Al Qaeda LIFG terrorist Abdul Belhaj writes column for London Guardian Newspaper

A cruel terrorist is now a newspaper writer. Perhaps this is the way the western elite are trying to control the world with their new strategy by openly employing former terrorists as head of governments. The western elites have been using this tactic for a long time, earlier with Saddam, Mubarak and others. First by replacing them as head of governments and then getting rid of them, it’s going to be the same fate of the current NTC Libyan puppet leader and terrorist.

 

Global elite defile memories of “War on Terror” dead, humor terrorist Belhaj who fought and killed Western troops. Photo: The face of Libya’s “rebels” is literally Al Qaeda. The Western world now enters surreal territory as men who have verifiably killed Americans are writing pro-NATO propaganda for British newspapers.

by Tony Cartalucci

One would think Abdul Belhaj, leader of Libya’s NATO-backed seizure of Tripoli a month ago would be an overly busy man. After all, the city itself is still not secure enough to move the alleged “National Transitional Council” there to preside over the war torn nation, and rebel forces 85 miles southeast near Bani Walid have been soundly defeated and are now slinking away from the battlefield. Meanwhile, the “final, final” siege of Sirte looks to be once again stalled, and now civilians fleeing the brutalized city are claiming NATO and rebels (western media incorrectly call them “revolutionaries”), not Qaddafi, are committing genocide against the civilians of Libya. [1]

However, Mr. Belhaj has had time, apparently, allegedly, to draft a lengthy editorial titled, “The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not,” gladly published by the London Guardian, where he is allowed to go on at length, whitewashing what is essential a life-long career in terrorism and expound the merits of the wholesale mass murder he and his cohorts, under NATO cover, are committing against the Libyan people. Belhaj, for those that don’t know, is a founding member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an official Al Qaeda affiliate, and listed by both the US State Department [2] and the United Kingdom Home Office [3] as a foreign terrorist organization and proscribed terrorist organization respectively. LIFG was the subject of a lengthy report issued by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center [4] regarding foreign fighters turning up in Iraq killing US and British soldiers, LIFG and more specifically, the Benghazi-Darnah region of Libya lending more fighters to Iraq per-capita than any other nation, including Saudi Arabia.

Image: Terrorist Op-Ed. The Guardian affords Belhaj, commander of LIFG, a US/UK listed terrorist organization ample room to praise NATO’s efforts in Libya and give stern warnings to those that threaten to impede his “freedoms.”

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Belhaj’s Gaurdian piece, worded suspiciously more like a US State Department PR release than an essay by an Al Qaeda terrorist, verbatim touches on each and every point made by the US, UK, NATO, and found within UNSC r.1973. Belhaj maintains that in 2010 he was released from Libyan prison after promising to abandon his campaign of terror in Libya, only to go on to lead armed insurrection against the Libyan government months later in February of 2011. Belhaj claims that the revolution turned violent only after Qaddafi used force against protesters – this is a verified lie, as Belhaj and his LIFG have been in continuous US/UK-backed armed conflict with Qaddafi’s government for over 30 years.

Belhaj, after this initial, seemingly scripted litany of lies goes on to make veiled threats against the new “transitional government” over the dangers of “excluding” members of the “revolution.” He then thanks the “international community” presumably NATO who literally handed the country to him – NATO whose soldiers he was literally killing in the mountains of Afghanistan, and whose soldiers his fellow LIFG fighters were killing in Iraq, and whose member states captured, imprisoned and tortured him. Belhaj looks forward to Libya becoming a “politically, economically and socially advanced civil state” and a “dynamic player among the family of nations.” Compared to the secular leaders Belhaj claims to fear will undermine his and his followers’ “freedom” one must wonder where exactly the divergence in ideology is, as both seem to relish the concepts of globalization [5].

One doesn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or scream. Not just because of the obvious fraudulent propaganda the guardian is trying to pass off as the words of a stone cold killer with the writing prowess of a statesman, or the fact that the Guardian, even as a hoax, is affording column space to the leader of a listed terrorist organization who we are told is part of a decade long war that has cost millions their lives, liberty, national stability, and economic prosperity. It is the fact that the Guardian, along with the rest of the corporate media is trying to literally rewrite reality and paradigms they have forced down our throats for decades with new narratives so ridiculous and contrived it is an assault against human dignity.

The Guardian itself is a corporate-owned propaganda machine, a member of the unelected policy think-tank Chatham House [6], along side a myriad of other media, corporate, and financier interests that in reality shape our national and global destiny rather than the politicians we think we elect to represent us and our interests. Think-tanks like the Chatham House represent the collective interests and agenda of the world’s most powerful elite. They are the literal architects and helping hands that propel the global elite’s agenda forward, as clearly the Guardian is now in trying to rewrite the narrative regarding the 1o year ongoing “War on Terror” by whitewashing and elevating one of the war’s most notorious terrorists by either giving him column space, or ghost writing a column in his name.

Quite truly if Belhaj wrote this farcical, verbatim repeat of US State Department talking points regarding Libya and its future, one must wonder what prompted Belhaj to fight in the mountains of Afghanistan against US troops in the first place. Surely what is good for Libya is good for Afghanistan. We must also wonder why this terrorist and his organization, apparently enamored with the idea of fitting into the “family of nations” were fighting in Iraq against nations he is now thankful toward. More than likely Belhaj has been turned into another fictional character upon the stage of globalist theater, confounding an ignorant public with well-written statements giving well-intentioned people exactly what they want to hear, however debased from logic or reality it may be.

And above all, let us remember this is not only “Obama’s War” but a war of the global elite including big oil, big banks, the military defense industry, and many of the “Neo-Conservatives” that helped engineer the “War on Terror” during Bush’s “administration.” In fact, some of the most vehement supporters of Obama’s war in Libya have included John McCain [7] who was literally praising the Benghazi terror brigades in person, and the remnants of the Bush era “Project for a New American Century.” [8]

The “War on Terror” is a war on free humanity by the criminally insane. Civilians, police, and military alike, who adhere to any code of honor must face the reality that their leadership has lost all legitimacy and needs to be expediency removed from power. Hard decisions are coming as the insanity becomes ever more acute. A certified terrorist writing columns for a British newspaper regarding a war that is supported by both “left” and “right” political establishment should ring alarms and conjure horror in even the most skeptical of minds.

[1] The Australian, “Civilians accuse NATO of massacre in Sirte raids” September 28, 2011
[2] US State Department, List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, #26 Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
[3] UK Home Office Proscribed Terrorist Groups, page 5
[4] 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) report
[5] The Future of Libya: A View from the Opposition, Brookings Institution May 12, 2011
[6] Chatham House, Standard Corporate Members, listed as “Guardian, The”
[7] Senate.gov, Statement by Senator McCain in Benghazi, Libya April 22, 2011
[8] Foreign Policy Initiative, Foreign Policy Experts Urge House Republicans to Support U.S. Operations in Libya, June 20, 2011
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Captured Libyan soldier: “Qaddafi gave us Dignity, I would die a thousand times for him”

Wounded Libyan soldiers at Mitiga Hospital in Tripoli on August 28

“I myself would die a thousand times for Qaddafi, even now,” said Faraj Mohamed, a 20-year-old soldier from Sirte, lying in a hospital in Tripoli as a prisoner of the Libyan rebels. “I love him because he gave us dignity, and he is a symbol for the patriotism of the country.” At moments when the rebel guards were out of earshot, Mr. Mohamed said he fought on, fearful of a future without Colonel Qaddafi. He warned what would happen if the rebels take over Libya: “Murder and killing and stealing and chaos.” “What is happening now is because of the rebels, not Qaddafi,” Mr. Mohamed said. Mr. Mohamed, his leg in a cast and a wound on his back, lay with five other captives in a prison unit of the Mitiga air base hospital, with an armed guard in the hall. The rebels call them prisoners of war, but Mr. Mohamed was the only one who admitted to fighting for Colonel Qaddafi. Two fellow patients said they were migrant workers, from Niger and Somalia, who had been falsely accused of being “mercenaries”. Another patient, a Libyan, said he had simply been shot in the street. “I am innocent,” he said. Another was handcuffed to his bedrail. Mr. Mohamed mentioned how many remember that when Colonel Qaddafi took power in 1969 Libya was a poor and almost entirely undeveloped nation of Bedouin herders whose oil wealth appeared to enrich mainly the foreign companies that exploited it. Qaddafi pursued development programs that helped turn Libya into a primarily urban country. He said Colonel Qaddafi had brought Libyans self-respect by kicking out foreign colonialists; under Colonel Qaddafi, Libyans celebrated a national holiday every year on the day the United States evacuated the air base that included the hospital where Mr. Mohamed was held. Then there was the special patronage — buildings, roads, schools, hospitals, jobs — lavished on Colonel Qaddafi’s two former hometowns, Sirte and Sabha. Sirte flourished as Colonel Qaddafi’s favorite place to hold conferences, Mr. Mohamed said of the Mediterranean port city that is his hometown as well. “Sirte really loves Qaddafi,” he said. “And they will fight for him.” But he also professed a high-minded fear that without Colonel Qaddafi’s strong hand to preserve order, the rebels would drag Libya into chaos. In a Tripoli neighborhood supportive of Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Mohamed recalled, he met residents who “said they were scared the rebels would rape the women and kill the men.” Residents fought for the Colonel even after it was said rebels were inside his compound. Also Mr. Mohamed fought on until the next day, when his militia was in a battle and the rebels shot him. “I would sacrifice myself, I would sacrifice my family,” he said. “I would die for Qaddafi.”

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German Solidarity with great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

 

German officials send a Message of Solidarity to the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: “We say NO to any German participation in this War of Terror”

Posted: 2011/08/27

A message of Solidarity from German Resistance Groups to the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:

The imperialist aggression of NATO against Libya nowadays manifests itself to the entire world as a war that aims to destroy the sovereignty of Libya and the Libyan economy. NATO wants to replace Libya’s legitimate government with Western puppets and wants foreign corporations to steal Libya’s wealth.

After months of aggression against Libya by NATO and the NATO-led rebels, NATO now has worked out a plan which has to bring quick “victory”. With massive air attacks and terror against the Libyan civilians they want to secure a speedy advance of the rebels.

Now that the Libyan army is fighting under command of the Great Leader Muammar Al Gaddafi in the streets of Tripoli, NATO is sending special forces from France, Britain, Jordan and Qatar to Libya’s territory to support the rebels on the ground.

We, German people from many walks of life, stand in Solidarity with the Libyan Revolutionary Freedom Fighters against NATO. Long live the Resistance against the Occupiers, long live Free Green Libya!

We demand an immediate halt to the NATO aggression and urge NATO to stop bombing Libya. We say NO to any German participation in this war of terror.

We are Germans who held official positions during the time of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), we are anti-imperialists and we are friends of the Libyan people. We want to engage with them in their fight against the NATO aggression and declare them our loyalty.

Down with the mercenaries and invaders who terrorize Libya – the fight will go on until all of them are defeated!

Solidarity and Comradely Greetings from:

Dr. Angelika and Dr. Wolfgang Bator, former Ambassadors of the GDR in Tripoli until 1989

Helmut Müller, former member of the Central Committee of the SED [German Socialist Unity Party] and second Secretary of the SED district leadership of Berlin

Michael Koth, Anti-Imperialist Platform – District Administration Berlin

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Libya War

In last five months the Libya war has just made the western powers more frustrated. The financial crises which will soon decide fate of many western nations in September 2011, fully depends upon the speedy result of the Libyan war. When I say speedy result, it means the total share of control of Libyan natural resources. This aggression displayed by NATO, US and its allies only proves that our planet, even in the 21st century is not yet civilised. War and bloodshed is still the rule of our era. NATO has waged a Ariel war on Libya, paving clear path for its terrorist ( Al-Qaeda ) rebels. The rebels have to just walk into those destroyed towns and claim victory on behalf of NATO’s Ariel bombing and direct target air strikes. The strategy of declaring No-Fly zone has worked for NATO, US and its allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and now in Libya, as the NATO aircrafts can destroy the air bases and military target. However, the failure on NATO’s part is to establish a legitimate and peaceful governments after those bombing.

One of the greatest features of the Libyan war is that, the Libyan soldiers still maintain their integrity and personal honor to defend its mother nation from the outside imperial hordes. The west might defeat Gaddafi and his army, but the patriotism of the Libyans will soon rise again against these evil invaders.

 For five months, beginning March 19, the armed forces of a small country of six million people dared to defy the most advanced weapons systems on the planet, on terrain with virtually no cover, against an enemy capable of killing whatever could be seen from the sky or electronically sensed. Night and day, the eyes of the Euro-American war machine looked down from space on the Libyan soldiers’ positions, with the aim of incinerating them. “”- By Glen Ford(1)

NATO’s rebels or mercenaries are nothing but a bunch of imported terrorists, well paid to claim as Libyan citizens fighting against Gaddafi. Many neutral journalists have reported that these rebels are Qatari, Yemeni , Egyptian, Jordanian national and NATO special forces on ground.  However the west is trying hard through its propaganda media machine CNN, BBC, Al Arabia, Al Jazeera, Fox news to spread lies around the world. In addition the total cut off of internet connection only stops the real information being leaked out to the outside world. Yet there are many brave heroes in the field of journalism who are passing us with real unbiased information about Libya.  The bankrupt western thieves are trying their best to steal the resources on pretext of protecting humanity from ruthless dictators and to restore democracy. Well the people of Libya were extremely happy under Gaddafi and they never asked any western nation to come and start this evil war.

Foreign reporters including Greece’s Panos Haritos, have confirmed that Tripoli is not under rebel control, that people are fighting for Qaddafi, and that Green Square too is not under rebel control.

The journalists, reporting from the Corinthia Hotel where they have a good view of the city, have confirmed that Green Square is controlled by Qaddafi loyalists.

The green masses also have control in all the areas of east and central Tripoli and also half of west Tripoli.

Also the terrorist rebels don’t control Tripoli airport they use the highway to land small planes for their supplies. This was shown live on TV, with a broadcast failed to be cut off by NATO.

The mercenaries on the perimeter of the Corinthian Hotel and trying to enter Green Square, but the green masses are steadfast in all of Tripoli except Gergaresh and some areas in the west.

NATO-supported rebels entered a hospital and killed all the patients thus committing yet another heinous crime.(2)

What surprises me is that the entire African Union is mum and isn’t raising their protest at UN to stop this war or even to vocally support Gaddafi. Gaddafi has done so many great things for Africa and was the only real leader who could lead Africa against the colonial western evil powers, but I suppose the African Union has succumbed to the pressure of West.

At last reports last night, yesterday another estimated 1,365 foreign invaders and terrorist rebels were killed by the Libyan people and defence.

Most areas of Tripoli, including Abu Slim and the plateau green, and Aziziyah, were safe and under the control of the Libyan Army and the Revolutionary Guard.  Violent clashes were occurring in Tajoura and some areas of the Friday Market (Souk El Jouma).

Dr Franklin Lamb, who resides in a luxury hotel which has remained the first and only to get Internet connection, and for who there are many questions, is not to be trusted, according to our sources.

Others say that after he was shot in the leg, his tune changed. From the view of his hotel room he sees all, but sees nothing.

Lamb has however correctly observed the shallow human nature that is a hall-mark of today’s world. Indeed it is a fact and has been a known fact for decades that those that shout loudest, as the weakest.

This is a reference to the Libyan arm-chair revolutionaries. However, a new generation of young powerful Libyans who have understood the leader, and who have taken up his call, have been baptised by fire.

A battle in the center of Al-jamhoria in Tripoli was finished without casualties to the greens.

Many terrorist rebels were killed as well as foreign mercenaries.

Brega is firmly under the control of the Libyan Jamahiriya. The rebels can’t head one step toward Brega.(3)
America’s Libya war is symptomatic. Aside from its resources and material wealth, demographically its size is less than metropolitan Chicago, considerably less, in fact. As a result, it should have been a military walkover but wasn’t and may not be now, given mass Libyan resistance to imperial control. With this war, is US and Europe creating more fear in less stronger regimes or giving birth to more enemies. US or Europe has no threat from Libya militarily and yet the world was made to understand that Libya was a threat or perhaps the Libyan people wanted democracy. Compared to the people of other African nations or Asia or even west, the people of Libya had better social security and living standards, with an amazing 5% unemployment rate. Gaddafi had worked best strategy to share the natural resources revenue after all expenditures with its people. Something which will never happen in a western nation.

In his book Rogue State, William Blum estimated America tried to overthrow at least 40 foreign regimes since 1945. It also exhibits another rogue characteristic, having the word’s most destructive arsenal, including various type WMDs, besides a military establishment dwarfing all others, and an out-of-control addiction to use it.

It’s also an outlaw state, trashing international law, global treaties and conventions. Choosing military solutions often as a first option, it exhibits classic sociopathic or psychotic symptoms, unable to engage other nations constructively, notably ones it doesn’t control.

As a result, it doesn’t negotiate. It demands, and when checked responds belligerently like a street bully, picking easy targets of lesser size, strength and ability to strike back.

America is a global bully, a rogue state marauder, terrorizing humanity because it can, waging permanent wars in lieu of other ways.

Imagine, America’s been at war with North Korea since June 1950. The July 1953 armistice ended hostilities, leaving a cold unresolved standoff.

Moreover, a cold war raged with Cuba for over 50 years, interrupted briefly by the failed April 1961 Bay of Pigs failure to oust Castro. He’s 85 years old and still around, a legend in his own time, surviving everything America threw at him short of war.

As a result, he’s an inspiration for other leaders to go their own way like he did even though some tried and failed.

He also deplores America’s imperial wars, very much subscribing to the maxim that there never was a good war or bad peace. America’s opposite predilection is ruinous.

Yet policy makers don’t envision or alarm themselves about pursuing unsustainable destructive policies, highlighted by attacking Libya, a small nonbelligerent state, threatening no other, eager to get along.

The injustice is glaring, especially since NATO doesn’t plan liberating Libyans. Persecution and exploitation are coming if killing and destruction end successfully, what Libyans can’t ever stop contesting to be free.

On August 17, the London Guardian quoted former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev saying:

“Stop the bombing. Stop the killing. Stop the destruction. It’s degenerated into killing people and destruction, and I think this is really defiance. It’s defiant behavior.”

Let’s go to the United Nations and discuss whether the current policy is acceptable. I say no. Poor democracy. Under the flag of democracy all kinds of things are done.”

Often, it’s lawless, ruinous, lethal, roguish, and through the barrel of a gun, not good faith efforts for peace, social justice, good will and fairness. – by Stephen Lendman(4)

“They have torn apart a country, and it wasn’t Gadafi who did it. They have set the country ablaze, and it wasn’t Gadafi who did it; no, it was precisely imperial madness and capitalism’s global crisis who did it” – Chavez

On Wednesday Venezuela’s ambassador in Libya denounced the looting of his official residence by armed men, calling the assault “a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty” by “NATO itself.” The  governments of Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, among other ALBA nations, denounced the violent attack as a “breach of international law,” as did Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV).

 

Speaking to TeleSUR on Wednesday, Venezuelan Ambassador to Libya Afif Tajeldine explained that “a group of armed men” had shot their way in to the official residence, “began searching the house and asking for me,” before “looting all things, including the vehicles, the entire house, leaving nothing in the residence and shooting in the air as they left.”

 

“This is an act that violates international law, since this site is part of our territory, Venezuelan territory, which they must respect as such,” said the ambassador.

 

This breach of international law, affirmed Tajeldine, “was carried out by armed groups supported by NATO, leading us to consider it a violation, by NATO itself, of our sovereignty.”

 

According to NATO and western powers Gaddafi was supposed to fall in March 2011, but today 26 August 2011 and his power is still intact. Even if Gaddafi is captured or killed, there is still extended tribes loyal to Gaddafi and they will bounce back sooner or later with larger scale devastation on the occupying forces and on west. Libyan soldiers, I consider them true heroes of this war, as they have remained loyal to the regime despite weaker military strength against the much stronger western force and terrorist rebels who are backed and covered by atleast 20000 sorties in last five months. For these rebels it was just a walk in the park to take over bombarded locations in Libya. With no support from any other nation or even a strong vocal protest in UN the loyal Gaddafi soldiers have really fought a hard battle and are still resisting the modern weaponry of west.

“Independent of the internal situation in Libya,” said Chavez, “nothing justifies this outrageous act, a disregard for the world, a threat towards the entire world.”

 

NATO humanitarian mission is clearly bombing the living daylights of the civilians. Once the war is over Libya will not enter a new era of Democracy, but will be ripped apart by colonial invaders and internal tribal wars. NATO assured to restore the infrastructure and carryout wide scale developments. Oh yes, we can see the development that have been carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan in last two decades.

 

Gaddafi gave up his weapons of mass destruction program and surrendered to the West in political and economic areas in 2003, but Libya still suffered military attacks from Western countries.  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently said publicly that it has proved to be a right decision for Iran not to abandon its nuclear program. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has also said publicly that the Libya war shows it is absolutely necessary for Russia to build up its military forces and to enhance national security. The two leaders’ remarks have shown the negative effects of the war in Libya. The war has sent a strong signal to anti-West state leaders: once they become the enemies of the West, they should either completely capitulate as soon as possible, or develop sophisticated weapons to ensure their own safety. As more and more anti-West leaders preferring to the latter choice, the world is facing larger risk of re-entering a “political jungle.”

 

A negotiated settlement in Libya was deliberately avoided for months while NATO, in violation of UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 1970 and 1973, illegally pursued regime change. NATO chose sides, intervened in a civil war and morphed into the air force for the rebels, who could not have succeeded but for NATO’s attacks. The reasons for the US/NATO intervention in Libya keep changing. First it was about the potential for a massacre in Benghazi. When the massacre did not materialize and once the war against Libya was underway, the reasons for intervention changed.

 

We were reminded Libya had spent ’forty years under a tyrant.’ We were urged to remember the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, which occurred 23 years ago this December 21st. Yet almost 20 years later, on November 18, 2008 the Associated Press reported that President George Bush called Colonel Gaddafi personally “to voice his satisfaction that Libya has settled a long-standing dispute over terrorist attacks, including the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland.”

 

On December 19, 2003 Libya voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapon-making capability and on January 6, 2004 ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Its relationship with the US on the mend, Libya then opened up to international investment and began the wholesale privatization of its industries, leading to massive unemployment and dissatisfaction with the state of things, particularly among younger Libyans.

 

 

I mention this not to sympathize with Colonel Gaddafi’s brutality or to minimize the great tragedy of Flight 103. But if the US had come to terms with Gaddafi’s past violence, why does the Obama Administration invoke it as justification for an attack on Libya? One conclusion could be that the reasons for the March 2011 attack were bogus.

 

Once into the war, the Administration promptly passed off nominal responsibility for the war to NATO, after beginning the war without congressional authorization. NATO became the beneficiary of US funds, US war planes, US drones, US bombs, and US intelligence assets.

 

NATO violated UNSC resolutions. The Obama Administration violated the US Constitution by bypassing Congress on the war. These are not mere academic matters. They have moved the world community from the rule of law to the rule of force and have set a precedent for NATO to become the new global-cop. Far from bringing a new level of security to the world scene, NATO has brought a new level of insecurity and unaccountability.

 

Refrences :-

(1) From the article of Glen Ford

(2) & (3) From Mathaba News an independant unbaised news agency

(4) From – Obama’s War on Humanity by Stephen Lendman

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