Jihadist groups are allied with the National Transitional Council anyway. They would not have thrown in their lot with the NTC unless there were something in it for them, and there has been plenty.
This, of course, is the same NTC that won't extradite al-Megrahi. One can't help but note that the timing of his turn for the worse is convenient amid the fall of Tripoli and pressure to hand him over. Time is clearly not in his favor where his cancer is concerned, but time will also tell if he is a lucky son-of-a-gun, saved by the bell, as it were, from extradition and prosecution, or how this situation may have been manipulated for a sympathetic photo-op as well. The clock will eventually run out, but he's been "at death's door" before, only to play "ding-dong-ditch."
The prisoners, on the other hand, lucked out. They didn't even have to call in sick. "Islamic militants among prisoners freed from Libyan jail," by Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank for CNN, August 26:
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist.
The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison by Moammar Gadhafi's regime during the height of the insurgency in Iraq, according to Noman Benotman, once a senior figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.
It's not known how many prisoners were held in the vast facility. Human Rights Watch said Gadhafi's prisons "have been filled to the limit in the last few months with thousands of people who were arrested for taking part in the anti-Gadhafi protests, or because of their suspected support for Libya's democratic opposition."
The human rights group, which recently had a team visit the prison, estimates that before the uprising, there were a few hundred Islamists held at Abu Salim.
Benotman said many of the militants released are pro-al Qaeda.
"Nobody knows what these released prisoners are going to do next," he said. "Will they take part in the fighting and if they do will they join pre-existing rebel brigades or form a separate fighting force?"
Benotman, now a senior analyst at the Quilliam Foundation in London, said the freed prisoners are Salafists, embracing a puritanical interpretation of Islam that has gained ground in Libya in recent years.
Gadhafi's regime imprisoned thousands of suspected pro-al Qaeda militants after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq stoked radicalization in Libya, especially in its impoverished eastern provinces. According to Benotman, those rounded up by the regime included militants who had tried to travel to Iraq and some who had returned from fighting against U.S. forces there. He said many of them had already been released by the Gadhafi regime.
Internal al Qaeda in Iraq records seized by the U.S. military in 2007 indicated that proportionately more Libyans traveled to fight with al Qaeda in Iraq than from any other Arab country. Some saw fighting in Iraq as a "a last act of defiance against the Gadhafi regime," according to a confidential 2008 State Department cable made public by the website WikiLeaks, because of the rapprochement at the time between Gadhafi and the United States.
Wednesday's prison release, which occurred as rebel forces took control of the Abu Salim area of Tripoli, comes as Islamists are taking on an increasingly prominent role in the fight against the Gadhafi regime -- to the concern of some in the West....
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
OT but relevant:
Folks, everybody: there is a remarkable movie showing now in the US, "The Wistleblower". I urge everybody to see it while it is on.
In my Old Country, the Soviet Union, I was an anti-Communist, and used to be pleasantly surprised every time there was an unusually candid opinion voiced in a Soviet newspaper, or on TV. And I admired Solzhenitsyn for speaking the full truth about Stalin's terror. Personally, Solzhenitsyn, with his bigotries and other flaws was far from perfect. Every time he tried to philosophize, or, even worse, prophesize, things went haywhire. His whole value was that of a courageous witness.
Now, after having lived in the US for 29 years, I am suddenly having a Solzhenitsyn moment again. Once again, I am shocked. Shocked by courageous, pure, undiluted truth of that movie. Shocked to have it here, in the "free" West, for our US media, government and other elites make the Soviet propaganda and Communists of old look like honest preschoolers. The movie, though, is not American but Canadian and German. As one of the few people here who actually know the truth about the Balkans, I was mesmerised from the 1st minute of that film to the last. It is just so unusual to hear pure truth in this country. Told from the silver screen, for the whole world to hear. The movie is based on a true story as told by Kathryn Bolkovac, an American woman cop who took a job with IPTF, the UN "international police" in Bosnia. As soon as she arrived there, she stumbled into the horror of sex-slavery on a huge scale. The "police" she joined, mostly American cops like herself, and DynCorp and other American "contractors", are the clients of the sex-slave industry, AND partners in it, getting pay-offs from the slaveowners, all Bosnian Muslims and Croats. American rapists and child-rapists with "diplomatic immunity", free to rape, torture and murder with total impunity. And Kathy, the only honest American there, alone against that evil. She "blew the wistle", reporting the crimes of her fellow "police", only to discover the futility of working within the system, ALL of which was "IN" in that criminal enterprise. The more she tried, the more she realized the sheer scope of evil. Imagine: THE WHOLE U.S. State Dept., THE WHOLE UN, THE WHOLE U.S. military there, soldiers and generals alike totally aware of the sex-slave industry, and provide TOTAL PROTECTION to it. American soldiers, along with cops, rape captive women and underage girls in the slave brothels, as do State Dept. and UN personnel, as do huge hordes of American "pro-democracy" and "HUMANITARIAN" ( ! ! ! ) "activists", the countless "non-profits" vermin, as do "NGOs" officially on "HUMANITARIAN" ( ! ! ! ) missions, SPECIALIZING ON AIDING HUMAN-TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ( ! ! ! ). THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SOCIOPATHS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE, WHO HAD MONOPOLIZED NOT ONLY THE ABUSE OF THE VICTIMS, BUT ALSO THE WHOLE "HUMANITARIAN" FIELD THAT IS SUPPOSED TO AID THOSE VICTIMS. And the only decent human being who genuinely tries to help the victims, Kathy, is up against the unholy horde. With astonishing honesty, the movie shows it all: the American evil at all levels, the abuse and murder of women and girls, the dump sites of the victims' bodies in the Bosnian wilderness, the powerlessness and voicelessness of the victims' greaving families in the impoverished post-Soviet Ukraine ruined by "democracy". But Kathy gave them voice. She had smuggled the victims' case files that she had compiled out of IPTF and, miraculously, was able to attract publicity to the horror. And now, another heroine, the first-time director, Larysa Kondracki, took it to a whole new level with her movie. Larysa had diligently done her homework, conducting her own investigation in the Balkans, interviewing hundreds of surviving victims and other witnesses. Then she got together with Kathy and created this heroic motion picture based on Kathy's testimony. All the power to those girls.
Folks, don't miss this movie. It is an extraordinary event.
The more people it awakens to the sheer scale of evil that our US gov.'t and other Western democratically elected governments did in owr name, the better. Kathy was definetely awaken. She was so disillusioned with her own country, the United States of America, that she now lives in the Netherlands with her Dutch boyfriend. And it looks that she is in the right place, for it is in the Netherlands that a graet awakening is happening, led by hero Geert Wilders and his glorious Freedom Party. Kathy should join them. This courageous girl, with her knowledge, can be a great asset to this Resistance movement.
As you can see here, Larysa had actually toned down the reality of the "liberated" Bosnia, because she was afraid people will not believe it. In reality, the sex-slavery was so brazen, IT WAS IN PLAIN SIGHT. UN officials took underage slave girls to their offices IN THE UN HEADQUARTERS IN BOSNIA to rape them.
God bless Larisa. The movie had told the truth to the whole world now, and the UN and Western sociopaths can no longer ignore it. For the 1st time ever, the UN secretary general had acknowledged it in his personal letter to her, expressing his "sadness" and telling her he will have a special screening of her movie in the UN Plaza:
http://www.straight.com/article-425506/vancouver/blowing-whistle-sex-rings
All that mass-rape is being conducted by the very same Western sociopaths who LIED about Serb "rape-camps" in Bosnia. Read this remarkable expose, an incomplete list of actual lies by the US and European media about "Serb atrocities" in Bosnia. Prof. Dolecek names names that read as who-is-who in the Western media, provides the "newspapers" and TV networks, exact dates of articles and TV news broadcasts, precise quotes, and calls the famous media "stars" liars. Isn't it grounds for a lawsuit? But the "stars" don't dare to sue. Because they are damned by their own lies, documented in video and print. And everything Dolecek says is true. Every word. Read this man's piece. Read and realize how brazenly do your "mainstream media" lie to you. Pay a special attention to the "rape camps" hoax told to CBS by one of those severely screwed-up American females who lie to get attention:
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Kosovo/hoax/articles/Dolecek.html
This piece was written in 1999. Kathy had made her horrendous discovery in 1999. And in 1999, the Western democracies led by the United States in England had embarked on an even greater evil, waging yet another war of aggression on Serbia, after falsely accusing it of "atrocities in Kosovo".
It is now known that most of our Western governments' and media vermin's tales of "Serb atrocities in Bosnia" were deliberate lies. But in Kosovo, 100% of the allegations were lies. When it comes to lying, the Western democracies out-Hitlered Hitler with his Gleiwitz hoax that he used as an excuse to invade Poland. Driven by the Muslim-appeasing pathology, the Western democracies bombed and destroyed Serbia, destroyed the Christian Serb holy places thoughout Kosovo, murdered Serb Christians and their children, drove the survivors out of Kosovo, and put in power the rabidly racist, sadistic, genocidal Kosovar Albanian KLA terrorists. Organ harvesters. Mass child-rapists. The Kosovar Albanians, despite their small numbers, took over the sex-slavery network created by the Bosnian Muslims and Croats in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania, and took it to a whole new level. The local mobsters in those countries are now "subcontracting" for the Albanians, supplying young women and girls to them. And the enormous Kosovar Albanian sex-slave empire has now reached every corner of Western Europe. The Albanian-run mass-rape industry is now especially rampant in England who played an evil role in the slander, scourging and crucifiction of Serbia. The victims, including underage girls, are kept in line through fear, but also through the threat to harm their families back home. One little girl who tried to run away, was captured and then put on the phone with her mother back home in Ukraine. A local Ukrainian "subcontractor" mobster tortured her mother, and the child was forced to listen to the mother's screams. Untold thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of young victims have been crowd-raped to death, or murdered for trying to escape, or because they have been too worn-out by too many rapes, and no longer had "rape-quality". There are unknown body-dumping sites where the victims' dead bodies are being disposed of. Even compared to Bosnia, in Kosovo the evil had risen exponentially. Take the worst evil in Bosnia and multiply it 1,000 times. This is the "liberated" Kosovo.
The unspeakable evil the US, England and other Western democracies did unto the Serb people, and not only the Serb people. The evil.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.
Pandora's Islamic box opens once more.
Will most of them stay in Libya, or will a number of them take a trip across the water to settle in European countries? It certainly seems to be the case that many of Gaddafi's sub-Saharan mercenaries will be heading to 'Europe', particularly the UK, to seek a better material standard of living under cover of claiming 'asylum': http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-i-want-to-go-to-europe.html
"Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Triumph of the 'Bulgarian Nurses Affair' Cabal"
(by Diana West)
http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10265/pub_detail.asp
A common thing Muslims do when gaining the upper hand...release the terrorists...it has happened many times in many places. It their way of proving Islam is a religion of peace and they will kill you to prove it.
Hundreds of Islamist militants were among...
Just what is an Islamist militant, anyway? That's the question to axe. But Islam is a mysterious thing that can only be answered with a question: are there non-militant Islamists, does such a thing even exist?
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A critical review of naming in the Opinion Programming industry's important work with Moslemism exhibits a nonsensical streak, as if the writer cannot resolve the facts of his topic.
The subtext to all of this is that the facts of the matter are not patently clear already, for all to see, if one is willing to take a look at them and acknowledge them.
Of course there were Serb atrocities in Bosnia, Mostar, Tuzla, Dubrovnik, and Sarajevo.
You're sick, you need help.
Courreges W:
KLA Madam:
Throwing in the same lies again and again will not help YOU.
Nothing will help you.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.