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Sunday, October 6, 2013

The wonderful world of political jigsaw puzzles


From CNN:
....Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- The wife of an accused al Qaeda operative captured by U.S. forces told CNN that masked men ambushed her husband when he was on the way home from morning prayers.
While U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Abu Anas al Libi "one of the world's most wanted terrorists," al Libi's wife described him a different way in an exclusive interview with CNN on Sunday.

Umm Abdul Rahman called al Libi an innocent man, adding that he left al Qaeda in 1996 and had no connection to the twin 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Al Libi was among those indicted for the attacks by a federal grand jury in New York, and U.S. officials and terrorism analysts hailed news of his capture.
Meanwhile, Libya's interim government distanced itself from the operation and called the U.S. capture a kidnapping.
Rahman told CNN she didn't know who had taken her husband -- only that the raid she watched happen from her Tripoli home happened very quickly.
Al Libi was returning to his house at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday (12:30 a.m. ET) when a group of at least 10 men in four vehicles surprised him, his wife told CNN. Some of the men were wearing masks, while others weren't, she said. Those men looked like Libyans to her and they spoke Arabic with Libyan accents, she said.
"What I saw were Libyans. Maybe they had Americans with them, but I didn't see them because there was more than one car. They say there were 10 people involved, but I believe there were more than 10," Rahman said. "I couldn't count them because there were many of them. I can't confirm if they were Americans or not, but what I saw were Libyans. "..........

From TelegraphUK:
....British MPs to ask why al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Anas al-Libi was given asylum in the UK.  Questions will be asked in Parliament as to why Abu Anas al-Libi, who was captured by US special forces in Libya, had previously been allowed to live in Britain from where he eventually fled.
MPs are to question the Home Secretary Theresa May as to why one of the world's most wanted al Qaeda terror suspects, captured by US special forces this weekend, was previously given political asylum and allowed to live in Britain.
.....Al-Libi, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqaie, was given asylum in Britain in 1995 and it is alleged he helped plan the twin attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998 in which 224 people were killed.....
.....On Sunday it was revealed that al-Libi had been hiding "in plain sight" in Tripoli despite a $5 million bounty having been put on his head by the US......

From LibyaHerald:
 ...US officials have said that the team that seized Ruqaii were American and that the abduction had been carried out with the knowledge of the Libyan government. It has denied it.
In a statement today, the Libyan government said it was “closely monitoring” the news relating the kidnapping of Ruqaii and had asked for an explanation from the US embassy as to what happened. It said that it was not involved and gave no permission for the abduction......

From WeeklyStandard:
...The authors of “Al Qaeda in Libya:   A Profile” identified key personalities and al Qaeda-linked militias, including Ansar al Sharia, which are working to acquire territory. In Benghazi, the scene of a terrorist attack that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012, Ansar al Sharia is firmly entrenched. The group even controls security checkpoints. Elsewhere in Libya the situation is much the same. In Sirte and Derna, for example, Ansar al Sharia and its al Qaeda-linked allies have become dominant players.
In other words, there are good reasons to think that the plan AQSL set in motion for Libya is coming to fruition. And there are also good reasons to suspect that Anas al Libi, Zawahiri’s man in Tripoli, helped oversee the operation.....

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