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| 7 die in IS attack near Misrata |
| 2015-04-03 |
| [ARABNEWS] Militants 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 killed seven fighters with the rival 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 in an attack on a checkpoint near the city of Misrata, a militia front man said Thursday. Wednesday's "attack on the checkpoint killed seven from Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... Force ...paramilitary organization formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya. The Libyan parliament now designates much of the Libya Shield Force as terrorist. Elements of the Libya Shield Force were identified as linked to al-Qaeda as early as 2012.... south of the city," the front man said, referring to a part of the Libya Dawn alliance. IS said in an audio recording posted online that it was behind the attack on the checkpoint, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of capital 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... Last week, five Libya Dawn fighters were killed when IS attacked a checkpoint in the Libyan city of Sirte. Libya Dawn holy warriors have been engaged in sporadic fighting with IS ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... , whose regime was toppled in a 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -backed revolt. |
| Posted by:Fred |