Ansar al-Sharia Benghazi (ASB) lost their headquarters in Benghazi to attackers on Friday. In other towns, they simply vanished without a trace, as they and others took their gear, heading to the desert to wait out the ongoing crackdown.
The regime demanding over the weekend that the militias of the country all put themselves under direct military control or disband outright, and many are taking option 3: pretending to disband and just moving out of the military’s reach.
In practice the order was never going to work, as the major militias have routinely trounced the military in clashes over the past year whenever the military has moved against one of them. Those with good relationships with the current government will be untouched, nominally under regime control. Only smaller militias, poorly armed and on the margins, are facing a real threat.
Having the Salafist militias simply leave instead of fighting may allow the government to save face, keeping their order in place without starting another civil war which they might not win.
Eastern Libyan militants? Antiwar’s coverage of the Benghazi incident’s developments is puzzling to say the least. It seems to be essentially based on official version of events. Judging from quotes I provide below (fully referenced to important media outlets, see site), observers must at least consider the possibility that the persons responsible for the ambassador’s death belonged to the Green resistance. Is antiwar playing gatekeeper role? I fear so. Ditz’s briefs are in any case unreliable.
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(…) The morning after the Benghazi attack, on 12 September, the NATO puppets unwittingly admitted the truth about the “Tahloob” (Green Resistance), and whined that NATO was not doing enough to help crush it. Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Wanis Al Sharif admitted this in a Benghazi news conference, which was later broadcast on Al Jazeera television. (7) (8) (29)
Libya’s Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib also admitted it, as did Libya’s President Mohammed El-Megarif, as well as Ali Aujali, Libya’s Ambassador to Washington, plus Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya’s ambassador to the UN. All of them said that Gaddafi loyalists had attacked the US site in Benghazi. They would quickly change their change tune under pressure from their NATO masters.
(…) One bureaucrat who would not adopt the NATO spin was Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib, who continued to insist that Gaddafi loyalists were the perpetrators. Therefore, NATO dismissed him as Libya’s prime minister, and replaced him with Mustafa Abushagur, the day after the Benghazi incident. (…) (read on)
(…) Some alternative news outlets acknowledge the truth about the Green Resistance, for example, the Inter Press News Service, which is a non-profit outlet.
NB Antiwar has ties with Gareth Porter (associated with IPS)
(…) there were no protesters anywhere in Benghazi at the time of the attack. When Fox News questioned US officials about this, the officials admitted the truth. (…) In an interview with McClatchy news service last Thursday (13 September 2012) the eyewitness said there were no protesters at all.
(…) Before the Benghazi incident, the corporate media had occasionally mentioned Gaddafi loyalists. After the incident, all such mention has suddenly ceased.
US Ambassador’s Killing Had Nothing to Do With Al Qaeda, Islamist Blowback or Anti-Islamic Video
By Mark Robertson and Finian Cunningham
Global Research, September 20, 2012 http://counterpsyops.com/2012/09/24/benghazi-atta…