West plays 'al-Qaeda' card on Libya

Islam Times reports from Deutsche Welle: Abu Yahya al-Libi, the person whom the West claims to be an al-Qaeda commander, has called for the incumbent Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi to be toppled.

In a 30-minute videotape posted on the Internet, Abu Yahya asserted that after the collapse of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt it is now Libya's turn.

Whenever Gaddafi and the US want to kill civilians, they claim that they are al-Qaeda so that they could justify the killings.

The new videotape by a person claimed to be an al-Qaeda commander is a new tactic for justifying the killing of innocent Libyan civilians.

Al-Libi has reportedly called for upholding Sharia (Islamic law) in Libya.

He managed to escape from Afghanistan's Bagram prison in 2005.

Al-Libi has never been a top member of al-Qaeda and it is not known how the US has set him free from the Afghan prison to use him as an al-Qaeda spokesman for such plans.