Iran poised for terror campaign against Gaddafi

[windansea]

Iran is trying to prevent Libya from disclosing incriminating details of Teheran's top-secret nuclear weapons programme, by threatening to unleash Islamic fundamentalist groups opposed to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Western intelligence specialists have learned from interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects, captured close to Afghanistan's border with Iran, that a militant group of Libyan extremists is being protected and trained by terrorism experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

The Libyan Combat Islamic Group (GICL) was expelled from Libya by Gaddafi in 1997 after it was implicated in attacks against government targets. At first the group relocated to Afghanistan, where it became closely involved in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation.

After the war in Afghanistan in 2001 the Libyan group was given a safe haven in Iran, together with other North African terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda. Now the Iranians have agreed to provide the Libyan dissidents with expert training to enable them to attack Libyan targets and intensify their campaign to overthrow Gaddafi.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/29/wiran29.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/29/ixworld.html

[bemildred]

1. I reckon we better git them Iranians.

And protect our good friend Gaddafi, eh?

[JCMach1]

2. Sorry, my head is spinning...

:(

[Sugarbleus]

5. You and me both JCM............geeez eom

[GermanDJ]

6. Well, it seems quite logical to me ...

... given that it wasn't the CIA or FBI, which issued a warrant for Usama Bin Laden, but the Libyan police. In March 1998 they informed Interpol about a murder case (two Germans were killed) in which Bin Laden and three other extremists were involved.

I got this information from a very interesting book, "Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy", written by French intelligence experts Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. The book reveals also how the US administration tried to convince the Taliban leaders to comply to their interests (agreeing on the infamous pipeline and handing over Bin Laden) by offering acceptance of the international community in return. Seems that the Taliban wanted a bigger share of the pipeline profits than the US leaders could agree on. Otherwise the Taliban would still be in power, with a much better PR machine behind them however ...

The actual warrant, which was issued by Libya and amended by the US, can be seen on Interpol's website!

[windansea]

7. have a link for that?

[GermanDJ]

8. Here are some interesting links:

I strongly recommend reading the book to get some well researched information about the Bin Laden family and their connections to "The West". They also offer you a look at the work of the secret service.

The alternet-link below is based partly on information from the book and explains the pipeline-deal in great detail. It also works as a time line for the negotiations which led ultimately to the bombing of Afghanistan:

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12525

Quote from this article:
"The Taliban had demanded that the U.S. should also reconstruct Afghanistan's infrastructure and that the pipeline be open for local consumption. Instead, the U.S. wanted a closed pipeline pumping gas for export only and was not interested in helping to rebuild the country.

In turn, the U.S. threatened the Taliban during the negotiations. The directive of "we'll either carpet you in gold or carpet you in bombs" was bantered about in the press to underscore the emerging willfulness of the U.S."

The Interpol-warrant for Bin Laden is on-line (but it's the amended version, the original was issued March 16th 1998 by the Libyan police). You'll see under the field "Arrest Warrant Issued by" the entry Tripoli/Libya.

http://www.interpol.int/public/Wanted/Notices/Data/1998/32/1998_20232.asp

[oneighty]

3. Yeah, sure

whatever.

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[Ms. Clio]

4. more bullshit from the Torygraph