"After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, a computer expert known as Abu Anas al-Libi fled with other al-Qaida operatives to Iran. After several years, he managed to leave the country under murky circumstances and make his way to the lawless areas of northwest Pakistan."
The Sunday Globe turned my two printed pieces regarding the simultaneous raids in Somalia and Libya into one NYT pos, so I'm not going to go with something based on a lie. What is truly interesting is the telegraphing of the agenda-pushing propaganda both before and after the raids.
"Libya demands explanation after US raid captures terror suspect" by Carlotta Gall, David D. Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Kulish and Eric Schmitt | New York Times, October 06, 2013
TRIPOLI, Libya — A day after U.S. commandos carried out raids in two African countries aimed at capturing fugitive terrorist suspects, Libya’s interim government on Sunday demanded an explanation from Washington for what it called the “kidnapping” of a Libyan suspect. In the capital, Libyan civilians and political officials reacted with surprise and confusion.
On Saturday, U.S. troops assisted by FBI and CIA agents seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Liby, a suspected leader of al-Qaida, on the streets of Tripoli.
See: AL-LIBI CAPTURED
At around the same time, a Navy SEAL team raided the seaside villa of a militant leader in a predawn firefight on the coast of Somalia.
Abu Anas was indicted in 2000 for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and had a $5 million bounty on his head.
“It was a good thing,” said a businessman in Tripoli who asked to be identified only by his given name, Hassan, referring to the capture of Abu Anas. “These men are the main reason we are facing issues like this, and they should be taken out of the country. Even my friends were happy to clean the country of those terrorists.”
Libyan officials and members of Parliament said they could not comment on the raid because they did not know all the facts. Other Libyans said they were angered that the raid had caught their government by surprise and that foreign troops were conducting military operations in their country. They also expressed concern that Islamists would retaliate, perhaps by attacking the U.S. Embassy here, and that the Americans would strike back, leading to an escalation in violence.
Related: What Made Libyans Mad?
Related: What Made Libyans Mad?
In Somalia, the SEAL team emerged before sunrise from the Indian Ocean and exchanged gunfire with militants at the home of a senior leader of al-Shabab, a Somali militant group. The raid was planned more than a week ago, officials said, after a massacre by al-Shabab at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 60 people two weeks ago.
Related: Kenyan Crap
Related: Kenyan Crap
The SEAL team was forced to withdraw before it could confirm that it had killed the al-Shabab leader, a senior U.S. security official said. Officials declined to identify the target.
Officials said the timing of the two raids was coincidental.
Meaning it was coordinated.
But occurring on the same day, they underscored the rise of northern Africa as a haven for international terrorists. Libya has collapsed into the control of a patchwork of militias since the ouster of the Moammar Gadhafi’s government in 2011. Somalia, the birthplace of al-Shabab, has lacked an effective central government for more than two decades.
Meaning it was coordinated.
But occurring on the same day, they underscored the rise of northern Africa as a haven for international terrorists. Libya has collapsed into the control of a patchwork of militias since the ouster of the Moammar Gadhafi’s government in 2011. Somalia, the birthplace of al-Shabab, has lacked an effective central government for more than two decades.
On Sunday, Libya’s government called for more information regarding the American operation.
“As soon as it heard the reports, the Libyan government contacted the United States authorities to demand an explanation” for “the kidnapping of a Libyan citizen,” the government said in a statement.
The demand appeared to contradict the statements of U.S. officials Saturday that the Libyan government had played some role in the seizure of Abu Anas.
We are such liars!
His capture signaled a significant break with Washington’s previous reluctance to send U.S. Special Operations forces into Libya to capture wanted terrorists or suspects in the deadly attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi in 2012.
See: Obama's Alphabet Scandals: At the Bottom of Benghazi
The U.S. government had refrained from such interventions for fear of setting off a backlash that could destabilize or overwhelm Libya’s fledgling transitional government, which is still struggling to muster a viable national police force or military.
We are such liars!
His capture signaled a significant break with Washington’s previous reluctance to send U.S. Special Operations forces into Libya to capture wanted terrorists or suspects in the deadly attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi in 2012.
See: Obama's Alphabet Scandals: At the Bottom of Benghazi
The U.S. government had refrained from such interventions for fear of setting off a backlash that could destabilize or overwhelm Libya’s fledgling transitional government, which is still struggling to muster a viable national police force or military.
But U.S. officials have now apparently run out of patience, potentially signaling a new willingness to try to apprehend suspects in the Benghazi attack, as well.
Islamists in Benghazi, where false rumors of an imminent U.S. raid have been frequent, said anyone who might feel threatened by such a raid had gone into hiding or prepared themselves after reports of the Tripoli operation. “Of course people are worried about it in Benghazi,” Sheik Mohamed Abu Sidra, an influential Islamist leader there, said in an interview Sunday.
Apparently they were not false.
Apparently they were not false.
By noon, calls had begun for street protests against the raid or against the interim government for allowing it. Many Libyan Islamists already accuse their interim prime minister, Ali Zeidan, who previously lived in Geneva as part of the exiled opposition to Gadhafi, of collaborating too closely with the West.
Those are always our guys!
Those are always our guys!
But on social media, some Libyans, fearful of the influence al-Qaida or other militants might have in their country, were sympathetic to the U.S. military action, faulting their own interim authorities for failing to apprehend well-known terrorist suspects or otherwise maintain law and order.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel indicated Sunday that the U.S. would not hesitate to take similar action in the future. “We will continue to maintain relentless pressure on terrorist groups that threaten our people or our interests,” he said, in the statement, “and we will conduct direct action against them, if necessary, that is consistent with our laws and our values.”
Despite his presence in Libya, Abu Anas was not believed to have played any role in the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, senior officials briefed on that investigation have said, but he may have sought to build networks connecting what remains of the al-Qaida organization to like-minded militants in Libya.
That is where my print copy cut it.
His brother Nabih told The Associated Press that just after dawn prayers Saturday, three vehicles full of armed men approached Abu Anas’ home and surrounded him as he parked his car. The men smashed his window, seized his gun and sped away with him, the brother said.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who is representing President Barack Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali, thanked the U.S. military personnel who carried out the raids.
“We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror, and those members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can’t hide,” he said Sunday while visiting the port village of Benoa. “We will continue to try to bring people to justice in an appropriate way with the hopes that ultimately, these kinds of activities against everybody in the world will stop.”
Unless it is done by our guys.
Unless it is done by our guys.
The raid in Somalia was the most significant by U.S. troops in that lawless country since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, an al-Qaida mastermind, near the same coastal town four years ago. The town, Baraawe, a small port south of Mogadishu, is known as a gathering place for al-Shabab’s foreign fighters.
Witnesses described a firefight lasting more than an hour, with helicopters called in for air support. A senior Somali government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “The attack was carried out by the American forces, and the Somali government was pre-informed.”
How many civilians were killed?
How many civilians were killed?
A spokesman for al-Shabab said Saturday that one of its fighters had been killed in an exchange of gunfire but that the group had beaten back the assault. U.S. officials initially reported that they had seized the Shabab leader, but later backed off that account.
Anybody out there as sick of AmeriKan military lies as me?
Anybody out there as sick of AmeriKan military lies as me?
A U.S. official said that no Americans had been killed or wounded and that the Americans “disengaged after inflicting some Shabab casualties.”
Meaning we killed civilians.
Meaning we killed civilians.
“We are not in a position to identify those casualties,” the official said. Though Hagel acknowledged the Somalia operation in a statement Sunday, he did not describe its outcome.
Asked about the raid, Somalia’s prime minister said Sunday that his government was working with international partners and neighboring states to combat al-Shabab, Reuters reported. “We have collaboration with the world and with neighboring countries in the battle against al-Shabab,” Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid said.
What the website put out:
"Libya demands answers over raid targeting Al Qaeda figure; Operation called a kidnapping" by Carlotta Gall | New York Times, October 07, 2013
TRIPOLI, Libya — A day after US commandos carried out raids in two African countries aimed at capturing fugitive terrorist suspects, Libya’s interim government demanded an explanation from Washington on Sunday for what it called the “kidnapping” of a Libyan suspect.
In the capital, Libyan civilians and political officials reacted with surprise and confusion.
On Saturday, US troops assisted by FBI and CIA agents seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Liby, a suspected leader of Al Qaeda, on the streets of Tripoli. About the same time, a Navy SEAL team raided the seaside villa of a militant leader in a predawn firefight on the coast of Somalia.
Abu Anas was indicted in 2000 for his role in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and had a $5 million bounty on his head.
He is being interrogated while in military custody on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said. He is expected eventually to be sent to New York for criminal prosecution.
The floating dungeons are STILL ACTIVE, huh?
"A team of military, intelligence, and Justice Department interrogators has been sent to the USS San Antonio to question Abu Anas, the Associated Press reported, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials. He is being held under the laws of war, which means a person can be captured and held indefinitely as an enemy combatant, one of the officials said."
And incredibly, they got the wrong guy! They picked up an innocent pizza worker, and the entire family was arrested by Iran after coming from Pakistan?
Related: GOP to Obama: Send Libyan suspect to Guantanamo
Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers
Except there is nothing there.
Obama: US will bring al-Libi to justice
Did Obama swap 'black' detention sites for ships?
I couldn't find those pages in the Boston Globe?
Abu Anas is seen as a potential intelligence gold mine, possessing perhaps two decades of information about Al Qaeda, from the group’s early days under Osama bin Laden in Sudan to its more scattered fragments today.
Related:
"Abu Anas al-Liby’s capture this month was seen as a potential intelligence coup.... In a separate counterterrorism case Monday, British law enforcement agencies said they averted a plot to orchestrate a large-scale terror attack similar to the assault on Kenya’s Westgate mall, the Associated Press reported. Police were questioning four men in their 20s on suspicion of terrorism after they were detained Sunday in raids led by intelligence agencies. A British security official said the men were planning a shooting spree akin to the Westgate attack in Nairobi, in which at least 67 people died. It was not clear how advanced the planning was, but an attack was not imminent, the official said. Metropolitan Police did not identify the suspects but said they were all British nationals with roots in Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria, and Azerbaijan."
And I never saw another word about it.
Btw, what is with the spelling change? The i a little to obvious?
The decision to hold him and question him for intelligence purposes without a lawyer present follows a pattern used successfully by the Obama administration with other high-value terrorist suspects.
Related: Libi case shows US tenacity, plus commitment to justice
So sayeth the Boston Globe!
So why did he look so frail when he appeared before a judge?
Libyan officials and members of Parliament said they could not comment on the raid because they did not know all the facts. Other Libyans said they were angered that the raid had caught their government by surprise and that foreign troops were conducting military operations in their country. They also expressed concern that Islamists would retaliate, perhaps by attacking the US Embassy in Libya, and that the Americans would strike back, leading to an escalation in violence.
In Somalia, the SEAL team emerged before sunrise from the Indian Ocean and exchanged gunfire with militants at the home of a senior leader of Al Shabab, a Somali militant group. The raid was planned more than a week ago, officials said, after a massacre by Al Shabab at a shopping mall in Nairobi that killed more than 60 people two weeks ago.
The SEAL team was forced to withdraw before it could confirm that it had killed the Al Shabab leader, a senior US security official said. Officials declined to identify the target.
Also see: Fear of Al Shabab squeezes African port town
US raid on target in Somalia hit snags
The raid took on new urgency after Westgate.
Officials said the timing of the two raids was coincidental. But occurring on the same day, they underscored the rise of northern Africa as a haven for international terrorists. Libya has collapsed into the control of a patchwork of militias since the ouster of the Moammar Khadafy’s government in 2011. Somalia, the birthplace of Al Shabab, has lacked an effective central government for more than two decades.
On Sunday, Libya’s government called for more information regarding the operation.
“As soon as it heard the reports, the Libyan government contacted the United States authorities to demand an explanation” for “the kidnapping of a Libyan citizen.”
The demand appeared to contradict the statements of US officials Saturday that the Libyan government had played some role in the seizure of Abu Anas.
His capture signaled a significant break with Washington’s previous reluctance to send US Special Operations forces into Libya to capture wanted terrorists or suspects in the deadly attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi in 2012.
The US government had refrained from such interventions for fear of setting off a backlash that could destabilize or overwhelm Libya’s fledgling transitional government, which is still struggling to muster a viable national police force or military.
But US officials have apparently run out of patience, potentially signaling a new willingness to try to apprehend suspects in the Benghazi attack, as well.
Islamists in Benghazi, where false rumors of an imminent US raid have been frequent, said anyone who might feel threatened by such a raid had gone into hiding or prepared themselves after reports of the Tripoli operation.
There were calls Sunday for street protests against the raid or against the interim government for allowing it. Many Libyan Islamists already accuse their interim prime minister, Ali Zeidan, who previously lived in Geneva as part of the exiled opposition to Khadafy, of collaborating too closely with the West.
But on social media, some Libyans, fearful of the influence Al Qaeda or other militants might have in their country, were sympathetic to the US military action, faulting their interim authorities for failing to apprehend well-known terrorist suspects or otherwise maintain law and order.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel indicated Sunday that the United States would not hesitate to take similar action in the future. “We will continue to maintain relentless pressure on terrorist groups that threaten our people or our interests,” he said.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who is representing President Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Bali, thanked the US military personnel who carried out the raids.
“We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror, and those members of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can’t hide,” he said Sunday while visiting the port village of Benoa.
More staged and scripted shit?
Of course, since Libyan liberation torture and war crimes are rampant, bombs are going off, checkpoints are being attacked, and banks are being robbed. Only the Russians seem to know what to do.
Meanwhile, over in Somalia there is a polio epidemic and the doctors have left. You can't eat out in Somalia no matter where you go, but you can starve in silence -- but at least the U.S. is getting those Al-CIA-Bob terrorists who can no longer tweet!
"Along with Adam Gadahn in Pakistan, who was a former Osama bin Laden spokesman, Omar Hammami was one of the two most notorious Americans in jihadi groups, according to a report Saturday by SITE Intel Group, an American private company that analyzes terror threats."
How shocking to see the name Adam Gadahn in my jewspaper.
Also see:
SITE Institute
Jewish Media Group, SITE, is the first to release another Islamic threat video
How shocking to see the name Adam Gadahn in my jewspaper.
Also see:
SITE Institute
Jewish Media Group, SITE, is the first to release another Islamic threat video
In a word, yes.
Maybe you feel I've snubbed you with this post and coverage, and for that I am sorry.
Maybe you feel I've snubbed you with this post and coverage, and for that I am sorry.
