Gaddafi’s Libya reminds U.S. who issued the first bin Laden arrest warrant

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Gaddafi’s Libya reminds U.S. who issued the first bin Laden arrest warrant

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The warrant, approved by Interpol, came after two German anti-terrorism agents were gunned down in the Libyan city of Sirte in 1994, an attack the government in Tripoli blamed on the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a militant organization linked to al-Qaeda.

Five months after the warrant was issued, al-Qaeda carried out coordinated bombings on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people.

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According to former British intelligence agent David Shayler, eight years after Lockerbie, Britain’s MI6 sponsored the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in a 1996 attempt to kill Gaddafi.

It was as a result of this connection, two former French intelligence agents alleged, that the British secret service subsequently thwarted Libya’s attempt to turn the spotlight on Libyan Islamists and bin Laden.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/gaddafis-libya-reminds-us-it-issued-the-first-bin-laden-arrest-warrant/2011/05/04/AFLEJJqF_story.html

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1. UBL's group worked for several intelligence agencies, among which was MI6

His relationship with U.S., Saudi, and Pakistani intelligence agencies in the former Yugoslavia and Soviet republics, and in other places such as Libya, continued for nearly a decade after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/04/810764/-Erik-Prince:-American-Bin-LadenCIA-Asset,-MoneyGunmen