Dear Salem al-Hassi, You were officially Director of the Libyan Intelligence Service from February 2012 to February 2015.
You were also involved in an attempt to assassinate Muammar el-Gaddafi in 1984, well before your assignment in the Libyan intelligence Services. Later you resigned in 2014 or 2015 (the official news is ambiguous in this regard) to protest against “a progressive lack of political stability” and it is also said – although there is no objective confirmation in this respect – that you visited Benghazi before resigning. All OSINT sources agree in this regard, and the same holds true for the direct and local sources I consulted before writing the “article” you mentioned.
As far as the Libyan Fight Group issue is concerned, I apologize since I did not correctly mention the full name of the Head of the government of the Libyan Fighting Group, namely Omar al-Hassi, who has almost the same name as you – a government that was anyway established after the 2014 elections and was mainly supported by “Libya Dawn”.
The issue of the ineffective candidate, however, is often mentioned in numerous OSINT sources. It is not my fault.
Just to make an example, in which it is also said that “Al Hasi relinquished his U.S. citizenship in 2015, by also falsifying the accusations that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood”.
See the link
With specific reference to my sources, they are either reliable “open sources” or news provided to me directly by several officers, and not just one single Service, who have long been operating in Libya.
In the text you mentioned I report what some people – and sometimes many people – told me.
I am indeed well aware that you had excellent relations with Italy’s “external” Services, but apart from a generic positive assessment of some of your operations, I have no particularly favourable news. I have not spoken with Manenti about the matter, but I will do so very soon.
Due to your relations with the Tobruk Parliament, I understand you resigned shortly before the Tobruk Parliament appointed the new Prime Minister, obviously against your wishes.
However, as I was told by direct Italian sources, you had already openly shown signs of your political dissatisfaction and, in fact, you had already resigned before officially declaring it.
Moreover, all Libyan sources talking about your resignation are dated June 5, 2014 and not 2015.
With specific reference to the issue of the 60 snipers, all OSINT sources and also other local ones confirm the fact in the ways and forms I have reported.
All OSINT sources, but also other sources, tell us that you relinquished your U.S. citizenship in 2015 – not in 2012 as you maintain – but I guess you are absolutely right about that.
It is strange, though, that all sources do not report the right date – and I am saying so to an intelligence expert like You.
Temehu is the current name that is often – though not always, of course – used to refer to the Libyan Service in all open sources, both online and in the press – see, for example, the link and the work on the link
Certainly it was impossible not to have former Gaddafians in the LIS- that is out of question – but all descriptions of the Libyan Service, even the semi-official ones, indicate in the “elimination of traces of Gaddafi’s regime”(which does not mean elimination or marginalization of men) “one of the goals of the Structure”. Changing one’s own mind is legitimate, but above all useful.
It is true that Abdullah Masoud al-Darsicurrently lives in Benghazi and that he has anyway replaced Abdul Qader al Tuhami. See the link. Moreover, local sources consider him – if not the founder – very close to the “Union for Reform” party he contributed to establishing.
Best regards
GIANCARLO ELIA VALORI