Oorlog in Libië #93: De slag om Tripoli laat niet lang op zich wachten

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Tamoil sleept Shell voor de rechter

AMSTERDAM - De door Libië gecontroleerde benzinemaatschappij Tamoil sleept olieconcern Shell voor de rechter vanwege het stilleggen van bevoorrading van Nederlandse benzinestations. Dat bevestigde een woordvoerder van Tamoil maandag. Het kort geding heeft donderdag plaats.

Het gaat om de bevoorrading van negen benzinestations van Tamoil, die de Shell-vlag voeren. De twee bedrijven hebben hiervoor een exclusief contract gesloten, waardoor Tamoil alleen Shell-producten mag voeren en niet zomaar een andere leverancier kan krijgen. Volgens Tamoil houdt Shell zich niet aan het contract.

EU-sancties
Vorige week werd bekend dat Tamoil niet langer wordt bevoorraad door Shell en branchegenoot BP. Beide olieconcerns zeiden aan EU-sancties te voldoen door overeenkomsten met bedrijven die in handen zijn van Libië op te schorten.

Volgens de Tamoilwoordvoerder staat het bedrijf niet op de zwarte lijst van de Europese Unie. 'Om die reden doet bijvoorbeeld een bedrijf als Total nog gewoon zaken met ons.' Tamoil klaagt BP in Nederland voorlopig niet aan. 'Zij leveren smeerolie aan ons, dus dat is een hele andere insteek.'

Shell zegt de zitting met vertrouwen tegemoet te zien. Een uitspraak wordt binnen twee weken verwacht.

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 17:57 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 17:57 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 17:49 schreef horned_reaper het volgende:
Hoe zit het nu met Sirte..... is dat inmiddels in handen van de opstandeling of nog van Kadaffi?
En hoe zit het met Misurata? Volgens het kaartje is er nog veel onduidelijkheid over?

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 18:26 schreef Augustus_Thijs het volgende:

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Ik vind het juist wel interessant om te weten hoe het in die steden/dorpen meer naar het zuiden gaat.
Geven ze daar nog iets om hoe ze daar aan de kust mekaar van kant maken?

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Shock: America Fighting On the Side of Al Qaeda in Libya

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com(...)-libya#ixzz1Huk1rHoq

Jihadis who fought U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan now enjoy American support in Libya

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Evidence is emerging that United States forces are waging war in Libya on behalf of rebels whose ranks include jihadis who fought against the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, a leader of U.S.-supported rebel forces in the fighting around Adjabiya, went to Afghanistan in 2002 to fight against the "foreign invasion" -- that is, U.S. troops who invaded Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11 attacks. The Telegraph says al-Hasidi told an Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, that he was captured in 2002 in Peshawar, Pakistan. "He was later handed over to the U.S., and then held in Libya before being released in 2008," the Telegraph reports. Al-Hasidi also told the Italian paper he recruited about 25 Libyan men to fight against U.S. forces in Iraq.

Al-Hasidi's story is consistent with evidence presented in a 2007 report published by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. That report, by professors Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, examined records of an al Qaeda-affiliated organization found after an October 2007 raid near Sinjar, Iraq. The records contained biographical information about nearly 700 foreign terrorists who came to Iraq to fight against the United States between August 2006 and August 2007.

Felter and Fishman found that the largest portion of foreign fighters, about 41 percent, came to Iraq from Saudi Arabia. The second-largest source of foreign fighters, at nearly 19 percent, was Libya. "Libya contributed far more fighters per capita than any other nationality in the Sinjar records, including Saudi Arabia," the authors conclude. Since previous studies had indicated far fewer Libyan fighters in Iraq, the authors suggest there may have been a "surge" of Libyans into Iraq in the spring and summer of 2007. "The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's [LIFG] increasingly cooperative relationship with al Qaeda, which culminated in the LIFG official joining al Qaeda on November 3, 2007," the report say.

The Telegraph, citing U.S. and British government sources, reports that Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi was a member of the LIFG.

The Combating Terrorism Center reports says that Darnah, Libya -- al-Hasidi's hometown-- supplied more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other city, including Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a city far larger than Darnah. Benghazi, Libya, now a rebel stronghold, was also a major source of Libyan fighters traveling to Iraq. "Both Darnah and Benghazi have long been associated with Islamic militancy in Libya, in particular for an uprising by Islamist organizations in the mid-1990s," the authors report. "The Libyan government blamed the uprising on 'infiltrators from the Sudan and Egypt' and one group -- the Libyan Fighting Group -- claimed to have Afghan veterans in its ranks. The Libyan uprisings became extraordinarily violent. [Libyan strongman Moammar] Gadhafi used helicopter gunships in Benghazi, cut telephone, electricity, and water supplies to Darnah and famously claimed that the militants "deserve to die without trial, like dogs." In the current fighting, Gadhafi has said that the rebels fighting against him are affiliated with al Qaeda, but his claims have found little acceptance.

There is no doubt that the rebels associated with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group are violent extremists. The Combating Terrorism Center Report found that the Libyans, along with Moroccans, were more likely than others to become suicide bombers once they were in Iraq. The Sinjar records, plus political developments in the 2007 time period, "suggest that Libyan factions (primarily the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) are increasingly important in al Qaeda," the report says.

Now, it is not clear what portion of the Libyan rebels, who enjoy the backing and assistance of the United States military, have been associated with al Qaeda and attacks on the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. That's one reason critics of the Libya war say the U.S.-led coalition doesn't really know who it's fighting for. But we may learn more in the future, especially if the rebels prevail and some former jihadis find themselves running Libya, courtesy of the United States.

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 18:56 schreef Renaldo het volgende:

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FoxNews, say no more

En alweer gebaseerd op dat foutief vertaalde artikel in Il Sole 24 Ore.