Mahdi al-Harati

Now I know I wrote something about this man sometime back Rewind . But I am gone crazy after a friend of mine sent me an email taking me to task; ahem yeah asked me what I know of him. My friend is Irish you see. He knows about things common people do not know. But I can say this, "I know a lot more".

I have doubts about his Irishness. I find out only that Mahdi al-Hariti was born in Libya, and have lived in Ireland for the last 20 years or so. He is married to Eftaima al- Najar who was born to an Irish mother and a Lybian father in Ireland. So he is not Irish at all. He lived in Ireland.

("Pak is a Pak no matter where he lives". Said my pakistani mate some time back.

So  said I, with a wink wink nudge nudge, "But you have a British passport???".

He goes, "Insha-Allah, that is for convenience". Bless. I rest my case.)

This Libyan man al Haridi has been enjoying the companianship of the Anti war campaigners in Ireland and went to Palestine from Turkey in the flotilla of goods for Palestinians and got injured. But is that all he been upto?

Fair and square we are not sure of what news papers say as it is unravelled in the british media eg. News of The World (1843 to 2011.... poor sod) etc. but there was a bit of news about my man al-Haridi in the irish news.as to "TINKER RAIDERS, SOLDIER, SPY" .

What it says there in a nutshell is, that some thieving traveller community (god bless them) has broken into al Haridi's house and nicked a sum of 200 grand Euro from his place. When questioned by the Police al Haridi has explained thus:

.....He has told cops (oops sorry Gardai) that the cash was a gift from US secret agents to aid the war effort in Libya. Now the money trail has led to the traveller strongholds in Rathkeale, where €500 notes have been popping up all over the place.//////

Astonished officers made contact with Mahdi al-Harati who told them that he had travelled to France, the United States and Qatar the previous month and that representatives of an American intelligence agency had given him a significant amount of money to help in the efforts to defeat Gaddafi. He said he left two envelopes with his wife in case he was killed and took the rest of the cash with him when he went back to Libya.........

The couple had no comment to make when the Sunday World called to their home last week. Al-Harati led the main rebel advance that captured Tripoli on August 21, a move regarded as being the beginning of the end for Gaddafi. He was appointed deputy leader of Tripoli's military council, a group which had the aim of merging all rebel units into one coherent national army.

Just days after the robbery in his home, al-Harati resigned from the council and returned to Dublin and has since been formally interviewed by gardai. Astonished detectives have launched a major probe into the daring robbery and issued an alert to all banks to be on the lookout for €500 notes, which are extremely rare in Ireland but would be relatively common in other European countries.

True to life, which I live and prosper, I hope they never catch the em tea leaves.

In a another informative website, Indemedia Ireland, hopeefully unbiased this came to light

Mahdi al-Harati has been well-known in antiwar and Palestine solidarity circles in Dublin over the years . He had been a passenger in the Challenger 1 ship last year when it attempted to break the seige of Gaza as part of the Free Gaza Flotilla . He was the last Irish member of the flotilla to arrive home after the Israeli raid and was given a hero’s reception at Dublin Airport by members of the IPSC and the IAWM . According to an indymedia comment from last year written by Kev from the IPSC

I found one of our own Blogspot people talking about this same subject in this . I don't think I have to elaborate about what this authour has written. But there are a few points one has to take:

1) There are few of the people who were in Libya also in the area viz. "Abdul Halim Belhaj" the Libyan military council leaders in Tripoli, "Adam Kikly" who informed the Spanish journalist that he worked with "Abdul Halim Belhaj" since 20 years in UK, and "Mehdi Harati", the leader of the "Tripoli Brigade"  in Libya

How true is this I wonder?

I saw a comment and I thought I will try to elaborate on this further. There is proof that there is a connection between Al Quaida and Meihdi. I shown you an article earlier by Daniel. But he has written more. They are all in Spanish, but thanks to google it can be easily rectified.

The train takes us to a cottage where we expect another group to be evacuated with us. And then comes the surprise: there are three Libyans, in their own words, have come not to fight, but "to assess the needs of the Syrian revolutionary brothers." The Libyans do not try to hide their identities. These are men near Abdelhakim Belhadj, military governor of Tripoli current and former jihadist with links to al Qaeda in the past.

One of them turns out to be an old acquaintance of the reporters who covered the war in Libya: Mehdi al-Hatari, the former commander of the Brigade of Tripoli, which played a key role in making the capital and the fall of Gaddafi. The second, Adem Kikli, says he works for Belhadj, and for almost two decades in exile in the UK. The third, Fuad, seems to be a bodyguard. "We are here on their own initiative and personal, not least of anyone," said Adem. He emphasizes that Harati publicly renounced his place in Tripoli on 11 October. Adem also claims to have been with other Libyans, "a few tens', which have moved to Syria on your own to help the insurgents.

Harati, no doubt, is a man of action. The character came to the fore after participating in the Gaza Flotilla in the spring of 2010. "I was wounded in the assault on the Mavi Marmara, and spent nine days in jail in Tel Aviv," he says. In February, Harati, who lives in Dublin and have Irish passport, said goodbye to his wife and son, along with other Libyan exiles in Ireland, went to Libya. There he created the Brigade of Tripoli, a group of elite fighters, trained by consultants from Qatar, who fought fiercely in the final battle for the capital.

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