who the rebels are. As of this morning, there were reports of atrocities being committed by the rebels. We know from Pakistgan, Egypt, Turkey and Iraq that as soon as the evil dictator is gone, a worse group of religious fanatics takes over, kills the Christians, mistreats the women, takes away freedoms and enslaves the population.
#8 March 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Neil Sorsky commented:

Smart Power!
#9 March 25, 2011 at 6:19 pm
LibertyAtStake commented:

The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama must answer for expending American prestige and treasure on behalf of Al Qaeda operatives. If it should come to American blood, he will have that to answer for as well.

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
#10 March 25, 2011 at 6:21 pm
bg commented:

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oh please, can’t stand the kool aid anymore..

i’m still for removing Qaddafi asap..

only Obama won’t do it, not only because he owes his taqiyyah
pa big time, but the real terrorists are employed by Qaddafi..

[Gaddafi’s son, Khamees, is transporting Black African mercenaries from a military base in the town of Tajura (20 km east of Tripoli, Libya). Gaddafi’s six sons are each in charge of a battalion controlling the foreign African mercenaries. The mercenaries came from many African countries such as Chad, Guinea, Niger, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, and Sudan to crush the Libyan citizens’ resistance to Gaddafi’s brutal dictatorship. The narrator says (translated from Libyan-Arabic): “These planes are going to Fashloum. The planes are coming now (a reference made to the attention of Al-Jazeera TV channel)… They are going to crush our Libyan sons. This is the second squadron that passed by. These (the planes) are filled with mercenaries. They came from Khamees’ (one of Gaddafi’s sons) battalion in Tajura.”

Reports say some west African newspapers advertise “Men Wanted for Tough Tasks”. Under the general guise of ‘hard work’, the West African mercenaries to travel to Libya to fight and kill the Libyan citizens. The foreign African mercenaries are promised payment of $2,000 per day. Al-Jazeera TV channel reported that approximately 150,000 foreign African mercenaries are present in Libya. As of February 23, 2011, it is estimated that 50,000 mercenaries are present in Tripoli under the leadership of Gaddafi’s several sons’ private battalions. This continues to happen while world governments permit it.]

follow the money, and the links..

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#11 March 25, 2011 at 6:24 pm
save us commented:

Impeach and remove now!
#12 March 25, 2011 at 6:30 pm
bg commented:

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reP: #10

[Pan-African Legion

In about 1980, Muammar Gaddafi introduced the Islamic Pan-African Legion, a body of mercenaries recruited primarily among dissidents from Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, and Chad. West African states with Muslim populations have also been the source of some personnel. Believed to consist of about 7,000 individuals, the force has received training from experienced Palestinian and Syrian instructors. Some of those recruited to the legion were said to have been forcibly impressed from among nationals of neighboring countries who migrated to Libya in search of work.]

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#13 March 25, 2011 at 6:44 pm
LibertyAtStake commented:

@bg #10: Please advise on who fills the vaccuum when Ghadafi goes down.

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
#14 March 25, 2011 at 6:48 pm
bg commented:

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LibertyAtStake #13

who’s been filling it??

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#15 March 25, 2011 at 6:49 pm
sifty commented:

Simple.

1. Kill Quaddafy and the rebel leader. Keep killing rebel leaders until we get someone we like.

2. Take oil.

3. Smoke cigars and eat BBQ.

Why do I have to keep explaining things to these dunces?
#16 March 25, 2011 at 6:55 pm
bg commented:

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we need to assure the innocent civilians safety..

AQ et al have been doing more, if not just as much, of their thing under
Qaddafi as they did under Saddam, US being the ones to pay either way..

they’re also here, inside our government, not to mention white house, so i
wouldn’t worry too much about what they do over there as much as what
we’re not doing over here..

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#18 March 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Patrick B commented:

I am with sifty! Instead of a no fly zone, how about a pump the oil zone?
#19 March 25, 2011 at 7:21 pm
PJ commented:

I read something over at Drudge this morning,that Obama is sending 2500 ground troops.
#20 March 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm
bg commented:

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re: #10

Live Blog Libya – March 26

Reflections: Gaddafi, Mandela and “African Mercenaries”

[.] The extent to which Gaddafi has been involved in financing conflicts
in Africa is truly horrifying (Chad, Niger, Uganda, Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo)

[..]

Unlike the cases of Ben Ali and Mubarak, the case of Gaddafi really bothers me because it is clear that he has been, and continues to be, protected by some sort of Anti-Imperialist Old Boys Club who talk about justice but don’t seem to actually want to hold themselves or their parties or their “brother leaders” accountable for following it.

[..]

Allegedly, African Mercenaries have been flown into Libya to attack protesters. Who are these African Mercenaries? The question might be asked “Aren’t Libyans Africans? That depends on who you ask. Often when the term African is used it means “Sub-Saharan” African ergo Black-Skinned. The fact that Gaddafi has many Sub-Saharan African Mercenaries at his disposal should come as no surprise. Such mercenaries have been trained in camps funded by the Libya Government across Sub-Saharan Africa. As Jose Gomez del Prado with the United Nations Human Rights Council states:

You can find, particularly in Africa, many people who’ve been in wars for many years. They don’t know anything else. They are cheap labour, ready to take the job for little money. They are trained killers.

But it’s important to not dehumanize these “mercenaries”. One of the central characters in Nigerian author Helon Habila’s novel Measuring Time is one of these mercenaries. He begins as just a young man looking to escape the dead-end poverty of life in his small village in Nigeria. He joins a Libyan-funded training camp and eventually ends up as a mercenary in Liberia. There, his conscience shaken to the core, he finds redemption. However, the poverty of these mercenaries doesn’t justify their violence against Libyans.]

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#21 March 25, 2011 at 8:03 pm
bg commented:

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gee, i wonder what he & the very much healthy Lockerbie
bomber had been doing all day, sunning themselves?? /s/

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#22 March 25, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Joseph commented:

“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……….

Duh, as in duh!
#23 March 25, 2011 at 8:25 pm
elhrac commented:

bg, stop being a useful idiot.

al-jazeera has a clear jihadist agenda.
#24 March 25, 2011 at 8:31 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

this surprises anybody.
#25 March 25, 2011 at 10:27 pm
SeesBeyond commented:

This is no surprise to anyone who has studied the politics of the ME and recent events. Apparently it is to Obama, however, as well as his advisers. They are all clearly operating out of their depth.
#27 March 25, 2011 at 10:56 pm
S. Wolf commented:

aprilnovember811 #1

Yes..

‘Al-Qaeda’s offshoot in North Africa has snatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there, Chad’s president said in an interview to be published Monday.

Idriss Deby Itno did not say how many were stolen, but told the African weekly Jeune Afrique that he was “100 percent sure” of his assertion.

“The Islamists of al-Qaeda took advantage of the pillaging of arsenals in the rebel zone to acquire arms, including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries in Tenere,” a desert region of the Sahara that stretches from northeast Niger to western Chad, Deby said in the interview.

Elsewhere in the interview, Chad’s president backed the assertion by his neighbor and erstwhile enemy Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that the protests in Libya have been driven in part by al-Qaeda.

“There is a partial truth in what he says,” Deby said. “Up to what point? I don’t know. But I am certain that AQIM took an active part in the uprising.”‘

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/25/143013.html
#28 March 25, 2011 at 11:00 pm
S. Wolf commented:

bg #10

re: i’m still for removing Qaddafi asap..

all due respect and I don’t give a flip about Qadaffi but..

‘By instigating a military operation at his whim, Obama has created a situation at home where many conservatives are spending their time either applauding him– “Bad dictator, must go” — or bathing in the warm soup that Obama’s over-reached and will be, somehow, undone and hoist by his own petard. With their conservative blinders on they overlook the many months between now and the possible inauguration of some candidate acceptable to them in late January of 2013, some 21 months in the future.

A man with a much more reactionary bent to his thinking, such as myself, would note that 21 months is an extremely long time to have a rogue ego and malicious mind actively guiding and making the day-to-day, life and death, decisions of the nation. Twenty-one months of appointments, foreign policy, executive orders, and the odd military adventure here or there, can add up to a lot of problems unless your goal is the weakening of the United States. In that case, it might just be enough time after all.

Even Obama’s most rabid supporters outside of his army of apparatchiks must surely sense that there is something “off” in the psychic structure of the current president. Most attribute it to his “yearning” to make the country ‘worthy’ of it’s place at the head of the nations. I suggest that it is something alarmingly dark and destructive. I suggest it comes from a psyche that, for many, many reasons stretching back to infancy, is so structured that it loathes the country down to its marrow, much as the psyche must loathe itself, and that is working, daily, on dismantling the nation with nothing except pure malicious intent. Why? Because it can.

Do I know this for a certainty? I cannot say, but “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design.”’

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/presence_of_malice.php
#29 March 25, 2011 at 11:06 pm
rumcrook commented:

jimmy carter and his birthing of radical islamist iran cant hold a candle to the pan national chaos and islamist take overs zero the pResident will birth over the next several months…

hold on its gonna be a bumpy couple of decades
#30 March 26, 2011 at 12:01 am
james commented:

harry reid declares that the war in libya is lost.
#31 March 26, 2011 at 12:03 am
Sheerkon commented:

Thats what took obama so long….he had to make sure the “opposition” was allied with an anti-american terrorist group before he made any decision.Goes along with his decision to back the terrorist muslim brotherhood in egypt,al queada in yemen,while ignoring the vast actual pro-freedom protestors in Iran.This guy is a total ,yet subtle,pro-jihadist.
#32 March 26, 2011 at 12:32 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

i’m really surprised that qaddafi and the rebels are fighting. didn’t they hear obama’s speech in arizona?
#34 March 26, 2011 at 8:06 am
Andreas K. commented:

I’m only going to say this: D’OH!

I mean seriously… How can anyone be surprised? It was so blatantly obvious. Hello! It’s islam! WTF do people expect?
#35 March 26, 2011 at 8:26 am
bg commented:

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elhrac #23

and CNN et al doesn’t have a pro-Islamist agenda??

look, what’s that they say..

KNOW YOUR ENEMY??

how would you know what AJ-E’s agenda
is if you don’t watch it, i do, do you??

ipso fact: so far, AJ-E has been the BEST source with the most ACCURATE info re: protests around the globe, including here in the US of A btw..

so you tell me who the useful idiots are, the ones who access as much
info as possible, to the ones who call others useful idiots for educating
themselves??

bottom line: AJ-E is not a “religion”..

in case you haven’t noticed, there are many other info sources, heck, i must
have linked to at least a few hundred myself over the years, so get a reality
grip..

btw, i don’t have cable news, but have noticed a slight change in the little bit of local news or PBS shows like Newshour that i do catch once in awhile.. seems as if AJ-E may have shamed them into reporting things i’ve never heard them report before.. like what’s really going on on the ground in these countries.. not Pallywood stuff, as a matter of fact, AJ-E goes above & beyond “accepting” everything reported as being “written in stone” so to speak.. they really do ask the tough questions people like you have been squawking about other stations not asking, go figure..

last but not least, your Alinsky tactics won’t work on
me, lets just say “been there done that” since 9/11..

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#36 March 26, 2011 at 8:29 am
bg commented:

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re: #35

to the ones = or the ones

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#37 March 26, 2011 at 8:39 am
Richard Aubrey commented:

I want to know if Obama has an iron-clad plan to protect the Tripoli Historical Museum from looting.
#38 March 26, 2011 at 8:45 am
bg commented:

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S. Wolf #28

you have to know that you’re not telling me anything i don’t
already know, not to mention have posted about myself…

btw, Obama also jumped the gun (with Egypt..

albeit he played a lot of a poker, Obama, as with everything
bass ackwards, is all for showing hands then raising stakes..

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#39 March 26, 2011 at 8:55 am
bg commented:

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rumcrook #29

that’s about what Bush said..

btw, right or wrong, and w/out having to write a freakin’ novel.. i believe once the Middle East / Africa is truly free, there will be no need for AQ et al.. you see, the reason AQ et al flourishes is because so many in the Middle East / Africa are not FREE.. if they continue to kill each other off, less for US to worry about.. besides, we already have more to worry about than they do, we have a more or less Global Sharia Proponent sitting in the Oval Office, that’s when he’s not too busy partying, vacationing, or golfing..

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#40 March 26, 2011 at 9:01 am
bg commented:

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btw, i beleive Obama mentioned “bloodbath” in his latest speech..

get ready, i believe it’s code-word for another home-based “crisis”..

bit more here, as well as all over GP and the net..

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#41 March 26, 2011 at 10:58 am
S. Wolf commented:

bg #38

Sure I know, I said all due respect.
#43 March 26, 2011 at 11:08 am
bg commented:

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S. Wolf #41

well, you had me scratching my head, because that’s how i usually start
off when in disagreement, not to mention what you started off with..

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#45 March 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm
S. Wolf commented:

bg

We are in agreement, there is no disagreement.. the part of your comment ‘removing Qaddafi’ just reminded me of the article I posted that speaks to the malice Zero holds for America. It is less for you and more for others, e.g. Peter King he of the so-called hearings into Islam who supports the Libya military dance or kinetic motion. Oftimes I and others post stuff not to contradict or disagree with you and others but to reinforce what we know, and it is all to help the clueless learn their fate if Zero and his cabals have their way..
#47 March 26, 2011 at 5:40 pm
bg commented:

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S. Wolf #45

okay, thanks..

re: Peter King

btw, Mr. Beldsoe @ the 2 hour 36 minute mark.. WOOT!!

more here and here and here..

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#50 March 27, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Vesco commented:

Please check this sunday Miami Herald article, search: “Hifter new Libyan rabel leader”
Great stuff, he’s been living outside D.C. for the last 20 years with no job….uh huh, yeah….
Since arriving in the United States in the early 1990s, Hifter lived in suburban Virginia outside Washington, D.C. Badr said he was unsure exactly what Hifter did to support himself, and that Hifter primarily focused on helping his large family.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/26/2136063/new-libyan-rebel-leader-
spent.html#ixzz1Hqa9XH8z

What’s the bet Hifter will have connections to U.S. Muslim movement and financial support from an organisation linked by $$$$ to the Tides Foundation, such as CAIR?
#51 March 27, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Harleypyrate02 commented:

“There came into Egypt a Pharaoh who did not know.”