Today I learned that Gaddafi had an arrest warrant for...Osama Bin Laden in 1998...was it to cover up Lockerbie? Al Qaeda paid to kill Gaddafi in 90s?

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Bin Laden Was Made A Wanted Man By Gaddafi​

Libyan leader Gaddafi was behind an arrest warrant issued for Osama bin Laden in 1998.

Osama bin Laden was on Gaddafi's radar well before the 9/11 attrocities
Osama bin Laden was a wanted man well before the 9/11 attacks, before the attack on the USS Cole and before the US Embassy bombings in east Africa.

The first international warrant for his arrest was issued in April 1998 following a request not by the Americans or the Europeans, but by Colonel Gaddafi of Libya.

On March 16, 1998, five months before the al Qaeda bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the Libyan Ministry of Justice named Bin Laden as the main suspect in a double murder that had taken place in the Libyan town of Sirte four years earlier.

The warrant was forwarded to Interpol in France, where it was formalised on April 15, 1998.


In March 1994 a German man named Sinvan Becker and his wife Vera travelled to Libya. They were apparently on holiday.

However, Herr Becker's job suggests that it was more than a sightseeing trip. Herr Becker was a spy. He is said to have been the top Arab expert in Germany's domestic intelligence agency - the German equivalent of MI5.

Herr Becker and his wife were reportedly shot by four gunmen in or near Col Gaddafi's home town of Sirte. They initially survived the attack and were taken to a hospital near Sirte. They later died of their injuries.


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There are several theories about who murdered them. Col Gaddafi's government claimed it was members of the Libyan 'branch' of al Qaeda, known as "al Muqatila", who have been fighting for an Islamic state in Libya for years.

We know that Bin Laden maintained close ties with al Muqatila. Some reports suggest that he lived near Benghazi, in eastern Libya, for a short time. There is no firm evidence for this.

The Gaddafi government believed Bin Laden was involved and passed its evidence to Interpol who clearly agreed.

To this day, Interpol arrest warrants exist for the murder suspects. The "wanted" page for Bin Laden also identifies Tripoli as the original issuer of the warrant.

But there are other theories too. Herr Becker had been involved in the investigation into the 1998 Lockerbie bombing and the attack on a Berlin nightclub in 1986, in which two US troops were killed.

Both were said to be Libyan government operations which supports the theory that the Beckers were actually murdered by Libyan secret service agents. :ohhh:


Neither the Libyans nor the Germans have elaborated on the case.

It is a strange twist of international affairs that Col Gaddafi, a man who now believes he is the subject of a western Nato plot to assassinate him, was the first to call for the world's most wanted terrorist to be arrested.

And an interesting aside: As Germany's most experienced Arab expert, Herr Becker's job was to identify Islamist extremist threats. The 9/11 attacks were, in part, planned in Hamburg. Had he not been murdered, would he have been alerted to the plot? :ohhh:
 
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MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden'​

Martin Bright
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. :ohhh:

The latest claims of MI6 involvement with Libya's fearsome Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of bin Laden's trusted lieutenants, will be embarrassing to the Government, which described similar claims by renegade MI5 officer David Shayler as 'pure fantasy'.

The allegations have emerged in the book Forbidden Truth , published in America by two French intelligence experts who reveal that the first Interpol arrest warrant for bin Laden was issued by Libya in March 1998.

According to journalist Guillaume Dasquié and Jean-Charles Brisard, an adviser to French President Jacques Chirac, British and US intelligence agencies buried the fact that the arrest warrant had come from Libya and played down the threat. Five months after the warrant was issued, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in the truck bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The arrest warrant was issued in connection with the murder in March 1994 of two German anti-terrorism agents, Silvan and Vera Becker, who were in charge of missions in Africa.
According to the book, the resistance of Western intelligence agencies to the Libyan concerns can be explained by MI6's involvement with the al-Qaeda coup plot.

The Libyan al-Qaeda cell included Anas al-Liby, who remains on the US government's most wanted list with a reward of $25 million for his capture. He is wanted for his involvement in the African embassy bombings. Al-Liby was with bin Laden in Sudan before the al-Qaeda leader returned to Afghanistan in 1996.

Astonishingly, despite suspicions that he was a high-level al-Qaeda operative, al-Liby was given political asylum in Britain and lived in Manchester until May of 2000 when he eluded a police raid on his house and fled abroad. The raid discovered a 180-page al-Qaeda 'manual for jihad' containing instructions for terrorist attacks.

The Observer has been restrained from printing details of the allegations during the course of the trial of David Shayler, who was last week sentenced to six months in prison for disclosing documents obtained during his time as an MI5 officer. He was not allowed to argue that he made the revelations in the public interest.

During his closing speech last week, Shayler repeated claims that he was gagged from talking about 'a crime so heinous' that he had no choice but to go to the press with his story. The 'crime' was the alleged MI6 involvement in the plot to assassinate Gadaffi, hatched in late 1995.

Shayler claims he was first briefed about the plot during formal meetings with colleagues from the foreign intelligence service MI6 when he was working on MI5's Libya desk in the mid-Nineties.

The Observer can today reveal that the MI6 officers involved in the alleged plot were Richard Bartlett, who has previously only been known under the codename PT16 and had overall responsibility for the operation; and David Watson, codename PT16B. As Shayler's opposite number in MI6, Watson was responsible for running a Libyan agent, 'Tunworth', who was was providing information from within the cell. According to Shayler, MI6 passed £100,000 to the al-Qaeda plotters. :ohhh:

The assassination attempt on Gadaffi was planned for early 1996 in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte. It is thought that an operation by the Islamic Fighting Group in the city was foiled in March 1996 and in the gun battle that followed several militants were killed. In 1998, the Libyans released TV footage of a 1996 grenade attack on Gadaffi that they claimed had been carried out by a British agent. :ohhh:

Shayler, who conducted his own defence in the trial, intended to call Bartlett and Watson as witnesses, but was prevented from doing so by the narrow focus of the court case.

During the Shayler trial, Home Secretary David Blunkett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw signed Public Interest Immunity certificates to protect national security. Reporters were not able to report allegations about the Gadaffi plot during the course of the trial.

These restrictions have led to a row between the Attorney General and the so-called D-Notice Committee, which advises the press on national security issues.

The committee, officially known as the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, has objected to demands by the prosecution to apply the Official Secrets Act retrospectively to cover information already pub lished or broadcast as a result of Shayler's disclosures. Members of the committee, who include senior national newspaper executives, are said to be horrified at the unprecedented attempt to censor the media during the trial.

Shayler claims Watson later boasted that there had been MI6 involvement in the Libyan operation. Shayler was also planning to call a witness to the conversation in which the MI6 man claimed British intelligence had been involved in the coup attempt.

According to Shayler, the woman, an Arabic translator at MI5, was also shocked by Watson's admission that money had been paid to the plotters.


Despite the James Bond myth, MI6 does not have a licence to kill and must gain direct authorisation from the Foreign Secretary for highly sensitive operations. Malcolm Rifkind, the Conservative Foreign Secretary at the time, has repeatedly said he gave no such authorisation.

It is believed Watson and Bartlett have been relocated and given new identities as a result of Shayler's revelations. MI6 is now said to be resigned to their names being made public and it is believed to have put further measures in place to ensure their safety.

A top-secret MI6 document leaked on the internet two years ago confirmed British intelligence knew of a plot in 1995, which involved five colonels, Libyan students and 'Libya veterans who served in Afghanistan'.

Ashur Shamis, a Libyan expert on radical Islam said: 'There was a rise in the activities of the Islamic Fighting Group from 1995, but many in Libya would be shocked if MI6 was involved.'
 
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INTERPOL: OSAMA WAS ‘HIT MAN’ IN ‘94 SLAYINGS
Clemente Lisi
Terror lord Osama bin Laden was reportedly a hit man involved in the murder of a husband-and-wife team investigating the Lockerbie air disaster.

An Interpol arrest warrant says the Saudi millionaire, along with three accomplices, gunned down German terrorism expert Silvan Becker and his wife, Vera, in 1994, London’s News of the World reported today.

Silvan Becker and his wife, who both worked for the German secret service, headed the investigation of the air tragedy that killed 270 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

Just three weeks before their death, Silvan Becker had helped organize a raid on a group of Palestinian terrorists in Frankfurt preparing to carry out future hijackings.

The couple flew to Cairo in 1994 to collect documents from Egyptian investigators, but stopped off in Libya for a brief vacation, the newspaper said.

Interpol documents reveal the couple were murdered in Tripoli on March 10, 1994, because they were getting too close to blowing the lid off who had placed the bomb on the doomed jetliner, the newspaper said.

The report said bin Laden and his associates arranged for the slayings.
 

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The Untold Story Of Gaddafi's Hunt For Osama Bin Laden
Though he still cites Al-Qaeda as one of his prime enemies, Muammar Gaddafi issued the first international arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden in 1998. Is there a connection between the mysterious death of a German agent and Libyan efforts to capture the t

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The Osama bin Laden puzzle
The name of Osama bin Laden's spectral terrorism organization is being exploited and abused by all sides in connection with current events in Libya.

Muammar Gaddafi declares that Al Qaeda is pulling the strings behind the protest movement, accusing jihadist veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan of fighting alongside the rebel forces.

His opponents say Gaddafi is playing the Al Qaeda card to conjure up the West's fear of terrorism, presenting himself as a bulwark against militant Islamism in North Africa, and the guarantor of security and stability in the region.

But looking back into the past, it turns out that Gaddafi was warning about the terrorist threat presented by Al Qaeda long ago, even before Sep. 11, making Libya the first country to put out a warrant for the arrest of the Saudi terrorist. On March 16 1998, Libya's Ministry of Justice in Tripoli issued an international arrest warrant for bin Laden, naming him as the main suspect in the murder of two German citizens in Libya. The warrant was subsequently forwarded to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. This document - seen by Die Welt - was deemed legal, and on April 15, 1998, Interpol issued an official arrest warrant against the Al Qaeda leader.

Here is the little known story of the origins of this Gaddafi-bin Laden faceoff. In early March 1994, Silvan Becker and his wife Vera entered Libya while holidaying in the region. By law, Gaddafi's empire was out of bounds for the 56-year-old German citizen. Becker worked for Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the Terrorism Department, and was thus banned from all travel to Libya.

Chief advisor on "Arab extremists'

In Germany, Becker had been the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution's Division Six – the department responsible for dealing with "international terrorism." For years the terrorist expert was the chief advisor on "Arab extremists," before transferring to the unit responsible for observing the Tamil extremist group LTTE.

According to reports by Libyan investigators, Becker and his wife were attacked and shot by four armed robbers on March 10 1994, shortly after their arrival in Libya. The two German citizens were initially taken to a military hospital in the city of Surt in Eastern Libya, where Vera Becker is said to have died on March 28 1994. Her husband finally died from his injuries on April 10.

It remains a mystery why the Beckers decided to enter Libya in spite of the travel ban. It has been rumored the German agent was using his private holiday as a premise to make contact with Libyan Islamists. The Office for Protection of the Constitution has vehemently denied this theory, insisting there is no reason to believe that Becker was a double agent, or was engaged on a mission in Libya on behalf a foreign secret service.

The German office declined to give Die Welt any further comment on the Becker case. Even 17 years after the murders, no information can be released on the work of former employees or their dependents. "That was our policy at that time, and it has not changed," said a spokeswoman.

Background details still unclear

A number of questions remain regarding who committed the murders -- as well as other significant background details of the case. The Libyan authorities handed over the results of their investigations to their German counterparts, which concluded that militant Islamists affiliated with Al-Qaeda had been responsible for murdering the Beckers.

The three main suspects were all Libyans - Faraj al-Alwan, Faez Abu Zeid al-Warfali and Faraj al-Chalabi – alleged members of the "al-Muqatila" group (also called the "Libyan Islamic Fighting Group"), which is said to have been fighting for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in Libya since the beginning of the 1990's.

"Al-Muqatila" is believed to have been one of the first Islamist groups to join Al-Qaeda. It was reportedly founded by Libyan jihadist veterans of the war against the Soviet army in Afghanistan - so-called "Libyan Afghans."

French terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard thinks the Libyan interpretation that the German couple was murdered by Islamists is credible. "The claim is certainly true," Brisard told Die Welt.

"We should bear in mind that other Islamic fighting groups were performing operations against westerners in the region around the same time. In 1993 and 1994, Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (AIG) killed several westerners, and there was a terrorist attack on a hotel in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh in 1994," says Brisard.

Did bin Laden ever even visit Libya? According to some reports, the Al-Qaeda leader lived for a time in a village near the eastern city of Benghazi, where he maintained close contacts with the "Al-Muqatila" group.

"There are intelligence reports that say bin Laden was in Libya," says Brisard, "but it's difficult to confirm whether he really physically set foot in Libya."

Conspiracy theories

Over the years, various conspiracy theories related to the Becker murder case have surfaced, some of which could have come straight out of a spy thriller.

Former British intelligence agent David Shayler has claimed that the British overseas intelligence service MI6 cooperated with the Beckers' suspected killers - the Libyan Islamists of "al-Muqatila" – in the 1990s in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi.

The jihadists are said to have agreed to help eliminate the Libyan head of state during a parade in Sirte. The theory goes that Becker got in the Islamists' way and were therefore killed.

Shayler has also said that British cooperation with Libyan extremists was the reason why Britain and the United States ignored the Libyan Interpol arrest warrant.

Another theory appeared in the German daily Taz, speculating that Becker had been the chief agent responsible for the German intelligence service's investigation into the attack on the "La Belle" club in Berlin on April 5, 1986, in which two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed. The newspaper suggested the Libyan secret service murdered the Beckers.

A spokesman for the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution strongly denied the claim that Becker was connected to the investigation into the "La Belle" attack when questioned at the time. To this day, no one is willing or able to say what the German agent was doing in Libya in 1994, who really murdered him, or why.

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Gaddafi’s Libya reminds U.S. it issued the first bin Laden arrest war…

TRIPOLI, Libya — In an attempt to portray itself as an ally in the battle against al-Qaeda, Libya reminded the United States on Wednesday that Moammar Gaddafi’s government, not anyone in Washington, was the first to issue an arrest warrant against Osama bin Laden, back in 1998.

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.

“At the time, they didn’t listen to us, because no one listened to Libya then,” said one senior Libyan government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Gaddafi’s open endorsement of terrorist attacks against Western nations, as well as Libya’s involvement in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1986 and the downing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, turned the country into a pariah state and led President Ronald Reagan to nickname its leader “the mad dog of the Middle East.”
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.

After years of U.N. sanctions, Gaddafi gradually repaired relations with the West. His government became an ally in George W. Bush’s fight against terrorism after Tripoli surrendered its weapons of mass destruction program in 2003 and diplomatic relations were restored. It is something Libya likes to frequently point out to foreign journalists in Tripoli, as officials portray the rebels they are fighting as led by al-Qaeda and argue that the United States is backing the wrong horse.

Last weekend, less than 36 hours before U.S. commandos surrounded bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, NATO sent rockets onto a house owned by the Gaddafi family in Tripoli, killing one of Gaddafi’s sons and three of his grandchildren, in what the Libyan government described as a deliberate attempt to assassinate its leader.
That left the Gaddafi regime in the slightly tricky diplomatic situation this week of not knowing whether to congratulate the United States for taking out a mutual enemy or condemn President Obama for engaging in a political assassination.

At a news conference early Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim first tried to dodge the question and then drew a distinction between the two events.

“Bin Laden, he was not a head of state, and that’s why there is a difference. He was not a head of a political party or political organization. When we come to the definition of ‘political assassination,’ we should be a bit careful about whether bin Laden was a political figure or not,” he said.

“The Libyan government, it is not its policy to target an individual leader to achieve political gain. But, again, Libya was the first victim of al-Qaeda . . . and Libya was very cooperative in combating al-Qaeda.”

Earlier, the Foreign Ministry repeated its allegation about al-Qaeda’s increasing involvement on the side of the rebels in the Libyan conflict.
“There is no doubt that defeating al-Qaeda as an organization and an ideology cannot be achieved under the policy conducted by the U.S., Britain and France in Libya and elsewhere in the world,” it said in a statement Tuesday.

Although some Islamist radicals have joined the cause of Libya’s rebellion, the vast majority of rebel fighters appear to be ordinary Libyans fed up with four decades of repression under Gaddafi’s government.

The Germans killed in 1994 were Silvan Becker, said to be one of Germany’s foremost experts on Islamist extremism and the Arab world, and his wife, Vera. Becker’s slaying is thought by some experts to have affected Germany’s ability to spot the Hamburg plotters who coordinated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Becker was also investigating the Berlin nightclub attack and the Lockerbie bombing.
 
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