Establishment Media Re-Brands Racist, Bloodthirsty Rebels as Freedom Fighters

NY Times, BBC label Belhaj ‘grateful ally of the west’ as his fighters incarcerate, torture and kill black Libyans

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, September 5, 2011

Western-backed Al-Qaeda rebels are preparing to subvert the post-Gaddafi government in Libya according to intelligence analysts, as one U.S. official accuses NATO of using air strikes to pave the way for terrorists, while the establishment media re-brands terrorist leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj as a respected freedom fighter.

“Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies,” reports the Washington Times.

“U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.”

One defense official goes further, warning how, “We’re helping pave the way for them” through NATO airstrikes and other support.”

In a transparent effort to sideline increasing awareness about NATO helping Al-Qaeda terrorists seize control of the country, the establishment media, after months of all but ignoring the story, has now re-branded Al-Qaeda commander Abd Al-Hakim Belhadj, whose 1000-strong LIFG army now controls most of Tripoli, as a respected freedom fighter.

Despite the fact that a 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) report noted how the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which is led by Belhadj, provided more fighters per capita to combat US troops in Iraq than any other nation, or in other words was primarily responsible for killing American soldiers, the media has dispensed with such facts and instead portrayed Belhadj as a victim of CIA rendition in collusion with Gaddafi.

Ignoring the fact that the Belhadj’s LIGF is listed as a foreign terrorist organization on the U.S. State Department’s website, the BBC today describes the terrorist leader as “The commander of anti-government forces in Tripoli,” before making him out to be a victim of harsh treatment.

The New York Times also afforded Belhadj a more than friendly platform on which to broadcast his new role as a “grateful ally of the United States and NATO,” in a piece entitled, In Libya, Former Enemy Is Recast in Role of Ally. Recast by whom? By the New York Times itself of course, which completely omits the fact that Belhadj’s fighters are now busy rounding up black Libyans for incarceration, torture and execution.

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The fact that the corporate press has gone all out to give Belhadj’s character a facelift, presenting him to the world as a legitimate player in post-Gaddafi Libya, when in reality he directed terrorists who killed U.S. troops, underscores how complicit the media has been in selling the entire humanitarian hoax behind NATO’s war.

However, as the Washington Times story notes, members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which according to separate reports has refused to hand over power to the Transitional National Council, are likely to be renouncing their terrorist ties “just for show,” with the aid of the BBC and the NY Times, as a ploy through which to maintain their political legitimacy.

Evidence that the terrorists’ new found love for freedom and democracy is indeed “just for show,” and a camouflage for aggressive plans to turn Libya into an Islamist state, can be seen in their treatment of Libya’s large black population.

As we reported last week, migrant black workers have been subjected to abuse, torture, mass round-ups and executions at the hands of Libya’s new liberators.

Amnesty International workers witnessed the bodies of blacks being dumped by rebels after they were killed at makeshift hospital facility that bore the symbol of the Islamic Crescent.

Incarcerating thousands of blacks in prison camps can hardly be judged the work of freedom fighters, as the BBC, the NY Times and others have attempted to characterize Belhadj’s LIFG.

However, just as the press could be relied upon to recast NATO’s aggressive bombardment of Libya as a humanitarian peace mission, they can also be trusted when it comes to portraying western-backed racist, bloodthirsty rebels as righteous bringers of peace, joy and happiness.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

This article was posted: Monday, September 5, 2011 at 5:25 am

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