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U.S. Targets Al-Qaida in Libya Air Strike
[AnNahar] The US carried out an air strike against Islamist group al-Qaeda in southern Libya on Wednesday night, 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... 's UN-backed Government of National Accord said. The strike near the town of Ubari, some 900 kilometres (550 miles) south of the capital, was coordinated with the GNA, said President Fayez al-Sarraj's front man. It targeted "a number of members of terrorist organization al-Qaeda", Mohamad al-Sallak said in a statement, giving no further details. Libya has been wracked by violence and torn between rival administrations since the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -backed overthrow and killing of dictator Moamer Qadaffy in 2011. The GNA was formed following a UN-backed deal in December 2015, but it has struggled to impose its power across the country. The US military regularly carries out air strikes in Libya against al-Qaeda and 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. Last year in August it said it had killed an IS member described by a source as a former local leader of the jihadists. In June the US said it had killed four members of an IS affiliate near the northern town of Bani Walid, while in March the Pentagon confirmed a senior al-Qaeda operative and another jihadist died in a US air strike. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-15 |
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