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Africa North
More Tripoli air attacks on Libya Dawn by unidentified warplanes
2014-09-25
In the last 24 hours, areas under the control of Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
have seen further air attacks by unidentified warplanes.
Makes you wonder if it would have been better to give Italy a UN mandate to reorganize Libya after Daffy was tossed...
The air strikes targeted several areas in 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...
including the Yarmouk base and a militia transport pound in Salaheddin. An eye-witness to the overnight attacks told the Libya Herald that he first heard the sound of aircraft high overhead followed by anti-aircraft fire. Shortly afterwards there were kabooms on the ground. He added that there had been the sound of detonations further away but he could not identify their location.

There has been no reliable report of the damage caused in these attacks. If they were launched by the UAE airforce then it will have been on the same night that other UAE warplanes joined in the first US-led multinational Arclight airstrikes on 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
targets in Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Someone needs to tell The Turk and Caicos to mind their own business in Libya.

AND if they want to bomb anything they need nowhere man's permission.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-09-25 15:39  

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