"Libya is United and its capital is Tripoli", chanted the rebels at the beginning of the war in Benghazi and contradicted the rumors about tribal conflicts or differences between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but now that the capital has fallen and the common enemy defeated, begin the first internal divisions.
The Interior Minister, Ahmed Darrad, asked yesterday, in the name of rebel President, Mustafa Abdel Yalil, not battalions of Tripoli to abandon the city, where the situation is safe and there is no longer need them, for example, of 16 brigades coming from Measured.
Mohamed Majdub, head of one of them, says that about six thousand men came from the third Libyan towns, where they are irritated by the fact that they, the harder and those who fought one of the most symbolic battles of this war, they are not getting due recognition. Once in power, the rioters if they do, satisfying all the groups, interests, and the different conceptions of what will be the future Libya. This week, the National Transitional Council has made some fundamental pillars of Libya Gaddafi post, in which the sharia (Islamic law) will be a source of inspiration for the laws of the State. This is not surprising in a Muslim Country to almost 100 percent and is common in this region of the world: even in secular Egypt, theoretically the sharia is the basis of legislation, particularly the rules relating to the family and private property. Therefore must not be cause for alarm for the international community.
Instead, it might be the new military commander of Tripoli: an Islamist, suspected of links with Al Qaeda and one of the founders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Lifg): Abdelhakim Belhaj, also known as Abu Abdullah Al Sadik. He led an important rebel battalion since the beginning of the war, around which was born the legend of the presence of qaedisti in Libya: are known to be the most rebellious among the rebels, without mercy and without respect for the authority of the Cnt but Belhaj has always distanced himself from these rumors, declaring themselves "moderate". In the years ' 80 he fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, alongside the Mujahedeen assisted by the United States, as well as now the West anti Al-Qaeda is helping Libyan rebels, despite the suspicions and fears expressed by some intelligence agencies.
Belhaij founded in 1995, the Lifg claimed in 1996 that a failed attempt to assassinate Gadhafi, who in recent years began to make war on Islamists, not as extremists but because they threatened his power and to make glad the West that was by now. What is now the leader of the military Council of Tripoli, was delivered in 2004 by Us secret agents to the Colonel, who locked him in the infamous Abu Salim prison, where the regime was holding political prisoners, most of them of Cyrenaica.
In 2008, Belhaj was freed by Saif al Islam al-Gaddafi's son – who offered an amnesty to Islamists, and retired to his home of Darna until the uprising broke out on 17 February. Now, Belhaj – that would be entered in Tripoli with the rebels from the Nafusa mountains, although many were still in Darna when the capital fell – wants its reward, his slice of power. And this is not like at all, where they fear that the bengasini, those who revolted first, want to impose their law and their imprint on the future of Libya, maybe with a vengeance so for discrimination suffered during the Al-Gaddafi.
An aide of Belhaj, Wasim al Masry, told the Newspaper: proud "tripolini rebels staged the operation to liberate the capital and are managing at this time the security in the city", where it is evident that the rioters are much better organized and equipped than other areas of the country. Admits that they have received "so much help from fellow Nafusa and Libyan city Misrata", from where they arrived most of the weapons. Those of the East remained outside the military operation, even if one of them, Belhaj is now the head of all the battalions. Also in the streets, among the population, this difference is obvious: the distance between two Libie, two ways of seeing the religion and politics, which will have to live in a country that wants to be pluralistic and democratic, as well as established in the road map of the Cnt.
from Tripoli Francesca Cicardi
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