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| Africa: North |
| Gadaffi plotted to kill Crown Prince Abdullah? |
| 2004-06-10 |
| Sorry about the length. Very interesting if true.. While the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was renouncing terrorism and negotiating the lifting of sanctions last year, his intelligence chiefs ordered a covert operation to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia and destabilize the oil-rich kingdom, according to statements by two participants in the conspiracy. Those participants, Abdurahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader now in jail in Alexandria, Va., and Col. Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan intelligence officer in Saudi custody, have given separate statements to American and Saudi officials outlining the plot. Mr. Alamoudi, has told Federal Bureau of Investigation officials and federal prosecutors that Colonel Qaddafi approved the assassination plan. Mr. Qaddafi’s son, in an interview in London, called the accusation "nonsense." American officials confirm that Mr. Alamoudi and Mr. Ismael have offered detailed accounts of a Libyan plot to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah and that they appear to be credible enough to have launched an American investigation. But the officials said they are still examining the scope of the plot, how far it advanced and whether Colonel Qaddafi was involved. They said the accusations were one reason the United States had not removed Libya from the State Department’s list of nations that support terrorism. Mr. Alamoudi’s statements were offered in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors that are not complete. He was indicted last October in the United States District Court in Alexandria accused of violating United States sanctions by traveling to Libya and receiving money from Libyan officials. Mr. Alamoudi has told prosecutors that he twice met with Colonel Qaddafi, in June and August of 2003, to discuss details of the assassination plan, according to people with official access to his statements. In June, Mr. Alamoudi said, Colonel Qaddafi told him, "I want the Crown Prince killed either through assassination or through a coup." By August, according to Mr. Alamoudi’s account, Colonel Qaddafi asked why he had not yet seen "heads flying" in the Saudi royal family. The first person to provide Saudi, the British and American authorities with an account of a plot was Colonel Ismael, 36, who was captured by Egyptian police after he fled Saudi Arabia last November in an aborted "drop" of $1 million to a team of four Saudi militants who were prepared to attack Prince Abdullah’s motorcade with shoulder-fired missiles or grenade launchers, according to his statements. Colonel Ismael has said that his orders to be operational commander of the plot came from Libyan intelligence chiefs, Abdullah Senoussi and Musa Kussa, both of whom report directly to Colonel Qaddafi, according to the people who described the statements. F.B.I. and Central Intelligence Agency officers have twice traveled to Saudi Arabia to interview Colonel Ismael. Investigators are said to believe that the account matches that of Mr. Alamoudi and that, taken together, the accounts could form the basis of a criminal indictment against Colonel Qaddafi on charges of leading a conspiracy that included an American citizen, Mr. Alamoudi. In the reported conspiracy, Mr. Alamoudi and Colonel Ismael traveled to London seeking to make contacts among Saudi dissidents through whom they could recruit militants in the kingdom willing to participate in the plot. They distributed more than $2 million in cash in this recruitment drive in London, according to the account of their statements. Colonel Qaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, described the reported plot as "nonsense" in an interview in London, though he acknowledged that the Libyan intelligence officer, Colonel Ismael, was missing and presumed by Libya to be in Saudi custody. Colonel Qaddafi also indicated that there may have been a "misunderstanding" over Libyan support for what he called "reform" in Saudi Arabia. "If we support the people who want to reform Saudi Arabia, if doesn’t mean we are working against the government," he said. The accusations present a difficult problem for Saudi Arabia, which has suffered a series of major terrorist attacks in the last year, the most recent of which left 22 people dead during a shooting spree by militants in Khobar on the Persian Gulf coast. Crown Prince Abdullah is said by two officials to be convinced that Colonel Qaddafi was out to kill him and decapitate the Saudi government. But the Saudi leader is also concerned about playing into the hands of American hardliners who might use the case to call for leadership change in Libya, a step that Saudi Arabia would oppose, officials said. In early August, Mr. Alamoudi was arrested at Heathrow Airport carrying $340,000 in cash that he later said he had received from a Libyan intelligence officer. British officials confiscated the cash and interrogated Mr. Alamoudi, who said he had accepted the money from the World Islamic Call Society, a Libyan-backed charity. Colonel Ismael has freely spoken about the plot, according to persons familiar with his statement. During one F.B.I. interrogation, he was asked whether he had been tortured or abused in detention. He replied that he had been treated well and that he wanted to apply for political asylum, because he assumed that if he returns to Libya, he will be killed, the people said. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #8 Big Mo best CIA sleeper ever. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-10 5:28:28 PM |
| #7 (Google Images) Qadaffy Duck I'm Deth-pikable! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-10 1:41:41 PM |
| #6 I'd just like his lying talking head off my TV. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-10 11:46:51 AM |
| #5 If these bastards want to kill each other, I sure with they would shit or get off the pot. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-06-10 11:36:30 AM |
| #4 al-Jubeir is but a talking head; we have far better people to get "What is it"-daffi P.O.'d at. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-06-10 11:17:37 AM |
| #3 I'd much rather he take out the feckless Prince Nayef, however....and Al-Jubeir as a bonus |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-10 10:02:54 AM |
| #2 If Mo were to get away with one last act of terrorism, this one wouldn't bother me so much. Maybe we could get him P.O.'d at Hugo Chavez, too. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-06-10 8:30:04 AM |
| #1 The CIA should stop putting those sugar pills in Qaddafi's bottle of bi-polar meds. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-10 8:04:35 AM |