Sunday, September 11, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Barack Obama: Aiding, Abbeting, Comforting and Fighting Alongside America's Enemies
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links
5:00PM GMT
25 Mar 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.
Somehow I am not comforted to know America's firepower is being used to help al-Qaida "patriots" and "good Muslims" achieve political and military control of Libya.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Furst's Fits I
It would appear that the Rochester Post-Bulletin's managing editor's full time occupation after hours is to sniff around for me in cyberspace.
Censors are nothing if intellectual cowards. Old school journalists are on their way out and not a moment too soon. They refuse to see that their medium is dying but their devotion to the dead tree format of news is more ardent than ever. Their intolerance for views that differ from their own is patently obvious. The only ones they are deceiving regarding their self-proclaimed "fairness" and "civility" are themselves.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
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