In December 2007, an in-depth study by West Point Military Academy authors Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, found that Saudi Arabia took first place as far as the numbers of terrorists sent to combat the United States and other coalition members in Iraq. Libya, a country less than one fourth as populous as the Saudi Kingdom, took second place. Saudi Arabia sent 41% of the fighters. According to Felter and Fishman, “Libya was the next most common country of origin, with 18.8% (112) of the fighters listing their nationality as Libyan.”
The Libyan rebels this morning have reportedly taken Tripoli and are closing in on their oppressor, Col. Moamar Khadhafi, who remains free and commanding troops still loyal to him. Yet world leaders and diplomats are unclear if Khadhafi’s 41-year regime will soon end with or without a fierce battle.
A source in Israel believes Khadhafi — if he’s as mad as many believe he is — still has the soldiers and weapons to continue the "Battle of Tripoli," unless the dictator’s officers and enlisted men decide the cost of loyalty to Khadhafi — death or imprisonment — is too great.
During a panel discussion on Sunday’s Fox News Channel, former New York Times correspondent Judith Miller and former Ronald Reagan Defense officialK.T. McFarland debated the fall of Khadhafi’s regime and its importance. While Miller appeared optimistic regarding the future of Libya — a position held by President Barack Obama and several members of his national security team — McFarland was less enthusiastic.
McFarland shares the view that, as occurred in Iran, a more radical regime may replace the government. For example, McFarland believes that while the Transitional National Council (TNC) is recognized by the United States and 29 other governments, it is not recognized by all of the Libyan rebels.
Sadly, the rebels are capable of turning on their own commanders as had occurred when their top commander Abdul Fattah Younes was murdered by his own people. The killers tortured their Commander-in-Chief to death and then cremated his body which is forbidden in some sects of the Muslim religion.
A former U.S. intelligence officer now serving as a director of corporate security for a multi-national corporation told the Law Enforcement Examiner that he’s aware of the identity of some of the Libyan rebels fighting Col. Moamar Khadhafi’s military forces and they are not the freedom-loving patriots the Obama administration and others claim they are.
According to the intelligence source — who requested anonymity — the roads leading to the city of Tobuk from the cities of Benghazi and Darnah are saturated with Islamic terrorists, many of whom possess combat training and experience gained in terrorist training camps throughout the Middle East.
Some of the Libyan rebels have fought Americans in Iraq as part of the al-Qaeda in Iraq organization. A few Libyans were even used as suicide bombers to take out Iraqi police officer and other targets in Baghdad and other locations, said the intelligence source.
According to internal CIA and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) reports, the city of Darnah serves as a suicide-bomber farm for much of the Middle East, but the area received minimal attention since Libyan dictator Col. Khadhafi was successful in controlling the country’s terrorist population which included a laissez faire policy as long as terrorists did not attack Libyans and Libyan targets.
The current anti- Khadhafi military action by the U.S., Britain, France and other coalition members is motivated by UN Security Council resolution 1973 which acknowledged a need to protect the poorly armed and poorly trained rebels who fought Libya modern army.
President Barack Obama other U.S. leaders have sold their military intervention to Americans as being one based on compassion and not American interests. Obama has repeatedly emphasized that U.S intervention is purely a humanitarian endeavor to prevent a massacre of “pro-democracy forces and human rights advocates” by the highly mechanized Khadhafi military forces.
“Everyone [in the Obama Administration] appears to downplay the possible involvement of jihadi terror groups in Libya, the same way they sold Americans a ‘bill of goods’ that the Muslim Brotherhood was not a problem in the aftermath of the recent Egyptian overthrow of its government,” said the intelligence source.
There are also fears that Khadhafi indeed still possesses some chemical or biological weapons, although it’s not known which type he possesses and what delivery systems he possesses to use weapons of mass destruction.
The intelligence source then recommended an unclassified study of the backgrounds of some of the Arab world’s most deadly terrorists and militants.
In December 2007, an in-depth study by West Point Military Academy authors Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, found that Saudi Arabia took first place as far as the numbers of terrorists sent to combat the United States and other coalition members in Iraq. Libya, a country less than one fourth as populous as the Saudi Kingdom, took second place. Saudi Arabia sent 41% of the fighters. According to Felter and Fishman, “Libya was the next most common country of origin, with 18.8% (112) of the fighters listing their nationality as Libyan.”
Felter and Fishman point out: “Almost 19 percent of the Iraqi foreign fighters came from Libya alone. Furthermore, Libya contributed far more fighters per capita than any other nationality including Saudi Arabia.