Libya’s National Congress has today issued a statement condemning a weekend operation by US troops on the streets of the capital city of Tripoli, demanding the immediate return of Abu Anas al-Liby and giving him access to a lawyer.
At appears to be entirely optional from the perspective of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who says that Libyans have a right to be tried at home for alleged crimes, but that the US operation won’t do anything to damage relations with the US.
Officials have summoned the US ambassador over the matter to make clear their displeasure, but that might well be the beginning and end of it from their government’s perspective, despite an admission that the US conducted the raid without contacting them about a possible extradition.
The assorted calls for clarification, for release, or even just for letting the captive Liby speak to his family are all unlikely with the Obama Administration apparently just planning to leave him in international waters until the heat dies down, and expecting the problem to simply go away over time.
How about if other nations do that inside the US?
For example, Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles is a CIA agent who blew up an airliner in the air full of children, and he lives in the US under US government protection. How about a commando raid to seize or kill him, and to kill his guards? That is what we did.
For other examples, there are the Contras. We ran those terrorists, and now protect them.
For others, how about the Syrian terrorists we run. They have members and case officers in the US.
This is behavior that can go both ways, and the US is guilty, guilty, guilty of everything of which it accuses others.
It is a dangerous game to play at.
You must be joking, Libyan national congress, even if you are serious is funny to ask for the return of a Libyan citizen. What is it that you are trying to prove, that you care about your citizens, that you had nothing to do with the kidnaping, that you are going to harm the relation which you are so thankful for what USG did and brought you as their puppet regime and etc. Come on, get real and once again thank your masters in Saudi Arabia and UAE helping you for such day being ridiculed.
AMERIKA should have been taken to the 'world court' years ago—YES. sheeple of amerika–your nation is guilty of multiple massive CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY–PLANET WIDE..