Has anybody yet determined what the politics of the rebels might be? Do we have any idea who they are? Or what they intend to do?
I thought not.
I hope they KaDaffy extra-dead!
Let's ask Jimmy Carter - He is really gud at figuring out radical mussies.
>>> Has anybody yet determined what the politics of the rebels might be? Do we have any idea who they are? Or what they intend to do?
Considering the Libyan rebels are run by our own people I would suppose they know.
This heist was a long time in the making.
Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/26/111109/new-rebel-leader-spent-much-of.html#ixzz1SELwb7TX
He lived in Vienna, Virginia which is five miles from Langley. Vienna is a suburb that is the home to a very high concentration of US govt employees and contractors. A company town really. A close relation of mine who was a senior military officer had his home there.
A 2001 book, Manipulations africaines, published by Le Monde diplomatique, traces the CIA connection to 1987, reporting that Hifter, then a colonel in Gaddafi’s army, was captured fighting in Chad in a Libyan-backed rebellion against the US-backed government of Hissène Habré. He defected to the Libyan National Salvation Front (LNSF), the principal anti-Gaddafi group, which had the backing of the American CIA.
He organized his own militia, which operated in Chad until Habré was overthrown by a French-supported rival, Idriss Déby, in 1990.According to this book, “the Haftar force, created and financed by the CIA in Chad, vanished into thin air with the help of the CIA shortly after the government was overthrown by Idriss Déby.”
The book also cites a Congressional Research Service report of December 19, 1996 that the US government was providing financial and military aid to the LNSF and that a number of LNSF members were relocated to the United States.