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JUNE 16, 2013 |
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Escape from Al Qaeda
in Libya
A True NATO War story |
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Appearances
June 16, 2013 June 23, 2013
June
30, 2013
August 25, 2013 |
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January 1, 2013 |
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Sam and Kate Caughall
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This is story about 2
Americans who found themselves trapped in the middle
of a bloody nightmare; captured by Al Qaeda and
sentenced to death during the NATO invasion of
Tripoli 2011. Sam is an extremely bright, outspoken,
off the grid, kind of guy. He is a
businessman/entrepreneur and a risk taker. He has
been an insider in the netherworld of international
banking and understands the power and greed that
exists in that world. He has earned his “swagger” by
being in the company of world leaders and fortune
100 presidents. He is experienced and has been
successful in a myriad of international businesses.
Kate is a fearless
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supporter of Sam and a
standalone businesswoman; best described as a
maverick working inside male dominated industries
and cultures and undaunted by it. She is
intelligent, quick minded and intuitive. She has a
soft yet strong, fearless demeanor and is highly
skilled in computer technologies. She is passionate
about justice and truth.
S&K spent years developing a lucrative business in
the oil sector in Libya.
They just concluded negotiations in February 2011
and signed contracts to begin
their business in Libya when the Arab Spring hit
that country.
In April of 2011 S&K are asked and accept to head a
Fact Finding
Commission to Tripoli, Libya. In May their sojourn
begins in London, continues
through Tunisia and then by bus to Tripoli. Within
the FFC, S&K are witnesses to
horrific bomb sites, wounded children, raped women
and other atrocities. They
are shocked and saddened by what they witness. S&K
did not know that the FFC
had decided that they were not finished in Libya and
upon their return to the US
they are immediately requested to return to Tripoli.
Enter Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a strong anti war
politician.
Congressman Kucinich responds positively to the
information S&K collect in
Libya. Congressman Kucinich receives updates from
S&K and proffers’ bills in
Congress to put a stop to the NATO war.
S&K return to Tripoli. This time the trip is more
dangerous; the war has
escalated; and fuel, food and medicine are being
embargoed by NATO. Every night S&K are awakened as
bombs are dropped near the hotel and in all parts of
Tripoli. Cannons and rockets from screeching war
planes bombarding are a constant threat. S&K are
invited to appear on TV shows and quickly become the
most famous Americans in Libya. S&K answer pleas to
interview victims of the NATO war and stare danger
in the face as they travel all over Al Qaeda
infested western Libya to meet and interview these
people. S&K were trapped in Tripoli because the road
to Tunisia was being bombed every day, so no way
out.
The war caused the internet to be non-functioning at
the Radisson Hotel so
S&K are forced to move to the Corinthia Hotel. NATOs
Operation “Mermaid Dawn” was launched in Tripoli on
August 22, 2011 at 8PM. S&K are in the middle of the
constant barrages of Apache gunships firing their
cannons; multiple bomb
explosions; 150 caliber guns firing on the ground;
bullets strafing the walls of the
hotel as the war arrives in Tripoli. S&K realize
that they are in the middle of hell –
Al Qaeda forces have arrived in Tripoli. The Libyan
army has been obliterated by
NATO and there is no security left anywhere. Rebels
and mercenaries file off ships from Benghazi with
their weapons mounted on small trucks. Bearded Al
Qaeda rebels roam the streets wielding their AK-47’s
firing at anything that moves and looting at will.
Below their window, S&K film a Libyan man who is
killed and chopped up; his body is left on the
beach. Al Qaeda sees Sam filming through his hotel
window and fires a round that misses his head by
inches. S&K now realize they are trapped; there is
no help now from the outside. As luck would have it,
S&K are contacted by their friend H.E. Maxium
Maximov, the Russian Ambassador to Libya. He tells
them the Malta PM has sent a rescue ship and he has
included S&K as part of his entourage to be
evacuated.
Enter Antoine Hey, the Libyan FIFA soccer coach from
Germany. A good looking blond man who asks to join
S&K when they find a way to escape Tripoli. Enter
Fatimatou, sister of the President of Mauritania, a
middle aged woman who joined forces with S&K. Enter
Prince Hashel, a Bahraini Prince and a Texas man who
had been trapped by a 10 day fire fight in Zawia,
Libya. Both ask to join S&K in their escape from the
Al Qaeda mercenaries.
S&K were informed by the assistant to the PM of
Malta the ship was near Tripoli and would pick them
up that night. S&K, Tony, Fatimatou, Prince Hashel,
the Texas man and a Pilipino employee of the hotel
head out in the Hotel van against all odds after
dark from the hotel. The hotel driver knew the Al
Qaeda password and manages to pass through multiple
check points all manned by armed Al Qaeda shooting
in the air, yelling Allah Akbar. The streets are
filled with weapon toting bearded men; there are
fires burning and refuse from bombs in the streets.
The van slowly moves up the Mediterranean shore but
no ship. Every stop by Al Qaeda is more dangerous.
The second trip to the port, a group of armed Al
Qaeda surrounds their van. They get out of their
trucks and point their AK 47’s at the S&K group and
the head man says, “Your game is over”. The group is
taken at gunpoint to the Al Qaeda torture center,
the Radisson Hotel. The hotel is completely dark, no
power and bearded, heavily armed Al Qaeda roam the
lobby. Passports are taken and disappear, screams
from torture upstairs fill the air, the ominous
hours ahead are unknown and S&K wait, hoping to
survive the night. Hours of interrogation,
accusations and threats continue till dawn when a
large man appears with a long white beard and looks
over at the group. Soon the passports are returned
and the group is told they can go. Enter Aymen, the
new driver of the van sent from the Hotel, a rebel
sympathizer and IT man. S&K thinking that their
group is now free, tell Aymen to take them to the
ship. Aymen tells S&K this van is going back to the
Corinthia. After a short argument, Aymen tells S&K
what they did not understand the Al Qaeda Sheik with
the white beard say: “If they go to the ship, kill
them”. So, this van is headed back to the hotel. S&K
agreed, but were told: “the mercenaries must be
paid, at least $3500 per person.” S&K paid the last
of their money to the mercenaries to free the group
and the van left for the Corinthia evading their
kill zone.
S&K were now living in an alternate reality,
electricity gone, all the hotel staff gone except
for about 7 people, food scarce, no services,
security gone, armed Al Qaeda roam outside the
hotel, bullets ricochet around the hotel constantly.
A truck load of Media released from the hostage
situation at the Rixos Hotel arrive at the Corinthia.
The media set up their satellite antennas outside
the coffee shop, lying on the ground to avoid flying
bullets. Enter Walter Fauntroy, 78 year old African
American Retired US Congressman, who had been
trapped in the Rixos. Walter joined S&K. Fatimatou
has a friend who offers S&K group seats on the IOM
ship to Benghazi, but group is hesitant. Bullets
start flying inside the hotel, S&K are in the buffet
area, they escape via the hidden buffet elevator
only to receive a call from the hotel, do not answer
their door; there are armed gunmen on their floor.
The S&K group decides to leave on the IOM ship. The
IOM man meets them in their room to arrange their
passage.
S&K and group take the IOM van to the ship. The ship
is old car carrier,
filled with over 300 refugees from Africa and Asia.
It is about 600 miles to
Benghazi, the ship moves at a snail’s pace, no food
except moldy bread and warm
water. The 48 hours were torturous because the S&K
group know that Benghazi
was the head for Al Qaeda in Libya and know it could
be their end when they
arrive there. No place to sleep, two restrooms for
the entire ship. The sea gets
rough on the second day many sick and screaming
children. Upon arrival guns
were being fired off at the dock, the entire group
was in the grip of fear; we knew Al Qaeda had a kill
order on us but all we could do was pray. Finally
the IOM people came and took the group to the
Tibitsi Hotel where the group met with one head of
the NTC who luckily did not recognize S&K. The group
is spirited to the airport in early evening, held in
the VIP lounge until 2am when the group walks to the
plane in the dark on the tarmac, no lights on the
runway, no tower, worn out 48 year old 727 with
overhead doors missing. S&K looked at the plane and
pray to land safe. As the plane takes off in
blackness and turns west towards Tunisia, the
captain announces that the plane would fly dark to
avoid ground fire. The Libyan Al Qaeda nightmare
continued until the safe landing at the Tunis
airport at 4am.
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- It is a true story
of horror and uncommon courage
- It is action packed
with minute by minute life threatening
occurrences
- The subject is
current and riveting, the facts are shocking
- It is a window into
a world that no one dares enter but cannot wait
to see
- It exposes the
reality of the NATO war and humanizes a country
long hidden from the eyes of the world
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Time Line:
Caughall – Libya |
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2007 |
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January – First trip to
Libya |
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2007 |
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February 2011 Business
activities in Libya |
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2011 |
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May 7 to May 15, first FFC
trip to Tripoli |
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2011 |
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May 28 to August 28 second
FFC trip to Tripoli |
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2011 |
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May |
28 |
Arrived Radisson
Hotel Tripoli |
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June |
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Appear on Dr.
Yousef Shakir TV show
Special Guests Meetings of the Tribes of
Libya 25 + times
Appeared on other Libyan TV shows
Witness to the massacre of family at Sorman
Interviewed raped women
Interviewed victims of Al Qaeda mercenaries
Interviewed victims of NATO Bombs
Met with GM of Libyan National Bank
Went to Humanitarian meeting at Bab Al Bahar
Hotel
Wrote articles and did interviews with Press
TV and others
Met with Bishop Martinelli, prelate of
Catholic Church, began to help with medicine
for Tripoli from Vatican |
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July |
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Met with Saudi
Tribal Leaders
Interviewed Sheik Tentoush for article on
Libyan Women
Interviewed family of Libyan soldier in
decapitation video in Rigdaline
Interviewed young man with 2 bullets in head
– Zawia
Interviewed family of girls, father killed
in Al Bayda city in Tarhouna
Interviewed family of young black Libyan
soldier, cut up and burned
Interviewed young man castrated, shot,
tortured by Al Qaeda mercenaries
More Tribal meetings
Met many people, did interview with
documentary crew from Serbia
Wrote articles |
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August |
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Moved to the
Corinthia Hotel
Continued work with Vatican
Met with group of lawyers from Tunisia
Met with Dr. Fatima and her lawyer group |
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August |
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Attacks begin in
Tripoli – Rixos held hostage – Tony Hey |
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August
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NATO – Operation
Mermaid Dawn – invasion of Tripoli |
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August |
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Prince Hashel
arrives, girl attempts suicide |
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August |
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Try to find
Malta Ship, captured by Al Qaeda |
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August |
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Back to hotel
from Al Qaeda torture center, Rixos Hotel
people
arrive |
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August |
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Leave on IOM
ship |
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August |
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Arrive Benghazi |
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August |
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Leave for
Tunisia (2am), arrive Tunisia at 4am |
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Cast of Characters |
1. Sam
Caughall, Lead in story (nom de plume)
2. Kate Caughall, Co-Lead
in story (nom de plume)
3. Sheikh Al Lahwel,
Supreme Leader of all the Tribes of Libya
4. Congressman Dennis Kucinich,
Democratic Congressman
5. Congresswoman Michele Bachman,
Republican Congresswoman
6. Tera Dahl, aid to
Congresswoman Michele Bachman
7. Nathan White, Media aid
to Congressman Kucinich
8. Susan Lindauer, Author
and journalist
9. Dr. Khaled Kaim, Deputy
Foreign Minister of Libya
10. H.E. Maxium Maximov
Russian Ambassador to Libya
11. H.E Dangor South
African Ambassador to Libya
12. H. E. Walter E. Fauntroy,
retired US Congressman
13. HRH Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon,
Prince from France/Spain
14. Bishop Martinelli,
Prelate of the Catholic Church Tripoli
15. Cynthia McKinney,
Excongresswoman from Georgia
16. Antoine Hey, FIFA
Libyan soccer coach from Germany
17. Fatimatou Mohamed,
sister of the President of Mauritania
18. Prince Hashel Al Kobaisi,
Baharani Prince
19. Sheikh Falah, Saudi
Arabian Tribal Leader
20. Sheikh Khaled Tentoush,
top Imam in Libya, TV show
21. Webster G. Tarpley, US
journalist, author, commentator
22. Dr. Jerome Corsi,
Author, journalist WND
23. Dr Moussa Ibrahim,
Official spokesperson for Libya
24. Imad Al Lahwel, Oldest
son of Sheikh Ali Al Lahwel
25. Muammer Al Lahwel,
Youngest son of Sheikh Ali Al Lahwel
26. Dr. Ali Mansur, Dean of
the school of Economics, Al Fateh University
27. Omran Buccara, Head of
the Libyan National Oïl Company
28. Thierry Meyssan,
Voltaire network, international author and journalist
29. Dr. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaza,
journalist and activist
30. Dr. Fatema Benurran,
Lead Libyan female lawyer
31. Franklin Lamb, US
attorney, journalist, living in Lebanon w/Hamas/spy
32. Dr. Mohamed Agilla,
Head of Security for Dr. Moussa Ibrahim
33. Muftah Faraj, Tribal
Leader and closest Libyan friend
34. Dr. Zidan, Educated in
Canada, lead media team Dr. Moussa Ibrahim
35. Ibrahim Legwell, Libyan
lawyer, criminally ignorant
36. Dr. Zidan Mohammed, FFC
in Tripoli (killed in NATO invasion of Tripoli)
37. Lizzie Phalen, British
Journalist and anti war activist
38. Mike Hourigan,
Australian attorney
39. Mr. Magdy, General Mgr
of Radisson Hotel
40. Lorraine Radford,
Acting manager of the Corinthia Hotel
41. Mikela Fenech Pace,
Assistant Director, Malta Prime Minister
42. Ms. Naima El Soiya,
Director of Children’s Center Tripoli
43. Dr. Muna Abu Hbisha,
Director of Womens Center Tripoli
44. Tahani Ratemi,
Pharmacist, pretty young lady, good friend and aid to us
45. Ahmed, our driver and
best security
46. Mahmud Barasi, Owner of
the 5 star hotel refuge for victims of Al Qaeda
47. Ashref, Libyan medical
student and our translator
48. Marinella Correggia,
Italian member of FFC and peace activist
49. Viv Ellis, British
member of FFC, film producer and writer
There are many more supporting characters and much more
details and excitement to the story. |
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