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Who are the Libyan 'Freedom Fighters' and their Patrons?

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11 Gary Gambill, "The Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Jamestown Foundation," Terrorism Monitor, May 5, 2005,; citing Al-Hayat (London), 20 October 1995 ["communiquà ©"]; "The Shayler affair: The spooks, the Colonel and the jailed whistle-blower," The Observer (London), 9 August 1998; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquià ©, Ben Laden: La Verite interdite (Bin Ladin: The Forbidden Truth). Cf. also Annie Machon, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 and the Shayler Affair (Book Guild Publishing, 2005) [Shayler].

12 Yoichi Shimatsu, "Attack on Libya: Why Odyssey Dawn Is Doomed," New America Media, March 20, 2011.

13 "US reaches out to Libyan insurgents," The Australian, March 1, 2011,

14 "How a onetime friend to Gadhafi became his rival," Globe and Mail [Toronto], March 4, 2011.

15 Libyan Rebel Council in Benghazi Forms Oil Company to Replace Qaddafi's," Bloomberg, March 22, 2011.

16 Robert Fisk, "America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels," Independent, March 7, 2011.

17 "Libya rebels coordinating with West on air assault," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011.

18 "Egypt Said to Arm Libya Rebels," Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2011,

19 Benjamin Gottlieb, "Egypt Arms Libyan Rebels As Gaddafi's Conquest Continues," NeonTommy Annenberg Digital News, March 17, 2011.

20 Yoichi Shimatsu, "Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar," New America Media, March 1, 2011. The al-Thani family's protection of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is confirmed by former CIA officer Robert Baer (Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2003). Cf. Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil (New York: Crown, 2003); Peter Lance, Triple Cross (New York: Regan/HarperCollins, 2006), 234-37.

Reprinted from Global Research.

March 28, 2011

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and WarThe Road to 9/11, and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War. His book,  Fueling America's War Machine: Deep Politics and the CIA's Global Drug Connection  is in press, due Fall 2010 from Rowman & Littlefield.

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