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Dignity Operation warplanes bomb Derna leaving injuries and destruction
[Libya Observer] Two civilians were maimed and two houses were destroyed due to ... 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... on the western entrance of Derna. Sources said a young man and a six-year old were maimed and sent to Al-Harish Hospital due to the bombing in Sayda Khadija neighborhood, where two houses were considerable damaged along with the houses next to them, while other sources said one house was completely destroyed, let alone the damage done to the nearby mosque. Derna has been suffering from a crippling siege by Haftar’s militias coupled with the undivided bombing since the revolutionaries freed the city from IS Death Eaters, knowing that most of the targets of the Dignity warplanes are usually civilian locations and people. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-05 |
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