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| Benghazi Medical Centre shelled again as Kobler labels it a war crime |
| 2016-05-30 |
[Libya Herald] Benghazi Medical Centre was again under mortar attack today, the fifth time this week. A small shell went kaboom!near the hospital kitchen area, reportedly causing some material damage but no injuries. The attack came as the UN Special Envoy Martin Kobler described attacks on the hospital as a war crime. "Disturbing reports that benghazi medical center was shelled. Civilian objects like hospitals must be protected. Attacking them is a war crime," he tweeted today. The BMC was also shelled yesterday, although again there were fortunately no injuries. All the shellings are believed to be carried out either by the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council which includes Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... or by the so-called 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.... . However, ars longa, vita brevis... the Libyan National Army (LNA), and increasingly the bulk of people in Benghazi, lump both together and label them all as IS. Today also saw mortars hitting sites in Hay Salam, Salmani, Sidi Younis, and Ard Zwawa. Again there were no injuries. The shells that hit Salmani were reported to have been fired from Sabri district, with the result that LNA jets this afternoon bombed locations there and in Suq Al-Hout. |
| Posted by:Fred |