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2014-05-22 Africa North

Ansar Al-Sharia says Hafter is waging war against Islam

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Ansar al-Sharia

#1 I like him already.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-22 03:43|| 2014-05-22 03:43|| Front Page Top

#2 who funds Hafter

is it US; is it the Saudis

Posted by lord garth 2014-05-22 11:07|| 2014-05-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Look up Hafter's background. It's available digging through at the Burg.

Hint: He lived in Northern Virginia for while.

Hint #2: Besoeker is the SME on this.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-22 11:22|| 2014-05-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 They claimed that while they were being accused of terrorism, their assailants were in fact the terrorists.

Terrorizing the terrorist. Well, turnabout is fair play.

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-22 13:17|| 2014-05-22 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Methinks, Haftar has hit a nerve going after the Islamist militias in Benghazi. It is interesting to note the groups condemning Haftar.

It was just a matter of time before someone with the power and the will to do something would finally get tired of the militias and the nonsense of the GNC and do something to solve the unrest in Libya.

If the US is smart (and I doubt anyone but the few guys in the basement at Langley are that smart) the US will come down on the side of Haftar and start pushing Libya toward rationalization.

Libya needs to disarm the militias, get the constitutional congress up and running, and without a bunch of nutjob hardline Islamists writing Sharia everywhere in the constitution, and get a secular government in place with laws that can promote international business.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-05-22 14:38|| 2014-05-22 14:38|| Front Page Top

#6 One can leave one's tinfoil hat safely on the rack and pretty much figure this one out.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-22 14:43|| 2014-05-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "Libya needs to disarm the militias, get the constitutional congress up and running, and without a bunch of nutjob hardline Islamists writing Sharia everywhere in the constitution, and get a secular government in place with laws that can promote international business."

Good luck with that one, Bill. :-(

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-22 15:09|| 2014-05-22 15:09|| Front Page Top

#8 One can leave one's tinfoil hat safely on the rack

Well, there's evidence and there's "evidence."

Plenty of the former, in this instance.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-22 16:41|| 2014-05-22 16:41|| Front Page Top

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