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IS rocket attack kills 5 militiamen in Sirte
[ARABNEWS] Militants with the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group killed five militia fighters in an attack on a checkpoint Wednesday in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, a local official said. The militia fighters are part of the so-called Brigade 166 tasked by the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... government with securing Sirte. They have engaged in sporadic fighting with IS men around the city. "Islamic State fighters attacked a checkpoint 15 km west of Sirte, killing five members of Brigade 166 belonging to the Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... group and tasked with protecting the city," brigade front man Khaled Abou Jizya said. "Fierce festivities erupted in the early morning and the Islamic State fighters were repelled," Abou Jizya added. In an audio message posted online IS meanwhile grabbed credit for a double suicide boom-mobileing that killed at least seven soldiers in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Tuesday. Libya has been plagued by chaos since the end of the 2011 revolt that toppled Qadaffy, with heavily armed militias battling for control of its cities and oil wealth and rival governments and parliaments vying for power. The country has had two governments and parliaments since Tripoli was seized in August by Libya Dawn and the internationally recognized government fled to the country's far east.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's affiliate in Libya said it played a role in a string of suicide boom-mobileings that killed 12 people Wednesday in the eastern city of Benghazi. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... its snuffies carried out an attack on a rival militia in the central coastal city of Sirte, leaving five dead. A Libyan security official said the three suicide kabooms, which also maimed 25, were targeting forces of Libya's elected government and allied fighters. Two of the bombings were carried by snuffies affiliated to the umbrella group known as The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries. Posted by: Fred 2015-03-26 |
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