Libya’s Terror Attacks: Qatar’s Islamist Allies Unhappy over Liberals Victory

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Highly placed Libyan sources, which requested not to be named, revealed to Metransparent that the winner of Libya’s July 7 elections, Mahmoud Jibril, had been victim of an assassination attempt five days before elections day. Feeling insecure, he immediately departed to the UAE, coming back to Tripoli on July 6.

Sources predicted new attempts on the life of Mr. Jibril whose large victory in Libya’s first general elections foiled Qatar’s ‘Islamic State of North Africa’ scheme. The friends of Qatar in Libya, meaning the Muslim Brotherhood and more extremist Jihadi salafists, totaled around 11 percent of votes, not enough to compensate the 2 billion dollars spent by Qatar in support of Libya’s revolution. This figure of 2 billion dollars was revealed on thursday by none other than the head of Libya’s Transitional National Council, Mr. Mustaf Abdul Jalil, a friend of Qatar.

Sources said that, notwithstanding the large victory of Jibril’s “liberal” coalition, Mr. Jibril shall not take part in the coming government, preferring to lead from behind. However, it is expected that Mr. Jibril would compete for the job of Libya’s next president as soon as a new constitution is drafted and approved by libyans.

In the meantime, sources added, Jibril’s coalition shall be proposing the following names for the newly constituted General National Congress:

* Mr. Ali Zaidan, a highly respected opponent of the Qaddafi regime and a member of the Ashraf (descendants of the Prophet Mohamed) who had been living as a political refugee in Germany shall be candidate for the position of Chairman. Mr. Zeidan had been elected as representative of the Jaffra district;

* Mr. Jomaa Ahmed Ateeqa, who had been jailed by Qaddafi for his defense of human rights, shall be proposed as vice chairman. It is noteworthy the Mr. Ateeqa had obtained the second highest score in the country’s first free elections.

* A female member of the Amazigh minority or a woman from the the eastern region (around Benghazi) shall be proposed as second vice chairman.

Sources adding that Mr. Jibril’s coalition is still looking for a strong candidate, preferably from the Benghazi region, to head the government which shall undertake the arduous job of rebuilding the libyan state. Strong personalities shall, also, be required to head the ministries of Defense and Interior in a country where 20 million arms are unaccounted for and where the number of armed militia members is estimated at 250 thousand.

Disarming the “thuwar” (revolutionaries) as well as “national reconciliation” shall be the essential tasks of the next government and a necessary prelude to the formation of a national army and security services.

The task of the present General National Council shall not be easy, sources warned, as a number of islamist and pro-Qatari groups do not recognize their defeat in the July 7 elections- which explains the wave of terrorist attacks striking at Benghazi and even Tripoli for the first time since the fall of the Qaddafi regime. Warning of an ‘Iraq scenario’ in Libya, sources said the size of Qaddafi’s, now unaccounted for, explosives arsenal (TNT and Semtex) was the biggest in all of the African continent.

Islamists do not recognize electoral defeat

Meanwhile, various terrorist attacks, clashes between armed groups and assasinations have been recently recorded in Benghazi and even Tripoli. According to sources, such attacks express the frustration of Islamist Jihadis who do not recognize the results of July 7 elections. More attacks are expected, including new attempts to assasinate the elections winner, M. Mahmoud Jibril. The increasing deterioration of the security situation could spill into large scale confrontations between various militias.

What does Qatar want in Libya?

Sources told Metransparent that Qatar envisages a new Islamic State of North Africa, which shall be comprised of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya and shall be the ‘nucleas’ of a new Islamic Caliphate! The victory of Dr. Mahmoud Jibril’s liberal coalition is viewed by Qatar as a major obstacle to this ‘vision’.

Curiously, Mr. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of libya’s Transitional National Council, considered as an ‘islamist’ and an ally of Qatar (and an opponent of Mr. Jibril), had confirmed (in a speech published by New Quryna (and by Metransparent), last Thursday, that Qatar “has a vision of a new Arab system in which governments shall rule in accordance with the Sharia’ (Islamic Law)”! Mr. Abdul Jalil, also, revealed that the plan for the liberation of Tripoli was drawn in Qatar!

Libyan sources pointed to the recordings of conversations between the ruler of Qatar and Libya’s late dictator, to corroborate their accusations against Qatar. The recordings, available on Youtube, and apparently authentic, mention the toppling of the regimes of Saudi and UAE regimes as a prelude to the realization of the Qatari ‘vision’ of a ‘new Arab system’. The envisaged regime changes would culminate in a situation where (a new) Saudi Arabia would be financing Egypt’s economy, Algeria financing its Moroccan neighbor, while the whole of the Arab Gulf region would be in charge of supporting the economies of Syria and Lebanon!

Crazy vision or not, Libyan sources claim that Sheikh Hamad would be the new Caliph of the reconstituted Arab region whose capital shall be Medina, Saudi Arabia’s second holy city.