Qaddafi claims Al Qaeda could overrun Libya. Could it?

The young Qaddafi loyalist wove together a grim tale that fits the official Libyan narrative perfectly. Al Qaeda fighters torched his home in the rebel-held enclave of Misratah, he claimed, and then killed his father. The crazed Islamists, he charged, were dismembering their victims. “May God be my witness, it is true!” shouted Osama bin Salah, pointing to the sky. Since Libya’s popular uprising began in mid-February,

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There Are 1000 Jihadists Amongst Rebels

A former leader of an al Qaeda linked group in Libya claims that there are around 1000 fundamentalist Islamic fighters in the country that have joined the uprising against Col. Moammar Gaddafi’s forces, a number that jives with intelligence reports and independent estimates. Yet still the allied NATO forces are considering arming the rebels.Former jihadist Noman Benotman, who renounced his al Qaeda affiliation in 2000,

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UPDATED : Libya Revolution 2011

Libya, an oil-rich nation in North Africa, has been under the firm, if sometimes erratic, leadership of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi since he seized power in 1969. But in February 2011, the unrest sweeping through much of the Arab world erupted in several Libyan cities. Though it began with a relatively organized core of antigovernment opponents in Benghazi, its spread to the capital of Tripoli was swift and spontaneous.

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Libya's Foreign Minister Resigns, Arrives in Britain

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has arrived in Britain and has declared he is leaving Moammar Gadhafi's government. The British foreign office said Wednesday that Koussa traveled from Tunisia to London under his own free will, telling officials he is resigning his post. British officials urged Mr. Gadhafi's other supporters to desert him as well. A Libyan government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim,

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AP sources: CIA sent operatives into Libya

AP sources: The CIA sent small teams of operatives into Libya after the agency's station in the capital was forced to close, and officers assisted in the rescue one of the two crew members of an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed, an American official and a former U.S. intelligence officer told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The agency's precise role in Libya is unclear. Intelligence experts said the CIA

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Obama Speaks on Libya, but Path From Here Is Unclear

In his address to the nation Monday night, President Barack Obama intended to explain why the U.S. got involved in a military operation in Libya.What the president can't really do—because nobody can—is predict exactly where that military operation will lead. It's a strange undertaking to begin with, a "humanitarian" exercise to protect Libyan civilians from their own leader, a man the U.S. calls upon to leave, but whose departure

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Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy demand that 'Gaddafi must go'

Britain and France have demanded that Muammar Gaddafi should stand down immediately as they declared that the era of the Libyan leader is over. On the eve of a conference on Libya in London, to be attended by more than 40 foreign ministers, Britain and France made clear that they expected Gaddafi to face justice after launching attacks on Libya's civilian population. Britain and France have clashed in the past week

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