Editing Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (section)

==Book: ''Inside the Jihad''==

In November 2006, a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] using the pseudonym [[Omar Nasiri]], having infiltrated al-Qaeda in the 1990s, wrote the book, ''[[Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story]]''. In the book, Nasiri claims that al-Libi deliberately planted information to encourage the U.S. to invade Iraq. In an interview with [[BBC2]]'s ''[[Newsnight]]'', Nasiri said Libi "needed the conflict in Iraq because months before I heard him telling us when a question was asked in the [[mosque]] after the prayer in the evening, where is the best country to fight the jihad?" Nasiri said that Libi had identified Iraq as the "weakest" [[Muslim]] country. He suggested to ''Newsnight'' that al-Libi wanted to overthrow Saddam and use Iraq as a jihadist base. Nasiri describes al-Libi as one of the leaders at the Afghan camp, and characterizes him as "brilliant in every way." He said that learning how to withstand interrogations and supply false information was a key part of the training in the camps. Al-Libi "knew what his interrogators wanted, and he was happy to give it to them. He wanted to see Saddam toppled even more than the Americans did."<ref name=Guardian2006-11-17>{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Norton-Taylor |author-link=Richard Norton-Taylor |date=November 17, 2006 |title=Al-Qaida 'planted information to encourage US invasion' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/17/iraq.usa |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=May 13, 2009 | location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601737.html |title=Spying on the Terrorists |first=Peter L. |last=Bergen |author-link=Peter Bergen |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 17, 2006 |page=C07 |access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref>