Is Libya an opportunity for Al Qaeda?

Fri, 25 February 2011
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Mamata Banerjee presenting the rail budget. Please go on to this linkfor everything that's happening in Parliament right now

Meanwhile, in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi (newspapers have spelt his name in six different ways, we've counted) blamed the uprising sweeping Libya on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, accusing the terrorist group of supplying Libyans with pills inducing them to revolt.

Cnn.com says, "Our children have been manipulated by al Qaeda," he told Libyan state television by telephone.

Some may view this as Gadhafi's greatest delusion yet. Militant Islamists have played almost no role in the uprisings in Libya or anywhere else in the Arab world, and for most Arabs, energized by a powerful democracy movement, al Qaeda now appears more irrelevant that ever.

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