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Libya: Green flags are up all over Libya. Islamist militias (rats) r now ganging up with the popular resistance (greens) against USA backed puppets at Ratio 99 to1, Benghazi declares independence!

By , October 6, 2012 10:36 pm

Libya: Green flags are up all over Libya. Islamist militias (rats) r now ganging up with the popular resistance (greens) against USA backed puppets at Ratio 99 to1, Benghazi declares independence!
By: Bulov on: 06.10.2012 [20:34 ] (235 reads)

Libya: Green flags are up all over Libya. Islamist militias (rats) r now ganging up with the popular resistance (greens) against USA backed puppets at Ratio 99 to1, Benghazi declares independence!

Mulls Over Bani Walid Attack
Posted: 2012/10/01
From: Mathaba

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=631676
With Benghazi all but declaring itself independent, Tripoli resistance resurging, Sebha, Ghat, Brak all showing numerous successes against rat forces, now the regime is faced with what to do about Bani Walid, yet again

The “rats” are in dire confusion, panic, and unable to form a government that has any credibility. With top military generals, even top U.S. officials and agents in the country losing their lives to the resistance, the regime heads know that they’re next in line.

Increasing divisions have left the regime of the so-called Prime Minister trying to form a government even weaker, Jibril abandoned by his own party members, and CIA agent and ‘Congress’ head Magarief calling for Libya to become a secular country without Qur’an as Law.

Islamist militias ganging up with the popular resistance in a Jihad which Muammar Qaddafi called for, and the popular masses gaining confidence across the country and even openly celebrating Al-Fateh and the victories in Benghazi, with pro-Qadhafi Al-Fateh slogans.

The main terror wing of the regime, the Supreme Security Committee in open fights with the regime which has abandoned it, a weak national army, a police force in full mutiny, while a British “Deputy Editor” has a hard time smoking shisha and drinking coffee.

Americans telling the regime what to do, the regime unable to implement those directives, the media now totally silent over Ghat, Sebha, the south of Libya, and truing to put a brave face and twist the fact in the east and west, what is happening at the centre, in Bani Walid?

Open display of Jamahiriya flags, open resistance, and clashes with so-called “Libya Shield Forces” at checkpoints, and continued defiance of the regime. Now the occupation regime is faced with a hard choice, what to do about Bani Walid?

Their current solution lies once again in using the murderous terrorists of Misrata. Reports indicate they intend to give the orders to the Misrata militias to attack Bani Walid. The problem is these militias are allegedly supposed to be under the National Army.

And the National Army, the Libyan masses, even those who are not engage in resistance, expect to be there to protect Libyans, not to oppress and massacre them. So if the militia in Misrata, which now belong to the army, attack Bani Walid, the whole plot unravels.

The regime is thus left with no support among the people, a weak national army, and militias which for the most part are unreliable with only the Misrata militia and a few other small ones left to do the dirty work, with many islamist brigades now in open war with the regime.

“We are waiting for the command of the army chief of Staff Yusuf Mangoush“, Misrata Local Council chief Saleem Baitelamal said this afternoon October 1st. “The situation is that all militias belonging to the army have been alerted. All are ready.”

And the occupation government is even still calling upon the Supreme Security Committee, which is out of control and now in limbo, with “Interior Minister” Fawzi Abdelali today saying on rat television that an order had been issued to the SSC, which is still separate from the national army and tasked with “security” (terrorising the people), to prepare itself for a possible assault on Bani Walid.

On Tuesday, CIA agent Megarief’s “National Congress” issued an ultimatum to Bani Walid to hand over those suspected of involvement in the killing of rat Omran Shaban, the Misratan “first credited with discovering Muammar Qaddafi in a drainage pipe in Sirte last October.”

The “Congress” voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion authorising the ministries of interior and defence to “use all necessary measures to arrest the suspects” — the deadline expires 5 October.

Yet the “Prime Minister” is at odds with these pronouncements saying that “no action has been authorised against Bani Walid and no mobilization order issued”, in an attempt to distance the occupation regime from any action that it gives the militia in off-record orders.

Shaban had been killed in Bani Walid after being sent there as part of an effort to retrieve some journalist spies from Misrata who had been captured in Bani Walid.

Foreign occupation media says reports of a “sizeable invasion force” mustered at the front line checkpoint of Bir Durfan, around 20km NE of Bani Walid are false, with the British propaganda publication “Libya Herald” having claimed to have visited the area.

The Libya Herald is a publication tasked with creating pro-occupation regime anti-Qadhafi and anti-Jamahiriya propaganda under the guise of independent journalism, and feeding western media outlets with fake and “spun” news reports.

In this it has been successful due to the western media outlets requiring only something which they can later pin the blame on others (Libya Herald), however the direct readership of the Libya Herald remains miniscule and it complains of Mathaba’s wide reach.

The occupation regime is apparently hoping that the “threat of force” against Bani Walid will be enough for them to hand over the alleged suspects who carried out justice against the rat from Misrata, however they are clearly being naive.

As much as Bani Walid has suffered what most people in the world would not have the strength to endure, the news has spread fast around Libya about the weakness of the regime, the inability of its foreign backers to protect it, or even their own key personnel.

The resistance has continued to grow and adapt, developed networks and communications, renewed its strength and endless motivations, fired by the desire of every true Libyan Muslim to free his or her land from the rats and crusaders, and to exact revenge on the traitors.

– This article was compiled by the Mathaba News Agency from information received from various Libyan Jamahiriya sources. Please ensure that this coverage can continue in the members-only area and even once again be broadcast on the free site and to other news networks, by donating on a regular basis in addition to your subscriptions. We cannot continue to operate on less than half of the minimum budget. We have much work to do and require much more help from our readers in the absence of sponsorship and budgets.

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Islamist Militias More Popular — or Less Unpopular — in Mali Than Native Tuaregs

By , July 10, 2012 1:45 pm

Cross-posted from the Arabist.

Le Monde estimates that over 200,000 Malians have fled to neighboring countries in the wake of the ongoing “Tuareg rebellion,” while at least 150,000 more have become international displaced persons. It is by now, though, a misnomer to call this conflict a “Tuareg rebellion,” as the MNLA, the Tuareg organization originally fighting to establish an autonomous homeland in northern Mali, has been driven from the cities it captured from the government. The government was driven from the north months before, and so the initiative is now in hands of the militias proclaiming Islamist goals.

Despite their superior armaments, MNLA fighters have now been driven from Gao which they had declared to be the capital of their autonomous state of “Azawad.” Reporter Peter Tinti interviewed residents of Gao following the MNLA’s departure from the city, offering insight into the Islamists’ success. Visit the Arabist to view his tweets from Gao.

The Islamists’ “acceptance” seems to be less a matter of sincerity on the part of the “liberated” residents of Gao for “Les Mujadadin” than it is a hope that the past weeks of looting and arbitrary violence against civilians will subside. Neither the MNLA nor the Malian Army found themselves to be very popular as occupiers in the past few months because of their actions.

Indeed, success in Gao for the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) — an organization involved in bombings, smuggling and kidnappings in Algeria – and Ansar al-Dine, founded by the Tuareg Islamist and former MNLA commander Iyad Ag Ghali, did not just come militarily. It also came through through the fact that the Islamists accurately read street protests over the murder of a local official and their escalation against the MNLA occupation and Tuareg separatism in general. France24 reports that MUJWA and Ansar al-Dine quickly took up places alongside the demonstrators. A spokesman for Ansar al-Dine claims that the Islamists, who do count Tuaregs among their numbers, “only” moved against the MNLA in order to prevent them from further brutalizing the city’s residents.

Tuaregs are now reportedly vacating northern Mali in fear of further reprisals from all parties, while MUJWA is apparently trying to win over Mali’s Songhai minority. At the same, all of the Islamist militias have reportedly begun imposing their versions of Sharia law in the towns they hold: a family interviewed by Phil Paoletta reports public floggings and other harsh measures have been instituted in Timbuktu, while throughout the north, armed gangs are descending upon Sufi shrines to tear them down.

Unpopular as these actions are proving to be, an even greater dearth of popular support bedeviled the MNLA since the onset of the fighting that saw Mali’s US-trained armed forces retreating before separatist Tuaregs kitted out with stolen Libyan weaponry. It was no coincidence that these columns bore the arms of the Jamahiriya — the late Colonel was a patron of Tuareg separatism in Mali in the 1980s and 1990s, when severe droughts and resentment towards Bamako’s policies sparked revolts. Representatives of Tuareg tribes eventually reached a ceasefire with the government in 1998, though clashes continued to occur on and off since then and disappointment with the central government — in both the north and among the military — has festered through that time. The returning mercenaries from Libya provided the means for the conflict to be reignited.

But as the shock of its assault wore out over Mali’s geographic space and ethnic divisions, the Tuaregs’ position deteriorated (they account for no more than a fifth of Mali’s total population, and many have since moved to the cities). The MNLA has been hurting for manpower and finances. Additionally, the several-thousand strong MNLA did not represent all Tuaregs. Splits within the movement among participating Tuareg tribes, such as the Kel Adagh, had weakened the separatists before the falling out with Ansar al-Dine occurred in Timbuktu.

The conflict’s regional implications are still being calculated. Mauritania and Algeria are deploying more border units, and Mali’s West African neighbors have proposed direct military intervention. Parliamentarians and protestors in Bamako are demanding that the army — still chastened from its losses and self-defeating coup against President Touré in the spring — take more proactive measures to regain government control over the north.

Finally, there is the matter of assessing how possible next steps in this conflict — further Islamist offensives, outside military intervention from ECOWAS, refugee movements, a government offensive – might affect a Sahelian food insecurity crisis warned of by aid organizations for this year. Oxfam warned in June that “[l]ow rainfall and water levels, poor harvests and lack of pasture, high food prices and a drop in remittances from migrants are all causing serious problems …. National food reserves are dangerously low, while prices of some key cereals have dramatically increased: prices of corn in the Sahel are 60-85% higher than last five year average prices.” Water access issues in the north are being exacerbated by conflict-related disruptions.

And between 70,000 and 100,000 refugees have gone to [Mauritania], where “700,000 people (over one-quarter of the population) in Mauritania are [already] estimated to be vulnerable to food insecurity.” The World Food Program and other NGOs remain optimistic that international donors and the region’s governments can remediate most of these problems, including in Mali, where Oxfam plans to provide food aid to around 350,000 people.

Update: For more information on Ansar al-Dine’s Iyag Ag Ghaly, AFP’s Serge Daniel has a profile of the Tuareg Islamist leader up at Slateafrique.com.

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Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Seeks Popular Support To Fight Charges

By , February 20, 2012 6:24 pm

Iraq’s Sunni Vice President, Tariq al-Hashimi, has called on “all honest people” to support him as he fights government charges that he was running death squads. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

US shuts down popular file-sharing website

By , January 20, 2012 12:19 pm

Four staff members, including founders, of MegaUpload.com appear in New Zealand court for alleged copyright violations. View full post on AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)

Constitutional Conference for Salahal-Din Province’s “Region” Begins Popular Referandum

By , January 14, 2012 1:46 pm

The Secretary-General of the Constitutional Conference for Salahal-Din Province has said Thursday that the phase of the popular referandum has began early in the day in all areas of the Province, in… View full post on Iraq Updates – Latest News

Erdogan Most Popular Leader By Far Among Arabs

By , November 29, 2011 10:41 pm

Despite repeated expressions of support by President Barack Obama for democratic change during the “Arab Spring”, the United States remains widely distrusted in the region, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries released here Monday. View full post on FPIF Latest Content

Russian Rock Star Says Popular Song Not About Putin

By , October 13, 2011 7:59 pm

Legendary Russian rock singer Andrei Makarevich says a song of his that became very popular online this week is not about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin but about “boot lickers.” View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Russia’s Medvedev Says Putin Is More Popular

By , September 30, 2011 1:48 pm

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is defending his decision not to seek a second term, saying that the nation likes Vladimir Putin more. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Ethel Nujaifi Emphasizes the Necessity of Activating the Role of Popular Committees

By , September 18, 2011 1:37 am

The governor of Nineveh Ethel Nujaifi confirmed the need for activation the People’s Committees in all districts and villages of the province, to be able to transfer all the problems, which suffering from the people of their areas to the local government… View full post on Iraq Updates – Latest News

Every Friday Until They Resign: Iraq’s Popular Protests Continue

By , September 2, 2011 5:45 am

Although popular Iraqi protests seem to have peaked earlier this year, some Iraqis are still finding unique ways to voice their discontent: from candle-lit vigils to sit-ins to the Basra poet who refuses to leave the house. View full post on Iraq Updates – Latest News