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bani walid on our own we would love to do that said salah mohamed a fighter as he rested on a bench near a mosque north of the city after a day of fighting we are not stopping anyone from helping us if we have a chance we would like to lead but if that is not possible then we welcome help we are all from the same tribe summary only posted by ph at 8 46 pm 0 comments i m reading tribal friction cripples advance on gaddafi bastion tweet this tuesday september 6 2011 special report the secret plan to take tripoli source reuters colonel muammar gaddafi s regime was delivered by a caterer on a memory stick abdel majid mlegta ran the companies that supplied meals to libyan government departments including the interior ministry the job was easy he told reuters last week i built good relations with officers i wanted to serve my country but in the first few weeks of the uprising he secretly began to work for the rebels he recruited sympathizers at the nerve center of the gaddafi government pinpointed its weak links and its command and control strength in tripoli and passed that information onto the rebel leadership on a series of flash memory cards the first was handed to him he says by gaddafi military intelligence and security officers it contained information about seven key operations rooms in the capital including internal security the gaddafi revolutionary committees the popular guards as gaddafi s voluntary armed militia was known and military intelligence the data included names of the commanders of those units how many people worked in each center and how they worked as well as crucial details like the number plates of their cars and how each unit communicated with the central command led by intelligence chief abdullah al senussi and gaddafi s second son saif al islam that memory card which mlegta later handed to officials at the north atlantic treaty organization nato provided the basis of a sophisticated plan to topple the libyan dictator and seize tripoli the operation which took months of planning involved secretly arming rebel units inside the capital those units would help nato destroy strategic targets in the city operation rooms safe houses military barracks police stations armored cars radars and telephone centers at an agreed time the units would then rise up as rebels attacked from all sides the rebels called the plan operation dawn mermaid this is the inside story much of it never before told of how that plan unfolded the rebels were not alone british operatives infiltrated tripoli and planted radio equipment to help target air strikes and avoid killing civilians according to u s and allied sources the french supplied training and transport for new weapons washington helped at a critical late point by adding two extra predator drones to the skies over tripoli improving nato s ability to strike also vital say western and rebel officials was the covert support of arab states such as the united arab emirates and qatar doha gave weapons military training and money to the rebels by the time the rebels were ready for the final assault they were so confident of success that they openly named the date and time of the attack saturday august 20 at 8 p m just after most people in tripoli broke their ramadan fast we didn t make it a secret said mohammed gula who led a pro rebel political cell in central tripoli and spoke to reuters as rebels first entered gaddafi s bab al aziziyah compound we said it out on the street people didn t believe us they believe us now the digital gift planning began in april two months into the uprising rebel leader mahmoud jibril and three other senior insurgents met in the tunisian city of djerba according to both mlegta and another senior official from the national transitional council ntc as the alternative rebel government calls itself the three were mlegta who by then had fled tripoli and joined the rebels as the head of a brigade ahmed mustafa al majbary who was head of logistics and supplies and othman abdel jalil a scientist who became coordinator of the tripoli plan before he fled mlegta had spent just under two months working inside the regime building up a network of sympathizers at first 14 of gaddafi s officers were prepared to help by the end there were 72 mlegta says we used to meet at my house and sometimes at the houses of two other officers we preserved the secrecy of our work and it was in coordination with the ntc executive committee brigadier general abdulsalam alhasi commander of the rebels main operation center in benghazi said those secretly helping the rebels were police security military even some people from the cabinet many many people they gave us information and gave instructions to the people working with them somehow to support the revolution one of those was al barani ashkal commander in chief of the guard at gaddafi s military compound in the suburbs of tripoli like many ashkal wanted to defect but was asked by the ntc to remain in his post where alhasi says he would become instrumental in helping the rebels enter the city the rebel planning committee another four men would join later making seven in all knew that the targets on the memory sticks were the key to crippling gaddafi s forces the men included hisham abu hajar chief commander of the tripoli brigade usama abu ras who liaised with some cells inside tripoli and rashed suwan who helped financially and coordinated with the tribes of tripoli to ease the rebels entry according to mlegta and to hisham buhagiar a rebel colonel and the committee s seventh member the group initially drew up a list of 120 sites for nato to target in the days leading up to their attack rebel leaders discussed their idea with french president nicolas sarkozy at a meeting at the elysee palace on april 20 that meeting was one of five in paris in april and may according to mlegta most were attended by the chiefs of staff of nato countries involved in the bombing campaign which had begun in march as well as military officials from qatar and the united arab emirates after presenting the rebels plan from a to z mlegta handed nato officials three memory cards the one packed with information about regime strongholds in tripoli another with updated information on regime sites as well as details of 65 gaddafi officers sympathetic to the rebels who had been secretly supplied with nato radiophones and a third which contained the plot to take tripoli sarkozy expressed enthusiasm for the plan according to mlegta and the senior ntc official who spoke on condition of anonymity the leaders slimmed the 120 targets down to 82 and assigned 2 000 armed men to go into tripoli and 6 000 unarmed to go out onto the streets in the uprising according to rebel colonel buhagiar he joined the opposition national front for the salvation of libya in 1981 and has lived in the united states and trained as a special forces operative in both sudan and iraq there were already anti gaddafi cells in the capital that the rebels knew they could activate the problem was that we needed time the senior ntc official said we feared that some units may go out into the streets in a spontaneous way and they would be quashed we also needed time to smuggle weapons fighters and boats in the early months of the uprising pro rebel fighters had slipped out of tripoli and made their way to the north western city of misrata where they were trained for the uprising rebels in misrata told reuters in june the leaders of two rebel units said hundreds of tripoli residents had begun slipping back into the city by mid july commander alhasi and other rebel officers in benghazi said the number of infiltrators sent into tripoli was dozens not hundreds this was not d day alhasi told reuters in his office the overseas brigade most of the infiltrators traveled to tripoli by fishing trawler according to alhasi they were equipped with light weapons rifles and sub machineguns hand grenades demolition charges and radios we could call them and they could call each other alhasi said most of them were volunteers from all parts of libya and libyans from overseas everybody wants to do something for the success of the revolution although tripoli was ostensibly under the control of gaddafi loyalists rebels said the security system was porous bribery or other ruses could be used to get in and out small groups of men also began probing the government s security system with nighttime attacks on checkpoints according to one operative who talked to reuters in june it was possible to smuggle weapons into tripoli but it was easier and less risky if far more expensive to buy them from gaddafi loyalists looking to make a profit before the regime collapsed the going rate for a kalashnikov in tripoli was 5 000 over the summer in misrata the same weapon cost 3 000 morale got a boost when rebels broke into government communication channels and recorded 2 000 calls between the regime s top leadership including a few with gaddafi s sons on everything from military orders to sex the ntc mined the taped calls for information and broadcast some of them on rebel tv a move that frightened the regime according to the senior ntc source they knew then that we had infiltrated and broken into their ranks recordings of two of the calls were also handed to the international criminal court one featured gaddafi s prime minister al baghdadi al mahmoudi threatening to burn the family of abdel rahman shalgham a one time libyan ambassador to the united nations and an early defector to the rebels al mahmoudi described shalgham as a slave the other was between al mahmoudi and tayeb al safi minister of economy and trade the pair joked about how the gaddafi brigades would rape the women of zawiyah when they entered the town several allied and u s officials as well as a source close to the libyan rebels said that around the beginning of may foreign military trainers including british french and italian operatives as well as representatives from qatar and the united arab emirates began to organize serious efforts to hone the rebels into a more effective fighting force most of the training happened in the rebel held western mountains but eric denece a former french intelligence operative and now director of the french center for research on intelligence says an elite rebel force of fighters from the east was trained both inside and outside libya at nato bases and those of other allies this overseas brigade was then dropped back into the country in all estimated denece some 100 200 foreign operatives were sent to libya where they focused on training and military coordination mlegta confirms that number french drops british infiltration rebel commander alhasi insists western special forces were not involved in combat the main help they gave was with the bombing campaign and training london paris and washington also say their troops were not involved in combat they complied with our bombing requirements immediately sometimes sometimes we had a delay said alhasi who has a big satellite photograph of tripoli on one of his walls we had the information on the ground about the targets and relayed it to them a european official knowledgeable about such operations said dozens of plain clothes french military advisers were sent to libya a french official said between 30 and 40 military advisers helped organize the rebels and trained them on basic weapons and more high tech hardware in may the french began smuggling weapons into western libya french military spokesmen later confirmed these arms drops saying they were justified as humanitarian support but also briefing that the aim was to prepare for an advance on tripoli british undercover personnel carried out some of the most important on the ground missions by allied forces before the fall of tripoli u s and allied officials told reuters one of their key tasks according to allied officials was planting radio equipment to help allied forces target gaddafi s military forces and command and control centers this involved dangerous missions to infiltrate the capital locate specific potential targets and then plant equipment so bomber planes could precisely target munitions destroying sensitive targets without killing bystanders washington s role in mid march a month after violent resistance to gaddafi s rule first erupted president obama had signed a sweeping top secret order known as a covert operations finding which gave broad authorization to the cia to support the rebels but while the general authorization encompassed a wide variety of possible measures the presidential finding required the cia to come back to the white house for specific permissions to move ahead and help them several u s officials said that because of concerns about the rebels disorganization internal politics and limited paramilitary capabilities clandestine u s support on the ground never went much beyond intelligence collection u s officials acknowledge that as rebel forces closed in on tripoli such intelligence collection efforts by the cia and other american agencies in libya became very extensive and included efforts to help the rebels and other nato allies track down gaddafi and his entourage but the obama administration s intention the officials indicated was that if any such intelligence fell into american hands it would be passed onto others a senior u s defense official disclosed to reuters details of a legal opinion showing the pentagon would not be able to supply lethal aid to the rebels even with the u s recognition of the ntc it was a legal judgment that the quasi recognition that we gave to the ntc as the legitimate representative of the libyan people didn t check the legal box to authorize us to be providing lethal assistance under the arms export control act the senior official said help from the gulf in some ways the rebels most unlikely ally was qatar the gulf arab state is keen to downplay its role perhaps understandably given that it is ruled by an absolute monarch but on the ground signs abounded of the emirate s support the weapons and equipment the french brought in were mostly supplied by qatar according to rebel sources in may a reuters reporter saw equipment in boxes clearly stamped qatar it included mortar kits military fatigues radios and binoculars at another location reuters saw new anti tank missiles qatar s decision to supply arms to the rebellion one source close to the ntc told reuters was instigated by influential libyan islamist scholar ali salabi who sought refuge in qatar after fleeing libya in the late 1990s he had previously worked with gaddafi s son saif to help rehabilitate libyans who had fought in afghanistan salabi s brother ismael is also a leader of a rebel militia in libya salabi is the link to the influential figures in qatar and convinced the qataris to get involved said the source close to the ntc hired guns by early june libya seemed locked in a stalemate after three months ...