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| Papers show Libyan ISIS bridal dowries of guns, explosives |
| 2016-09-22 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Documents retrieved from Sirte, the ISIS group’s last bastion in Libya, record the variety of dowries offered by turban grooms to their future wives, including an boom belt, a Kalashnikov and the offer to memorize parts of the Koran. The marriage documents were posted on Wednesday on the Facebook page of a Libyan anti-ISIS operation known as al-Bonyan al-Marsous, and were stamped by a judge in a Sirte religious court. The Facebook post says the documents were found in the Sirte courthouse. It was not immediately possible to verify their authenticity. The surnames of the brides and grooms suggest many were from African countries such as Nigeria, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Mali and Tunisia. Libyan forces loyal to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -brokered government have waged a campaign to dislodge ISIS from Sirte since June. |
| Posted by:Fred |