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| Italy: Libya Risks Becoming 'Another Somalia' |
| 2015-08-18 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Italia warned Monday that Libya risked turning into "another Somalia" as it signed a joint statement with the US and several European allies condemning "barbaric" acts carried out by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group, ISIL (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.... in Iraq and Levant). Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said if peace talks did not succeed in ending the country's civil war within a few weeks, "we will find ourselves with another Somalia two steps from our coasts". "Time is limited, particularly now that ISIL in Sirte has become alarming," he told the Italian daily La Stampa, referring to last week's bloodshed in the former bastion of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... . ISIL forces of Evil seized control of the coastal city in June with forces of Evil beheading 12 local Italia has been badly hit by the chaos in the North African country, with hundreds of thousands of migrants attempting to reach its shores from Libya on often unseaworthy vessels -- 102,000 this year alone. But the rise of the Takfiri insurgency in the centre of the country is now causing alarm on the other side of the Mediterranean. "We are deeply concerned about reports that these fighters have shelled densely populated parts of the city and committed indiscriminate acts of violence to terrorize the Libyan population," said a joint statement by Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Spain and the United States. The governments want all sides in Libya "to join efforts to combat the threat posed by transnational terrorist groups exploiting Libya for their own agenda", according to the statement released by the US State Department on Sunday. |
| Posted by:Fred |