Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Abu Yahya al-Libi and this perpetually self-defeating 'war on terror' | Moazzam Begg

10:57 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

Behind

death by drone attack on al-Qaida No. 2 is a story of senseless brutality with which the United States makes your enemies

"A man for all seasons ... He is a warrior. He is a poet. He is a scholar. He is an expert. This is a military commander. And it is very charismatic young star, sassy increased ... "

This statement could be interpreted as a compliment, even admiration, for the possession of these qualities - until you read and what he calls "Al-Qaeda ... and I think it has become the heir apparent to Osama bin Laden in terms of taking care of the entire global jihadist movement. "This is Jarret Brachman said that a former CIA analyst and Director Westpoint research report by Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Waziristan this week.

Last September, during a visit to Libya, I met a rebel military commander said his country wanted "a good relationship with the Americans." This man was the brother of Abu Yahya .

I could not help wondering at the time, only two weeks after the fall of Tripoli, had he shared his views with his brother, whom I knew was considered by the United States as a prominent member of Al Qaeda. It was a strange paradox: the people who came to see, including Sami al-Saadi and Abdel Hakim Belhadj, was, along with their families, victims of rendition to Libya Gaddafi launched by the British government. But now, because of these men and nations misleading interpretation and facilitated torture was, at least in the short term agreement.

During my stay in the Libyan capital, visited the famous Abu Salim prison, where both al-Saadi - who lost two brothers in the infamous prison killing 1996 - and Belhadj had before. Painted on the doors of the rebels who had been released from prison, were the words in Arabic: "Life [in prison] Guantanamo is not even a day at Abu Salim." That may be an exaggeration, but I also met Libyan former Guantanamo detainees who were held in two prisons, and they were not opposed tot evaluation.

He also showed me the last cell of rest and victim restitution, whose testimony was used by the United States tortured to justify the invasion of Iraq. "Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi confession, said al-Qaeda had formed an alliance with Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, was cited by Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003 as a credible source of information in his presentation to the Security Council, Operation Iraqi Freedom above. But there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Al Qaeda just materialized here

after

, and as a direct result of the invasion. A year later, Ibn al-Sheikh on its income statement, after bouncing around Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Jordan, Afghanistan and can be Poland, was returned to Libya, where was found dead in his cell in 2009
  • testimony of Ibn al-Sheikh had been taken during interrogations of Mubarak in Egypt, where he had been sent by the CIA - in a coffin. Before that, he was held in detention at Bagram, which is where I learned heard after the CIA threatened me with his fate if he did not cooperate.
  • Abu Yahya al-Libi was also detained at Bagram since 2002 until her dramatic escape in 2005. I was there in 2002, but I did not see it or one of the other three who escaped with him. However, after my release, I saw an interview with the news channel Al-Arabiyya, Aby Yahya in which not only describes in detail the flight, but also the conditions of Bagram and his experience as a prisoner of the United States States. UU ..
  • After spending so much time at Bagram, I found it hard to believe they had escaped, I saw a man beaten to death during an escape attempt. It also reminded me how the CIA had told me they were going to "fake" an escape for me if I agree to work for them, I al-Qaeda springboard automatically. But after hearing the detail that describes the flight Abu Yahya, and their actions after that, I think he was sincere. And with their knowledge and skills referred to in the preceding paragraph Brachman, escape is what led him to the Al-Qaeda. Almost nobody had heard of him before.
  • I've always argued that Bagram was worse than Guantanamo, and I'm looking forward to it after the first in nearly a year. Have been beaten and handcuffed to other prisoners and dragged naked showers, shaving forces, their hands chained to the top of the cage doors and left in suspension were some of the daily events that all witnesses or known. The worst for me was to hear the cries of a woman who had thought for a moment was my own wife. Fortunately, it was not, but I'm sure it was someone's wife, mother, daughter or sister, and Abu Yahya and his teammates did more than listen to a woman
Of all the abuses described in his account, the presence of a woman and her humiliation and degradation were the most inflammatory of all prisoners - and never forget. He describes how he was stripped and beaten by guards regularly, and how she cried constantly in solitary confinement for two years. He said that the prisoners protested their treatment, hunger strike, a shame he could not do anything to help you. He described in detail: a Pakistani mother - separated from their children - in their thirties, who had begun to lose his head. Their number, he said, was 650.

After his escape, he was largely overlooked by the media at the time, Abu Yahya and his companions have all become fighters of Al-Qaeda and joined the war against the United States. . He was the last of the four, since one was captured later, another died in Iraq and another killed by a drone attack in Afghanistan.


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