...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....
jihadists are killing more civilians in Libya than the other warring factions, but all sides are committing "large-scale crimes,"
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Thursday.
Of the 37 car and suicide kabooms recorded this year in Libya, 27 have been attributed to the IS group, Bensouda said in a report to the U.N. Security Council.
IS fighters are executing Libyans for "perceived activities such as spying, homosexuality and social activism," she said.
Violent deaths are on the rise in Libya, where the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
is trying to broker a deal on a unity government that would be able to confront the growing threat from the Islamic State group.
No fewer than 60 people are killed per month in the north African country, which has been in turmoil since the fall of Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
in 2011.
IS attacks have hit mostly the southern city of Sirte, but fighting in June drove out the jihadists from Derna, in the east.
Executions and other murders of Libyans "attributed to ISIL and its allied organizations have been consistently more highly numbered than those of other perpetrators," Bensouda said in her report to the council.
In another indication of the worsening crisis, nearly 450,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the violence over the past year, double the number of displaced from the previous year, she said.
Bensouda said the 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 that controls 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...
and the Libyan National Army loyal to the internationally recognized government were also committing "large-scale crimes."
The prosecutor told the council she was ready to open up new investigations for possible war crimes, but added that her work was hampered by funding problems.
Libya has had two administrations since August 2014, when the Islamist-backed militia alliance overran Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in Tobruk, in the east of the country.