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Haftar airstrike kills five medics
[Libya Observer] Five medics were killed and eight others maimed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
by a warplane belonging to warlord Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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 a field hospital in the Airport Road in 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...
on Saturday.

The Head of Field Medicine and Support Center condemned the repeated airstrikes on the field hospitals, demanding the international community to stop attacks on medical institutions and medical staff.

The Ministry of Health also condemned the airstrike saying in a statement that such attacks on medical institutions violate all local and international laws and conventions.
Posted by: Fred 2019-07-29
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