Libyan rebellion has Islamic supremacist flavor

The Obama Administration is considering coming to the aid of America-hating Islamic supremacists. "Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor: Benghazi link to Islamic militancy:U.S. Military Document Reveals," by Daya Gamage for the Asian Tribune, March 17 (thanks to Twostellas):

Well known to the United States policymakers in Obama White House and Clinton State Department along with the National Security Council but not widely known to American mainstream media, the U.S. West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center document reveals that Libya sent more fighters to Iraq’s Islamic militancy on a per-capita basis than any other Muslim country, including Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps more alarmingly for Western policymakers, most of the fighters came from eastern Libya, the center of the current uprising against Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The analysis of the Combating Terrorism Center of West Point was based on the records captured by coalition forces in October 2007 in a raid near Sinjar, along Iraq’s Syrian border.

The eastern Libyan city of Darnah sent more fighters to Iraq than any other single city or town, according to the West Point report. It noted that 52 militants came to Iraq from Darnah, a city of just 80,000 people (the second-largest source of fighters was Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has a population of more than 4 million).

Benghazi, the capital of Libya’s provisional government declared by the anti-Qaddafi rebels, sent in 21 fighters, again a disproportionate number of the whole.

If the 2007 captured records revealed the Eastern Libyan participation in the anti-coalition forces militancy in Iraq one could imagine the Banghazi-Darnah export of Islamists since then.

“Libyans were more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Arabic-speaking world,” Andrew Exum, a counterinsurgency specialist and former Army Ranger noted in a blog posting recently. “This might explain why those rebels from Libya's eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya's rebels.”...

Indeed.

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Democracy in Islam means that the mullahs are free to oppress the common Muslim in a truly Islamic fashion.

A crazy dictator may be better than a caliphate dictator.

Not "may be" but "is":
These new boys fancy themselves as revolutionaries. That gives "revolutionaries" a bad name. They are in fact devolutionaries. The biological definition of devolution is degeneration, as in devolution from secularism to Islam.
The 50% of muslims represented by the fairer sex will rue the disappearance of the "dictators" as the new leaderships quickly plug the dictators' un-islamic loopholes. Muslims prefer death to life or so their imams tell me. They should not be given any assistance from the West, least of all military. Who are we to interfere in the early ascent of these devolutionaries to paradise? They give us oil and terrorists and we give them food and cellphones. It's called trade, and in the case of Islam, it is absolutely wrong for us to attach any moral qualifiers.

Interesting article, but...do we say that any country that had people go to Iraq does not deserve democracy? After all, our own country (USA) had citizens go to support Muslim fundamentalists (John Walker Lind).

Why I agree that we don't want to support a group of people that aim to destroy us, it seems that there are more likely to be terrorists and anti-US fighters if we support the corrupt and anti-democratic regimes.

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I dunno...this is a tough call. Kaddafi vs the Muslim "revolutionaries" seems like a Predator vs Alien situation. The best outcome would probably be if Kaddafi wiped out the fundamentalists, but during the last battle he and his entire family were themselves wiped out. Let Allah decide which of the two groups gets to claim the 72 virgins when they arrive in jannah at the same time.

You only need to look at Saddam pre-1991 to realize what an assest we threw away. That tyrannical bastard hated Islamists, promoted women, protected Christians and if it weren't for the face of showing an Arab popular anti-semmitism, would have protected Jews too.

Of course he didn't. Saddam persecuted Jews, Kurds (who rebelled against him) and even my own Christian brethren for supporting a seperate Assyrian identity.

Now Qaddafi is nowhere near as good as this. Yet if we think this dog is bad, the dhimmi-hating and terror loving will only get worse once he leaves.

If the fact that Qaddafi is the lesser of two evils is a disgusting reality to behold, we can only blame to the fullest the collapse of our Western culture and the loss of the knights of Malta!

heya, Exiled Assyrian - Chaldean


mate, in your experience, will we see a quick and settled change in government in any of the states involved? i agree with your "lesser of 2 evils" statement. my theory has always been that all of them will be in chaos for years. the russian pres. quoted as saying "the region will burn for decades."

in your opinion, will the scramble for power be long and protracted or violent in most places due to religious bigotry and faction fighting/warring? i also agree that attacks on western soil carried out by fanatics will skyrocket.. but the real devastation will be in the form of religion based violence and civil war.

how much of a role will this sort of factionalism take?

thanks

james

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