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Obama Gives Khadhaffi $2.5M In Aid, Khadhaffi Releases 88 Al-Qaeda Terrorists
October 15, 2009
Obama Gives Khadhaffi $2.5M In Aid, Khadhaffi Releases 88 Al-Qaeda Terrorists
Obama Gives Khadhaffi $2.5M In Aid, Khadhaffi Releases 88 Al-Qaeda Terrorists
October 15, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - AFP is reporting that on Thursday, the government of Libya released 88 veteran al-Qaeda and affiliated terrorists from Abu Slim prison.
The news couldn't have come at a worse time, with the Obama administration having previously announced that Libya would be receiving $2.5 million in foreign aid, of which $400,000 will go to the "Khadhaffi Foundation," which is supposedly devoted to peace.
"The Kadhafi Foundation said it is "working to strengthen peace in Libya," emphasizing the "big success" of the dialogue with the LIFG, formed in secret in Afghanistan in the early 1990s and which came to public notice in 1995 when it launched an armed campaign against Kadhafi's regime. Al-Qaeda announced in November 2007 that the LIFG had joined the jihadist network."
[source, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibemtnDNAa-rZ4b5-ZTcTMlPBQsQ]
Critics of the Libyan aid program are numerous with U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk [R-IL] stating, "Just weeks after the Kadhafi family celebrated the return of a terrorist responsible for the murders of 189 Americans, the U.S. taxpayer should not be asked to reward them with $400,000," Kirk wrote to the president. "For the sake of the victims' families who have endured so much pain these last few weeks, I ask you to withdraw your Administration's request." [source, http://www.examiner.com/x-20909-Columbia-Independent-Examiner~y2009m9d26-Obama-adminstration-set-to-give-400K-grant-to-Kadhafi-family-charities]
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