[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Standing guard at his frontline post, Libyan soldier Mohammed Abu Shager can see where 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....
bully boyz are holed up with their heavy weaponry less than a kilometre away.
The bully boyz have effectively taken over former dictator Muammar Qadaffy
... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
's home city of Sirte as they exploit a civil war between two rival governments to expand in North Africa.
"Every night they open fire on us," said Abu Shebar, who with comrades on Sirte's western outskirts holds the last position of troops belonging to one of the two warring Libyan governments, the General National Congress, which controls the capital 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...
and most of the west of the country.
"They are only active at night," he said, pointing to the bad boys' position in a house just down the road blocked by sandbags. He sleeps in a shed next to his firing positions where used tank shells litter the ground.
Libya, which has descended into near anarchy since 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...
warplanes helped rebels overthrow Qadaffy in a 2011 civil war, is now the third big stronghold for the Sunni Islamist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which declared a Caliphate to rule over all Moslems from territory it holds in Syria and Iraq.