1 April (Scooped news)
Libyan rebels led by former Mujahedeen
Darna, Libya- two former Afghan mujahideen and detained for six years at Guantanamo Bay have taken a step ahead of the military campaign in this city, the training of new recruits to the front and protect the city infiltrators loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The presence of Islamists like those in the middle of the Opposition has raised concerns among some fellow rebels and their Western allies that the objective of some Libyan fighters in the battle against Colonel Qaddafi is to spread Islamic extremism.
Abdel Hakim al-Hasady, an influential Islamic preacher and school teacher, who spent five years in a training camp in eastern Afghanistan, oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 rebel fighters Darna.
Field Commander Mr. Hasady in the first line is Salah al-Barrani, a veteran of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which was formed in the early 1990 by the Libyan mujahideen returning home after helping expel the Soviets from Afghanistan and dedicated to the expulsion of Mr Gaddafi’s power.
Sufyan bin Qumu, an Army veteran who worked for the Libyan holding company of Usama bin Laden in Sudan and later for a charity linked to al Qaeda in Afghanistan, is the training of recruits many rebels in the city.
Both Ben and colleagues Hasady Qumu Pakistani authorities picked up after the US-led invasion in Afghanistan in 2001 and fell in SU Dr. Hasady reached with Libya in prison two months later. Mr. Ben Qumu spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before he was imprisoned in 2007 killed Libya.
They were both released from prison in Libya in 2008 as part of the liquidation of the Islamists in Libya.
Islamic leaders and their contingent of followers are a tiny minority within the cause of the rebels. They have served a lay leader of the rebels a little ‘friction. Their discipline and experience in fighting the rebels are urgently needed "ragtag army.
Of his successor, Mr. Hasady has a reputation for expert warriors, who had bravely facing a number of young demonstrators in the early days of the uprising.
And his speech has become much more pro-American, is now on the battle west union, Colonel Gaddafi.
"Our perception is changing in the United States," said Hasady. "If we hated the Americans 100%, today it is less than 50%. They started to redeem themselves from their past mistakes by helping us to keep the blood of our children."
Mr. Hasady also offers a review of its approach to the past. "There is no Islamic revolution has succeeded. Only when the entire population was included we succeeded, which means a more inclusive ideology."
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Qumu Barrani and has been in the forefront, and could not be reached for comment.
Some rebel leaders are wary of their roles. "Many of us were concerned about the background of these people," said Ashour Abu Rashed, a representative of Darna in the body of the rebel of the Provisional Government, the Transitional National Government of the Council.
"Al-Hasady Gaddafi said he wants to retire and serve under the authority of local boards of directors, and so far has been true to his word."
After the uprising began in Libya, said Mr. Hasady several journalists who had joined the fight against the Americans during his stay in Afghanistan. Now he says he was misinterpreted and that he only settled in Afghanistan since the Islamists like him, were welcome everywhere.
U.S. situation recalls the problems that followed the ill-fated American Association of Afghanistan Mujahedeen against the Soviet Union in 1980. Many went on al-Qaeda and other violent Islamic radical groups.
Admiral James Stavridis, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has shown this concern when he told a Senate committee Tuesday that U.S. intelligence has picked up "vibrations" between the rebel groups to al-Qaeda in Libya . He also said that they were small element of the rebels.
Colonel Gaddafi is out of their way to paint the popular uprising against his regime as a plot by Al Qaeda. He identified Mr. Hasady and Darna city as the capital of an Islamic emirate alleged action is unfounded.
Local animosity to the Libyan leader is profound. The first uprising against the authority of Colonel Gaddafi took place at Darna, in 1970, less than a year after taking power. The city is proud that the first political prisoner killed by the Gaddafi regime was from Darna.
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