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| 'IS Jihadists' Occupy University in Libya's Sirte |
| 2015-02-20 |
| [AnNahar] Jihadists claiming affiliation with 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.... group took over the university in the Libyan city of Sirte Thursday, leading it to suspend classes and postpone exams, a professor said. The incident came a day after dozens of gunnies paraded through the streets of the Mediterranean coastal city, 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of 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... , in a convoy, witnesses said. It also came as Fajr Libya (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... ), a coalition of militias that controls Libya's capital and much of the lawless country's west, said it had sent units to "restore security in the city." Social media showed photos of hooded gunnies in pick-up trucks and 4X4 vehicles mounted with anti-aircraft guns, brandishing the black flag of IS, which has seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq and is believed to have extended its presence to the North African country. Witnesses said the gunnies had also taken over the once grandiose Ouagadougou Center in what is the hometown of the late Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... , where the then dictator once organized extravagant African or Arab summits. An Agence La Belle France-Presse photographer who managed to visit the city briefly, said the Fajr Libya and IS forces were keeping their distance from each other and that there had been no hostilities between them. Last week, jihadists seized state-run Radio Sirte and several government buildings in the city, hometown of Muammar Qadaffy, which has become a bastion of Islamic extremism since the dictator's overthrow and death in 2011. Sirte is a bastion of a group called 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... , classified as a terrorist organization by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , which is believed to have links to IS. Several days ago, IS affiliates in Libya released a video showing their beheading of 21 Coptic Christians, most of whom were Egyptian, taken prisoner in the country. That prompted Egypt to bomb jihadist targets in Libya and to threaten further action. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 They're firmly against rape, and to prove it will stone any slut who claims she was raped. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-02-20 08:26 |
| #2 But what is their policy on combating the rape culture on campus? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-02-20 07:38 |
| #1 Probably, an improvement. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-20 06:41 |