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Meet the Dublin man fighting the Libyan rebels' cause
Husam Najjair has swapped the nightclubs of Dublin for the battlefields of Libya.
THE STRAINS OF the instantly recognisable Dublin accent can be heard as far away as the battlefields of Libya as one former Dublin builder has dealt with the effects of the recession in a unique way – joining the rebel forces battling Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
Reuters reports Husam Najjair is the son of an Irish mother and a Libyan father and now belongs to the Tripoli Revolutionary Brigade, currently fighting in Tiji which is around 235 kilometres from the capital which remains under the control of Gaddafi.
“I wasn’t always such a good Muslim in Dublin, You could say I spent some time at nightclubs,” Najjair reveals but after coming to Libya for a family wedding in January, he stayed on to fight after the 17 February revolt began. Why? “This has made me learn about myself, what I am capable of achieving,” he says.
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