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Air Strike Hits Convoy Outside Libya IS Stronghold
[An Nahar] A strike by an unidentified aircraft hit a convoy outside a Libyan stronghold of 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.... jihadist group on Sunday, officials said. "A convoy was hit by an air strike" outside the coastal city of Sirte, a colonel with the air force loyal to 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... administration said. "It is believed that it was an IS convoy, but the target has not yet been identified," he said. "This air strike was not coordinated with our government," he added. A member of the security committee of the city's municipal council said the convoy left Sirte and was then targeted "about 150 kilometers (95 miles) southwest of the city". "It was completely destroyed," he said. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-29 |
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