Senior Libyan rebel “officers” sold Hizballah and Hamas thousands of chemical shells from the stocks of mustard and nerve gas that fell into rebel hands when they overran Muammar Qaddafi’s military facilities in and around Benghazi, debkafile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources report. Word of the capture touched off a scramble in Tehran and among the terrorist groups it sponsors to get hold of their first unconventional weapons. According to our sources, the rebels offloaded at least 2,000 artillery shells carrying mustard gas and 1,200 nerve gas shells for cash payment amounting to several million dollars. Washington: Leading the UNHRC by its hand For now, the Obama administration is sticking with the UN’s Human Rights Council, despite its anti-Israel obsession. Soon, though, Congress may try to intervene. When Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi starting firing on his people, the UN Human Rights Council took a rare step against one of its own: It suspended Libya’s membership in the international body. For those who saw the special session on Libya as a dramatic sign of change in how the council would treat dictatorships caught on TV screens around the world mowing down civilians, they had only to look to the election slate for the council’s next session, to be held in May. There, running unopposed, was Syria, home to the most recent round of bloody protests in the Middle East as civilians ask for more rights and freedoms and receive violence in return. By Ted Belman The Obama administration undermined Mubarak and Qaddafi to the detriment of US interests. I expect that Obama will pay the price for his incompetance come 2012. Rod Radosh asks Our Libyan War: What Position Should Skeptical Conservatives Take? Unfortunately he takes the wrong position right up front and then doesn’t resile from it.. I’m not sure, as is our PJM colleague Victor Davis Hanson, that the war is a bad idea. I think that there were numerous reasons that can be established that make our intervention necessary. These include the distinct possibility that if Qadaffi were to win, he would do as he promised — exact the very retribution he promised against the rebels and the cities in which they were prominent, thereby carrying out a massacre that might only be paralleled by the massacre carried out by the late Syrian dictator Hafez-el Assad in Hama in 1982. And Qadaffi might very well have resumed the kind of terrorist attacks against Western targets... Now that the New York Times tells us that the Muslim Brotherhood is really strong, organized, widely supported by the army, and capable of taking over Egypt–all the things I wrote at the time and the mass media denied–the Washington Post confirms every point I made during the revolution about what was going to happen regarding Egyptian foreign policy. Just read this article and compare it to what we were told during the revolution: “Egypt’s relations with Israel and the U.S. are likely to become more difficult in the months ahead with an infusion of Arab nationalism and skepticism about Egypt’s landmark peace treaty with Israel. Many of those who helped oust President Mubarak, including secular democracy activists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders, say the 32-year-old treaty should be respected for now. But they add that when stability is restored, the pact should be submitted to the Egyptian people for approval, through a... Quote for the Week Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. George Halas 1895-1983 (Legendary gridiron football player, coach and owner. ) * We’re starting this weeks GN ISRAEL in the billions and first on the list is that iconic Company Zim, a shipping line that used to run luxury liners and is now confined to shifting cargo from port to port, most of it neatly packed in containers. After a fairly long spell in the red there’s been a change of color and the firm is back in the black and here are the figures; revenue in 2010 came to $9.86 billion down from $12.5 billion in 2009 but wait – and this is the important part – net profit jumped to $474 million last year from $6 million the year before, obviously a leaner and better managed enterprise. Good for the shareholder and good for the country we would say. * Now we don’t know what fuel Zim runs its ships on but if they switch to natural gas there’ll be enough to go round with a... By Ted Belman Bill O’Reilly interviewed Donald Trump last night about what he would do if he were elected President. Trump said he would 1) make sure that Iran doesn’t get the bomb. Trump also wants to see Obama’s Birth Certificate. He is getting traction for his positions. The only thing stranger than him becoming President, was Obama becoming President.
Libyan Rebels Sold Hizballah and Hamas Chemical Shells
US and Israeli intelligence agencies have tracked the WMD consignments from eastern Libya as far as Sudan in convoys secured by Iranian agents and Hizballah and Hamas guards. They are not believed to have reached their destinations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, apparently waiting for an opportunity to get their deadly freights through without the US...US should withdraw from the UNHRC
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
The Human Rights Council, which ended its 16th session last week, did find time to consider the...Stability, is America’s only interest in Libya
Mass Media Now Admits It Was Also Wrong About Post-Mubarak Egypt’s Foreign Policy
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2) take China on in a way that would return jobs to the us. He mooted the idea of applying a custums duty of 25% until China stops devaluing its currency.
3) have stayed in Iraq after conquering them to keep control of the oil and control OPEC. Bottom line is if you take the trouble to conquer a country, you keep it.
4) not have bombed Libya. But if he did, he would insist that Arab League pay for it.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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