And Libya goes on...

[davidbfpo]

Opens with, citing an Italian newspaper story;

Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".....Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being "captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan". He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008.....Mr al-Hasidi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG..

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...eda-links.html

Note this man is not the current rebel commander, rather a small group of fighters were recruited by him.

[JMA]

Opens with, citing an Italian newspaper story;

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...eda-links.html

Note this man is not the current rebel commander, rather a small group of fighters were recruited by him.

I quote from that article:

...al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone and acquired arms, "including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries".

The cost of dithering.