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| U.N. Security Council adds Libya's Ansar al-Sharia to terror list |
| 2014-11-20 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday added to its terror list a Libyan Islamist group accused of involvement in the September 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. The Security Council slapped sanctions on 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... for its ties to Al-Qaeda, diplomats said, with an arms embargo, assets freeze and global travel ban targeting the holy warriors going into force at the request of Britannia, La Belle France and the United States. The measure targets Ansar al-Sharia Benghazi and its sister group Ansar al-Sharia Derna, which both have links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and other violent hard boy outfits. In October, Ansar al-Sharia Derna pledged allegiance to 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.... (IS), the Islamist group that has seized control of territory in Iraq and Syria. Since 2012, the Benghazi wing has operated several training camps mainly to help gangs in Iraq and Syria and to a lesser extent in Mali, according to the request filed by the three countries. Twelve of the 24 jihadists who attacked the Algerian In Amenas gas complex in 2013 trained in the camps of Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi, Libya's second city, documents said. More recently, the group has conducted several attacks on Libyan security forces, it added. Ansar al-Sharia Derna also took part in the 2012 attack on the US mission and is operating camps in the northeastern Derna and Jebel Akhdar regions to train fighters for Iraq and Syria. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in September told a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that the group should face sanctions as part of efforts to prevent Libya from sliding further into violence. Diplomats said the blacklisting of Ansar al-Sharia would help sideline hardliners at a time when the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... is engaged in dialogue with various Islamist militias and the government on restoring order in Libya. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Won't the UN ever learn you do not negotiate with fanatics? Negotiations are a stalling tactic to them keep you at the conference table and continue to kill people while you sit. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2014-11-20 21:47 |