34-481: LIFG may refer to: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group , an armed Islamist group involved in the Libyan Civil War of 2014 Left inferior frontal gyrus , a gyrus of the frontal lobe Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title LIFG . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
68-581: A 19-minute video urging Somalis to resist United Nations forces in Somalia . Bryant Neal Vinas , an American, took part in 2008 with other masked fighters in an al-Qaeda propaganda video featuring al Libi. Vinas was captured in November 2008, and pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to murder and to receiving military training from Al Qaeda murder and providing them with material support. Al-Libi also appeared in
102-654: A CIA drone strike, and Al-Qaeda's Abu Yahya al-Libi. The Telegraph reported that senior Al Qaeda members Abu Yahya al-Libi and Abu Laith al-Libi were LIFG members. One of al-Qaeda's most senior members, Atiyah Abdul-Rahman , was purportedly a member of LIFG as well. In an audio message published in November 2007 Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Laith al-Libi claimed that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group had joined al-Qaeda. "Benotman fired back an open letter to Zawahiri questioning his credibility. "I questioned their idea of jihad ... directly you know. This
136-514: A July 2009 video from al-Sahab entitled, "Swat: Victory or Martyrdom," about the Pakistani military's campaign against Pashtun militias and jihadi groups in the Swat Valley. On March 12, 2011, al-Libi urged his countrymen to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi 's regime and establish Islamic rule, expanding the terror network's attempts to capitalize on the wave of unrest sweeping the region. That was put on in
170-568: A former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), states of al-Libi: He’s a warrior. He’s a poet. He’s a scholar. He’s a pundit. He’s a military commander. And he’s a very charismatic, young, brash rising star within Al-Qaeda, and I think he has become the heir apparent to Osama bin Laden in terms of taking over the entire global jihadist movement. Scheuer states of him that he "in
204-706: A key role in deposing Muammar Gaddafi . The force was part of the National Transitional Council . However the organisation has a troubled history being under pressure from Muammar Gaddafi and shortly after the September 11 attacks , LIFG was banned worldwide (as an affiliate of al-Qaeda ) by the UN 1267 Committee . Listed at the Foreign Terrorist Organizations, the group has denied ever being affiliated with al-Qaeda, stating that it refused to join
238-588: A third of the LIFG members Libya was holding were released. A further 200 prisoners were released in March 2010, including group leader Abdelhakim Belhadj . In January 2011 members of the group threatened a return to violence unless still imprisoned members were released. In March 2011, members of the LIFG in Ajdabiya declared to the press that the group supports the revolt against Gaddafi's rule, and had placed themselves under
272-507: A video posted on a militant website. TIP's "Islamic Turkistan" magazine in its 5th edition published an article by Al Qaeda member Abu Yayha al Libi who wrote in support of "Turkistan". Al-Qaeda member Abu Yahya al-Libi spoke in support of "Jihad" in "East Turkestan" against China. It was reported by Pakistani sources on December 11, 2009, that Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a U.S Drone strike in Pakistan; however, later reports identified
306-494: Is considered a fund raising front for the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group." In June 2011, all of the entities included in the table above were de-listed by the United Nations Security Council Committee. In September 2009 a new "code" for jihad, a 417-page religious document entitled "Corrective Studies", was published after more than two years of intense and secret talks between incarcerated leaders of
340-580: Is crazy, it is not Islamic and it's against the Sunni understanding of Islam," Benotman told CNN. Zawahiri chose not to respond. As late as this August Zawahiri's video statements included praise of LIFG leaders, in what may have been a desperate attempt to head off the condemnation he could see coming." In November 2007 Noman Benotman , described as the "ex-head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group", published on open letter to al-Qaeda . According to The Times : In November last year Noman Benotman, ex-head of
374-594: Is that al-Qaeda's efforts have been counterproductive and used as "subterfuge" by some Western countries to extend their regional ambitions. These comments were first aired at a meeting in Kandahar in the summer of 2000. On 10 July 2009, The Telegraph reported that some member organisations of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group had split with Al Qaeda. On 10 October 2005, the United Kingdom 's Home Office banned LIFG and fourteen other militant groups from operating in
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#1733085752122408-562: The Washington Post : "We want [Libyan Islamic Movement] to be a good government that comes from Islam, that respects human rights and personal freedoms," "The Islamic way is not something dangerous or wrong. The West hears 'Islamic law' and they think we want to lock our women in boxes," "The Islamic groups want a democratic country, and they want to go to the mosque without being arrested. They're looking for freedom like everyone else." Countries and organizations below have officially listed
442-515: The Bagram prison.) and was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram interim detention facility . American counter-terrorism analysts assert that al-Libi was a member of al Qaeda . Al-Libi was one of several high-profile Bagram captives who escaped on the night of July 10, 2005. Early reports on the 2005 escape from Bagram Airbase included al-Libi's name as one of the escapees. Posters around
476-434: The LIFG and Libyan security officials. On 9 April 2008, Al Jazeera reported that Libya released at least over 90 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The Italian press agency Adnkronos International reported the release was due to the efforts of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and leader of the charity Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations . It reported that
510-536: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group as a terrorist organization. Abu Yahya al-Libi Abu Yahya al-Libi ( Arabic : أبو يحيى الليبي , audio ; January 1, 1963, Marzaq – June 4, 2012), born Mohamed Hassan Qaid , was a terrorist and leading high-ranking official within al-Qaeda , and an alleged member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group . He is believed to have been able to speak Urdu , Pashto and Arabic and to have used
544-559: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which is trying to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, published a letter which asked Al-Qaeda to give up all its operations in the Islamic world and in the West, adding that ordinary westerners were blameless and should not be attacked. Noman Benotman 's letter to Zawahiri was published in Akhbar Libya (News) as an op-ed clarification in November 2007. The gist
578-648: The Libyan man who said he had met Mr. Libi in Afghanistan, and who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns. "He started to visit training camps and talk about Shariah," or Islamic law, this man said in a telephone interview, about "morals, etiquette, how to act." Al-Libi was a citizen of Libya , who was captured by ISAF forces in the Invasion of Afghanistan , a year after 9/11 (Pakistani authorities and turned over to American authorities, who eventually put him in
612-654: The UK. Under the United Kingdom's Terrorism Act 2000 , being a member of a LIFG is punishable with a 10-year prison term. The Financial Sanctions Unit of the Bank of England acting on behalf of HM Treasury issued the orders to freeze all their assets. Mohammed Benhammedi lived and worked in Liverpool at the time of the UN sanction against him. Sergey Zakurko, the father to his Lithuanian mistress
646-468: The airbase identified "the Libyan, Mohammad Hassan Abu Bakar" as one of the escapees, but did not mention high-ranking al-Qaeda leader Omar al-Faruq as one of the escapees. Later reports removed the Libyan from the list of escapes and inserted al-Faruq. On November 4, 2005, al-Libi appeared in a Ramadan video on the Arabic television station al-Arabiya , and mentioned that he had escaped from Bagram. He
680-447: The aliases Hasan Qaiid (Hasan Qayad or Hassan Qayid), Yunis al-Sahrawi, and Hassan Qaed al-Far. Al-Libi was a citizen of Libya , who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram interim detention facility . At that time, American counter-terrorism analysts asserted that al-Libi was a member of al Qaeda . Al-Libi was one of several high-profile Bagram captives who escaped on the night of July 10, 2005. Jarret Brachman ,
714-502: The bearer or his ancestors were from Libya. Al-Libi was born 1963, but Michael Scheuer stated there is little "information available about al-Libi beyond his record as an insurgent", His elder brother, Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid ( Abu Idris al-Libi ) is one of the most senior members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and currently the head of the National Border Guard for southern Libya. Al-Libi went to Afghanistan in
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#1733085752122748-474: The deaths of some 30 individuals. LIFG claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Gaddafi in February 1996, which was in part funded by MI6 according to David Shayler , and engaged Libyan security forces in armed clashes during the mid-to-late 1990s. They continued to target Libyan interests and engaged in sporadic clashes with Libyan security forces. Adnkronos International reported that
782-613: The early 1990s and whilst bin Laden was an engineer and al-Zawahiri a doctor, al-Libi is said to have been an Islamic scholar who "spent two years in Africa studying Islam". It is believed that after going to Afghanistan in the 1990s, he "was sent back to northern Africa to study Islam in Mauritania ." As detailed below, he was imprisoned by both Pakistani and U.S. authorities. He claimed to have studied Islamic law, history and jurisprudence "for years among excellent and great scholars" who were in
816-522: The field with al-Qaeda and other Islamist insurgent groups. It is stated that "When he returned two years later" [from his Islamic studies in Mauritania, Africa], "Afghanistan was no longer a battleground for militant Libyans, but rather a haven: the Taliban controlled most of the country. Mr. Libi's training in warfare was minimal, and his early work as a preacher rarely touched on militant action, according to
850-541: The following table; the accusations are according to the US State Department. Al-Faqih, Nasuf, and a third man appealed being listed. Their appeal went all the way to the European Union 's Court, which ordered the UK to delist the men, and return their passports. The "Summary of Evidence" from Mohammed Fenaitel Mohamed Al Daihani 's Combatant Status Review Tribunal states: "The Sanabal Charitable Committee
884-698: The global Islamic front Osama bin Laden declared against the west in 1998. LIFG was founded in 1995 by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Its objective was to establish an Islamic state in Libya . According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service , the group viewed the Gaddafi regime as oppressive and anti-Muslim, and aimed to overthrow it. The group's first armed action came in Benghazi on September 6-7, 1995, resulting in
918-459: The group was founded in Afghanistan by Abu Laith Al Libi and other veterans of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan . The LIFG links to Al-Qaeda hail from Afghanistan, where hundreds joined Al-Qaeda. High ranking LIFG operatives inside Al-Qaeda, are the leader of the insurgency Abdel-Hakim Belhadj (also known as Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq), and the recently killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, who was killed in
952-559: The last year or so emerged as al-Qaeda's theological hardliner" and an "insurgent-theologian". He was also an official on al-Qaeda's Shariah Committee. He was the target of a US drone strike on June 4, 2012, in Mir Ali . His death was later confirmed by the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video released in September 2012 to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary. The nisba patronymic of "al-Libi" suffixed to his name indicates that
986-470: The leadership of the National Transitional Council . They also stated that the group had changed its name to Libyan Islamic Movement ( al-Harakat al-Islamiya al-Libiya ), had around 500–600 militants released from jail in recent years, and denied any past or present affiliation with Al-Qaeda. A leader of the LIFG, Abdelhakim Belhadj , became the commander of the Tripoli Military Council after
1020-532: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LIFG&oldid=1005642352 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Libyan Islamic Fighting Group The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group ( LIFG ), also known as Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya ( Arabic : الجماعة الإسلامية المقاتلة بليبيا ),
1054-742: The rebels took over Tripoli during the 2011 Battle of Tripoli . In March 2011, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi , a leading member of the group, admit to the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore that his fighters had al-Qaeda links. Al-Hasidi was captured in 2002 in Peshwar , Pakistan , later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being released in 2008. He admit in the same interview that he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" of Afghanistan. In September 2011, Ismail Sallabi (a leader of LIFG) said in an interview to
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1088-668: Was an armed Islamist group. Militants participated in the 2011 Libyan Civil War as the Libyan Islamic Movement ( al-Harakat al-Islamiya al-Libiya ), and are involved in the Libyan Civil War as members of the Libya Shield Force . Alleged militants include alleged Al Qaeda organizer Abd al-Muhsin Al-Libi who now holds a key command position in the Libya Shield Force . In the 2011 civil war, members claim to have played
1122-560: Was re-listed as an escapee, and as of October 2006 was listed among the Department of Defense 's " Most Wanted ", and a Terrorist Recognition Card repeated the earlier claim that he was indeed among the four escapees. In addition, the name off the Airbase posters was added as an "alias". Al-Libi produced a series of propaganda videos. On May 30, 2007, a 45-minute video, starring al-Libi came to light. On June 22, 2008, Abu Yahia Al Libi released
1156-526: Was suspended from his job at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) for fear that the link could pose a security threat. The group was delisted from the United Kingdom proscribed organizations list in November 2019. On 7 February 2006 the UN embargoed five specific LIFG members and four corporations, all of whom had continued to operate in England until at least October 2005. Those nine are in
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