Sunday, March 27, 2011

Khalifa Hifter

McClatchy has a short article on the Libyan rebels new leader, Khalifa Hifter. Hifter spent the last 20 years living in Virginia.

Now why would he choose to live in Virginia, hmmm.

McClatchyDC: New rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia
Khalifa Hifter was once a top military officer for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but after a disastrous military adventure in Chad in the late 1980s, Hifter switched to the anti-Gadhafi opposition. In the early 1990s, he moved to suburban Virginia, where he established a life but maintained ties to anti-Gadhafi groups

4 comments:

Ed said...

You think maybe he's working for us?

Jim Sande said...

Oh yeah.

Ed said...

Either way, it would be great if the ex-pats would return to help their country.

Jim Sande said...

All this time Gadaffi has been just fine for the US, now all of a sudden he's a bad guy to get rid of? I doubt they allow somebody without training take over Libya. Hey maybe it will be a first, and he's a good guy who is on a patriotic mission.....