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| IS Claims Capture of Libya's Sirte |
| 2015-06-10 |
| [AnNahar] 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 claimed to have seized full control Tuesday of the Libyan city of Sirte from the Fajr Libya militia, including a power plant, according to a U.S. monitor. SITE Intelligence Group said the jihadist group had published photographs of "IS fighters engaged in festivities, sitting atop heavy guns, exploring the power plant and town, as well as bodies of dead Fajr Libya fighters." The claim comes nearly two weeks after IS overran the airport in Sirte -- the home town of slain strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... -- in the group's first such military gain in Libya. SITE quoted a report in which an IS division that calls itself "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... Province" said "soldiers of the caliphate" seized control of the last locations of Fajr Libya gunnies in Sirte. The report said Sirte would now "be the coastal city linking the east and west of Libya under full control of the Islamic State (group) fighters." It said the capture of Sirte came after festivities that erupted at dawn saw the Fajr Libya fighters lose all entrances to the city and the power plant, as well as the al-Jallit military camp and al-Qardhabiyah base. |
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