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| Explosion in Misrata kills one as battles between IS and Dawn continue |
| 2015-03-17 |
| [Libya Herald] One 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... combatant has been killed in a Misrata boom-mobile kaboom, believed to have been retaliation for attacks on 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) positions in Sirte yesterday. The bomb went kaboom!outside a 166 Battalion base in the Libya Dawn stronghold last night. The only casualty from the attack has been identified as Mahmoud Al-Shaoush, a member of the battalion, Rooters news agency reported. The online news portal Bowabat Al-Wasat claimed the blast originated from a gold Hyundai which had been parked outside the brigade headquarters for several hours before the kaboom. While no group has come forward to claim responsibility for the bombing, yesterday 166 Battalion said it had inflicted heavy casualties on Islamic State in Sirte. It was the first time Misratan forces had clashed with the bad boy group. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... IS has said it orchestrated another kaboom on a 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... police checkpoint last night. It made the claim on social media, posting a picture of the site. Initial reports of one individual killed in the attack and five maimed have since increased to two dead and five maimed. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a series of pictures have been posted on pro-Islamic State websites claiming to show the destruction of one of 166 Battalion's camps in Sirte. There have been unconfirmed reports of sporadic festivities inside the town today. The Pro-Dawn Libya Observer has claimed that 166 Battalion forces killed six IS fighters at a checkpoint in Sirte's southern Abu Hadi district. Studies at Sirte University have been suspended in light of the security deterioration over the last two days. In a statement, a group identifying itself as the "Joint Force of Misrata Brigades" has said it will embrace the decision by the rump General National Congress (GNC) to create a national guard. It said the proposal was a an "important step towrads building a national army including all the honourable rebels who aim to protect goals of 17 Feb revolution". The brigades supplied their own list of eight criteria for the leaders of such a force, explaining: "The national guards should be headed by national figures who do no relate to political parties, as some parties propagandise and promote controversial figures." The statement may be an effort by Misratan forces to distance themselves from IS whose presence they had, up until now, permitted in Sirte. Misratan Libya Dawn forces claimed to have killed 17 Islamic State fighters and lost two of their own, in yesterday's fierce battles in Sirte. In recent months IS forces have established bases in Sirte, Derna and Nawfilya, a small settlement south-east of Sirte. In February IS in Sirte posted images showing the execution of 21 Christians, 20 from Egypt, apparently on the Sirte shoreline. Egypt launched retaliatory air strikes. Earlier this month gunnies, believed to be IS, beheaded 8 Libyan guards and kidnapped 9 foreign hostages from Al-Ghani oilfield, south east of Sirte. |
| Posted by:Fred |