“When asked whether there are men inside the NTC that are affiliated with terrorist groups, the senior defense official admitted, ‘Yeah, probably’.” We tried to tell you. More on this story. “Libya the new terrorist haven?,” by Chris Lawrence for CNN, September 14: Terrorist groups are trying to set up for a long-term presence in […]
NATO now warns Libya could fall into hands of “Islamists,” as rebel chief promises Sharia as main source of legislation
We tried to tell you. With another Wilsonian adventure well underway, our political establishment learned nothing in Iraq about trusting the thin veneer of a moderate, tolerant society that peeled off like cheap car window tinting as soon as the regime fell. Western governments proceeded on a rank oversimplification of “good” and “bad” sides in […]
Prominent imam tells thousands in Tripoli: New Libya should be governed by Sharia
The rebels have won the support of the West with generalities about freedom, liberty, justice and human rights, but it is Sharia that will determine the specifics. It will not be the academic-exercise, vaporware conception of what Sharia could, would, or ought to be; it will not be the prototype on someone’s drawing board, but […]
Libyan missiles looted; “they could turn all of North Africa into a no-fly-zone”
“Grinch SA-24s are designed to target front-line aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and drones. They can shoot down a plane flying as high as 11,000 feet and can travel 19,000 feet straight out.” We’ll see them again, only next time, they’ll be airborne. Great Libyan Jihadist Garage Sale Update. “Exclusive: Libyan missiles looted,” by Ben Wedeman […]
Report: Al-Qaeda branch has acquired Libyan surface-to-air missiles, threatening air travel
More steals and deals at the jihadist garage sale of the century. “Qaeda offshoot acquires Libyan air missiles: EU,” from Agence France-Presse, September 5: Al-Qaeda’s north African branch has acquired a stockpile of weapons in Libya, including surface-to-air missiles that are threatening air travel, the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator said Monday. Due to the turmoil in […]
Jihadists plot to take over Libya
I tried to tell you. “Jihadists plot to take over Libya,” by Bill Gertz in The Washington Times, September 4 (thanks to Block Ness): Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. officials said […]
Revealed: Blair and Brown lied — they released Lockerbie bomber because Gaddafi threatened jihad
They said that they were releasing him for humanitarian reasons, but now the truth is out — as well as the astonishing sycophancy and dhimmitude of the Blair and Brown governments. “Devastating secret files reveal Labour lies over Gaddafi: Dictator warned of holy war if Lockerbie bomber Megrahi died in Scotland,” by Ian Birrell in […]
Relax! Libya’s rebel commander downplays his jihadist “past”
No, really, this time will be different. When and how, pray tell, did he have his awakening to the values of a modern civil society? He promises Libya will shun “extremism,” but that is a uselessly relative term among the many platitudes the rebels have spouted off to reassure their Western backers about freedom, rights, […]
Peter Hitchens on Arab Spring: “It looks to me pretty much like a football crowd armed with AK-47s and bazookas, with the added ingredient of Islamic militancy. Why am I expected to like it?”
What he said. Indeed, NATO’s intervention in the Libyan revolution is the apotheosis of fantasy-based policy making, driven by the expectation of realizing a politically correct fairy tale narrative that must end “happily ever after” because someone has invoked “freedom.” “We’re cheering on a football crowd with AK-47s, who could be worse than Gaddafi,” by […]
Libya: Father slits throats of three daughters raped by Gadhafi’s troops
As we noted in a prior report on the risk of honor killings and rape in Libya, this is the population from which a tolerant, pluralistic civil society is supposed to spring forth now that it’s no longer hindered by a lone autocratic weirdo. A democracy is only as good as the values that inform […]