NBC News posted:Ahmed Abdi Godane — the leader of al Shabab, the Islamic militant organization behind the siege on a mall in Kenya last year — was killed in a U.S. military strike earlier this week, an al Shabab source told NBC News on Friday.
The Pentagon confirmed the death later in the day.
“Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to al Shabab,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. “The United States works in coordination with its friends, allies and partners to counter the regional and global threats posed by violent extremist organizations.”
A U.S. security official also told NBC News earlier in the week that Shabab had been killed by the strike on Monday. U.S. officials had said publicly after the strike that Godane was targeted, but that they were not sure whether he was dead.
The al Shabab source told NBC News that Godane was among 11 militants killed. Also killed were an operations leader, a financial official and a military strategist for the organization, the source said.
“It’s a big win,” the U.S. security official said. “He was operationally savvy and ideologically driven, with aspirations off the charts.” The official said that nine Hellfire missiles and one 500-pound guided bomb had been used in the strike.
The Reuters news agency reported Friday that the Somali prime minister had confirmed the death on Facebook (lol), but Reuters later withdrew that report. A Somali government spokesman told Reuters that the government had not yet commented on whether Godane was dead.
The siege last September at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi left 67 people dead and about 200 injured.
The United States in 2012 offered a $7 million reward for his arrest. Godane took leadership of al Shabab after his predecessor was killed in an American airstrike in 2008.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/terror-leader-ahmed-abdi-godane-killed-u-s-strike-n196601
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/how-obama-armed-the-islamic-caliphate/
According to Timmerman, the rapid unraveling of stability in recent weeks is particularly noticeable and alarming.
“In Tripoli, you still have ongoing fighting. The international airport has been bombed and shelled repeatedly. Aircraft have been destroyed on the ground. Libyans are basically isolated from the rest of the world. The country is going to hell in a hand basket,” he said, noting that all of this was avoidable because there was no need to force Col. Muammar Gadhafi from power in 2011.
“The Obama administration engaged in the sabotage, an undermining of a regime in Libya that was no threat to the United States whatsoever. Gadhafi had given up his weapons of mass destruction. He had destroyed his ties to terrorist groups. He was helping the United States in the war on terror. Was he a nice guy? No, he wasn’t. Were people in political prisons? Yes, they were. Were thousands jailed? No. He was a thug. He was a dictator, but he was not a threat to the United States and, frankly, he wasn’t even a threat to the Libyan people,” Timmerman said.
“We overthrew him, and the result of that was predictable,” he said. “It was getting these Islamist groups, these jihadi groups, who we helped to arm by the way. We helped to arm them, in Benghazi and elsewhere. They took over the country, and since then they’ve been fighting for control.”
Much of “Dark Forces” details how the toppling of Gadhafi led to a massive number of American-made weapons winding up in the hands of the world’s worst actors. Timmerman said the risks posed to the U.S. and its allies may well end up being the most troubling legacy of U.S. involvement in Libya.
“The weapons that we delivered to the Libyan opposition, the anti-Gadhafi forces, leaked into the jihadi networks around the world,” said Timmerman, noting that surface-to-air missiles have been tracked to Sinai, Gaza and even the shooting down of an American helicopter in Afghanistan.
chickeon posted:
The statement was a collaborative work of Helem, Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality (AFE), M-Coalition, Marsa Sexual Health Clinic and the Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health (LebMASH).
ilmdge posted:this far right rag worldnetdaily has a pretty accurate line on libya
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/how-obama-armed-the-islamic-caliphate/
unfortunately i read his book already and the argument is that Obama overthrew qaddafi and sent weapons to the region as part of a regional destabilization plan to encourage Muslims to wage war on governments that America supposedly favored at the time and............... *stares into own reflection in napkin dispensr as jefferson airplane never stops getting louder
jeffery posted:check out their website lol
another site using Parastorage dot com, aka Wix. a lot of sites do so there is not necessarily anything nefarious about the user. but heres a good learning opportunity.
Wix was founded in Tel Aviv in 2006 and provides Web publishing, user tracking and extremely low-quality site design.
it had an IPO of $127 million last year, making it the only company of its kind to raise that sort of money.
but its apparently much harder to get ahold of an actual person there compared to its competitors:
heres where their offices are located, Lol.
they are also "freemium" model, which is perfect for fishing because starting a site is free.
finally, heres what they had to say last month about implementing privacy/security encryption using HTTP Secure, which is designed to prevent wiretapping or one site masquerading as another to steal submitted data.
remember that this is supposedly a world class Web publishing company that competes with Amazon and Godaddy, with millions of users worldwide and $billions in the bank
e: as mentioned above they are NASDAQ traded so i wonder how close a look i or someone else could get at their books.....
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Petrol posted:ilmdge posted:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/04/libya-missing-planes-sept-11/15059169/
funny how thats a thing all of a sudden
http://www.janes.com/article/42080/algerian-reports-of-jihadist-attack-threat-using-commercial-aircraft-stolen-from-libya-unlikely-to-be-credible posted:A Moroccan press report indicated on 13 August that Morocco's air force was on high alert following the theft of several aircraft in Libya that could be used within the region for jihadist attacks in the style of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
There have been various reports in Tunisian and Algerian press in recent weeks regarding this same risk. On 6 August, Algerian news site al-Fajr claimed 11 aircraft had been taken from Tripoli International Airport during recent fighting between militias there... However, a spokesman for Libya's transport ministry has said that no aircraft are missing...
...even in the unlikely event jihadists had managed to steal aircraft, recruit trained pilots willing to undertake suicide attacks, and secure enough fuel, they would still need to transport the jets to other paved runways large enough to facilitate take-off (for instance remote airstrips or old airbases)...
All this means that the threat of an 11 September 2001-style attack is probably not credible.
Its good to know that when it comes to the real serious stuff in times of heightened tension, we can rely on USA Today to rely on the Washington Free Beacon and Huffpo to keep We The People informed
what about these cool pics
?????????????????? why would a publicly traded company have its user storage site registered anonymously? Wix's main site is registered to their office in Tel Aviv. i could write a whole thread on these weirdos
http://www.freedomhouse.org/program/dignity-all-lgbti-assistance-program
this all seems legitimate, or "legit", to me
daddyholes posted:jeffery posted:check out their website lol
another site using Parastorage dot com, aka Wix. a lot of sites do so there is not necessarily anything nefarious about the user. but heres a good learning opportunity.
Wix was founded in Tel Aviv in 2006 and provides Web publishing, user tracking and extremely low-quality site design.
it had an IPO of $127 million last year, making it the only company of its kind to raise that sort of money.
but its apparently much harder to get ahold of an actual person there compared to its competitors:
heres where their offices are located, Lol.
they are also "freemium" model, which is perfect for fishing because starting a site is free.
finally, heres what they had to say last month about implementing privacy/security encryption using HTTP Secure, which is designed to prevent wiretapping or one site masquerading as another to steal submitted data.
remember that this is supposedly a world class Web publishing company that competes with Amazon and Godaddy, with millions of users worldwide and $billions in the bank
e: as mentioned above they are NASDAQ traded so i wonder how close a look i or someone else could get at their books.....
i like the cut of your j`b
Superabound posted:i like the cut of your j`b
*opens manhole cover and pops out* then youre gonna love this. this is the company that actually owns "DomainsByProxy.com" the anon registrar:
and finally, the final piece of the puzzle:
now if youll excuse me ... i have to catch a ride.
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Barbarossa posted:i helped build a secret(ish) government holding somewhere in okrahoma that featured one way glass and a room in the back that by design was impossible to leave without someone from the outside letting you out. it had tile floor and a drain in the middle of the room lol maybe it was for cleaning and gutting deer you never know
can you imagine what would happen if deer were allowed to leave their blacksite from the in side?
*ahhh relaxes & imagines*
Barbarossa posted:i helped build a secret(ish) government holding somewhere in okrahoma that featured one way glass and a room in the back that by design was impossible to leave without someone from the outside letting you out. it had tile floor and a drain in the middle of the room lol maybe it was for cleaning and gutting deer you never know
that drain cost $12,000 lol
Barbarossa posted:i helped build a secret(ish) government holding somewhere in okrahoma that featured one way glass and a room in the back that by design was impossible to leave without someone from the outside letting you out. it had tile floor and a drain in the middle of the room lol maybe it was for cleaning and gutting deer you never know
You think you're gonna make it outa this alive?
Think again.
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GNA-allied forces (AQ/LIFG from Jufra) attacked Brak Shati airbase in south #Libya today. 60 LNA + 15 civilians dead (some w/ throats slit) pic.twitter.com/Wz1w1UA9i6
— James Wheeler (@wheelertweets) May 18, 2017
mostly africans, tortured & executed
Emir of tripoli gov/GNA is Hakim Belhaj, alqaeda/LIFG superstar, 80s afghan vet, regular visitor to turkey to supply syrian rebels
how the terminology over what the various death squads have been 'recognised' by Fra/UK & their liberal regime change media:
https://off-guardian.org/2017/01/29/libyan-labels-a-journey-through-the-guardians-coverage-of-the-libyan-disaster/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170519125242/https:/twitter.com/HA_REPORTER/status/757715353858367492
Libyan national army, whose soldiers were massacred, mobilising in response.
LNA are led by defected general/CIA agent haftar & are working with Green Libyan forces
https://web.archive.org/web/20170519125415/https:/twitter.com/HtewishM/status/865492811457613825
http://international.minbarlibya.com/2017/01/13/after-the-islamic-state-in-libya-all-out-war/
so this scumbag praising the massacre above is Sami Al Saadi, mufti of tripoli
he is the spiritual leader of the LIFG, with belhadj as the military leader
some background:
https://books.google.ie/books?id=iQuVCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=sheikh+tripoli+sami+%22saadi%22&source=bl&ots=-qIsz7W199&sig=4Q37chhrUs-Y7xVt-DU79OVcIWs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiN0YPq7vzTAhXqCsAKHQyJB0IQ6AEITDAF#v=onepage&q=sheikh%20tripoli%20sami%20%22saadi%22&f=false
interesting the 'double game' MI6 was running here, offering asylum to LIFG/AlQaeda in london while simultaneously cooperating libyan intel & cia to track their international fighters dwon
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/qaeda-libya-rise-zeidan-us.html
he recently met the UN envoy
https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/martin-kobler-visits-fatwa-house-tripoli
saadi, belhadj & 200+ other terrorists were released in March 2010 after rejecting violence in a 'anti-extremist' deal developed by the quillam foundation
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TRIPOLI955_a.html
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/03/gaddafis-son-new-tactic-fighting-terror-discovered/
(saif gaddafi came up with this plan while doing his PHD in london, and overcame resistance within Libyan gov to pardon these men ... now 6 years later they run tripoli and are still pushing for saif's execution)
quillam foundation:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-quilliam-foundation-is-financed-by-tea-party-conservatives-investigated-by-sam-harris-1e43d54f0bee
saadi was renditioned in 2004 in a joint CIA-MI6-libyan operation ... saadi received £2.2 million from the british government as compensation in 2012 (and the british press still refers to saadi & belhadj as 'dissidents')
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/rendition-islamists-mi6-torture-libya
when LIFG took tripoli in 2011 they found these docs from the head of MI6 to libyan intel
http://www.docexblog.com/2011/12/captured-documents-from-libya-and-new.html
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1p0YDmMfnwj0uMqTFC_oAWRjEKj6asjMMa_N5Jt5td3w&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650
E: the extreme racism of the white left here is also a significant factor and they have a hegemony on the "alternative" media.
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for doing so, hugo turner recommends: My friend Alexandra Valiente is one of the only independent sources of news on whats going I did some interviews with her on the topic people should check out. Also visit her sites Jamahiriya news, Viva Libya, Libya 360, and Syria 360.
an interview of theirs is here
moussa ibrahim is on social media & youtube too
this is an interesting account on what we lost:
video from the base before massacre
3rd force/alqaeda militia on the way to commit the massacre singing ISIS nashaeed
there is cctv footage of the massacre
there is also a HRW report
3rd force claim responsibility
misrata commander claims responsibility
(i dont speak arabic so have to take word for how it is described)
misrata have now broken off from GNA
fezzen tribes demand misrata/alqaeda leave their territory
background on the 3rd force
http://www.ecfr.eu/mena/mapping_libya_conflict
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/islamic-state-fighters-infiltrate-europe-posing-injured-libyan-soldiers?CMP=share_btn_tw
with libya now roundly described by honourable NGOs as "hell on earth" (not mentioning their own role in turning it in to that of course) its worth remembering that the rebels were racist genocidaires from before Feb 17 2011 till today & even western/arab media could not hide that fact
http://tawergha.org/
Mass Murder of Blacks in Libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cslPrRLaQDI
LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency (Part 1 of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBq3WhKgWQ8
LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency (Part 2 of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPnZyM_v-U
LIBYA Analysis: The Racist Lie Of "Black African mercenaries" led To Brutality, Lynching, Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtuWsBq9u4
Libyan rebels lynching a Black Man (Graphic) august 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btUpob4L8vU&bpctr=1496334966
NATO NTC Killing Black people in Libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqJqaAfkR8c
Black Libyans Robbed and Abused by Rebels, don't regard the Rebels as Revolutionaries (Sept 9, 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmamhtoAPU
Libyan opposition jails blacks and migrants on suspicion of working for Gaddafi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWN0AoMXG4
You Wouldn't Want to be Black in the New Libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhT5u6ecTQ
Libya's Dirty Secret Massacre Of Blacks Libyan in Tawergha by Racist Arabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsnsVHFQL4Q
What is left of the Libyan black people of Tawergha, NATO Crimes In Libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trm30Hz3WPI
Persecution of Black people in Libya by NATO Rats, NATO Crimes In Libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImibUruX00
Black libyan genocide with the help of UN in libya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyF6j2-AMiQ
libyas rebels accused of illegal arrests and revenge killings of blacks Sep 13 Global Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1zG23WFsk
Meanwhile, National Army troops declared they were close on fully liberating the city and destroying the final terrorist presence in the city."
https://english.aawsat.com/khalid-mahmoud/news-middle-east/haftar-prepares-announce-liberation-benghazi-libya
“the goon book” by M. Gadaffi posted:Driving women to do man's work is unjust aggression against the femininity with which she is naturally provided for a natural purposes essential to life. For man's work disguises the woman's beautiful features which are created for female roles.. They are exactly like blossoms which are created to attract pollen and to produce seeds. if we did away with the blossoms, the role of plants in life would come to an end. It is the natural embellishment in butterflies and birds as well as the rest of animal females which is created for that natural vital goal. If a woman carries out a man's work, she will be transformed into a man abandoning her role and her beauty. A woman has full rights to live without being forced to change into a man and give up her femininity.
The physical structure, which is naturally different between man and woman, leads to differences in the functions of their different organs which lead in turn to differences in psyche, mood, nerves and physical appearance. A woman is tender. A woman is pretty. A woman weeps easily. A woman is easily frightened. In general woman is gentle and man is tough by virtue of their inbred nature.
To ignore natural differences between man and woman and mix their roles is an absolutely uncivilised attitude, hostile to the laws of nature, destructive to human life, and genuine cause for the wretchedness of human social life.
Modern industrial societies, which have made woman adapt to the same physical work as man at the expense of her femininity and her natural role in terms of beauty, maternity and peace of mind - those societies are uncivilised. They are materialistic, uncivilised societies. It is as stupid as it is dangerous to civilisation and humanity to copy them
Noted GBS poster Muammar Gadaffi