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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > U.S. AND AL-QAEDA FINALLY FIND COMMON GROUND IN SUPPORT FOR LIBYAN REBELS
U.S. AND AL-QAEDA FINALLY FIND COMMON GROUND IN SUPPORT FOR LIBYAN REBELS
March 24 2011
Benghazi, Libya – There is little debate that for the better part of a decade the United States and al-Qaeda have been about as bitter a pair of enemies as can be had. True, al-Qaeda had been a thorn in the side of the U.S. for a number of years 
before, but it wasn’t until almost exactly ten years ago that things really ramped up, that the rivalry between the two forces became out-and-out hostility, something that simply hasn’t abated with time.
Throughout that time, those two enemies have found very little common ground, very little reason to reduce hostilities. That, unlike many other conflicts, has caused an erosion of basic human compassion between the two with both sides seeing themselves as though they are in a battle for their very existence, a battle that neither see as negotiable and must certainly end with the destruction of the other. Now though things seem to have changed after an announcement by a high level al-Qaeda leader expressing his support for the ongoing rebellion in Libya, something the United States has actively promoted. Whether a product of simply similar ideologies or a kind of olive branch from one side, it appears that the two entities finally have some common ground on which to meet, possibly paving way for a new understanding between two bitter enemies.
“The Libyan people have suffered at the hands of Gaddafi for more than 40 years ... He used the Libyans as a testing ground for his violent, rambling and disgusting thoughts Retreating will mean decades of harsher oppression and greater injustices than what you have endured,” said Abu Yahya al-Libi, a top al-Qaeda commander and a Libyan native. “The rebels must continue their revolution without hesitation or fear to sink Gaddafi into the abyss.”
Thus far, al-Qaeda has not allocated any personnel or funds to aid in the fight against pro-Gaddafi forces. It does not appear that they had been involved in the U.N. resolution that established a no-fly zone, for obvious reasons.
“Similarity is, ultimately, what wins wars. Conflicts traditionally do not simply end, they end with one side capitulating because for one reason or another they cannot take it anymore. The lust for victory gives way to a lust for survival and the reason. That is why we fight and that is we surrender, and that is common to the human experience,” said Scrape TV International Conflict analyst Mario Martinez. “We saw that very clearly in the Cuban missile crisis when both sides gave ground out of a mutual human desire to not be blown to smithereens. That motivated dialogue and that dialogue ultimately motivated a peaceful settlement. It was the common ground, the desire to continue living, which created the peace. That however is something that has simply not happened between al-Qaeda and the United States, at least until now.”
Low level talks between the two groups have taken place, mostly in secured compounds with low lights and lots of water.
“One cannot underestimate the power of talk, of understanding yet we seem to ignore
that over and over again despite the long history of just sitting down and having a conversation actually resolving most problems. It may be possible that both sides have just spent so much time being angry that they simply can’t bring themselves to sit with each other,” continued Martinez. “Now though they have this common cause and maybe, just maybe this crisis will bring them together. I don’t see al-Qaeda forces participating in a no-fly zone anytime soon, I mean planes are expensive and they really don’t use them properly as we have seen, but they can still help. Maybe though the cooperation, however limited, is the real help both sides need.”
U.S. officials were tight-lipped on the word of support from al-Qaeda.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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