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| Benghazi suicide car bomber kills 3, wounds 20 |
| 2015-02-07 |
| [Libya Herald] Three people were killed and 20 injured ‐ all civilians ‐ when a jacket wallah blew himself and his car up near an army checkpoint next to Benghazi's Leithi district this morning. According to to Fadel Al-Hassi, head of the Special Forces Investigation Department, the bomber who also died was seen driving at speed towards the checkpoint and managed to detonate his explosives when shot by soldiers. Initially it was reported that no one had been killed in the blast. The incident took place on the highway near the Hijaz Street overhead bridge. LNA and Operation Dignity forces have been carrying out an intensive onslaught in Leithi, the main Benghazi stronghold of 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... and its allies. The use of suicide bombers indicates a growing desperation on the latter's part. |
| Posted by:Fred |