Al Shabaab Benefited from Western Destruction of Libyan State
By Robert Barsocchini
April 05, 2015 "ICH"
- "Washington's
Blog" - Al Shabaab, the Islamic terrorist group that
has just laid siege to a Kenyan university, killing nearly 150 people, benefited
from the
2011 Western aggression that backed
al Qaeda and affiliated militias to destroy the state of Libya:
The Telegraph:
Libyan arms that went
missing during the fighting to remove Col Muammar Gaddafi are now spreading even
further afield…
The new report by a special UN
security council committee suggests that they have now travelled even further,
with Libyan ammunition showing up in the continuing war being waged by al-Shabab
[pictured above], an al-Qaeda offshoot in Somalia.
Somalia borders Kenya, where Al Shabaab has just attacked a
university.
Al Shabaab
has “Wahhabi roots”; Wahhabism is the extremist version of Islam exported by
missionary theocracy
Saudi Arabia, which is itself currently carrying out
US-coordinated terrorist attacks against people in Yemen.
“Al-Wahhab’s teachings are state-sponsored and are the official form of Sunni
Islam in 21st century Saudi Arabia”.
In addition to
support for Saudi Arabia dating to the
1930s, the US has on
numerous occasions openly or
indirectly supported al Qaeda and other Wahhabi terrorist groups.
The Western aggression that destroyed Libya also benefitted
other al Qaeda and al Qaeda linked militias, such as Boko Haram:
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Al Jazeera: “…heavy weapons such as
SAM-7 anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles…were either surreptitiously
obtained by posing as Gaddafi’s supporters or indirectly purchased from
mercenaries who had acquired these arms from Libyan depositories. …these
arms have been transferred to groups such as Ansar Dine, Boko Haram and
MUJAO, emboldening and enabling them to mount more deadly and audacious
attacks.
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Human Rights First: “Unsecured
Libyan stockpiles empower Boko Haram and destabilize African Sahel”
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NBC News: “Apart from benefiting
from sympathizers in the Nigerian military, the Islamic terror group is able
to purchase small arms and occasionally some larger weaponry in nearby
conflict zones, ‘probably Libya’ … The collapse of Libya has further flooded
the market”
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Reuters and United Nations: “The
Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa’s Sahel region
like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches, according to a
U.N. report released on Thursday. … Boko Haram killed more than 500 people
last year and more than 250 this year in Nigeria.”
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Washington Post: “Boko Haram
… militants, who traveled to northern Mali last year to join the fight
there, have returned with heavy weapons from Libya, presumably from former
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s arsenal.”
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