Al Qaeda sets up 'Islamic emirate' in eastern Libya
Almaty. February 24. Kazakhstan Today - Al-Qaeda has set up an Islamic emirate in Derna, in eastern Libya, headed by a former US prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Kazakhstan Today reports.
As the future of Libya hangs in the balance, the country's deputy foreign minister claims Islamic extremist members of al Qaeda have reportedly established a permanent jurisdiction in eastern Libya, AFP reported.
According to a report from Al Arabiya, Khaled Khaim confessed to E.U. ambassadors in Tripoli that the terrorist group al-Qaead has set up an "Islamic emirate" in Derna, a city in eastern Libya. The camp, he claims, is headed by Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, a former prisoner once held at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"They have an FM radio station and have begun to impose the burqa" (head-to-toe covering for women) and have "executed people who refuse to cooperate with them," Khaim claimed.
Khaim also said Hasadi has a lieutenant, "also a member of al-Qaeda and named Kheirallah Baraassi" in al-Baida.
Derna is the capital of a province by the same name in the region of Cyrenaica, about 775 miles east of Tripoli. Al-Baida lies about 100 kilometers west of Derna.
Residents of Derna reportedly deny the claim, arguing the Libyan government is only trying to "scare Europe."
But Italian Foreign Minister Francesco Franco Frattini has also claimed that Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime had lost control of the Cyrenaica area and also suggested than an Islamic emirate had been declared.
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