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| French, British, U.S. Soldiers 'Monitoring' Libya |
| 2016-07-23 |
| [AnNahar] French, British and American soldiers are in Libya to "monitor" 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 jihadists, a military commander in the east of the country told Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday. "French, American and British soldiers are in the Benina base" near Benghazi, said air force chief Saqr al-Jaroushi, whose forces are allied with a government based out of the eastern city of Tobruk that is not recognized by the international community. He said around 20 soldiers at the base were charged with "monitoring the movements of the Islamic State jihadists and how they store ammunition." "There are no (foreign) pilots fighting in the place of our pilots and fighters," he said. He added that other foreign military personnel were carrying out similar tasks at other bases and towns across Libya, including 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... , Misrata, 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the east and Tobruk in the far east of the country. Jaroushi commands the air force that forms part of the forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar ... 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. 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... and the House of Representatives in Tobruk, a rival to the Government of National Unity (GNA) that operates out of Tripoli. La Belle France, Britannia and the U.S. recognize the GNA as the legitimate government of Libya. Jaroushi's remarks come a day after the GNA criticized the presence of French troops in the chaos-wracked country, as President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... confirmed La Belle France has soldiers there after three died in a helicopter crash. The soldiers were carrying out a reconnaissance mission alongside Haftar's troops. |
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