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| US air strikes kill 17 ISIL fighters in Libya |
| 2017-09-25 |
| [Al Jazeera] Six US air strikes on an ISIS desert camp in Libya killed 17 fighters and destroyed three vehicles, the first American attack in Libya since President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... took office in January. US Africa Command said in a statement on Sunday that strikes on Friday targeted a camp 240km southeast of Sirte, a city that was once 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.... of Iraq and the Levant stronghold in Libya. The camp was used to move fighters in and out of Libya, plot attacks and store weapons, the statement said. "ISIS and al-Qaeda have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks," it said, using another acronym for ISIS. The strikes were carried out in coordination with Libya's Government of National Accord, it added. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the air raids were carried out by armed drones. The last-known US strike in Libya was on January 19, a day before Trump's inauguration, when more than 80 ISIS fighters, some believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in US air strikes on camps outside Sirte. That attack was led by two B-2 bombers, which dropped about 100 precision-guided munitions on the camps. |
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