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Haftar’s fighter aircraft strike Sidi Aziz district in Derna
[Libya Observer] A Warplane of Khalifa Haftar
... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
’s militias carried out an Arclight airstrike on Sidi Aziz district in Derna, leaving no casualties, local sources from Derna reported.

Earlier, the so-called Omar Al-Mukhtar force of Haftar’s militias warned Derna’s residents about intention to carry out Arclight airstrikes on the city, claiming one of their Arclight airstrikes targeted, very successfully, a group of vehicles for whom they described as "terrorist groups" in Sidi Aziz, Derna. This claim was refuted by Derna Shura Council.

According to the Facebook page of so-called Omar Al-Mukhtar force, Arclight airstrikes will also target Shiha, Al-Sayida Khadija, and 400 neighborhoods, which are peopled by a number of residents as many of the displaced families returned recently after the uprooting of IS Death Eaters by Derna revolutionaries from the city.

A siege by Haftar’s militias around Derna has been on for weeks and it has been completed Wednesday by shutting off the eastern entrance, which was the last resort for the residents to receive foods and other necessities.
Posted by: Fred 2016-07-18
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