Qatar & Sudan admit troops on the ground in Libya
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-oct-26-2011-1117
Qatar has revealed for the first time that hundreds of its soldiers had joined Libyan rebel forces on the ground as they battled pro-Gaddafi troops.
“We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region,” Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Attiya, the Qatari chief of staff, said on Wednesday.
The announcement marks the first time that Qatar has acknowledged it had military boots on the ground in Libya.
Previously the gas-rich country said it had only lent the support of its air force to NATO-led operations to protect civilians during the eight-month uprising.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15471734
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says his country gave military support to the Libyan rebels who overthrew Col Muammar Gaddafi.
In a speech broadcast live on state television, Mr Bashir said the move was in response to Col Gaddafi’s support for Sudanese rebels three years ago.
Sudan and Libya have had a complicated and frequently antagonistic relationship for many years.
Libya was declared liberated on Sunday, two days after Col Gaddafi’s death.
President Bashir said the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a Darfuri rebel group, had attacked Khartoum three years ago using Libyan trucks, equipment, arms, ammunition and money.
He said God had given Sudan a chance to respond, by sending arms, ammunition and humanitarian support to the Libyan revolutionaries.
“Our God, high and exalted, from above the seven skies, gave us the opportunity to reciprocate the visit,” he said.
“The forces which entered Tripoli, part of their arms and capabilities, were 100% Sudanese,” he told the crowd.
His speech was well received by a large crowd in the eastern Sudanese town of Kassala.
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so much for no boots on the ground..and the english, americans and french all had special forces on the ground to..they wont tell you they did because they werent meant to but that never stops anyone..
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“Qatar has revealed for the first time that hundreds of its soldiers had joined Libyan rebel forces on the ground”…well that certainly is a “me too”
thing. Quatar must be practicing war games with their little army, Why don’t they just use a little atomic bomb besides the usual conventional weaponry that the U.S. and France have sold them. Why don’t they just fight this war by proxy and write a little check to the UN? They can afford it. Actually, they can afford to do whatever they want including buy up all the banks in Europe and the good old U.S. of A.
qatar..world cup venue to..not bad for a million millionaires..
Jct: Sudan, with all its problems, helped kill its neighbor. Qatar too. All at yankee bidding. As if Africa’s going to forget we killed the man who wired their continent.
good comment
Hope we can help Darfur people to get free from the Islamic terrorist regime in Khartoum, as South Sudan do.