Aby The Liberal

Captain Sasha October 22nd, 2011

The capture and execution of Libyan leader Moammar Khaddafi was welcomed with much pomp and fanfare both by the western world and the Libyan diaspora. The Sun, a promiment British daily came out with the news headline, “That’s for Lockerbie, Gaddafi” from their defence editor Virginia Wheeler. In a manner of tabloid unprofessionalism that could put Pravda and Fox News to shame, Ms. Wheeler called Gaddafi a “Libyan Mad Dog” and embellished her piece with relish at his execution.

Abdel Hakim Belhaj (second from left), the Libyan rebel leader is a known member of the Taliban and al-Qaeda

Given his history of tyranny, Gaddafi probably deserved it. But is this the end, really? The execution, carried out mob justice style bore an uncanny resemblance to the execution of Najibullah by the Taliban Mujahedin in Afghanistan. Or the execution of Abul Kasem by Saddam’s Baathist rebels in Iraq. Both these events were welcomed with as much jubilation by the western public and media as Gaddafi’s execution today. Both these events led to the era of another, more brutal and genodical fascism.

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that has been fighting against Gaddafi’s regime in Libya is led by Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi Belhaj, a known member of the Taliban and perhaps, al-Qaeda as well. His rebel gang is made up of youngsters with little to no education, commanded by a band of al-Qaeda jihadists who have very little understanding of or sympathy for democracy, secularism or civil code. By overthrowing their most hated and feared leader, they have tasted blood and are as likely to be just as drunk in power as the Taliban were in 1996.

It appears that we are looking at the beginning of another Islamist regime, this time in Libya. And the next terrorist attack on US soil could be 10 or 15 years down the line, from the same jihadis that the US backed and supported today.

Sources:

• Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links - The Telegraph
• Jihadis who killed Americans in Iraq get US support in Libya - Washington Examiner
• How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli - Asia Times

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Captain Sasha June 19th, 2011

A couple of years back, I wrote to a British newspaper that Tony Blair’s friendship with the United States is going to end up like a deal with Rumpelstiltskin (a character in a German folklore). My statement was vehemently opposed, both by British nationalists who were in denial and by Americans who insisted that their relationship with Britain is one of harmony and kinship. The recent spate of extradition of British citizens by US law enforcement agencies while rejecting Britain’s demand for extraditing IRA terrorists shows a rather weird expression of kinship and harmony between US and the UK.

Gary McKinnon faces extradition for hacking the NASA servers and look for ‘little green men’.

A 23 year old student, Richard O’Dwyer from Sheffield Hallam University faces extradition to the United States for hosting a site that provided links to download American films and TV shows. Never mind that not only did he shut the site on notification, but as a British citizen residing in Britain, he is subject to laws and trials in Britain, not United States. More so for a crime that is rather petty - copyright infrigement is like a political crime, an offence of conscience and artificial interpretion, rather than a crime against humanity. On that note another British citizen, an Asperger’s syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon, is also battling an extradition for hacking into a US government website and looking for ‘little green men’. For those who think this is diplomacy, I’d say it is more a D&S relationship between the US and UK where UK is the submissive. Despite countless attempts and requests from Britain to get IRA terrorists and their financiers extradited from the United States, the US government has done the diplomatic equivalent of plugging its fingers into the ears and shouting ‘la la la la..”.

I wonder what the future holds for Britain. If they are not careful, they could end up a puppet state of United States, just like some of those Latin American and South East Asian countries. Something I’d hate to see happen to a country that gave us some of the most brilliants minds and the best gifts of science since the time of Issac Newton. It is time that the people of this great country wake up and make a stand against this violation of the freedom and sovereignty of their people.

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