
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-Februa...