The following
report, drawn entirely from public sources, proves definitively that Obama has
knowingly and intentionally used al Qaeda forces as the cutting edge of his
illegal wars in Libya and Syria. Any effort to prevent the immediate impeachment
and/or criminal prosecution of Obama at this point is itself a crime. This
report was delivered this morning to every House and Senate office in the
Congress.
I
will forward to you later today a report on a press conference held in the
Congress with Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel and Republican Rep. Walter Jones and
others, releasing a letter to Obama warning that a new war on Syria without a
Congressional declaration of war would be a crime against our Constitution and
impeachable.
Mike Billington
PRESS
RELEASE
An Updated Fact
Sheet:
To Stop World War
III, Oust President Obama for His Alliance
With al-Qaeda in Libya and
Syria
While
traveling across the country and around the globe, claiming credit for the
killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama has forged a deep alliance
with al-Qaeda to overthrow first the government of Libya and now the government
of Syria. This reckless and lawless policy of allying with the perpetrators of
9/11 2001 and now 9/11 2012 to conduct war without the consent of Congress in
violation of the U.S. Constitution runs the immediate danger of leading to world
war, which can only mean thermonuclear war.
This is "the
elephant in the room," which explains why the Obama administration has lied and
covered up the true facts about Benghazi. The policy of allying with al-Qaeda
and covering up that alliance and its consequences, is, indeed an impeachable
offense. The question is whether members of the Congress will have the courage
to fight for the truth and for justice on behalf of the victims of this criminal
policy.
This updated
fact sheet presents the presently available evidence from the public domain. A
serious Congressional investigation would uncover far more. Here are the facts
known thus far:
In the case
of Libya, the evidence is overwhelming. Under the guise of humanitarian
interventionism, President Obama ordered American military forces to create a
no-fly zone and provide close air cover for al-Qaeda groupings to overthrow
Muammar Qaddafi.
The
opposition in Libya was dominated by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
which was created in the 1990s by Abel Hakim Belhadj who had fought with
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan from 1988 to 1992. (On February 15, 2011
the LIFG changed its name to the Libyan Islamic Movement for Change.) After
Kabul fell in 1992, Belhadj moved to Sudan with Osama bin Laden. In 1995, MI6
approached the LIFG to carry out a coup against Qaddafi. After the coup and four
assassination attempts against Qaddafi failed many members of the LIFG were
jailed in the Abu Selim prison in Tripoli. Others including Belhadj
escaped.
In 2001 when
the US invaded Afghanistan two members of the LIFG, who later participated in
the Obama led overthrow of Qaddafi, were arrested by the Pakistanis and handed
over to the U.S., Abul Hakim al-Hasadi and Abu Sufian bin Qumu, both originally
from Derna. Al Hasadi who had fought for 5 years in Afghanistan against the U.S.
was sent back to Libya and jailed. Qumu was sent to Guantanamo until he was
later returned to Libya. Both were jailed in Abu Selim prison.
In 2004,
Belhadj and Sami Al-Saadi, who also later participated in the Obama led
overthrow of Qaddafi, were captured by the CIA and MI6 in Bangkok, Thailand and
returned to Libya where they were also imprisoned in Abu Selim prison. This was
shortly after Tony Blair had organized the recognition of Qaddafi by the West.
At the time Blair stated that Qaddafi wanted to join the West in combatting
Al-Qaeda.
Al-Saadi, who
Taliban leader Mullah Omar once called the Sheikh of the Arabs, was the author
of a plan to overthrow Qaddafi which was found in the home of Abd Al-Rahman
al-Faquih in Birmingham, UK during a police raid in the middle of the last
decade. Al-Faquih had been convicted in absentia by a Moroccan court for
complicity in the May 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca. This war plan would
later be employed against Qaddafi beginning in February 2011.
In March
2010, due to the intervention of Tony Blair, Saif Qaddafi announced the release
of Belhadj and 233 other members of the LIFG from Abu Selim prison as part of a
reconciliation. Less than a year after they were released Belhadj and the other
members of the LIFG became the core of the opposition to Qaddafi.
LIFG Designated as a
Terrorist Organization by the U.S., U.K. and the UN
At the time
of the operation to overthrow Qaddafi under the cover of a UN resolution, the
LIFG was designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, the U.K.
Home Office and the United Nations Security Council. An excerpt from the U.S.
State Department report reads as follows: "On November 3, 2007, senior Al Qaeda
leaders announced that LIFG had officially joined Al-Qaeda. Activities: Libyans
associated with the LIFG are part of the broader international terrorist
movement. The LIFG is one of the groups believed to have planned the Casablanca
suicide bombing in May 2003. Spanish media in August 2005 linked Ziyad Hashem,
an alleged member of the LIFG's media committee, as well as the imprisoned amir
Abdallah al Sadeq (Belhaj), with Tunisian Islamist Serhane Ben Abdelmajid
Fakhet, the suspected ringleader in the 2004 Madrid attacks. Abdallah al Sadeq
is the nom de guerre of Abel Hakim Belhadj."
Excerpts from
the UN resolution read as follows: "LIFG commanders, including Abu Yahya al-Liby
and the now-deceased Abu al-Laith al-Liby, have occupied prominent positions
within Al-Qaeda's senior leadership. On 3 November 2007, LIFG formally merged
with Al-Qaeda. The merger was announced via two video clips produced by
Al-Qaeda's propaganda arm, Al-Sahab. The first clip featured Osama bin Laden's
(QI.B.8.01) deputy, Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), and the second
featured Abu Laith al-Liby, who then served as a senior member of LIFG and a
senior leader and trainer for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan."
The Perpetrators of
the Benghazi Attack
After Qaddafi
was overthrown by the Al-Qaeda affiliated LIFG, the Tripoli Military Council was
initially run by General Abd al-Fatah Yunis. However, he was assassinated by
Ansar al-Sharia on July 28, 2011 and the former emir of the LIFG, Belhadj,
became its military commander. The Benghazi Military Council in turn was run by
Sallabi an ally of Belhadj.
Three of the
military brigades operating in the Benghazi area, Ansar al-Sharia, Libyan Shield
and the February 17th Brigade, the latter two of which operate in coordination
with the Libyan Ministry of Defense, participated in the attack on the United
States mission and a CIA annex in Benghazi on the eleventh anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three CIA officers. These three
organizations were chief American combat allies in the drive to overthrow
Qaddafi.
To be
specific: Ansar al-Sharia, led by Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a former Al-Qaeda
Guantanomo detainee; the Libya Shield, which met the marines who came from
Tripoli at the airport and accompanied them to the CIA annex, led by Wisam bin
Hamid, identified by the Library of Congress as possibly the head of Al-Qaeda in
Libya; and the February 17th Brigade, which provided security for the mission,
led by Ismail Sallabi, are all run by the al-Qaeda affiliated LIFG.
Ansar
al-Sharia
The leader of
the Ansar al-Sharia group in Derna that actually carried out the assault on the
U.S. mission and CIA annex in Benghazi on 9/11/12 is Sufyan bin-Qumu. According
to his Guantanamo detainee assessment report, Qumu received monthly stipends
from one of the financiers of the original 9/11/2001:
"Detainee's
alias is found on a list of probable Al-Qaida personnel receiving monthly
stipends. His alias was found on Al-Qaeda's 11 September attacks financier
Mustafa Al Hawsawis laptop as an Al-Qaeda member receiving family
support."
The
assessment continues: "Detainee is assessed as a former member of the Libyan
Islamic Fighting Group, a probable member of Al Qaeda. The detainee is assessed
as a MEDIUM to HIGH risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the US, its
interests and allies.
"Prior
history: he served as a tank driver in the Libyan armed forces as a private. The
Libyan Government states he was addicted to illegal drugs/narcotics and had been
accused of a number of crimes including murder, physical assault, armed assault
and distributing narcotics. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1993 he
escaped and fled eventually to Afghanistan and trained at Osama Bin Laden's
Torkham Camp. After Afghanistan he moved to Sudan where he worked as a truck
driver for one of OBLs companies. He joined the LIFG and was assigned to the
military committee. He left Sudan, allegedly withdrew from the LIFG in 1998 and
returned to Afghanistan. Captured in 2001, he was sent to
Guantanamo."
According to
the report, he has admitted associations with Ayyub Al Libi, Al-Qaida/LIFG
facilitator, Abu Abdullah al Sadiq, which is the nom de guerre of Abdul Hakim
Belhadj who is the leader of LIFG, and Abu Al Munihir, a.k.a. Sami Al Saadi, who
drew up the war plan to overthrow Qaddafi in the mid-2000s.
Libya
Shield
The last
signed diplomatic cable from Ambassador Stevens back to the State Department in
Washington dated September 11 described a tense Sept. 9, 2012 meeting in
Benghazi between U.S. security officials and two leaders of Libyan Shield,
Wissam bin Hamid (misidentified as Wisam bin Ahmed) and Shaykh Muhammad
al-Garabi, in which they argued that if the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for
Prime Minister, Alwad al Barasi, should win, he would appoint the commander of
the February 17th Brigade, Fawzi Bukatif, as Minister of Defense.
"Bukatif's
appointment," the memo says, "would open the MOD and other security ministries
and offices to plum appointments for his most favored brigade commanders —
giving February 17 and Libya Shield tacit control of the armed forces." On the
other hand, if Jibril, whom the U.S. government was supporting, won, "they would
not continue to guarantee security in Benghazi, a critical function they
asserted they were currently providing."
According to
al-Fetn.com Bin Hamid fought against American forces in both Iraq and
Afghanistan before returning to the Benghazi-Derna area of eastern Libya to
"ally" with Washington to overthrow and execute Qaddafi. The same al-Fetn.com
reported in late October 2011 that bin Hamid became the head of a newly formed
"supreme board of the Libyan mujahideen."
According to
an August 2012 report from the Library of Congress, "Al-Qaeda in Libya: A
Profile," bin Hamid is widely identified as the actual head of al-Qaeda in
Libya. He also held a demonstration in Sirte in March 2012 which was attended by
the head of Al-Qaeda in Magreb in Sahel Mokhtar ben Mokhtar. Yet, his Libya
Shield militia was entrusted with security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and
the Sept. 9, 2012 meeting likely provided the group with the travel plans of
Ambassador Stevens, who arrived in Benghazi on Sept. 10 for a scheduled ten day
visit. The attack on the CIA annex only began after Libyan Shield fighters
escorted a Marine rescue team from the airport to the location hours after the
initial attack on the U.S. mission, where Ambassador Stevens was
killed.
February 17th
Brigade
According to
Joan Neuhaus Schaan, a fellow in Homeland Security and Terrorism at Rice
University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, the February 17th
Brigade, which provided security for the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, was founded
by Ismail Sallabi, who is a known member of al Qaeda and the Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group (LIFG). A Brookings Doha Center policy briefing dated May 2012,
entitled "Libyan Islamists Unpacked: Rise, Transformation, and Future," also
reports that Sallabi heads the February 17th Brigade based in
Benghazi.
On Sept. 16,
2011 the Guardian identified Sallabi as the head of the Benghazi Military
Council, the counterpart to the Tripoli Military Council led by Abul Hakim
Belhadj, According to Al Arabiya News, the commander of the February 17 brigade
is Fawzi Bukatif.
According to
al-Hayat, Belhadj was in Benghazi in April 2011, where he helped organize the
February 17th Brigade. Included in the security force for the Benghazi mission
proper were four members of the February 17th Brigade, described by a State
Department source as "a friendly militia which has basically been deputized by
the Libyan government to serve as our security, our host government security." A
further 16 militia members were part of the quick reaction security team based
at the CIA compound described as the mission's "annex."
Ismael
al-Sallabi (who is the brother of Libya's leading Islamist, Ali al-Sallabi) also
leads the Martyr Rafalllah Sahati Brigade, which began as a battalion of the
February 17th Brigade. The Brigade's commander, Shaykh Muhammad al-Garabi met
with U.S. officials on Sept. 9 along with Wisam ben Hamid of the Libya
Shield.
Abdel Hakim
Belhadj
Any serious
investigation of Benghazi would have to look closely at the role of Abdel Hakim
Belhadj, the founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and, after the
overthrow of Qaddafi, the commander of the Tripoli Military Council. As such, he
was given responsibility as of Aug. 30, 2011 until he stepped down as commander
of the TMC to form his own political party (Watan) in May 2012 for the security
of all international embassies in Tripoli including the U.S. embassy. He was
also put in charge of coordinating defense on a national level.
On Nov. 17,
2012, the Saudi-based publication Arab News published an article by Ali Bluwi,
which reports that the attack on the Benghazi mission was carried out in revenge
for the killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a senior Libyan member of Al-Qaeda, killed
in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan in June 2012.
The article
also reports that the U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens "prevented Abdel Hakim
Belhadj from assuming the portfolio of defense or interior in Libya."
Furthermore,
according to former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat, Belhadj is the
al-Qaeda operative that the Libyan expatriates claim was the principal organizer
who directed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi.
Al-Qaeda in
Syria
While Belhadj
was commander of the Tripoli Military Council he deployed in behalf of Obama,
the British Empire and Saudi Arabia to provide Al-Qaeda military personnel and
weapons in the attempt to overthrow the Syrian government. Numerous news sources
including the Daily Telegraph have reported that in November 2011, Belhadj
traveled to Turkey to meet with the Syrian Free Army to provide them with
training and weapons to overthrow Assad.
According to
Albawaba.com and thetruthseeker.co.uk, during that same month some 600 LIFG
terrorists from Libya entered Syria and began military operations. The
individual who leads the Libyan fighters is Mahdi al-Harati, now head of the
Liwa al-Ummah brigade in Syria. According to an August 9, 2012 article in
Foreign Policy magazine by Mary Fitzgerald entitled "The Syrian Rebels' Libyan
Weapon," al-Harati is a Libyan-born Irish citizen who was a commander of the
Tripoli Brigade, run by Belhadj during overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya.
The Tripoli
Brigade was one of the first rebel units to enter the Libyan capital in August
2011. After Tripoli was taken over he was appointed deputy head of the Tripoli
Military Council, serving under Abdel Hakim Belhaj. In late 2011 Harati stepped
down as commander of the Tripoli Brigade and as deputy head of the Tripoli
Military Council and left for Syria.
According to
Harati, more than 6,000 men across Syria have joined Liwa al-Ummah since its
establishment. Harati stresses that 90 percent of the brigade are Syrians, the
rest are Libyans, most of them former members of the Tripoli Brigade, along with
a smattering of other Arabs. According to Reuters, Liwa al-Ummah includes 20
senior members of the Tripoli Brigade.
One of the
State Department documents released by the House Oversight Committee in October
was from the Research and Information Support Center, dated March 1, 2012. It
gives the following assessment of the presence of Al Qaeda in the Benghazi
area:
"In late
December 2011, reports indicated that the al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan had
sent experienced jihadists to Libya to build a new base of operations in the
country. Between May and December 2011, one of these jihadists had recruited
200 fighters in the eastern part of the country. Documents seized in Iraq
indicate that many foreign fighters who participated in the Iraqi insurgency
hailed from eastern Libya."
According to
the Library of Congress Al-Qaeda in Libya report, the individual sent is
believed to be Abd al-Baset Azzouz who has been close to Al-Zawahiri since 1980.
According to the Library of Congress report, he is likely co-located currently
in Libya with another senior Libyan Al-Qaeda operative Abd al Hamid al Ruqhay,
alias Abu Anas al-Libi who moved in the late 1980s to Afghanistan and Sudan,
where he is believed to have met Osama Bin Laden and joined al-Qaeda.
According to
documents obtained and released by former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid
Shoebat an array of records provided to Libyan expatriates from sources inside
the Libyan government establish that al-Qaeda operatives in Libya are
facilitating the passage of jihadists through Libya to Syria. Specifically,
Abdul Wahhab Hassan Qayad, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Yahya al-Libi, who was
killed in Pakistan in June 2012 by a U.S. drone attack, now works in the Libyan
Interior Ministry in charge of Border Control and Strategic Institutions. The
position allows him to arrange open-border passage for al-Qaeda operatives,
facilitating not only the flow of terrorists into Libya, but also al-Qaeda
efforts to transport terrorists and weapons into Syria from Libya via
Turkey.
LaRouche Political Action
Committee (larouchepac.com) has produced a detailed documentary on President
Obama's filthy dealings with the very British and Saudi-backed Jihadists who
have the blood of American Ambassador Chris Stevens and countless others on
their hands. Congressional demands for the creating of a select committee to get
to the bottom of the Benghazi 9/11/12 attacks must begin with a thorough airing
of the ongoing alliance between the Obama White House and al-Qaeda. Nothing
short of a thorough probe will prevent a replay of the first two 9/11 attacks on
a far grander scale.
What makes
this particularly urgent is that in using Al-Qaeda to overthrow Assad in Syria
the British Empire, Saudi Arabia and their stooge Obama are pushing the world to
the edge of a thermonuclear war with Russia and China. The crimes of Obama are
much greater than not providing sufficient security to the mission or not
responding after the attack by providing military assistance. The reason for
this is that the killings of the Ambassador and three other Americans were
carried out by the very terrorists Obama and his masters relied upon to
overthrow Qaddafi and are relying on now to overthrow Assad. The designation of
Al-Nusra as a terrorist organization is just a fig leaf.
The entire
Syrian opposition is al-Qaeda, as this fact sheet conclusively demonstrates and
the Syrian opposition itself has affirmed by proclaiming that they are all
Al-Nusra!!
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