OBAMA BLAMED FOR REBIRTH OF AL-QAIDA 'There is No Government Now, No Law & Order

**AirborneSapper7** · 01-21-2014, 04:19 AM

WND EXCLUSIVE

OBAMA BLAMED FOR REBIRTH OF AL-QAIDA

'There is no government now, there is no law and order'

Published: 1 day ago
JEROME R. CORSI

NEW YORK – President Obama and NATO destabilized Libya politically by allowing al-Qaida and radical Islamic factions to gain control of the country, a Libyan tribal leader told WND.

Sheik Mahmoud Al Sharief, who heads five tribes in the Western mountains of Libya reaching from Tripoli to Tunisia, spoke to WND from Libya in a Skype interview.
“There is a state of anarchy in Libya, he said.
“There is no government now, there is no law and order. Under the old regime Libya was a stabilizing factor in the region, a peaceful nation with a productive economy, but now that the U.S. government and NATO have come in, Libya has become a destabilizing factor in the region, dominated by al-Qaida and al-Qaida related radical Islamic groups.”
He said the “provisional government established by the Obama administration and by NATO is not functioning.”
Based in Benghazi, the National Transitional Council of Libya became the de facto government of Libya during the civil war in which the rebel groups backed by the U.S. and NATO ousted Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011. In August 2012, the NTC formally transferred power to the General National Congress, which is tasked with forming a constituent assembly to write Libya’s permanent constitution.
Al Sharief claimed the current provisional government in Libya constitutes a very weak state that invites al-Qaida extremists a chance to infiltrate and control the country.
Al Sharief said that in his region alone, near Sabratha, roughly 40 miles west of Tripoli, there is a training camp full of al-Qaida members, splinter groups and sympathizers who came from throughout the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, Jordan, Yemen, Sudan, Algeria and Pakistan.

Prime spot to strike West
Rich in oil and strategically located, Libya is “an attractive location for al-Qaida and Islamic radicals to strike against Western interests and Western targets,” he said
Al Sharief noted the country is only a few hours by speedboat to Italy or Greece. It neighbors Algeria and Niger, which both border Mali, where al-Qaida recently had gained strength.
“So al-Qaida is now strong, with massive, heavy weapons, and I’m not just talking about sub-machine guns. Al-Qaida has a lot of cash. And al-Qaida now has the advantage of being able to hide behind the weak state in Libya,” he said.
He noted that last year in Algeria a coordinated band of Islamic terrorists attacked a convoy of gas refinery workers, including foreign nationals and expatriates from the United States, the U.K., Norway and Japan. The four-day siege resulted in the deaths of 38 hostages.
“Right now, there are six major al-Qaida training camps in Libya – in Sabratha, in Sirte, in Misrata, in Derna, in Benghazi and in Sabha,” Al Sharief said.
The population of Tajoura has been chased from their homes by the Misrata militia, he noted, allowing al-Qaida groups to train in the empty city.
There are more than 1.8 million Libyans living in exile, he pointed out, in Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and some European countries.
“This is a result of the campaign by President Obama and NATO to support the so-called ‘freedom fighters who were killing and are now slaughtering the people in a butcher style,” he said.
The country is now in chaos.
“There is no state, there is no government, there is no country,” he said. “No one is in control. There is no law and order. It is anarchy,” he said.
“If you realize the prime minister was kidnapped from his hotel at 3 a.m. in the morning, you will see what a desperate state Libya is in right now,” he added.

Retaliation
On Oct. 10, 2013, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped at gunpoint by a group of men believed to be former Islamic rebels and taken from the hotel in Tripoli where he lived to be driven to an undisclosed location. He was released several hours later after members of a Tripoli-based militia stormed the house where he was being held hostage.
The kidnapping was believed to be in retaliation for a U.S. Special Forces raid that seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqui. Known as Abu Anas al-Libi, he is a Libyan al-Qaida suspect with a $5 million bounty on his head for playing a suspected role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Al Sharief told WND there have been repeated unconfirmed reports in recent months that U.S. Navy ships offshore Libya have been launching unannounced missile attacks on al-Qaida training camps in the country.
He further confirmed a report WND published in December that Abdul Hakim Belhaj, an al-Qaida operative who was a principal organizer of the attack on the U.S. compound and annex in Benghazi, remains a major al-Qaida force in Tripoli.
“Even more than Belhaj, Khalid al-Sharif has been appointed by Prime Minister Zeidan to be deputy defense minister for Libya, even though he is still al-Qaida,” Al Sharief continued. “Ansar al-Sharia, the militant arm of the 17th of February Brigade, is also al-Qaida aligned.”
He concluded the interview with worries about the future of Libya.
“The only hope for the future is for the people of Libya to reunite and to throw these radical Islamic elements out of the country,” he said.
JoAnne Moriarty helped arrange the Skype interview with Sheik Mahmoud Al Sharief.

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**AirborneSapper7** · 01-21-2014, 04:32 AM

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**AirborneSapper7** · 01-21-2014, 10:18 PM

January 21, 2014 By Jim Kouri

Syrian Islamist rebels kill thousands through violence, starvation

United Nations officials last week issued a written statement condemning the repeated blocking of convoys attempting to provide aid to the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where close to 20,000 people are suffering from starvation and disease.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay also noted that armed rebel groups battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military forces had to be warned that widespread executions and unlawful killings are serious violations international law that could lead to war crimes prosecutions. She pointed to reports of mass executions in the northern part of the war-torn Arab country.
In addition, the United Nations claims that it has received reports of a number of mass executions of civilians and fighters who were no longer participating in armed combat in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa by Islamist opposition groups in Syria such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), formerly known at al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQII).
“While exact numbers are difficult to verify, reliable eyewitness testimony that we have gathered suggests that many civilians and fighters in the custody of extremist armed opposition groups have been executed since the beginning of [2014],” said High Commissioner Pillay.
Pillay also stated that international law requires all parties involved in an armed conflict to allow all consignments of essential foodstuffs and clothing intended for children under fifteen, expectant mothers and maternity cases to be delivered unfettered.
Reports suggest that just within the first week of January, numerous civilians were murdered execution-style by radical Muslim groups and affiliates of al-Qaeda. For example, on January 6, in the city of Aleppo, three innocent civilians who were allegedly abducted and by ISIS and held prisoner at its base in Makhfar al-Saleheen were later discovered dead. They had been handcuffed and had bullet wounds in their heads.
Two days later in that same city, numerous bodies were discovered in a children’s hospital which was used as headquarters for ISIS until it was forced to withdraw after a raid by other armed opposition groups.
The OHCHR officials also claim that an eyewitness they interviewed identified at least four local journalists and activists among the dead, as well as captured fighters affiliated with various armed opposition groups.
“The execution of civilians and individuals no longer participating in hostilities is a clear violation of international human rights and international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes,” Pillay stated.
She added that “impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may [also] amount to a war crime.”
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**AirborneSapper7** · 01-25-2014, 01:54 AM

Iraqis flee as al-Qaida takes over

Written by Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief on January 24, 2014

Image taken from a video released 1/10/14 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Photo: AFP).

So much for our efforts in Iraq. According to United Nations officials, as reported by CNS News, more than 140,000 Iraqis have fled parts of Anbar province over clashes between security forces and al-Qaida militants, the worst displacement of civilians in years. More than 65,000 people have fled the conflict in the last week alone.
CNS says Islamic militants controlling a mainly Sunni area west of Baghdad are so well-armed that they could occupy the capital. Can you imagine al-Qaida taking over the entire country?
Nobody can argue that “bringing the troops home” has a lovely emotional appeal. Who would not want to welcome their loved ones back into safety’s warm embrace?
The problem is, that phrase has nothing to do with the actual, serious, hard truth about why we sent our troops away from home in the first place.
When you send troops into battle, you expect them to win, not simply go home when they get tired of the whole thing – or when their Commander-in-Chief wants to score political points. “Conflict” does not end when you leave.
We departed Iraq without a Status of Forces Agreement or a residual force. We left a huge sucking vacuum that al-Qaida is eager to fill. We have abandoned the Iraqi people. Another superb foreign policy move from a president who wanted to improve our nation’s standing in the eyes of the world.
Everything we fought for in Iraq is going south. We fought to give the Iraqi people the freedom to choose their own destiny. And we threw it all away – along with the lives of thousands of American men and women (although that pales in comparison to the million or so American boys and girls thrown in the garbage after abortion every year, but that’s a different article).
All of our actions have consequences. And the very people we set out to help are now even more helpless.

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