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| Chad closes Libya border in bid to stop fleeing IS terrorists arriving |
| 2017-01-08 |
| [Libya Herald] Chadian prime minister Albert Pahimi Padacket has ordered the closure of his country’s border with Libya to prevent 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.... Lions of Islam crossing over. The entire border zone has been declared a military area. IS fighters, he said, were heading south in Libya and converging towards Chad. There have been systematic reports in Libya of the This latest move would, Padacket explained, "would put a stop to all attempts by Lions of Islam groups to infiltrate the national territory". It is not clear how realistic is the assertion. The Chadian-Libyan border is extremely porous. Efforts to prevent people smuggling across it have proved extremely ineffective. Two weeks ago, supposedly nervous about the reports of growing numbers of There are, however, allegations that the real reason for the border’s closure is not so much concern about IS Lions of Islam moving into Chad as of Chadian rebels based in Libya doing so. A group opposed to President Idriss Deby, called the Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad, and which has been operating out of southern Libya is said to be growing in strength and recruiting young Chadians to its ranks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 If the remnants of ISIS in Libya meet up with the remnants of Boko Haram/ISIS, they would be less of a remnant. There's still the Arab-black African problem to make life interesting in the camp, though... Pondering on a Sunday morning. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-08 10:34 |