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Terror Networks
Cofer Black: Libya maintaining ties with terror groups
2004-04-17
From Geostrategy-Direct, EFL...
The United States has determined that Libya continues to maintain relations with Islamic insurgency groups.
Will Mo need an intervention?
U.S. officials said Muammar Khaddafy’s regime continues to preserve links with unspecified insurgency groups. But they said Libya has not ordered them to attack Western targets.
Well, that’s a relief. Mo does that and he gets another one in the tent that won’t miss next time.
"Libya is making dramatic changes," State Department counter-terrorism coordinator Cofer Black said. "They retain some contacts with terrorist groups we’re concerned about, but we’re working with them to resolve those."
Mo... Mo...Come on, remember your legacy you are trying to build. You can’t keep calling your old cronies, it’s embarassing. Make new friends, healthier ones. Come on, Mo, buddy, no backsliding...
This might be a tactical news release, to lend Muammar's guys cred with the hard boys. He said in an interview last year that he was working with the U.S. against terror groups...
In recent testimony to the House International Relations subcommittee on nonproliferation and human rights, Black did not name the insurgency groups that maintain contact with Libya.
I can say no more.
The State Department official said Sudan continues to harbor groups deemed as terrorist. He cited the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. "Sudan, great progress, assisting of the global war on terrorism," Black said. "But they so far have not expelled the offices of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which we have instructed them they must do."
Sudan needs to boot out Islamic Jihad and Hamas before we put the word "great" in front of "progress."
Sudan needs to go on the list to be wiped out. Its government is a terrorist organization as far as I'm concerned...
In addition, Black said, Syria maintains deep links to Islamic insurgency groups. He did not elaborate.
No need to.
"Syria, you know, contact with everybody; providing aid, comfort and support to a spectrum of terrorist organizations," Black said. "Syria and Iran are very high on this list."
Understatement of the week. Ask our soldiers in Iraq.
Posted by:Alaska Paul

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