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Jihadis who fought U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan now enjoy American support in Libya
The Washington Examiner ^ | 03/26/2011 | Byron York

Posted on 03/26/2011 11:14:35 AM PDT by caldera599

Evidence is emerging that United States forces are waging war in Libya on behalf of rebels whose ranks include jihadis who fought against the U.S. in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, a leader of U.S.-supported rebel forces in the fighting around Adjabiya, went to Afghanistan in 2002 to fight against the "foreign invasion" -- that is, U.S. troops who invaded Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11 attacks. The Telegraph says al-Hasidi told an Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, that he was captured in 2002 in Peshawar, Pakistan. "He was later handed over to the U.S., and then held in Libya before being released in 2008," the Telegraph reports. Al-Hasidi also told the Italian paper he recruited about 25 Libyan men to fight against U.S. forces in Iraq.

Al-Hasidi's story is consistent with evidence presented in a 2007 report published by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. That report, by professors Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, examined records of an al Qaeda-affiliated organization found after an October 2007 raid near Sinjar, Iraq. The records contained biographical information about nearly 700 foreign terrorists who came to Iraq to fight against the United States between August 2006 and August 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: islam; jihadis; libya; westpointreport

1 posted on 03/26/2011 11:14:39 AM PDT by caldera599
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To: caldera599

Schmucks and idiots in the WH.


2 posted on 03/26/2011 11:18:43 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: caldera599

Ain’t that a kick in the pants... Welcome to the New World Order.


3 posted on 03/26/2011 11:23:13 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: caldera599

The madness in the White Hut on display for all the world to see.


4 posted on 03/26/2011 11:26:56 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: caldera599

How is this different from having Jihadis down the twin towers and then the Democrats put one of them in the White House. Do we still deserve to be a nation?


5 posted on 03/26/2011 11:28:03 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: caldera599
Well, Hillary was always against the US cause in Iraq.

Now she's openly siding with the same forces in Libya.

6 posted on 03/26/2011 11:32:08 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: caldera599

CENTCOM vs AFRICOM


7 posted on 03/26/2011 11:46:14 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Steamburg

“Do we still deserve to be a nation?”

I don’t know about you but I do.


8 posted on 03/26/2011 11:46:21 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Don Corleone
>>>>>>>>The madness in the White Hut on display for all the world to see.>>>>>>

it's not madness, it is sleeper cell at work Obummer Sunstein Power Hitlery have same common denominator

9 posted on 03/26/2011 11:50:45 AM PDT by DTA
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To: DTA
"CENTCOM vs AFRICOM"

I can see the movie preview 10 years from now:

"Have a front row seat overlooking the skies of Lybia, as forces from U.S. Central Command and their NATO allies, hunting Al Qaeda supporters, do battle with U.S. Africa Command and their NATO allies, defending Al Qaeda supporters! A DOCUMENTARY SURE TO GARNER AN ACADEMY AWARD!"

10 posted on 03/26/2011 12:22:14 PM PDT by LZ_Bayonet ( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
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To: DTA
...it's OK ...they have been rehabilitated in the 12 step 0bamination program.
11 posted on 03/26/2011 12:58:57 PM PDT by spokeshave (Half-American, non natural-born, starts war without Congress OK, while on vacation in Brazil.)
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