I’d want to be notified if this happened to someone in my family, before it appears on TV.
It’ll be good to hear them once they’re back home—nice to know who these ‘rebels’ are that we’re fighting for.
F-15E Strike Eagle cost = $32 million in 1998, in 2011 close to $100 million to replace.
Want to know who they are?
“In spite of this, other volunteers continue to join the jihad. Nevertheless, not just any Libyan takes up the call to arms. The vast majority of those who have gone to fight in Iraq have come from the east of the country from in and around Benghazi. These fighters include jihadis such as Khalid Buisha who was killed in Fallujah in 2004 and Muhammad Abd al-Hadi Muhammad who was arrested in Iraq around the same time [2]. The fact that most of the Libyan volunteers have come from the east is no coincidence. Benghazi has traditionally been a center of rebellion against the al-Qaddhafi regime. It is a highly conservative area that has been kept purposefully underdeveloped, and for this reason it has developed into the main center of Islamic activism in the country. It represented the core of the militant Islamist groups that appeared on the Libyan scene in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).”
This is from 2006 so it is not politicized by the current events.
Al Qeda must be laughing their *sses off.