Jos Isis saa haltuunsa Marokon ja Andalusian, niin siinä sitä onkin ihmettelemistä...muuallakin kun Espanjassa ja Portugalissa
Onhan siinä, joskin Espanjan armeija ei ole erityisen kyvykkään maineessa.
Libya
- Viestiketjun aloittaja Tvälups
- Aloitus PVM
Onhan siinä, joskin Espanjan armeija ei ole erityisen kyvykkään maineessa.
Guderian
Kapteeni
Tunisia denied Thursday a US news report that said it had allowed the US troops to operate unmanned planes from its territory for missions in neighbouring Libya against IS.
“As part of Tunisian-US bilateral cooperation, we have acquired drones to train our military personnel to use this technology and to control out southeastern border with Libya and detect any suspicious movement” there, a defence ministry spokesman said, Al-Arabia.
But “Tunisian soil has never been and never will be used to strike targets in Libya. The drones are used by Tunisians and no one else,” Belhassen Oueslati added.
The Washington Post on Wednesday reported that the Pentagon had “secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa, deploying unmanned aircraft and US military personnel to a facility in Tunisia to conduct spy missions in neighbouring Libya”.
The “drones began flying out of the Tunisian base in late June” and “played a key role in an extended US air offensive against an IS stronghold” in Libya, the newspaper said.
Tunisia’s Defence Minister Farhat Horchani told the Mosaique FM radio station on Thursday: “We were one of the few first countries to oppose a foreign military intervention in Libya.”
“We don’t — and won’t — have a foreign military base in Tunisia,” he said.
An AFRICOM spokesman did not deny that US drones had taken off from Tunisia but said: “There are no US bases in Tunisia.”
“There are US service members working with the Tunisian security forces for counter terrorism and they are sharing intelligence from various sources, to include unarmed aerial platforms,” Colonel Mark R. Cheadle said, According to Al-Arabia.
http://www.libyanexpress.com/tunisian-defence-minister-denies-hosting-us-military-base/
“As part of Tunisian-US bilateral cooperation, we have acquired drones to train our military personnel to use this technology and to control out southeastern border with Libya and detect any suspicious movement” there, a defence ministry spokesman said, Al-Arabia.
But “Tunisian soil has never been and never will be used to strike targets in Libya. The drones are used by Tunisians and no one else,” Belhassen Oueslati added.
The Washington Post on Wednesday reported that the Pentagon had “secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa, deploying unmanned aircraft and US military personnel to a facility in Tunisia to conduct spy missions in neighbouring Libya”.
The “drones began flying out of the Tunisian base in late June” and “played a key role in an extended US air offensive against an IS stronghold” in Libya, the newspaper said.
Tunisia’s Defence Minister Farhat Horchani told the Mosaique FM radio station on Thursday: “We were one of the few first countries to oppose a foreign military intervention in Libya.”
“We don’t — and won’t — have a foreign military base in Tunisia,” he said.
An AFRICOM spokesman did not deny that US drones had taken off from Tunisia but said: “There are no US bases in Tunisia.”
“There are US service members working with the Tunisian security forces for counter terrorism and they are sharing intelligence from various sources, to include unarmed aerial platforms,” Colonel Mark R. Cheadle said, According to Al-Arabia.
http://www.libyanexpress.com/tunisian-defence-minister-denies-hosting-us-military-base/
Guderian
Kapteeni
Libya's Chaos Prompts New US Calls for Action
October 31, 2016 4:07 PM
Luis Ramirez
LONDON —
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spearheaded renewed efforts Monday to bolster Libya's U.N.-backed government against continued chaos and a collapsing economy, but the meeting appeared to yield little more than an expression of support for the embattled Libyan leadership.
Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson convened the gathering in London that included ministers from France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, who met with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.
The ministers reaffirmed what a State Department official said was "strong international support" for Libya's Government of National Accord, the U.N.-backed interim governing body that has thus far been unable to establish control outside the capital, Tripoli.
Since the fall of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi following a 2011 popular uprising, Libya has been divided by factional fighting. A government in the east of the country headed by General Khalifa Haftar has refused to recognize the GNA.
Libya dependent on oil, gas
"There is a crisis of legitimacy that is now much deeper than at the beginning of the civil war," said Wolfram Lacher, Middle East and Africa Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs at a forum in London earlier this year.
The crisis, along with the prospect of economic collapse, have deepened concerns about widening opportunities for Islamists in western Libya.
Libya's economy is nearly entirely dependent on oil and gas exports and is on the verge of collapse after crude prices last year dropped to seven-year lows and production plummeted to a third of its pre-war levels as a result of factional fighting.
"The ministers underscored their support for increasing the capacity of the GNA led by Prime Minister al-Sarraj to respond to the needs of the Libyan people," said State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau in a statement after the meeting Monday in London.
There were no concrete proposals of aid, but ministers said technical talks will be held to follow up and implement their effort.
U.S. airstrikes supported
The meeting was held as Libyan government forces supported by a U.S. air campaign make gains in their efforts to wrest control of the coastal city of Sirte from about 100 Islamic State militants who reports say are holed up in the city.
State Department officials said ministers meeting Monday in London noted the "important progress" the GNA and its allied forces are making in Sirte. The U.S. officials reaffirmed their "continuing and strong" support of al-Sarraj's efforts against Islamic State militants.
The statements follow criticism by observers who note the operation to retake Sirte, launched in May, was originally expected to take a few weeks but, after several months, is still ongoing.
http://www.voanews.com/a/libya-kerry-haftar-saraj/3573427.html
October 31, 2016 4:07 PM
Luis Ramirez
LONDON —
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spearheaded renewed efforts Monday to bolster Libya's U.N.-backed government against continued chaos and a collapsing economy, but the meeting appeared to yield little more than an expression of support for the embattled Libyan leadership.
Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson convened the gathering in London that included ministers from France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, who met with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.
The ministers reaffirmed what a State Department official said was "strong international support" for Libya's Government of National Accord, the U.N.-backed interim governing body that has thus far been unable to establish control outside the capital, Tripoli.
Since the fall of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi following a 2011 popular uprising, Libya has been divided by factional fighting. A government in the east of the country headed by General Khalifa Haftar has refused to recognize the GNA.
Libya dependent on oil, gas
"There is a crisis of legitimacy that is now much deeper than at the beginning of the civil war," said Wolfram Lacher, Middle East and Africa Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs at a forum in London earlier this year.
The crisis, along with the prospect of economic collapse, have deepened concerns about widening opportunities for Islamists in western Libya.
Libya's economy is nearly entirely dependent on oil and gas exports and is on the verge of collapse after crude prices last year dropped to seven-year lows and production plummeted to a third of its pre-war levels as a result of factional fighting.
"The ministers underscored their support for increasing the capacity of the GNA led by Prime Minister al-Sarraj to respond to the needs of the Libyan people," said State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau in a statement after the meeting Monday in London.
There were no concrete proposals of aid, but ministers said technical talks will be held to follow up and implement their effort.
U.S. airstrikes supported
The meeting was held as Libyan government forces supported by a U.S. air campaign make gains in their efforts to wrest control of the coastal city of Sirte from about 100 Islamic State militants who reports say are holed up in the city.
State Department officials said ministers meeting Monday in London noted the "important progress" the GNA and its allied forces are making in Sirte. The U.S. officials reaffirmed their "continuing and strong" support of al-Sarraj's efforts against Islamic State militants.
The statements follow criticism by observers who note the operation to retake Sirte, launched in May, was originally expected to take a few weeks but, after several months, is still ongoing.
http://www.voanews.com/a/libya-kerry-haftar-saraj/3573427.html
Guderian
Kapteeni
Tämä on jo kahden viikon takaa.
Rival Governments Vie for Control of Libya
October 17, 2016 2:53 PM
Edward Yeranian
CAIRO —
Tensions reached a boiling point in the Libyan capital Monday, as rival militia groups waged a low-level turf war in a political battle between the U.N.-backed "national unity" government of Fayez al-Sarraj and the unrecognized, Islamist-supported government of Khalifa Ghweil.
Militia forces loyal to Ghweil , who call themselves the Presidential Guard, seized some government buildings over the weekend, although Ghweil claimed in an interview with Arab televison that he was not trying to stop the "unity" government from having access to them. The Rixos Hotel, which the country's former legislative body, the General National Council considers to be its home, is under the control of Ghweil-forces, and they appear to be preventing the "unity" government from using it.
Libyan TV broadcast a statement by members of the guard, saying they support Ghweil and the GNC and asserting the unity government is an attempt to place Libya under a new military dictatorship.
Ghweil, who is supported by the hardline Islamist mufti of Tripoli, seized control of the old governmental palace, called the "guest palace," and several other government ministries, but insisted that "he did not want to spill any Libyan blood."
Ghweil told Arab media that he had not retaken the government buildings by force, but by "popular will." He also claimed that he had contacted rival Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni in Tobruk in order to form a new government "together."
Ghweil argued the Sarraj "unity" government was a failure, and his actions were necessary to reassert control in order to keep the country financially stable. Presidential Guard militiamen who seized government buildings in Ghweil's name have reportedly not been paid in six months.
The U.N. special envoy for Libya, Martin Kobler, tweeted Monday he was "saddened by civilian casualties in Tripoli" and at a government airbase. He went on to call for unity in the country.
Libyan political analyst Khaled Sharaf told state TV the situation in the country had "returned to square one."
He says the unity government has not done anything for the country and it has not even visited most towns and cities. He stressed that the situation in the capital Tripoli is "confused" and it is possible rival militias might resort to arms and ignite a new civil war.
Libya has been in turmoil since the NATO-backed overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/a/libya-rival-governments-vie-control/3554992.html
Rival Governments Vie for Control of Libya
October 17, 2016 2:53 PM
Edward Yeranian
CAIRO —
Tensions reached a boiling point in the Libyan capital Monday, as rival militia groups waged a low-level turf war in a political battle between the U.N.-backed "national unity" government of Fayez al-Sarraj and the unrecognized, Islamist-supported government of Khalifa Ghweil.
Militia forces loyal to Ghweil , who call themselves the Presidential Guard, seized some government buildings over the weekend, although Ghweil claimed in an interview with Arab televison that he was not trying to stop the "unity" government from having access to them. The Rixos Hotel, which the country's former legislative body, the General National Council considers to be its home, is under the control of Ghweil-forces, and they appear to be preventing the "unity" government from using it.
Libyan TV broadcast a statement by members of the guard, saying they support Ghweil and the GNC and asserting the unity government is an attempt to place Libya under a new military dictatorship.
Ghweil, who is supported by the hardline Islamist mufti of Tripoli, seized control of the old governmental palace, called the "guest palace," and several other government ministries, but insisted that "he did not want to spill any Libyan blood."
Ghweil told Arab media that he had not retaken the government buildings by force, but by "popular will." He also claimed that he had contacted rival Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni in Tobruk in order to form a new government "together."
Ghweil argued the Sarraj "unity" government was a failure, and his actions were necessary to reassert control in order to keep the country financially stable. Presidential Guard militiamen who seized government buildings in Ghweil's name have reportedly not been paid in six months.
The U.N. special envoy for Libya, Martin Kobler, tweeted Monday he was "saddened by civilian casualties in Tripoli" and at a government airbase. He went on to call for unity in the country.
Libyan political analyst Khaled Sharaf told state TV the situation in the country had "returned to square one."
He says the unity government has not done anything for the country and it has not even visited most towns and cities. He stressed that the situation in the capital Tripoli is "confused" and it is possible rival militias might resort to arms and ignite a new civil war.
Libya has been in turmoil since the NATO-backed overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/a/libya-rival-governments-vie-control/3554992.html
ak.tied
Greatest Leader
Jotenkin älyvapaan näköstä touhua paukutella tankilla kerrostaloihin 50m päästä samaan aikaan ku jätkät seisoo kadulla kattelemassa. Edetäänkö tuossa vai onko tarkoitus vain hajottaa mahdollisimman paljon paikkoja...
Liekkö daeshit linnoittautuneet kerrostaloihin ja militia ei kykene/uskalla siivoamaan aluetta asunto kerrallaan. Paukutellaan iltaan asti välillä läheltä ja välillä kaukaa. Propsit kuitenkin haavoittuneiden evakuoinnista - ambulanssia tuli jatkuvalla syötöllä. Tosin en yhtään ihmettelis, jos ottavat omilta osumaa vahingossa, kun liipasinsormet on aika herkässä.
Mielenkiintoista oli nähdä myös kaluston kirjavuus. Militialla oli käytössä kaikkea mahdollista aina 155mm Palmyria ja M109 tykistöön asti. Organisaatio- ja ammattitaidoista onkin sitten enemmän pulaa.
Mielenkiintoista oli nähdä myös kaluston kirjavuus. Militialla oli käytössä kaikkea mahdollista aina 155mm Palmyria ja M109 tykistöön asti. Organisaatio- ja ammattitaidoista onkin sitten enemmän pulaa.
Guderian
Kapteeni
Libyan forces claim control of ISIL stronghold of Sirte
Hundreds of loyalist troops and unknown number of ISIL fighters killed as pro-government forces seize coastal city.
Forces aligned to Libya's UN-backed national unity government have gained full control of Sirte after months of fighting, in a major blow to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the country.
"Our forces have total control of Sirte," Reda Issa, a spokesman for pro-government forces, told AFP news agency on Monday. "Our forces saw Daesh totally collapse," he said referring to the Arabic name of ISIL.
The battle for the coastal city, which was the last significant territory held by ISIL, also known as ISIS, in Libya, cost the lives of hundreds of loyalist troops as well as an unknown number of ISIL fighters, Issa said.
The government forces seized the coastal city's Jiza al-Bahrieh district, the last area where the armed group has been holding out, and were in the process of securing it, Issa said in a separate interview with DPA news agency.
"Daesh has totally collapsed and dozens of them have given themselves up to our forces," said a statement on the loyalist forces' official Facebook page.
ISIL fighters are still thought to be present in several parts of southern and eastern Libya but no longer control any towns.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from Sirte, said that there are still a few ISIL fighters holding out.
"The fighting has been going on all day," he said, adding that at least 30 ISIL fighters have surrendered to the pro-government forces.
The question now is, how many of the fighters have fled to other parts of Libya, Anas El Gomati, director of the Tripoli-based Sadeq Institute, said in an interview with Al Jazeera from Dakar, Senegal.
"The fear now is that if ISIS moves into other parts of Libya, does it induce more and more conflict?" he said.
Divided country
The developments follow a bitter seven-month campaign against ISIL, which took advantage of Libya's split between rival governments in the east and west of the country to build up its largest territory outside of its heartland in Syria and Iraq.
Akram Glawan, Misrata Hospital spokesman, told AP news agency that 711 Libyan fighters have been killed battling ISIL during the seven-month operation in Sirte and that another 3,200 have been wounded.
Despite the apparent victory in Sirte, Libya remains deeply divided, with the national unity government based in the capital Tripoli unable to gain recognition from the elected parliament based in the eastern city of Tobruk.
Forces loyal to Tobruk military strongman General Khalifa Haftar have made major advances in recent months, seizing the country's critical oil ports from forces aligned to the unity government.
Analysts argue that Haftar's growing strength means that the UN-backed deal setting up the national unity government is increasingly out of step with the balance of power on the ground and should be revisited.
Even in Tripoli the unity government's rule is far from secure, with a third rival administration backed by hardline armed groups recently attempting a comeback.
Clashes between rival militias claimed at least four lives in the city on Friday, according to the al-Wasat news site.
Source: Al Jazeera News and Agencies
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...ol-isil-stronghold-sirte-161205140941343.html
Hundreds of loyalist troops and unknown number of ISIL fighters killed as pro-government forces seize coastal city.
Forces aligned to Libya's UN-backed national unity government have gained full control of Sirte after months of fighting, in a major blow to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the country.
"Our forces have total control of Sirte," Reda Issa, a spokesman for pro-government forces, told AFP news agency on Monday. "Our forces saw Daesh totally collapse," he said referring to the Arabic name of ISIL.
The battle for the coastal city, which was the last significant territory held by ISIL, also known as ISIS, in Libya, cost the lives of hundreds of loyalist troops as well as an unknown number of ISIL fighters, Issa said.
The government forces seized the coastal city's Jiza al-Bahrieh district, the last area where the armed group has been holding out, and were in the process of securing it, Issa said in a separate interview with DPA news agency.
"Daesh has totally collapsed and dozens of them have given themselves up to our forces," said a statement on the loyalist forces' official Facebook page.
ISIL fighters are still thought to be present in several parts of southern and eastern Libya but no longer control any towns.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from Sirte, said that there are still a few ISIL fighters holding out.
"The fighting has been going on all day," he said, adding that at least 30 ISIL fighters have surrendered to the pro-government forces.
The question now is, how many of the fighters have fled to other parts of Libya, Anas El Gomati, director of the Tripoli-based Sadeq Institute, said in an interview with Al Jazeera from Dakar, Senegal.
"The fear now is that if ISIS moves into other parts of Libya, does it induce more and more conflict?" he said.
Divided country
The developments follow a bitter seven-month campaign against ISIL, which took advantage of Libya's split between rival governments in the east and west of the country to build up its largest territory outside of its heartland in Syria and Iraq.
Akram Glawan, Misrata Hospital spokesman, told AP news agency that 711 Libyan fighters have been killed battling ISIL during the seven-month operation in Sirte and that another 3,200 have been wounded.
Despite the apparent victory in Sirte, Libya remains deeply divided, with the national unity government based in the capital Tripoli unable to gain recognition from the elected parliament based in the eastern city of Tobruk.
Forces loyal to Tobruk military strongman General Khalifa Haftar have made major advances in recent months, seizing the country's critical oil ports from forces aligned to the unity government.
Analysts argue that Haftar's growing strength means that the UN-backed deal setting up the national unity government is increasingly out of step with the balance of power on the ground and should be revisited.
Even in Tripoli the unity government's rule is far from secure, with a third rival administration backed by hardline armed groups recently attempting a comeback.
Clashes between rival militias claimed at least four lives in the city on Friday, according to the al-Wasat news site.
Source: Al Jazeera News and Agencies
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...ol-isil-stronghold-sirte-161205140941343.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/w...libyan-general-in-challenge-to-west-wzbmc600q
"Russia is planning to arm a Libyan general who has been fighting the western-backed government in Tripoli, according to aides of the strongman."
"Russia is planning to arm a Libyan general who has been fighting the western-backed government in Tripoli, according to aides of the strongman."
John Hilly
Ylipäällikkö
Type 84. Photo and capture via the author
Terrific — Libyan Militants Now Have Deadly Chinese Landmines
The Type 84 makes an appearance in Benghazi
by ARNAUD DELALANDE
On Dec. 8, 2016, a social media account supporting the Libyan National Army — one of two main forces battling for control of war-torn Libya — published footage of an unused, Chinese-made Type 84 remotely-delivered anti-vehicle landmine along with a Type 122-15 ATML rocket.
The rocket was apparently found in the Ganfouda district of Benghazi, in a neighborhood that the Tobruk-based LNA had seized from the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, an Islamist militia.
The footage apparently marks the first appearance of the Chinese mine in Libya since 2011 — and, more importantly, the first evidence that a Libyan Islamic group has gotten its hands on the munition.
The Type 84 mine is an air-dispersed landmine with an explosively-formed penetrator warhead that can penetrate up to 110 millimeters of rolled homogeneous armor.
The Type 122-15 ATML rocket — the export version of China’s GBL212 122- millimeter rocket — includes an ejection charge, a main body containing six scatterable mines and a nose cone. The type is launched from BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
The GLD220 variant of the Type 84 disarms itself after 72 hours — and also features a self-destruct function that can trigger between four and 72 hours after deployment. Once the rocket launches, a time fuse activates at a predetermined distance. The rocket’s head bursts, ejecting the mines, which then descend under parachutes.
Type 122–15 rocket. Capture via the author
During the descent, the three legs at the feet of the mines open downward to form a tip that pierces the ground. The mine is then armed.
The Type 84 is not a cluster munition, unlike the Type 81 which can deliver explosive submunitions. Hezbollah used Type 81s during the 2006 conflict in south Lebanon.
Still, “the Type 84 mine is extremely dangerous and should not be handled or disturbed, as it is equipped with a sensitive magnetic influence fuse that also functions as an inherent anti-disturbance feature,” wrote Mark Hiznay, a researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch.
“The magnetic influence fuse explodes the mine when it detects a change in its immediate magnetic environment. That change can result from a vehicle passing over the mine or a person approaching it while wearing or carrying a sufficient amount of ferrous metal, such as military equipment or even a camera.
“Additionally, given the sensitivity of the fuse, any change in orientation or movement of the mine may cause the fuse to function.”
The first use of the Type 84 landmine in Libya was reported by C.J. Chivers of The New York Times and confirmed by Human Rights Watch. The rockets were launched on May 5, 2011 in the port area of the city of Misrata by forces loyal to then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Two guards patrolling the port in a truck ran over two of the mines. One guard was seriously wounded in the blast. An international deminer was killed in Dafniya in March 2012 and two injured in November 2011 when they tried to defuse a Type 84 submunition.
https://warisboring.com/terrific-li...dly-chinese-landmines-8426e8ca85eb#.c104ll1w3
Falangi
Kenraali
Amerikkalaiset palkkasotilaslentäjät suorittavat Libyassa pommituslentoja Arabiemiraattien laskuun. Koneena on Emiraattien ilmavoimien Air Tractor AT-802U "crop dusteri".
Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
https://warisboring.com/erik-princes-mercenaries-are-bombing-libya-88fcb8e55292#.udwyqyvej
Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
https://warisboring.com/erik-princes-mercenaries-are-bombing-libya-88fcb8e55292#.udwyqyvej
Bushmaster
Greatest Leader
Tästä minä ja @ Geronimo ollaan jo ainakin vuosi sitten kirjoitettu..?
Syyria ei riitä Venäjälle – Putin hakee nyt jalansijaa myös Libyassa ja Palestiinassa
Moskova on Syyrian sodan ohessa rakennellut laajaa paluuta Lähi-idän politiikkaan. Astanan rauhankokous on yksi etappi Putinin strategiassa.
Libyan kansallisen sovun hallitukselle uskolliset joukot taistelivat marraskuussa Sirten satamakaupungin hallinnasta islamistijärjestö Isisiä vastaan. (KUVA: MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP)
Pekka Hakala HS
Julkaistu: 19.1. 18:57 , Päivitetty: 20.1. 6:46
MOSKOVA. VENÄJÄN puolustusministeriö ilmoitti kaksi viikkoa sitten rajoittavansa merkittävästi osallistumistaan Syyrian taisteluihin. Symbolisena eleenä Syyrian vesillä lähes kolme kuukautta toiminut Venäjän ainoa lentotukialus Admiral Kuznetsov aloitti matkansa takaisin kotiin Severomorskiin.
Viisi päivää myöhemmin Libyan Tobrukissa päämajaansa pitävä Libyan varjohallitus kertoi uutistoimisto Bloombergin mukaan lentotukialuksen ankkuroituneen Tobrukin edustalle.
Venäjän puolustusministeriön mukaan laivalle saapui yllätysvieras, marsalkka Khalifa Haftar. Hän piti videopalaverin Venään puolustusministerin Sergei Šoigun kanssa.
BENGASILAISESTA lukuisten sotien veteraanista Khalifa Haftarista, 73, voisi käyttää nimitystä ”Libyan vahva mies”, jos sekasortoon ajautuneesta maasta sellainen ylipäätään pitäisi löytää.
Karkeasti ottaen Libya on kahdessa leirissä. Pääkaupungissa Tripolissa istuu YK:n tukema kansallisen sovun hallitus – nimikin jo sanoo, että riitaisampaa joukkoa saa etsiä. Tobrukiin siirtynyt parlamentti eli edustajainhuone edustaa maallista vastavoimaa.
Todellisuudessa Tobruk ja koko Itä-Libya on Haftarin ja hänen LNA-armeijansa komennossa.
Menestys ei ole ollut aivan huono. Haftar hääti äskettäin islamistit ex-diktaattori Muammar Gaddafin syntymäkaupungista Sirtestä, joka on merkittävä öljysatama. Haftarin hallussa ovat nyt sekä Libyan suurimmat öljykentät että öljyn vientireitti.
SAMALLA Haftarista on tullut yksi Moskovan uusista kavereista. Marsalkka vieraili ensimmäisen kerran Moskovassa kesällä ja toistamiseen marraskuun lopulla tapaamassa puolustusministeri Šoigua ja ulkoministeri Sergei Lavrovia.
Marsalkan viesti oli selkeä: Venäjän tulisi unohtaa asevientikiellot ja myydä Bengasiin pyssyjä.
Brittiläinen sotilasasiantuntija Emile Simpson tosin väitti äskettäin Foreign Policy -lehdessä, että Venäjä on aseita Haftarille jo myynyt, todennäköisesti Serbian ja Valko-Venäjän kautta. Väitettä ei ole vahvistettu mistään.
MOSKOVAN ja Bengasin lähentyminen on uusin osoitus Venäjän pyrkimyksistä palata tekijäksi Lähi-idän politiikassa.
Marsalkka Haftar on Venäjälle luonteva liittolainen, sillä hän on myös Egyptin ystävä. Venäjän presidentti Vladimir Putin puolestaan on lämmittänyt tarmokkaasti suhteita Egyptin presidenttiin, marsalkka Abdel al-Sisiin.
Lähi-idän ikuisuuskysymyksessä eli Palestiinan asiassa Venäjä oli pitkään passiivinen, mistä hyvästä suhteet Israelin kanssa ovat olleet vuosia mukiinmenevät.
Tähänkin saattaa tulla muutos: ulkoministeri Lavrov nimittäin isännöi täällä viikolla maallisen Fatahin ja islamistisen Hamasin tapaamisen Moskovassa. Neuvottelun päätteeksi palestiinalaisten eripuraiset pääpuolueet ilmoittivat yhteishallituksen muodostamisesta.
PIAN puolitoista vuotta Syyriassa presidentti Bashar al-Assadin puolesta sotinut Venäjä näyttää rakennelleen Lähi-idän strategiaa, joka ulottuu huomattavasti Syyrian rajoja laajemmalle. Menestys Syyriassa on avain moneen muuhunkin.
Venäjä, Turkki ja Iran ovat kutsuneet ensi maanantaiksi koolle Syyrian rauhankokouksen Kazakstanin pääkaupunkiin Astanaan. Venäjä hamuaa mukaan myös Qatarin ja Saudi-Arabian edustajia.
Viime tietojen mukaan Qatarista joku on tulossakin, mutta saudien edustus on ainakin al-Assadin hallitukselle liikaa. Toinen asia on, kuinka paljon Putin jaksaa al-Assadin valituksia kuunnella.
Yhdysvaltain perinteisen liittolaisen Saudi-Arabian saaminen samaan pöytään Iranin ja Venäjän kanssa olisi nimittäin Moskovalle herkkua. Mutta mikään ei ole Lähi-idässä yksinkertaista, eikä varsinkaan Syyriassa.
ULKOMINISTERI Lavrov kertoi tällä viikolla, että Astanaan pitäisi saada lisäksi mukaan sellaiset Syyrian aseryhmät, joilla on todellisia maa-alueita hallussaan – pelkkien poliittisten puhuvien päiden kanssa ei haluta keskustella. Vain terroristijärjestöt Isis ja al-Nusran rintama on torjuttu suoralta kädeltä.
Aivan näin hienosti ei taida mennä. Esimerkiksi Pohjois-Syyrian kurdialueita edustava Rojavan autonominen konfederaatio näyttää jääneen kutsulistalta pois, koska Turkki pitää konfederaatiota terroristikoplana. Näin siitä huolimatta, että Rojavalla on virallinen edustusto Moskovassa.
YK:n edustajien lisäksi paikalle on pyydetty myös Yhdysvaltain uuden presidentinhallinnon edustajia. Nämä näyttävät kuitenkin vielä ”muodostavan kokonaiskuvaa” kotona Washingtonissa.
Venäjä on joka tapauksessa onnistunut jo jossain määrin palaamaan Lähi-idän pelikentälle, mistä Moskovan ahkeruuden lisäksi on kiittäminen Yhdysvaltain passiivisuutta.
CIA:n suosikista Moskovan kultapojaksi
VUONNA 1943 Bengasin eteläpuolella Ajadabijassa syntynyt Khalifa Haftar kuului sotilasryhmään, joka kaappasi vallan yhdessä Muammar Gaddafin kanssa 1969. Hän johti libyalaisosastoa Israelia vastaan käydyssä Jom Kippur -sodassa 1973.
Käännekohta tuli 1986–1987 kun eversti Haftar johti Libyan joukkoja Tšadin-vastaisessa sodassa. Eversti ja pataljoonan verran sotilaita jäi tšadilaisten vangiksi epäselvissä oloissa, ja Gaddafi katkaisi välinsä Haftariin.
Tšadilaisten mukaan Haftarin joukot olivat käyttäneet laittomia taistelukaasuja, mutta saaneet myrkyt Saharan oikukkaan tuulen vuoksi omalle naamalleen.
Teksti jatkuu kuvan jälkeen.
Khalifa Haftar tapasi marraskuussa Moskovassa Venäjän ulkoministerin Sergei Lavrovin.(KUVA: MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS)
LOPULTA Yhdysvaltain tiedustelupalvelu CIA pelasti Haftarin miehineen Zaireen. Puolet joukosta palasi kotiin, mutta Haftar ryhtyi johtamaan Gaddafin-vastaista sissitoimintaa. Zaire potkaisi ikävät vieraansa Keniaan, josta CIA järjesti heidät 1990 pakolaisstatuksella Yhdysvaltoihin.
Haftar asettui asumaan virginialaiseen lähiöön, ja käväisi 1996 yrittämässä epäonnistunutta vallankaappausta Libyassa. Varsinaisesti hän palasi Libyaan vasta 21 Amerikan-vuoden jälkeen 2011 osallistuakseen Gaddafin-vastaiseen kansannousuun.
Bengasin seudun ja sen infrastruktuurin hallitseminen Gaddafin kukistumisen jälkeen merkitsi myös Libyan öljykenttien hallintaa. Sirten satamakaupungin islamistien kukistuttua Haftarille avautui myös tie öljyn vientiin.
Moskovassa tämä ilmeisesti osattiin ennakoida jo viime kesänä, jolloin yhteyksiä Haftariin ryhdyttiin luomaan.
John Hilly
Ylipäällikkö
Seuraavassa artikkeissa sivutaan myös Haftaria, pääosassa kuitenkin Obaman päätös uusia USA:n voimankäyttövaltuudet Libyassa.
Stealth Bombers Blast Libya
B-2s hit targets south of Sirte
by JOSEPH TREVITHICK
https://warisboring.com/stealth-bombers-blast-libya-14c7566558ee#.eq4863alk
Stealth Bombers Blast Libya
B-2s hit targets south of Sirte
by JOSEPH TREVITHICK
On the night of Jan. 18 to 19, 2017, U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and blasted Islamic State terrorists thousands of miles away in Libya. The strikes hit a pair of camps 25 miles south of the coastal city of Sirte.
The “terrorists targeted included individuals who fled to the remote desert camps from Sirte in order to reorganize, and they posed a security threat to Libya, the region and U.S. national interests,” Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement on Jan. 19, 2017. “This action was authorized by the president as an extension of the successful operation the U.S. military conducted last year to support Libyan forces.”
The Pentagon’s official justifications showed American involvement in Libya remained fluid as tensions continued to run high in the country.
On Aug. 1, 2016, the Pentagon kicked off air strikes in and around Sirte, aimed at displacing Islamic State’s franchise. The terrorists — also commonly referred to by the acronym ISIL — seized control of the city the previous year.
Over the next five months, U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft, helicopter gunships and drones pounded militants over the course of nearly 500 air strikes. Officials in Washington stressed that those attacks were in support of Libya’s internationally recognized, but fragile Government of National Accord, or GNA.
However, records War Is Boring obtained showed that American commanders had relied on intelligence information from long-standing efforts — notably an operation nicknamed Junction Serpent — predating the GNA itself. On Dec. 19, 2016, the Pentagon’s top headquarters for operations in Africa said the latest mission, dubbed Operation Odyssey Lightning, had come to an end.
Above, at top and below — B-2 bombers head out for strikes in LIbya in January 2017. U.S. Air Force photos
By January 2017, the American forces that had been at the ready in the Mediterranean had finally left the area. The Pentagon had to consider on aircraft stationed further away for any subsequent attacks in Libya.
“The B-2 Spirit was chosen based on the best military capacity to strike the necessary targets,” Robyn Mack, a spokesperson for U.S. Africa Command told War Is Boring in an Email. “U.S. Strategic Command forces provide an always ready global strike capability.”
In June 2016, an old Air Force B-52 had run through the procedures for potential missions over Africa. The distinctive B-2s can carry up to 40,000 pounds of bombs and the planes can hit targets around the world thanks to mid-air refueling.
But more importantly, the Pentagon simply resurrected the old mission for the new strikes.
“This is a modification of Operation of Odyssey Lightning,” Mack explained. “The operation was reinstated to support the request of the GNA.”
Mack added that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford had recommended bringing back the mission based on Pres. Barack Obama’s previous authorization to support Libyan authorities. Overnight, an old, concluded mission became new again — and with little public debate.
“From an international law perspective, the situation is straightforward: these armed attacks are carried out at the invitation of Libya’s Government of National Accord,” Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution wrote at Lawfare in September 2016.
“From a domestic law perspective, the argument seems to hang in the first-instance on the now-familiar claim that the 2001 AUMF extends to ISIL.”
Through his presidency, Obama and his national security team argued that Congress’ post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force against Al Qaeda applied to Islamic State’s various branches because the group was an outgrowth Al Qaeda’s franchise in Iraq.
“The interesting twist the Odyssey Lightning presents, of course, is the extension of that authority to Libya and the manifestation of ISIL present there,” Chesney continued. Of course, the existing law “has always been construed by the government to have no geographic boundaries vis-a-vis Al Qaeda.”
Now that legal precedent has apparently given the Pentagon space to bring back old missions to continue operations in a particular country. How long it will continue in this particular case is unclear.
“As a matter of operational security, we never speculate on the timing of future military operations,” Mack said. “The United States remains prepared to further support Libyan efforts to counter terrorist threats … in Libya.”
On top of that, exactly who the Pentagon would be supporting with its air strikes in the near future was open to question. By 2017, the U.N.-backed authorities were still not fully in control of the country.
On Jan. 11, 2017, Libyan general Khalifa Haftar — whose Tobruk regime is the GNA’s main rival — toured Russia’s aircraft carrier Kuznetsov in the Mediterranean and spoke with Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu via satellite.
Then on Jan. 12, 2017, Khalifa Ghwell — who describes himself as the country’s legitimate prime minister — and his supporters attempted to take over various ministries in the capital Tripoli. The GNA said that apparent coup failed.
https://warisboring.com/stealth-bombers-blast-libya-14c7566558ee#.eq4863alk
John Hilly
Ylipäällikkö
Ash Carterin lausunto.
Videoita pommituksista linkissä http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...islamic-states-external-plotters-in-libya.php
Pentagon: Bombs struck Islamic State’s ‘external plotters’ in Libya
By Thomas Joscelyn | January 21st, 2017 | [email protected] | @thomasjoscelyn
During his last press briefing as Secretary of Defense on Jan. 19, Ash Carter discussed the recent airstrikes targeting two Islamic State camps in Libya. One Defense Department video, seen above, shows surveillance of fighters at one of the “potential” training camps.
Carter said the group’s “external plotters” were among these fighters, claiming that they were connected to operations in Europe.
“Initial estimates indicate that the air strikes killed more than 80 ISIL [Islamic State] fighters, many of whom had converged there after fleeing from local partner forces who had cleared Sirte last month with our help,” Carter said. The jihadists were ejected from Sirte, formerly their North African stronghold, in December after months of fighting.
“Importantly,” Carter continued, “these strikes were directed against some of ISIL’s external plotters, who were actively planning operations against our allies in Europe.”
Carter was asked if the jihadis killed southwest of Sirte posed “imminent threats” to the West.
“Well, they certainly are people who … were actively plotting operations in Europe,” he responded. “And [they] may also have been connected with some attacks that have already occurred in Europe.”
The Defense Department has not identified the specific Islamic State operatives who were killed, or provided details concerning their ties to plots in Europe. But this isn’t the first time the Pentagon has connected jihadists in Libya to the Islamic State’s external operations arm.
In Feb. 2016, the US military bombed a training camp near Sabratha. The Defense Department said Noureddine Chouchane, a Tunisian Islamic State facilitator also known as “Sabir,” was “associated with the training camp.” Chouchane was tied to the deadly Mar. 18, 2015 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis and may have also played a part in the July 2015 shooting spree at a beach in Sousse, Tunisia. The Pentagon suggested that Chouchane could “potentially” be involved in “planning external attacks on” American “interests in the region,” in addition to recruiting new members for Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s global operation and “establishing bases in Libya.” [See FDD’s Long War Journal report, US airstrike targets Islamic State operative, training camp in Libya.]
The Pentagon released a series of videos from the airstrikes southwest of Sirte. In addition to the video included above, a second can be seen below. The short clips were first posted on the Defense Video Imagery Distribution System’s website.
Videoita pommituksista linkissä http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...islamic-states-external-plotters-in-libya.php
Pentagon: Bombs struck Islamic State’s ‘external plotters’ in Libya
By Thomas Joscelyn | January 21st, 2017 | [email protected] | @thomasjoscelyn
During his last press briefing as Secretary of Defense on Jan. 19, Ash Carter discussed the recent airstrikes targeting two Islamic State camps in Libya. One Defense Department video, seen above, shows surveillance of fighters at one of the “potential” training camps.
Carter said the group’s “external plotters” were among these fighters, claiming that they were connected to operations in Europe.
“Initial estimates indicate that the air strikes killed more than 80 ISIL [Islamic State] fighters, many of whom had converged there after fleeing from local partner forces who had cleared Sirte last month with our help,” Carter said. The jihadists were ejected from Sirte, formerly their North African stronghold, in December after months of fighting.
“Importantly,” Carter continued, “these strikes were directed against some of ISIL’s external plotters, who were actively planning operations against our allies in Europe.”
Carter was asked if the jihadis killed southwest of Sirte posed “imminent threats” to the West.
“Well, they certainly are people who … were actively plotting operations in Europe,” he responded. “And [they] may also have been connected with some attacks that have already occurred in Europe.”
The Defense Department has not identified the specific Islamic State operatives who were killed, or provided details concerning their ties to plots in Europe. But this isn’t the first time the Pentagon has connected jihadists in Libya to the Islamic State’s external operations arm.
In Feb. 2016, the US military bombed a training camp near Sabratha. The Defense Department said Noureddine Chouchane, a Tunisian Islamic State facilitator also known as “Sabir,” was “associated with the training camp.” Chouchane was tied to the deadly Mar. 18, 2015 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis and may have also played a part in the July 2015 shooting spree at a beach in Sousse, Tunisia. The Pentagon suggested that Chouchane could “potentially” be involved in “planning external attacks on” American “interests in the region,” in addition to recruiting new members for Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s global operation and “establishing bases in Libya.” [See FDD’s Long War Journal report, US airstrike targets Islamic State operative, training camp in Libya.]
The Pentagon released a series of videos from the airstrikes southwest of Sirte. In addition to the video included above, a second can be seen below. The short clips were first posted on the Defense Video Imagery Distribution System’s website.
John Hilly
Ylipäällikkö
Vielä Verkkouutisissa juttua Libyan iskusta. 108 täsmäpommia ammuttu.
Superpommittajat lensivät Atlantin takaa yli 30 tuntia 15 ilmatankkaajan avulla ja tuhosivat ISIS-leirit
Juha-Pekka Tikka
eilen klo 23:56 (päivitetty eilen klo 23:59)
Libyan Sirten ilmaiskuista tulee julki hämmästyttäviä tietoja.
B-2 Spirit -häivepommittajat lensivät kohteeseensa Libyaan kerralla USA:n Missourista, jonne ne myös saman tien palasivat.
Kolme pommittajaa oli kukin ilmassa yhtäjaksoisesti yli 30 tuntia. Niitä tuki operaatiossa 15 ilmatankkauskonetta. Välimerellä tukemassa olivat USS Donald Cook- ja USS Porter -alukset.
Koneista ammuttiin yöaikaan 108 täsmäpommia. Lisäksi ainakin yksi kauko-ohjattu lennokki ampui Hellfire-ohjuksia kohti pakenevia terroristeja.
Raskaat iskut oli valtuuttanut presidentti Barack Obama. Itse iskuja suoritti kaksi B-2:ta kolmannen toimiessa varakoneena.
http://www.verkkouutiset.fi/ulkomaat/sirte-60604
Superpommittajat lensivät Atlantin takaa yli 30 tuntia 15 ilmatankkaajan avulla ja tuhosivat ISIS-leirit
Juha-Pekka Tikka
eilen klo 23:56 (päivitetty eilen klo 23:59)
Libyan Sirten ilmaiskuista tulee julki hämmästyttäviä tietoja.
B-2 Spirit -pommittajat ovat ainutlaatuinen etu USA:n asevoimille.
(Wikimedia Commons US Air Force Tech Sgt Cecilio Ricardo)
B-2 Spirit -häivepommittajat lensivät kohteeseensa Libyaan kerralla USA:n Missourista, jonne ne myös saman tien palasivat.
Kolme pommittajaa oli kukin ilmassa yhtäjaksoisesti yli 30 tuntia. Niitä tuki operaatiossa 15 ilmatankkauskonetta. Välimerellä tukemassa olivat USS Donald Cook- ja USS Porter -alukset.
Koneista ammuttiin yöaikaan 108 täsmäpommia. Lisäksi ainakin yksi kauko-ohjattu lennokki ampui Hellfire-ohjuksia kohti pakenevia terroristeja.
Raskaat iskut oli valtuuttanut presidentti Barack Obama. Itse iskuja suoritti kaksi B-2:ta kolmannen toimiessa varakoneena.
http://www.verkkouutiset.fi/ulkomaat/sirte-60604
Falangi
Kenraali
No jos joku pommikone ansaitsee tuon "superpommittaja" tittelin, niin minun mielestäni juuri tuo B-2 Spirit. Pelkästään sen takiakin, kun se on niin päheen näköinen.Superpommittaja ampuu pommeja
Joo, mutta superiudestaan huolimatta sekin voi vaan pudottaa pommeja.No jos joku pommikone ansaitsee tuon "superpommittaja" tittelin, niin minun mielestäni juuri tuo B-2 Spirit. Pelkästään sen takiakin, kun se on niin päheen näköinen.
Falangi
Kenraali
Joku lennokkiohjaaja tainnut hieman tunaroida.
Valtava sotalennokki kävi 21 tunnin vakoilulennolla - ei pysynytkään salassa
http://www.verkkouutiset.fi/ulkomaat/Valtava lennokki Libya-61229
Valtava sotalennokki kävi 21 tunnin vakoilulennolla - ei pysynytkään salassa
http://www.verkkouutiset.fi/ulkomaat/Valtava lennokki Libya-61229
Yhdysvaltalainen tiedustelulennokki kytki transponderinsa päälle lentonsa ajaksi.
Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimien miehittämätön lennokki teki 21-tuntisen lennon Luoteis-Libyassa 4. helmikuuta, kertoo The Aviationist.
RQ-4 Global Hawk -lennokin lähtöä Italiassa sijaitsevasta lentotukikohdasta pystyi seuraamaan Flightradar24-palvelun kautta. Lennokki palasi tukikohtaan lähes vuorokauden mittaisen tehtävän päätyttyä.
The Aviationistin mukaan toistaiseksi ei tiedetä, miksi strategisessa käytössä olevan lennokin transponderi eli toisiotutkavastaaja oli päällä. Siten konetta voitiin seurata internetissä.
RQ-4 Global Hawk -lennokit ovat tehneet lentoja eri puolilla maailmaa tukien yhdysvaltalaisjoukkoja.
Lennokit tekevät erilaisia lentoja, joiden tarkoituksena on kerätä tiedustelutietoa ja suorittaa seurantaa. Lennokit myös viestivät joukkojen välillä ja paikantavat maaleja ilmaiskuja varten.
Lennokit pyrkivät yleensä pitämään matalaa profiilia ja pitävät transponderinsa pois päältä. Siksi koneiden seuraaminen ei yleensä ole mahdollista erilaisten lentoja seuraavien verkkosivustojen kautta.
RQ-4 Global Hawk on oikean lentokoneen kokoinen. Sen siipiväli on 39,9 metriä ja pituus on 14,5 metriä.
VanhaPate
Respected Leader
Reuters: Venäjällä erikoisjoukkoja Egyptissä, valmiina toimimaan Libyassa
Uutistoimisto arvelee Venäjän tukevan Libyan itäosaa hallitsevaa sotilasjohtajaa, joka sotii YK:n hyväksymää hallitusta vastaan.
Uutistoimisto arvelee Venäjän tukevan Libyan itäosaa hallitsevaa sotilasjohtajaa, joka sotii YK:n hyväksymää hallitusta vastaan.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9509027
Venäläisiä erikoisjoukkoja Voiton päivän paraatissa Hmeimymin tukikohdassa Syyriassa toukokuussa 2016.EPA
Venäjä on sijoittanut erikoisjoukkojaan Egyptiin, Libyan rajan lähellä sijaitsevaan Sidi Barranin lentotukikohtaan, kertoo uutistoimisto Reuters.
Uutistoimisto on saanut tietonsa useista diplomaatti- ja sotilaslähteistä Yhdysvalloista ja Egyptistä. Sen sijaan virallista vahvistusta tiedolle ei ole. Egypti kiistää jyrkästi ulkomaisten joukkojen olemassaolon alueellaan.
Nimettöminä esiintyvät egyptiläiset ja yhdysvaltalaiset sotilaslähteet kertovat, että Sidi Barranissa olisi ainakin 22 venäläistä sotilasta sekä miehittämättömiä sotilaslennokkeja.
Reuters arvelee, että sotilaiden avulla Venäjä pyrkii tukemaan Libyan itäosaa hallitsevaa sotilasjohtaja Khalifa Haftaria.
Haftari ja joukko muita Itä-Libyan viranomaisia tapasi eilen maanantaina Moskovassa Venäjän varaulkoministeri Mihail Bogdanovin. Venäjän hallintoa lähellä oleva uutistoimisto Sputnik kertoi Bogdanovin vakuuttaneen maansa tukevan Libyan sisäisen sekasorron ratkaisemista poliittisin keinoin.
Gaddafin jälkeen sekasorto
Libya on ollut sisällissodassa ja alueellisesti jakautunut sen jälkeen, kun maan johtaja Muammar Gaddafi syöstiin vallasta ja surmattiin vuonna 2011.
Egypti on huolissaan rajanaapurinsa sekasorrosta. Egypti oli "arabikevääseen" 2011 saakka läheisessä yhteistyössä Yhdysvaltain kanssa. Sen jälkeen maa on kuitenkin lähentynyt Venäjää. Maat järjestivät ensimmäiset yhteiset sotaharjoitukset viime lokakuussa.
Egypti pyrkii myös saamaan venäläiset matkailijat takaisin. Venäläisten matkailu Egyptiin lopetettiin, kun ilmeisesti Isis-terroristijärjestö pudotti venäläisen matkustajakoneen lokakuussa 2015.
Yhdysvalloilla ja eräillä muilla länsivalloilla on erikoisjoukkojaan Libyassa tukemassa YK:n hyväksymää hallitusta, jota vastaan Haftari sotii. Yhdysvallat on myös tehnyt lennokki-iskuja Libyaan.
Lähde: Reuters