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| 75 Bodies Found in Mass Grave near Libya's Sirte |
| 2018-10-11 |
| [An Nahar] A mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found near the former jihadist bastion of Sirte in western Libya, an official said Wednesday. Mohamad al-Amial, the coastal city's municipal council front man, told AFP the mass grave was uncovered in an agricultural area of al-Daheir, west of Sirte. "Seventy-five decomposed bodies were recovered" in the presence of the public prosecutor, Sirte's security force and the Red Islamic Thingy, he said. Amial said the find was made "a few days ago" and that the bodies were believed to be of 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.... (IS) group members, although there was no confirmation. IS jihadists overran Sirte, 600 kilometers (375 miles) east of 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... , in June 2015. Forces of Libya's U.N.-backed unity government expelled IS from the coastal city in December 2016 after eight months of deadly combat. The group has since pulled back to desert outposts. It grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom last month on the Tripoli headquarters of Libya's National Oil Corporation that killed two staffers as well as an assault in May on the country's electoral commission in which 14 people died. IS took advantage of the anarchy in Libya after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed overthrow and killing of longtime strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... in 2011 to establish footholds in several parts of the country. Since their defeat in Sirte, the jihadists have kept up the fight from rural areas of western Libya. In April, the Tripoli-based unity government launched a campaign to flush them out. |
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