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| Libya Strikes Militias After Oil Tank Attacks |
| 2014-12-29 |
| [VOA News] Libya's foreign minister warned Sunday that a coalition of bully boy groups is making a push to seize the troubled country's oil resources, after an assault on eastern terminals set storage tanks ablaze, destroying 800,000 barrels of crude. A missile hit an oil storage tank last week at the port of Es Sider during fighting between forces allied to Libya's two competing governments, resulting in the destruction of more than two days' worth of the country's oil production, officials said on Sunday. Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Dairi, speaking in Cairo, said the assault was carried out by militias based in the western city of Misrata and loyal to the rival Islamist-backed government 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... Dairi said bully boy groups have joined the attack, which forced a shutdown of the country's largest shipping terminal. Retaliation In an apparent response to the attack on Es Sider, forces loyal to Libya's recognized government staged Mohammed El Hejazi, front man for armed forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, said the The raids were the first such attacks on a city allied to the 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... militia group that seized Tripoli, and whose forces have been trying to take the eastern oil ports from the internationally recognized government, officials and residents said. A security official in Misrata said the There were no immediate reports of casualties. |
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