ENG:Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad is the Secretary General of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL).
Bio
He graduated from the Libyan Military Academy in 1963, and he ranked first amongst his class.
Served as a military officer in the Libyan Army from 1963 to 1969, as an instructor in the Intelligence Academy. Also served as an aide to the commander of military intelligence unit, and staff officer in the electronic communication division of the Libyan Air Force.
During his time in the military, he completed several tours of training in the Infantry School (Al Marj), Military Intelligence School (Al Marj), School of Field Engineering (Benghazi), Military Intelligence School (New Jersey, USA), and Royal Artilery Academy (Wales, U.K.).
Mr. Sahad climbed the military ranks ...
Conversations With Libyan Expats
“We are not talking about a civil war between factions, we are talking about a massacre. When the history is written, it will say that we stood by and watched a massacre at the hands of Qaddafi, and we did nothing,” said Ibrahim Sahad, a Libyan expat who sat down with me for an interview in the lobby of an aging community center in Vienna, Virginia, on Wednesday night after delivering a speech about the situation in Libya to group of mostly elderly expats from Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and other parts of the Middle East.
The speech ...
christie - في استطلاع الراي Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad
Pres. Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, yesterday said to the UN that “When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against [his] people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule.” The Obama administration has now taken the position that Muammar Qadhafi can no longer be recognized as leader of Libya, and an interim government should be instituted to oversee a transition to democracy.
On Friday, Ban Ki-moon called on the Security Council to take concrete action to stop the violence in Libya. The US has frozen ...
martina - في استطلاع الراي Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad
A former Libyan army officer and head of a leading opposition group says he knows of growing defections among Libya’s military not just by individuals, but in some cases, entire units. Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad is the Secretary-General of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, or NFSL, which was organized in in October 1981 by a group of former military officers, diplomats and businessmen with one goal - to end the regime of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi. He spoke to VOA’s Cecily Hilleary from his base in the United States.
Cecily Hilleary
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martina - في استطلاع الراي Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad
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