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| Warshefana denies any truce with Zawia and Janzour |
| 2015-04-30 |
| [Libya Herald] The chief of Warshefana's council of elders tonight angrily denied reports that Warsefana had made a truce with Zawia and Janzour. Mohammed Tantoush issued a statement saying that reports of a meeting with elders from the two towns were "completely false". There had been no such encounters in recent days and there was no truce, he said. Indeed, he added, festivities between the Warshefana units of the Libyan Army and 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... militias were continuing. It had been widely reported on social media that an immediate ceasefire had been agreed and that all sides would start exchanging prisoners, both civilians picked up at roadblocks and captured fighters. The deal was also supposed to allow for humanitarian aid to reach Warshefana and towns in the Jebel Nafusa. |
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