Bin Ladenites for NATO liberation in Libya

""We like and appreciate what NATO did for us," a smiling Belhadj said in an interview Saturday, referring to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign against Kadafi's forces. "We now have a popular Libyan revolution that doesn't have any Islamic ideology."   Belhadj conceded that he might sue the CIA — he alleges that he was tortured while in its custody in Bangkok, Thailand — but said he didn't have any hard feelings against the United States or the West. He said his group had rejected overtures to affiliate with Al Qaeda and that Libya's new government will not be Islamist..."Belhadj is a bad man," said one former CIA operative with long experience in the Middle East who declined to be identified. "He's a capable Al Qaeda field leader.... Belhadj was a serious enough actor for us to find him, kidnap him and render him. He's somehow had a conversion to democracy? What do they base that on? It's just a pipe dream."   But the official U.S. position is a stated belief in the new Libyan leadership's professed desire for a representative and democratic state after more than four decades of Kadafi's autocratic rule."