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Iraq

Security forces clash with #protesters in #Karbala

2020-01-24

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Security forces clash with #protesters in #Karbala as they are heading towards Al-Ahrar square to continue protests for the fourth month.#BaghdadPost #IraqProtests #saveIraqipeople #FreeIraq pic.twitter.com/Ke896Pmev0
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) January 23, 2020

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Africa North

Libya's Presidential Council condemns mass killings in Tarhouna

2019-09-16

[Libya Observer] The Libyan Presidential Council (PC) has condemned mass killings in Tarhouna and accused criminal gangs loyal to Khalifa Haftar

...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's forces of committing the crime.

The PC said in a statement on Sunday that the criminal gangs had killed in cold blood tens of residents in Tarhouna.

"This coward crime amounts to a genocide. We vow to bring all those responsible for the atrocity to justice." The PC said.

It called on the international community and Security Council sanctions committee to take strict measures toward such crimes, urging the UNSMIL to probe the incident.

The crime was also condemned by Tarhouna Protection Force of the Libyan Army under the command of Presidential Council's government, holding Kanyat militia, backed by Haftar, accountable for it.

The force said scores were killed, including a member of the Tarhouna municipality and two members of the city's elders' council.

It also called on the residents of the city to side with the right against wrong and on the UNSMIL to document the crime in order to try the perpetrators at the International Criminal Court.

Media sources said that Kanyat militia in Tarhouna killed in a mass murder about 50 people, including Haftar's opponents and February revolution figures.

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Africa North

Gaddafi-loyal commander killed by pro-Haftar forces

2019-08-23

[Libya Observer] Military sources have disclosed that pro-Khalifa Haftar gang killed Khalid al-Wershiffani and three of his ~~lovers~~ companions - including Kamal Lembarki - in Souq al-Sabit area that is under the control of al-Kani militia which is loyal to Haftar.

The gang killed al-Wershiffani by five gunshots and the bodies of him and his ~~lover~~ companions are at the Bani Walid hospital's morgue.

According to the source, al-Habotat gang from Wershiffana and is loyal to al-Kani militia carried out the murder.

Al-Wershiffani is one of the founders of the Tribes Army that is loyal to Muammar Qadaffy's

...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
regime and has taken part in many conflicts with special notoriety of kidnap, banditry and other crimes on the road linking 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...
to mountain cities between 2014 and 2017.

Since the start of Haftar's offensive on Tripoli, al-Wershiffani and his ~~lover~~ companions joined the attacking forces before being murdered in what seems to be an internal conflict among the forces under Haftar's command, especially that the ones killed were loyal to Qadaffy's regime.

Last May, al-Kani militia carried out a similar murder against former regime loyalists such as Brigadier General Masoud al-Dawi and in last June Mohammed Eshtiwi - prominent leader at Tribes Army.

Haftar has also tried to assassinate Saif al-Islam Qadaffy by bribing the brigade that was guarding him in Zintan, where he was detained since 2011.

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Africa North

Heavy clashes in Sabea as Libyan Army advances in south Tripoli

2019-08-23

[Libya Observer] The Volcano of Rage Operation forces under western military zone of the Presidential Council launched an attack Wednesday on Sabea frontline (45 km to southeast 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 seized "new strategic positions" from Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's forces.

Heavy artillery shelling was reported coupled with ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
s from both sides leading to casualties from both warring parties.

"Libyan Army forces achieved significant advances in Sabea which would tighten our grip on the remaining Haftar's forces in Qasir Benghashir since the only supply line left for them in this area is Qasir Benghashir-Sabea." Spokesman for Volcano of Rage Operation Mustafa al-Majea said.

He said the forces seized control of Sabea hospital, aviation Institute and other vital areas, adding that they were combing through the area toward Souq al-Khamis then Tarhouna.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there...
the media office of the operations room of Khalifa Haftar's forces said they had thwarted an attack by "Government of National Accord's forces" on Sabea and caused them heavy losses of both equipment and fighters.

In the meantime, several pro-Haftar loyalists on social media admitted the defeat in Sabea, accusing a group from Wershiffana of betrayal and surrendering their positions in retaliation for the killing of five persons from their district by Haftar's forces.

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India-Pakistan

One of the eight killed militants in Multan was ‘Al Qaeda country head’

2016-05-20

[DAWN] MULTAN: Tayyab Nawaz alias Hafiz Abdul Mateen, who was killed along with seven other suspected ~~bandidos~~ gunnies on Wednesday night was the head of Al Qaeda, Pakistain, Dawn learnt on Thursday. According to officials sources, three of the ~~bandidos~~ gunnies who were killed in Nawabpur area in an encounter with a joint team comprising Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and ISI personnel were from Al-Ahrar group of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and the remaining were Al-Qaeda members.

The sources said Tayyab was a resident of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
while Muneeb Razaq alias Rehman and Zeeshan alias Abu Dajana were from

Wazoo. They said two of the ~~bandidos~~ gunnies -- Ameer Mavia and Sultan -- were from Sargodha district, while Al-Ahrar group members were identified as Imran and Irfan of Rahim Yar Khan and the third was a resident of DG Khan.

They said after the postmortem examination at the Nishtar Hospital, the bad boys’ bodies were shifted to an unidentified location.

After the eight ~~bandidos~~ gunnies were killed, the special branch of Multan region issued a threat alter, saying the TTP could target educational institutes in three cities of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
where security needed to be beefed up.

Sources said Muneeb Razaq and Zeeshan were proclaimed offenders in the liquidation case of Brig Fazal Qadri in Sargodha while Tayyab was the criminal mastermind of Rawalpindi Parade Lane bombing on December 4, 2009 in which 36 people, including 17 children, 10 civilian and 9 army personnel were killed. He was also wanted in a case pertaining to murder of an army officer, they added.

Eight ‘Al Qaeda militants’ killed in Multan

[DAWN] LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department claimed on Wednesday night to have killed eight members of the outlawed Al Qaeda in an ’encounter’ in Multan’s Nawabpur area.

A CTD front man said that a tip-off came that Al Qaeda commander Muneeb Javaid alias Qandhari and Tayab Nawaz alias Hafiz Abdul Mateen, along with Muneeb Razaq alias Abdul Rehman and Zeeshan alias Abu Dujana, were coming to Multan to hold a meeting with Al Qaeda commander Bilal Lateef alias Yasir Punjabi and other murderous Moslems, including two jacket wallahs.

He said that the suspected forces of Evil had gathered in the suburbs of Multan to plan an attack on a university in the city.

The front man said that on the basis of the tip-off, a joint team of ISI and Multan Counter Terrorism Department personnel carried out a raid on the meeting point near Nawabpur village.

He said after seeing the police team the Lions of Islam fired RPG rockets and lobbed hand-grenades.

The police team retaliated and when the firing stopped eight Al Qaeda Lions of Islam were found dead.

Some of the dead were identified as Tayyab alias Abdul Mateen, Muneeb Razaq alias Adbul Rehman, Zeeshan alias Abu Dujana. Muneeb Razaq and Zee-shan were proclaimed offenders in the liquidation of Brig Fazal Qadri in Sargodha.

Identity of other dead Lions of Islam was yet to be established.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Bilal Lateef and Muneeb Javaid, along with their five to six associates, escaped.

The front man said one suicide jacket, two AK47 rifles, two pistols and three hand-grenades were recovered from the scene.

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Iraq

Iraq’s Sadr rejects anti-Iran sloganeering by followers

2016-05-04

[AA.TR] Iraq’s al-Ahrar political bloc, which is led by prominent Shia leader

Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
, said Tuesday that al-Sadr "rejected" anti-Iran slogans that were reportedly chanted by his followers during their temporary occupation of parliament last weekend.

"Slogans chanted against Iran after the Green Zone was stormed are rejected by al-Sadr himself, by the Al-Ahrar bloc and by the Sadrist masses," bloc head Diaa al-Asadi said in a statement.

In regard to reports that al-Sadr had recently visited Iran, al-Asadi asserted: "If these reports are correct -- I have no information about it -- I don’t know why the visit has caused such a fuss".

"Al-Sadr has relatives in Beirut and Iran who he visits occasionally, not to mention the political, social and religious contacts he has in many countries," al-Asadi added. "What’s the problem?"

On Saturday, thousands of al-Sadr’s supporters forced their way into Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone and occupied the Iraqi parliament building before withdrawing the following day.

In recent months, al-Sadr supporters have staged several mass demonstrations in Baghdad with a view to pressing Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to appoint a government of "technocrats" untainted by corruption or sectarian affiliations.

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Iraq

Iraqis end Green Zone protests after issuing demands

2016-05-03

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Anti-government protesters temporarily ended their mass demonstration in Baghdad's Green Zone on Sunday and began an orderly withdrawal a day after tearing down walls around the government district and invading parliament.

Loudspeakers manned by followers of Shiite holy man

Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
, who has led the protest movement, announced the disbanding of the protests, which had marked the culmination of months of sit-ins and demonstrations demanding the overhaul of a political system widely seen as corrupt and ineffectual.

"We decided to end it now because of the anniversary of Imam (Moussa) al-Kadhim," said Sadiq al-Hashemi, a representative of al-Sadr's office in Baghdad who was present at the protests.

Al-Hashemi said al-Sadr made the decision in order to allow Iraqi security forces to protect the thousands of pilgrims who are expected to walk from across Iraq to the shrine of the 8th-century Imam in Baghdad.

Speaking to Al Arabiya News Channel from Iraq, Awad Al-Awadi, a deputy in the Iraqi parliament representing the Al-Ahrar bloc of the Sadrist Movement, said that a pending solution "depends on the political blocs first."

"A solution depends on the political blocs, first, and depends on the courage of the head of the government, and parliament speaker. The parliament speaker today said he would dot the i's and cross the t's towards reform. To achieve reform, the political blocs should abandon their gains, and quotas, and their ministers," he told Al Arabiya.

Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered authorities to arrest and prosecute those among the protesters who had attacked security forces, politicians and damaged state property after breaking into the Green Zone.

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Iraq

Al-Sadr calls for sit-in outside Baghdad’s Green Zone

2016-03-13

[AA.TR] Prominent Shia holy man

Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
on Saturday called on supporters to stage a sit-in outside Baghdad’s Green Zone -- an apparent reversal of earlier pledges to keep his followers away from the international zone.

"Every Iraqi who is loyal to the country must rise up and begin a new phase of peaceful protest... by holding a sit-in in front of the gates of the Green Zone until the end of the prescribed period, by which I mean the 45 days," al-Sadr declared in a statement.

On Feb. 12, al-Sadr gave the government of Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi 45 days to draw up a non-sectarian-based government of technocrats mandated with uprooting official corruption and streamlining state bureaucracy.

Last week, he warned that his followers would storm Baghdad’s Green Zone -- which houses government institutions and foreign embassies -- if the deadline passed without the demands being met.

On Friday, tens of thousands of al-Sadr's followers demonstrated in Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces -- for the third week in a row -- to reiterate their demands.

Abdul Aziz al-Zalmi, a member of Iraq’s Al-Ahrar bloc, a Sadrist Shia political coalition, attributed al-Sadr's calls for a sit-in outside the Green Zone to "the lack of seriousness on the part of the government in carrying out the promised reforms".

"Now," al-Zalmi told Anadolu Agency, "the government must confront the street, which demands a new government of non-partisan technocrats."

Last summer, Iraq’s parliament approved a comprehensive raft of reforms proposed by al-Abadi. The reforms are intended to meet longstanding popular demands to eliminate government corruption and streamline state bureaucracy.

Al-Sadr's bloc in parliament holds 34 seats in the 328-seat assembly and three ministerial portfolios in Iraq’s current government.

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Africa North

Libya Shield's post-Ghadames ambivalence may mark cracks in Dawn alliance

2014-10-02

[Libya Herald] In what may signal a rift between the revolutionary brigade and its partners in 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...
Operation, Libya Shield
...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs...
has said it remains open to involvement in any further potential peace talks.

Speaking on Libya Al-Ahrar yesterday, Mohammed Hideyah, the front man for Libya Shield, said brigade commanders had formed no official opinion on UN-hosted peace talks in Ghadames.

Hideyah stated that the Misrata-based force was neither for or against joining the negotiations.

The clarification has been seen as a direct response to a statement released earlier in the week by Libya Dawn, the coalition of Islamist-leaning forces with which Libya Central Shield
...an element of the larger Qaeda-linked Libya Shield Force. I think it's the one in the middle...
wrestled control 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...
International Airport.

Libya Dawn has said no negotiations could stand as an obstacle to a military solution to the current stand-off. It has insisted that its operations alone would maintain the legitimacy of the February Revolution.

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Africa North

Foreigners urged to leave Libya amid rising violence

2014-07-28

Egypt and several western states on Sunday urged their citizens to leave Libya amid spiralling violence after two weeks of fighting in the capital Tripoli left 97 people dead.

Thank goodness for 'smart diplomacy': imagine how bad it would be if Champ, Hildebeast, ValJar and Jahwn were stupid...

As Walter Russell Mead points out here, "smart diplomacy" has become a punchline.

Washington evacuated its embassy staff on Saturday, with Secretary of State John Kerry warning the mission had faced a "real risk" from fierce fighting between armed groups for control of Tripoli's international airport.

Another 38 people, mostly soldiers, were killed in 24 hours of fighting between the army and Islamists in the eastern city of Benghazi, military and medical officials said on Sunday, a further sign of the chaos plaguing the North African nation.

The Tripoli clashes, the most violent since the overthrow of Muammer Gaddhafi in 2011, started with an assault on the airport by a coalition of groups, which has since been backed by fighters from third city Misrata. The attackers are battling to flush out fellow former rebels from the hill town of Zintan, southwest of Tripoli, who have controlled the airport for the past three years.

The health ministry said on Sunday the violence had killed 97 people, a toll based on casualty reports from eight public hospitals in the city and its suburbs. More than 400 people were wounded.

Fighting was still raging, with explosions heard from early morning as militiamen battled around the airport.

Egypt's foreign ministry said a rocket hit a house in Tripoli on Saturday, killing 23 people, including several Egyptians.

"There are 23 people dead after a Grad rocket fell on a house in Tripoli. Some of them are Egyptians, but we don't know how many," ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told AFP.

Cairo called on "all Egyptian nationals in Tripoli and Benghazi to immediately leave and save themselves from this chaotic internal fighting".

The foreign ministry said they should seek "safer areas in Libya or head to the Libya-Tunisia border".

There were an estimated 1.5 million Egyptians in Libya before Gaddhafi's ouster. About two-thirds left during the war but many returned in 2012.

Also on Sunday, a British embassy convoy was fired on in a suspected attempted carjacking in western Tripoli. There were no casualties, a spokesman for London's mission in Libya said.

"Shots were fired at our vehicles but they managed to drive on and leave the area," Bob Phillipson said.

The violence prompted Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands to join Washington in urging their citizens to leave as soon as possible, after the US pulled out its diplomatic staff under air cover on Saturday. Belgium, Malta, Spain and Turkey previously urged their nationals to leave.

Libya's health ministry warned that foreigners leaving could cause a shortage of health workers, particularly since the Philippines ordered the departure of its citizens, 3,000 of whom were doctors and nurses in Libya, Tripoli said.

But they still don't quite get that "cause and effect" thing, do they...

In second city Benghazi, another 38 people, mostly soldiers, were killed in 24 hours of intense clashes between the army and Islamists.

A military source said the fighting erupted on Saturday when Islamist groups launched an assault on the headquarters of a special forces unit near the city centre, causing casualties among forces defending their barracks.

Benghazi's main hospital said the bodies of 28 soldiers had been taken there in the past 24 hours, along with 50 wounded, while Al Marj hospital, 100 kilometres to the east, spoke of two soldiers dead and 10 wounded.

Overnight, special forces commander Wanis Abu Khamada told Al-Ahrar television his troops could still "repel any attack on state institutions".

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Iraq

Tater jumps the Maliki ship

2014-07-07

[Iraq Sun] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his third term bid and pick another candidate, urged Shi'ite Moslem holy man

Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He's studying to be an ayatollah...
, amid parliamentary deadlock over the formation of a new government.

Maliki has come under mounting pressure since Islamic State murderous Moslem forces of Evil rampaged through the north and west of the country last month and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate on land they and other gangs captured in Iraq and Syria.

In a statement published on his website late on Saturday, Sadr said Maliki "has involved himself and us in long security quarrels and big political crises" and suggested that preventing Maliki from serving a third term would be a "welcome step".

"It is necessary to demonstrate the national and paternal spirit by aiming for a higher, wider goal from individuals and blocs and by that I mean changing the candidates," said Sadr, who gained political influence during the U.S. occupation.

The radical holy man and his political allies had previously advocated the next prime minister be chosen from outside of Maliki's State of Law coalition.

State of Law is part of the National Alliance, a bloc comprising the country's biggest Shi'ite parties, including both Maliki's list and his foes.

"I remain convinced that the brothers in the State of Law coalition must present the candidate for prime minister ... because it is the biggest bloc within the National Alliance," said Sadr.

Dhiya al-Asadi, secretary general of the Al-Ahrar bloc, the Shi'ite political party loyal to Sadr, echoed his stance.

"We are fine with any State of Law candidate as long as he is not Maliki," he told Rooters.

The United States, Iran, the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
, and Iraq's own Shi'ite holy mans have called on Iraqi politicians to overcome their differences to face the insurgency.

As Shi'ite politicians sought a way to end the political deadlock, a video was posted online of the man purporting to be the leader of the murderous Moslem Islamic State praying at a mosque in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, one of the cities the group seized last month.

Maliki's opponents blame his divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
rule for fueling the political crisis and want him to step aside. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
he refused on Friday to give up his quest for a third term in power.

The first meeting of Iraqi parliament since its election in April collapsed last week without agreement. Kurds and Sunnis walked out, complaining Shi'ite politicians had not yet determined who they would put forward as premier.

Maliki's main Shi'ite rivals say there is already consensus among the Shi'ite coalition and among the Sunnis and Kurds against his bid for a third term.

"There is a wish by all political blocs except the State of Law ... [for] the change," said Ali Shubber, a leading member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), a Shi'ite party that came second to Maliki's State of Law in the April elections.

"We feel that the change must take place in order to change the political equation."

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Africa North

Defence Minister threatens action after calls for military rule in Libya

2014-02-13

[Libya Herald] Defence Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni said yesterday that the names of a number of officers who had discussed proposals for military rule had been passed on to the military prosecutor.

Speaking in a live television interview on Libya Al-Ahrar, Thinni said military intelligence had been alerted to a secret meeting in the former Qadaffy Hall of the People in 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...
where military officials discussed the creation of a Egyptian-style military council to replace Congress and the government. The Military Police had been sent, he said, and although none of the individuals were tossed into the calaboose, their identities were known and they would be charged.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
a source linked to the Military Police told the Libya Herald that it had refused orders yesterday by Nuri Abu Sahmain, the President of the General National Congress, to break up the meeting. According to the source, a top Military Police official had done so saying he no longer accepted the legitimacy of Congress because it had expired on 7 February.

Abu Sahmain was given powers three weeks ago by Congress as Commander-in-Chief for a month.

An awareness that some members of the armed forces were wanting action similar to what happened in Egypt have been circulating for some days. On Sunday, Congress itself instructed the Chief of Staff to take necessary action against military figures who were becoming involved in political activities contrary to military regulations.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths...
front man for the Chief of Staff, Ali Sheikhi, said that the Military Prosecutor would be investigating military personnel who had given unsanctioned interviews to the press. He said that such interviews directly contravened orders and that prosecutions would begin shortly.

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