re: #20 Charles Johnson

Other Benghazi militia leaders who know the group say its leaders and ideology are all homegrown. Those leaders, including Ahmed Abu Khattala and Mohammed Ali Zahawi, fought alongside other commanders against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Their group provides social services and guards a hospital. And they openly proselytize for their brand of puritanical Islam and political vision.

And this is the part that I was worried about— that they’re an anti-Gaddafi group. This is the danger facing Libya, having disposed of the tyrant, they have to deal with all the little despotic militias too, trying to impose their political and religious views on the country.

A lot of the people who fought against Qaddafi didn’t do it for freedom.