Wikileaks warned about Terrorist in Eastern Libya

By African Bulletin on April 11, 2011

Cables released by Wikileaks warned that Eastern Libya was proportionally the largest exporter in the world of ” Martyr-fighters ” in Iraq, along with other reports from the Pentagon describing the City of Derna ( 80,000 inhabitants), as the primary source of jihadists in Iraq.

A former U.S. security official in Libya, has stated that among the rebels a lot of “Islamic extremists can create problems ” if Gaddafi is expected to fall”. Obviously, all this was said when Gaddafi was still “a friend”; but today the situation is different. Gaddafi has turned the arms against his people and has partly disappointed the international community and the UN organization that has given authority to a panel of countries to help the rebels, those who Gaddafi repressed, in Benghazi, in 2006. However, the Libyan scenario   is different from the Tunisian and the Egyptian ones. There was “a consensual and unified position of the people against the Leader”, but not in Libya where the Libyan leader is still supported by part of the population; and probably that what made some European countries” to back off” of a military intervention in this country. On the African level, countries are divided on the Libyan case into “Pros and Cons”. Nonetheless  a  panel, composed of African Presidents of Mauritania, Mali, South Africa, Congo and representative from Uganda,  arrived  in the capital, Tripoli, Sunday  on a mediation mission, .  After meeting with President Muammar Gaddafi, the AU mediators will travel to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi for talks with rebel leaders. Mediators want to propose the establishment of a transitional period and the adoption of political reforms; while the council, which represents the insurgents, said there will be no political solution without the departure of Colonel Gaddafi, a paramount condition on the basis of any dialogue. They will not accept any compromise. This statement is already turning the   mediators’ mission to look very delicate.