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NATO commander: Signs of al-Qaida in Libyan rebels
Yahoo ^ | 3/29/11 | Lolita C. Baldor and Donna Cassata - ap

Posted on 03/29/2011 9:21:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – As the United States and other nations build ties with Libyan rebels and leaders of the political opposition trying to oust Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, intelligence suggests al-Qaida and other terrorists have a small presence within the opposition group, a top military commander said Tuesday.

Adm. James Stavridis, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, told Congress that officials have seen "flickers" of possible al-Qaida and Hezbollah among the rebel forces, but at this point no evidence there are significant numbers within the group's leadership.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; flickers; islam; libyan; nato; rebels

1 posted on 03/29/2011 9:21:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

No surprise.

obama is using the US military to remove the obstacles to an islamic empire.


2 posted on 03/29/2011 9:30:53 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: farmguy

Sadly, there’s a very real possibility that is true.


3 posted on 03/29/2011 10:03:44 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The only thing higher than Obama's chin, is his ass facing West five times a day.)
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To: farmguy

Sad, but true.


4 posted on 03/29/2011 10:40:52 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: NormsRevenge

This has been public knowledge for weeks.

In Rumsfeld’s terms, a known known.

Sad but true, as already noted.


5 posted on 03/29/2011 10:47:25 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: NormsRevenge; Kenny Bunk; Shermy

The good general seems to have been perusing his thesaurus.

Flickers, indeedy. Not AQ fighters, jihadis, “elements”, loosely affiliated units, but flickers, like sparks of fireflies on a summer night in the country. How sweet. Not emanations, coronas or penumbras, but flickers.

So sweet and descriptive it’s got me verklumpt.

So it’s official. The USA supports Al Kayda.

Inshallah. Obama has brought us all closer together.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 11:10:23 AM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: NormsRevenge

So the same guys we are helping in Libya are shooting at our troops in Afghanistan.

Wonderful....


7 posted on 03/29/2011 12:12:23 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: NormsRevenge

You don’t say? Well, I’ll be damned.


8 posted on 03/29/2011 12:13:38 PM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: swarthyguy; NormsRevenge; Shermy
And the winner of today's
"NO SHIITE, SHERLOCK?" Award is
Admiral Stavridis!

This means he's automatically in the running for the Kenny Bunk "Thanks for That Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious" Award. (it's pinned to the gluteus maximus with an arrow, at a midnight, torch-lighted ceremony behind the Odd Fellows in Livermore Falls)

9 posted on 03/29/2011 12:51:38 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Anybody notice that BOTH Barry and Michelle were asked off the Illinois Bar? Anybody wonder why?)
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To: swarthyguy
>>>>>>>So it’s official. The USA supports Al Kayda. Inshallah. Obama has brought us all closer together.<<<<<

Barakah بركة means blessing

Blessed is the ignorance of voters who voted for him and vicious are the intentions of those who financed him into WH.

10 posted on 03/29/2011 2:04:09 PM PDT by DTA (CENTCOM vs. AFRICOM)
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