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US airstrikes hit IS in Libya, marking 48 strikes in August
2016-08-17
[Ynet] Airstrikes launched by the United States have hit an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group vehicle and four bully boy positions in Libya, raising the number of U.S. Arclight airstrikes against the bully boy group to 48 since Washington launched its anti-IS campaign in Libya on Aug. 1.

In a statement Tuesday, U.S. Africa Command says it conducted the strikes in the coastal city of Sirte "at the request of, and in coordination with," Libya's United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
-backed government.

The US says the bombing campaign is critical to protecting US national security interests, by denying IS a safe haven in Libya.
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