Muammar Gaddafi's secret war against Indonesia and the Philippines (and France)

[Wholegrain]

A mostly unknown proxy war was fought by Libya under Gaddafi in the 1980s and 1990s against Indonesia and the Philippines.

Gaddafi set up the "World Mathaba Organization" to coordinate and support various separatist insurgencies across the globe, in pro-western countries. Gaddafi supported a number of well known insurgencies like IRA in Northern Ireland and ETA in Spain, and POLISARIO against Morocco.

The Philippines and Indonesia were firmly entrenched in the American side during the Cold War. America supported Philippines against Moros and the Indonesians against West Papuans, East Timorese and Acehnese.

The seperatist organizations which Gaddafi supported in the Philippines were the Moro National Liberation Front, and Moro Islamic Liberation Front, of the various Muslim Moro ethnic groups rebelling against Philippines colonization on Mindanao and Sulu. Gaddafi also establish contacts with Communist insurgents in the Philippines.

Explanation on the Moro situation can be found here.

American and Philippines demographic engineering against Moro Muslims

The seperatist organizations which Gaddafi supported in Indonesia included the Free Aceh Movement, Free Papau Movement, Republic of South Maluku and FRETILIN of East Timor.

*The Free Aceh Movement consisted of Acehnese Muslims, headed by Hassan Di Tiro, of royal descent from ancestors who fought the Dutch colonists. This movement is Islamist.

*The Free Papua Movement consists of animist and Christian West Papauns under Jacob Prai.

*Republic of South Maluku consists of South Malukan animists and Christians.

*FRETILIN was the East Timorese seperatists, East Timorese are mostly Catholic, but the Secretary General of FRETILIN (and later Prime Minister of East Timor) was the Muslim Arab Mari Alkatiri.

Gaddafi supported the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front against the French in New Caledonia.

Hassan Di Tiro was appointed by Gaddafi to lead the Mathaba organization and coordinate arms deliveries to all the separatist movements in Indonesia and the Philippines, Hassan made speeches and proclomations railing against the "Javanese colonialism" in the Indonesian government, accusing Indonesia of being in favor of Javanese and called for South Maluku and West Papua to be freed along with Aceh. Hassan's Free Aceh Movement also favored Islamism and Sharia law for Aceh.

Each of these seperatist groups worked together under Hassan and Gaddafi and fought in brutal insurgencies (except the South Moluccans, who had their government in exile in the Netherlands).

After the west forced Gaddafi to back down after 9/11 and Mathaba was dissolved, these conflicts each took different turns.

The Free Aceh Movement was forced to sign a peace deal with Indonesia, granting Aceh autonomous status instead of independence.

The Free Papua Movement continues to wage insurgency and war against Indonesia.

East Timor is now independent and ruled by FRETILIN.

The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front now participates as a political party in elections in New Caledonia, which is still part of France.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is signing a power sharing deal, the Moro National Liberation Front is sitting around, while Bangsamoro Islamic Liberation Front continues to fight the Philippines. (Gaddafi brokered the 1976 Tripoli Agreement. The MNLF has since split into various factions, an peace deal was signed with Misuari's faction in 1996, but now has been defunct and Misuari has been vehemently criticizing and railing against the Philippines government for the past decade. Sporadic violence involving the MNLF still continues against the Philippines government. MILF split off from MNLF.)

The Communist insurgency against the Philippines is also continuing to this day.

Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia - Edward Aspinall - Google Books

TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM & REGION SECUR: Cooperation and Diversity Between Europe ... - Google Books

Libyan terrorism: the case against Gaddafi. - Free Online Library

In the spring of 1987, after suffering a humiliating military defeat in Chad, the Libyan government stepped up its support for so-called wars of national liberation. In apparent retaliation for the assistance provided to the Chadian government by France and the United States, the South Pacific region became a new focus for revolutionary support. In an address to a conference on anti-colonialism in the South Pacific, Gaddafi accused the Western nations of turning the region into an area of conflict and strife and called on the revolutionary groups located there to fight for their freedom. At the time, the Libyan government was reportedly providing military or other support to the East Timor Liberation Movement, the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (New Caledonia), and the Free Papua Movement (Irian Jaya) as well as to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines. Libya also tried in the latter half of the 1980s to establish diplomatic or commercial links with Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands.

Elsewhere in Asia, evidence of Libyan involvement in the domestic affairs of local governments continued to surface. Indonesian army officials charged that 140 rebels from the westernmost province of Aceh had received military training in Libya. The rebels were believed to be members of the Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh), a separatist group that has been campaigning for a Muslim state in Aceh since the mid-1970s. A few months later, the Libyan government denied involvement in a riot by thousands of Shiite Muslims in southern Thailand. It acknowledged that it had granted educational scholarships to Thai Muslims but rejected the more serious charge of providing training in sabotage and terrorism. Most recently, a three-man Libyan team, posing as academics, reportedly held clandestine meetings with the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines.

Pacific Islands Monthly - Google Books

Pacific Islands Monthly - Google Books

COLONEL GADDAFI'S shadowy international revolutionary organisation Mathaba, established in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and dispensing funds to liberation movements around the world, is run by a most unlikely radical. Tunku Mohammed Hassan di Tiro, a Sumatran prince, fervent Muslim and bitter opponent of Indonesia, is the chairman of Mathaba's political committee.

Hassan di Tiro himself makes the crucial decisions, and runs a personal network of contacts with the liberation movement leaders Libya supports, among them Jacob Prai of the OPM (Free Papua Movement) of West Papua and Yann Ce- tene Uregei of New Caledonia's Kanak radical faction,

We are making advances against Indonesia, both on the ground and diplomatically, with Fretilin (East Timor Liberation Front), the OPM, the Republic of the South Moluccas; we are all one.

Time - Henry Robinson Luce - Google Books

In the past year Gaddafi's agents have offered arms and cash to rebels in Papua New Guinea, encouraged an aboriginal separatist movement in Australia, shipped weapons to dissidents in New Caledonia and tried to open an office in the

 

[Wholegrain]

Indonesia has been involved in trying to find a peace deal between the Moros and the Philippines, and tried to help Philippines enter the OIC but the application got rejected by other countries.

The Philippines' Elusive Quest for Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Observer Status | Middle East Institute

Indonesia supports observer status for RP in Organization of Islamic Conference | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

Indonesia joins IMT | Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP)

Philippines hopeful of getting observer status in OIC | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

Indonesia lends support to Philippines peace process - khabarsoutheastasia.com

MISUARI DEFERS FIGHT FOR ‘REPUBLIK’ | The Manila Times Online

MNLF holds off independence declaration in Southern Philippines - The Mindanao Examiner

Gulf Times - MNLF chief defers his ‘republik’ plan for now

List of organizations/separatist movements supported by Gaddafi

Gaddafi supported these groups too, which I didn't already mention in this thread.

Red Army Faction against West Germany

Red Brigades against Italy

FARC against Colombia

I don't think we'll ever be seeing another leader like Gaddafi again, supporting dozens of separatist groups on nearly all six inhabited continents.

 

[Fukuoka]

Mwahahaha, you're a crazy conspirationnist, a JEW NATO lover

They also say that Gadafi was behind the TWA attack, now he's dead, they say it was the syrians and the iranians

Lockerbie bombing: Evidence against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was faked, claims report - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Vital Lockerbie evidence 'was tampered with' | Business | The Observer

They also say Iran is behind Al Qaeda destroying their syrian ally

Have you ever seen non european people manipulating europeans? Libya was under embargo like Iran, they can't move you know. Think a little bit and keep inform yourself

 

[Wholegrain]

Mwahahaha, you're a crazy conspirationnist, a JEW NATO lover

They also say that Gadafi was behind the TWA attack, now he's dead, they say it was the syrians and the iranians

Lockerbie bombing: Evidence against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was faked, claims report - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Vital Lockerbie evidence 'was tampered with' | Business | The Observer

They also say Iran is behind Al Qaeda destroying their syrian ally

Have you ever seen non european people manipulating europeans? Libya was under embargo like Iran, they can't move you know. Think a little bit and keep inform yourself

...

 

[MarveL]

Hence Qadafi was donated to Indonesia about $US 5 million to build mosque which called Qadafi Islamic Centre.

located in top of the Sentul Hill.

 

[Wholegrain]

Hence Qadafi donate to Indonesia about $US 5 million to build mosque which called Qadafi Islamic Centre.

located in top of the Sentul Hill.

its related to the World Islamic Call Center

Special Report: Gaddafi's secret missionaries| Reuters

The intriguing question is how the Society escaped Western scrutiny for so long. One likely reason is that it seemed like small fish by Libyan standards. Gaddafi was himself bizarre - President Ronald Reagan called him "the mad dog of the Middle East." And his role in backing Palestinian fighters, African insurgents, the Irish Republican Army and the Lockerbie bombers was provocative enough to overshadow an NGO of preachers.

Its active interest in interfaith dialogue also helped burnish its image. More than that, the moderate version of Islam that WICS preachers spread looked increasingly attractive after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States carried out by mostly Saudi hijackers.

Saudi Arabia has exported its strict Islam through its own missionary society, the Muslim World League, since 1962. Gaddafi's bitter rivalry with Riyadh extended to Islam as well, and the Society competed with the League to build free mosques and schools around the world. This became a strategic asset when Gaddafi patched up relations with the West in 2003 by taking responsibility for the 1998 Lockerbie bombings and abandoning his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

The WICS's focus was Africa, especially the large Muslim communities in West Africa and the Sahel region that Gaddafi considered Libya's back yard. But it also built mosques and Islamic centers in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Malta and the Netherlands. It contributed along with other Arab states to the construction of the huge mosque in Rome and the Central Mosque in London. It was also active in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

"Libya was too small for him," said former ambassador Saad El Shlmani, now Foreign Ministry spokesman. "He wanted to be the leader of all the Africans, of all the Muslims, of the whole world."

SHOWDOWN WITH THE WEST

Insiders say the Society's back-channel operations developed during the 1980s. "You have to link this with the international political atmosphere," said Nagi El Hadi El Haraam, a WICS auditor now helping investigate the group's inner workings.

 

[Zero_wing]

Man finding more half truths whole bulls stories again huh why is it alot chinese imperialist can't face international courts or any forum without denying it or thinking they are superior to everyone or telling lies and dirty tactics like this? Well they just be more hated this way

 

[Wholegrain]

Wow, all I do is post some information about military and geopolitical history and the troll starts flocking to this thread and try to derail it.

 

[Indos]

Yup, it is true about Aceh rebels,.and about the mosque @MarveL told, it is also true but Gaddafi collaborated with private entreprises there who is actually a house developer (who put the mosque inside a real estate to make praying easier by the home buyer). Actually, I wont pray there...Where is in the world where you name a mosque you donated with your own name ???. And the private enterprises that has some young Indonesian ulama there are so shameless to take the money from him ...... Gaddafi is the one who destroyed Libya.....

 

[Zero_wing]

Again other propaganda stunt

 

[MarveL]

now you add france ??

 

[Wholegrain]

now you add france ??

New Caledonia is ruled by France. See Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front.

 

[Fukuoka]

Even in France i've never seen such accusations about Gadafi arming rebellions in Asia and Ireland

And everybody knows that JEW France loved spreading accusations against Gadafi

 

[Wholegrain]

Colonel Gaddafi also tried to support Aboriginal separatists in Australia

Diplomacy Washing Libya Out of Their Hair - TIME

The tropical islands of the South Pacific may be half a world away from the desert sands of Libya, but distance has not deterred Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi from making a number of peculiar Pacific overtures. In the past year Gaddafi's agents have offered arms and cash to rebels in Papua New Guinea, encouraged an aboriginal separatist movement in Australia, shipped weapons to dissidents in New Caledonia and tried to open an office in the island republic of Vanuatu.

One important Pacific power last week decided to do something about the growing Libyan presence. In an unusually blunt announcement, Australian Prime..

Michael Mansell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines - Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson - Google Books

Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions - Google Books

Message Stick - Desperate Times

In 1988 a delegation of Aboriginal people from Tasmania went to Libya to change the focus of Aboriginal Affairs in Australia. This is their story.

Transcript
With the 1988 Bicentenary Celebrations looming, the National Aboriginal Movement in Australia was facing desperate times. For some of the mob, from Tasmania at least, something had to be done.

This documentary is an insightful look at that time when a group of Aboriginal people sought help from the Libyan government. Their action shocked and panicked both the Australian Government and the wider community.

Fourteen years on, Darlene Mansell and Jim Everett, two members of that delegation, tell their side of the story.

Australian of the Year? | Overland literary journal

Mansell has long been a controversial figure. In 1977, he famously gatecrashed the Queen’s royal visit to Tasmania, reminding her in no uncertain terms that white Australia has a black history. A decade later, he travelled to Libya to present at a revolutionary conference staged by Colonel Gaddafi, before creating headlines in 1988 when he was held at Sydney airport for trying to re-enter the country using an Aboriginal passport.

Gaddafi loses touch with people: Mansell | The Examiner

In April, 1987, Mr Mansell angered Bob Hawke's government by visiting Libya to seek funding for the Aboriginal cause, and attended a conference on peace and revolution in the Pacific.

To gain international recognition for his cause, Mr Mansell established an alternative Aboriginal passport. In 1988 he secured official recognition for the passport from Mr Gaddafi, who declared it valid for travel to Libya. According to media reports at the time Mr Mansell spoke at various meetings in Libya, saying Aborigines in Australia were discriminated against, such as being forbidden to enter hotels.

In 1987 after the visit he said he had told the conferences in Libya that Australia had been invaded by whites 200 years earlier, and Aborigines were subjected to every atrocity known to man, and were still ostracised.

Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian

On the rare occasions Australia came on to Gaddafi's radar it was for some cock-eyed plan such as his attempt to radicalise Aborigines and offer them paramilitary training.

Understanding Indigenous sovereignty

However, in Australia, we have never suffered the division that arises from a violent civil uprising, and this is primarily due to the values of patience, humility, wisdom and forbearance that were held by our Original custodians — even though they were for a time offered assistance to cultivate violent revolution from Gaddafi.

 

[Wholegrain]

The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front also received military training from Gaddafinto wage insurgency against France. They struck both in New Caledonia and in France itself, with bombings in Paris and fought against French commandos in New Caledonia.

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism - Stephen Sloan, Sean K. Anderson - Google Books

In the spring of 1987, after suffering a humiliating military defeat in Chad, the Libyan government stepped up its support for so-called wars of national liberation. In apparent retaliation for the assistance provided to the Chadian government by France and the United States, the South Pacific region became a new focus for revolutionary support. In an address to a conference on anti-colonialism in the South Pacific, Gaddafi accused the Western nations of turning the region into an area of conflict and strife and called on the revolutionary groups located there to fight for their freedom. At the time, the Libyan government was reportedly providing military or other support to the East Timor Liberation Movement, the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (New Caledonia), and the Free Papua Movement (Irian Jaya) as well as to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines. Libya also tried in the latter half of the 1980s to establish diplomatic or commercial links with Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands.

Pacific Islands Monthly - Google Books

Hassan di Tiro himself makes the crucial decisions, and runs a personal network of contacts with the liberation movement leaders Libya supports, among them Jacob Prai of the OPM (Free Papua Movement) of West Papua and Yann Ce- tene Uregei of New Caledonia's Kanak radical faction, FULK (United Kanak Liberation Front). Although he denies all knowledge of the controversial plans by an ...

Libyan terrorism: the case against Gaddafi. - Free Online Library

In the spring of 1987, after suffering a humiliating military defeat in Chad, the Libyan government stepped up its support for so-called wars of national liberation. In apparent retaliation for the assistance provided to the Chadian government by France and the United States, the South Pacific region became a new focus for revolutionary support. In an address to a conference on anti-colonialism in the South Pacific, Gaddafi accused the Western nations of turning the region into an area of conflict and strife and called on the revolutionary groups located there to fight for their freedom. At the time, the Libyan government was reportedly providing military or other support to the East Timor Liberation Movement, the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (New Caledonia), and the Free Papua Movement (Irian Jaya) as well as to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines. Libya also tried in the latter half of the 1980s to establish diplomatic or commercial links with Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands.