Democracy dies in Islamist propaganda.
Forget Jamal Khashoggi. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, found an even worse Jihadist to rally behind.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on Libyan Islamist commander Salah Badi, accusing him of undermining security by directing attacks on groups aligned with Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord.
The U.S. State Department said Badi had also been placed under financial sanctions by the U.N. Security Council’s Libya Sanctions Committee, and the listing requires all U.N. members to impose an asset freeze and travel ban
The Treasury said in a statement that Badi’s militia forces had used highly destructive Grad rockets in densely populated areas in the latest round of fighting in the capital Tripoli in September.
Here are the UN sanctions. Here are the Treasury sanctions.
In September 2018, militia forces under Badi’s command battled rival militias, despite repeated calls from the UN for all sides to adhere to a ceasefire. Among those killed in the fighting were members of the ambulance and emergency services in Tripoli.
But there is literally no Qatari propaganda on behalf of Jihadists that the Washington Post won’t run.
Cue a Washington Post article, “He once attacked Tripoli. Now a Libyan militia leader defends it from another invader.” I won’t link it because I don’t believe in spreading Jihadist propaganda.
But here’s a sample of part of the opening.
Today, Badi is one of Tripoli’s defenders. He fights for the very U.N.-installed government he tried to oust. That government, in turn, is backed by some of the Western powers that imposed sanctions on him.
And the militias Badi once battled? They are now his allies.
“We take selfies now,” chuckled the stout, 61-year-old militia commander, silver-haired with a goatee.
What’s the actual difference between the Washington Post and Al Jazeera?
“George Washington led a militia,” Badi said, peering through large black rectangular spectacles, his hands fiddling with a chain of worry beads. “I am the George Washington of Libya.”
Walter Duranty eat your heart out.
The Washington Post never mentions that Badi is an Islamist except when it’s trying to exculpate him.
Badi denies allegations that he is a hard-line Islamist. “We don’t want extremists to use Islam in ruling the country,” he said.
This is foul even for the Washington Post, which turned Osama bin Laden’s old pal, Jamal Khashoggi, into a free speech martyr, which insists on pushing the Yemen famine hoax, and routinely echoes the Qatari position on the Middle East.
But here the Post is whitewashing an Islamist who used rocket attacks on civilian areas that killed ambulance workers.
Is there really nothing Jeff Bezos won’t countenance?
Christianblood says
But the US government itself supported the brutal jihadists that overthrew Qaddafi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI
CRUSADER says
The H was and still is silent about the truth of “BengHazi”….
Angemon says
The terrorist-sponsoring Qaddafi?
CRUSADER says
Forget the drama queens….
this pearl of a beauty queen
is more intelligent, at age 20,
than the lot of libtards mentioned above!
One really smart cookie.
Zhu deserves her own journalistic show
on Fox News Network
or on Fox Nation.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-pro-trump-beauty-queen-kathy-zhu-miss-michigan-pageant
CRUSADER says
Khashoggi was a jihadist of the pen, and promulgated the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Libya is so unsettled.
At least some of the American efforts met with heroism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxBd2RQI4eQ
CRUSADER says
Shadow Warriors Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZjl0ivhBY
jarmanray says
Mrs. Clinton will go down in history as the worst American Secretary of State in history. While America has had a fair number of inept people to hold that position in which Madilyn Albright comes to mind, Mrs. Clinton helped her boss create the stage that brought down Gaddafi who had become friendly to the US after President Reagan obtained his attention. She was an integral part to the “Arab Spring” and its spreading of the Muslim Brotherhood that led to the Syrian war of internecine and subsequent Muslim invasion of Europe and to a lesser degree the US and Canada. Not to deviate too far afield but I still would like to ask Mrs. Clinton how Ambassador Chris Stevens was supposed to contact her about the unfolding catastrophe in Benghazi when she had no CLASSNET or OPENNET system account. I was the Information Management Officer at an embassy and I was completely unaware that the caption, “FOR SECSTATE,” meant nothing since she was not on the system and she certainly would not have received a message from any ambassador since such correspondence is at a minimum classified “CONFIDENTIAL and usually SECRET.”
gravenimage says
Washington Post runs glowing profile of Libyan jihadi sanctioned by US for rocket attacks on ambulance workers
………………….
Just despicable.
SAFI says
It isn’t just Qatar. Turkey is also behind the Muslim Brotherhood government of Tripoli. Without Turkey supporting it in all sorts of ways(first and foremost militarily) Tripoli would have fallen long ago. The opposing side (the “Libyan National Army” of General Khalifa Haftar) is mainly supported by Egypt and probably also by some EU countries (especially France).