Libya

Amerikkalaiskenraalilta suorat sanat: ISIS-strategiassa ei mitään järkeä
ARNO RYDMAN
1 tunti ja 17 minuuttia sitten (päivitetty 1 tunti ja 15 minuuttia sitten)
Amerikkalaiskenraali haluaa lisää joukkoja Libyaan Isisin vastaiseen taisteluun.

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    Libyalaisjoukot etenevät Sirtessä, jonka osia Isis-jihadistit pitävät hallussaan.

    (Lehtikuva/AFP)
Yhdysvaltalaisen kenraaliluutnantti Thomas Waldhauserin mukaan Libyassa käytössä olevassa Isisin vastaisessa strategiassa, jonka mukaan jihadisteja ei pommiteta, ei ole mitään järkeä.

Waldhauserin mukaan Libyaan tarvitaan myös enemmän joukkoja Isisin vastaiseen taisteluun, kertoo CNN.

Waldhauser on Presidentti Barack Obaman ehdokas Yhdysvaltain Afrikan joukkojen komentajaksi. Waldhauser puhui tiistaina senaatin kuulemistilaisuudessa.

Valiokunnan puheenjohtaja, republikaanien senaattori John McCain kysyi, onko Yhdysvalloilla Libya-strategiaa. Waldhauser vastasi, että hän ei ole tietoinen tällaisesta strategiasta.

– En ole tällä hetkellä tietoinen mistään kokonaisvaltaisesta strategiasta, Waldhauser sanoi.

Republikaanisenaattori Lindsey Graham kysyi, olisiko se viisasta, että Waldhauserilla olisi valtuudet määrätä ilmaiskuja Isisiä vastaan kysymättä Valkoiselta talolta lupaa. Tällä hetkellä ilmaiskuja ei saa tehdä ilman lupaa.

– Se olisi viisasta. Se edesauttaisi sitä, mitä me yritämme tehdä Libyassa, Waldhauser vastasi.

Waldhauser oli Grahamin kanssa samaa mieltä siitä, että Isis muodostaa välittömän uhkan Yhdysvalloille. Waldhauser huomautti, että Yhdysvallat ei tee ilmaiskuja Isisin Libyassa olevia jihadisteja vastaan.

Graham kysyi, onko siinä mitään järkeä.

– Ei ole, Waldhauser vastasi.

Waldhauser totesi lisäksi, että Libyaan tarvittaisiin lisää joukkoja, koska maassa ei ole paljon amerikkalaissotilaita.

Senaattori Graham kiitti kuulemistilaisuuden lopuksi Waldhauseria hänen suorista vastauksistaan ja vilpittömyydestään.

– Tämä on enemmän tai vähemmän suorin lausunto, jonka olen kuullut annettavan tälle valiokunnalle.
 
Heavy Fighting Against Islamic Militants in Benghazi, Sirte

In-Depth Coverage

by Edward Yeranian June 22, 2016

Forces loyal to Libya's new "national unity" government in Tripoli have reportedly made gains inside the Islamic State-held coastal city of Sirte, while forces loyal to the rival government in Tobruk say they have pushed back al-Qaida militants in Benghazi.

pro-government militiamen had pushed IS fighters out of the Zafran and Gharbiyat districts and cornered them in small pockets of the 700 district and the Ouagadougou conference center.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/l...622-voa01.htm?_m=3n.002a.1749.qa0ao069zz.1lwh
 
Libyan forces make gains against ISIL in Sirte


Soldiers capture two barracks, a bridge and an intersection in ISIL's stronghold city, military says.

Naval forces loyal to Libya's internationally backed government say they have taken control of the coast of Sirte as part of an offensive to recapture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.

"Our forces control the entire coast of Sirte," Rida Issa, the naval commander for central Libya, told AFP news agency on Thursday. "They (ISIL fighters) will not be able to flee by sea."

The news comes after the internationally backed government said its forces had managed to advance deep into Sirte, capturing two military barracks from ISIL fighters.

"Our forces are in full control of Tagreft barracks and military engineers are inspecting the zone to clear anti-personnel mines," the forces of the Government of National Unity (GNA) said on Facebook, adding that the fighting 20km outside Sirte left six dead and 15 wounded.


A second barracks, named Al-Jalet, was also seized, as well as a bridge and an intersection that leads to the western entrance to the city of Sirte, the statement said, in operations backed by the Libyan air force.

The GNA forces said one of the air raids destroyed a booby-trapped truck before it reached their lines.

Anti-personnel mines and booby-trapped vehicles left behind by retreating ISIL fighters were failing to slow the GNA forces, the statement said.

The internationally backed government's forces and those of a rival authority in the east are currently engaged in a race to be the first to drive ISIL out of Sirte, the home town on the Mediterranean of Libya's overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The international community believes this could jeopardise efforts to defeat ISIL, whose threat has grown since it established a foothold in Libya at the end of 2014.

Last week, fighters that have also declared their loyalty to the government captured the towns of Nofaliyeh and Ben Jawad in the east of Sirte.

However, military units backing a rival government based in the eastern city of Tobruk have also been advancing on Sirte from the south.

Libya has suffered from chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Gaddafi, with numerous revolutionary militias formed along regional and ideological lines vying for power.

Source: Agencies
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/libyan-forces-gains-isil-sirte-160609084405138.html
 
Fri Jul 15, 2016 | 10:04 PM EDT

Libyan forces battling Islamic State in Sirte suffer losses in push to advance

(Reuters) - Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government suffered losses from snipers and mines on Friday as they battled Islamic State to win control of a strategic conference center in the coastal city of Sirte.

Islamic State is clinging on in the center of Sirte in the face of a two-month campaign by brigades mainly composed of fighters from the western city of Misrata. Their progress has been slowed by resistance from militants holed up in a 5 km area in central Sirte.

Losing Sirte would represent a major setback for Islamic State, which established its most important base outside Syria and Iraq in the Libyan city.

Sirte had been under the militant group's control since last year, and it had extended its presence along about 250 km (155 miles) of coastline.

At least 20 members of the government-backed forces were killed and 120 wounded in fighting in Sirte on Friday, said Aziz Issa, a spokesman for the central hospital in Misrata, one of the higher tolls in recent weeks of fighting.

A spokesman for the forces, Ahmed Hadia, said the latest clashes around the Ouagadougou conference hall complex and in the neighborhood of Ghiza Asskariya had been continuing for two days.

"Our forces entered the complex and are fighting (but) they still cannot take the complex," he said.

Militants had tried unsuccessfully to counter attack with three car bombs, Hadia said. "The deaths among our forces on Friday were a result of targeting by snipers and of mines," he said.

The Ouagadougou hall became a key site for Islamic State as it imposed its ultra-hardline rule over Sirte, using the center for meetings and religious instruction.

(Reporting by Ahmed Elumami; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Toni Reinhold)
 
Three French soldiers killed in Libya

Latest update : 20/07/2016

Three French soldiers have been killed in Libya, President François Hollande said Wednesday, in the first official confirmation that France has troops in the conflict-ridden North African state.

"At this moment we are carrying out dangerous intelligence operations [in Libya]," Hollande said in a speech. "Three of our soldiers, who were involved in these operations, have been killed in a helicopter accident."

Confirming the deaths, a statement by France's defence ministry lauded "the bravery and devotion of French military personnel who each day are carrying out dangerous missions against terrorists".

Earlier in the day, French government spokesman Stéphane Le Foll had acknowledged that special forces were operating in Libya, amid media reports of an incident involving French personnel in the country’s east.

"Special forces are there, of course, to help and to make sure France is present everywhere in the struggle against terrorists," Le Foll told reporters.

The statements by French officials come a day after Libyan sources told The Associated Press that a helicopter carrying French special forces had been shot down on Sunday outside the eastern city of Benghazi.

‘Secret war’

While officials in Paris had so far remained tight-lipped about French involvement in Libya, the presence of French personnel tracking Islamist militants on the ground was an open secret, said FRANCE 24’s expert on jihadist networks Wassim Nasr.

"We’ve known since May that there are French forces in Benghazi to help fight the IS group, as we know there are British forces in Misrata,” he said.


Earlier this year, French newspaper Le Monde published a report claiming French special forces and intelligence commandos were engaged in covert operations against members of the IS group, in conjunction with US and British forces.
The ministry has previously confirmed that French aircraft recently conducted reconnaissance flights over Libya, where France took a leading role in a 2011 NATO air campaign that helped rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi's autocratic rule.

It has also confirmed that France has set up an advance military base in northern Niger on the border with Libya.

http://m.france24.com/en/20160720-three-french-soldiers-killed-libya-defence-ministry-special-forces
 
Kuvia alla.

A helicopter carrying three French soldiers crashed near Benghazi, Libya earlier this week. The French government subsequently confirmed that all three soldiers, along with their Libyan counterparts, were killed. The circumstances surrounding the crash remain murky, but jihadists and Islamists inside Libya have been rattling their sabres ever since the presence of French special forces was confirmed.


A new front calling itself the Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) quickly claimed credit for downing the helicopter. On Jul. 17, the BDB’s propaganda arm posted an infographic (seen above) indicating that the chopper was downed with a shoulder-fired missile. The infographic was published on the BDB’s official website and Twitter feed.

The BDB subsequently produced four photos (seen below) purportedly showing the wreckage of the helo, which it identified as a Russian-made Mi-35. (The Long War Journal cannot independently verify the type of helicopter shown.)

Two anonymous officials quickly confirmed to the Associated Press that the helicopter had been shot down. The AP described the officials as “an air force officer who knew of the helicopters’ passengers” and “an official working for Western missions in Libya.”

The French government initially declined to comment on the incident, given the clandestine nature of France’s role in Libya. The Western nation has special forces embedded alongside fighters loyal to General Khalifa Haftar, who has been waging a fierce campaign against jihadists in Benghazi and elsewhere. However, the French have not advertised the relationship, which generated controversy as soon as it was revealed.

During a speech on July 20, French President Francois Hollande blamed the deaths on an “accident.”

“At this moment we are carrying out dangerous intelligence operations [in Libya],” Hollande said, according to Reuters. “Three of our soldiers, who were involved in these operations, have been killed in a helicopter accident.”

Ahmed Masmari, a spokesman for Haftar, echoed Hollande’s statement. Masmari said it was “probably a technical problem” that caused the crash. He also claimed that the French were “gathering intelligence on fighters from Boko Haram” who had relocated to the area. Boko Haram swore allegiance to the Islamic State last year and was rebranded as the Islamic State’s “province” in West Africa.

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The BDB has rejected Hollande’s claim. And within hours of his speech, the group threatened France. Libya will turn into a “graveyard for you as it was for your three soldiers” and just as it “was for Italy before,” a statement from the BDB on July 20 read. One of the BDB’s threats can be seen on the right.

According to two unnamed Libyan officials and a militia member cited by the Associated Press, a French warplane retaliated by bombing an area outside of Benghazi on Jul. 20.

Then, earlier today, the BDB tweeted a photo allegedly showing one of the dead French soldiers, reiterating its claim to have shot down the helicopter carrying them.
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The Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) posted these photos allegedly depicting the downed helicopter that carried three French soldiers:

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Ranskalaiset tuskin menevät venälaiseen kopteriin vaan lentävät mm tiikereillä. Vaikea uskoa. Terroristit ilmeisesti esittelivät väärää kopteria uutiseen nähden tai ranskalaiset saivat surmansa muussa yhteydessä kuin ko kopterin alasampumisessa.
 
Tiger on rynnäkkökopteri eikä kuljeta muuta kuin miehistön ja aseistusta. Voinut olla "hallituksen" Mi-24.
 
USA osallistuu ilmahyökkäyksin Sirten takainvaltaukseen

US airstrikes target Islamic State stronghold in Libya

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Fighters from the Al Bunyan Al Marsoos (“Solid Structure”) operations room in Sirte, Libya.

The US military acknowledged today that it has targeted the Islamic State’s Libyan arm in the city of Sirte. The air strikes are part of an effort to deal a blow to the jihadist group in its largest base of operations inside Libya.

“Today, at the request of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), the United States military conducted precision air strikes against ISIL [Islamic State] targets in Sirte, Libya, to support GNA-affiliated forces seeking to defeat ISIL in its primary stronghold in Libya,” the Pentagon stated in a press release.

“These strikes were authorized by the president following a recommendation from Secretary [of Defense] Carter and Chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] Dunford,” the statement continued. “They are consistent with our approach to combating ISIL by working with capable and motivated local forces. GNA-aligned forces have had success in recapturing territory from ISIL thus far around Sirte, and additional US strikes will continue to target ISIL in Sirte in order to enable the GNA to make a decisive, strategic advance.”

The airstrikes were confirmed by Libya’s prime minister and Al Bunyan Al Marsoos (“Solid Structure”), an operations room that is allied with the UN-backed government and recruits fighters from Islamist militias in Misrata and elsewhere. According to Al Bunyan Al Marsoos, an Islamic State “tank” was targeted and destroyed by US aircraft.

Al Bunyan Al Marsoos launched an offensive to retake Sirte in late May and claimed it would “be liberated within days.” While the Islamic State lost some ground during the initial fighting, the situation in Sirte has largely stalemated. American airpower was likely called in because the offensive has stalled and the US can provide superior targeting against the jihadists, who remain entrenched in the interior of the city. [See LWJ report, Libyan forces seize key points from the Islamic State around Sirte.]

As Al Bunyan Al Marsoos advanced on the city in May, the Islamic State’s Libyan “province” was forced to deploy its “martyrs.” The jihadists launched zero suicide attacks in and around Sirte during the first four months of the year, according to data published by Amaq News Agency, which is part of the the Islamic State’s media machine. But then, in May, the organization dispatched nine suicide bombers in Sirte and on the outskirts of the city. This was a clear indication that the Islamc State’s grip on the area was slipping, as the organization previously did not need to use its “martyrs” to beat back its opponents.

The loss of Sirte would be a major blow to the Islamic State and its efforts to control territory outside of Iraq and Syria. The group seized Sirte in June 2015 and has repeatedly showcased the city as one of its main bases outside of its holdings in Iraq and Syria.

Sirte is so important to the Islamic State that the group’s spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, mentioned it alongside Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq in a speech in May. Raqqa and Mosul are the de facto capitals of the self-declared caliphate and, as such, the most important cities under the jihadists’ control.

In his speech, titled “That They Live By Proof,” Adnani implicitly conceded that the Islamic State could lose one or all three of these cities. Adnani argued that neither the loss of individual leaders, nor the “loss of a city or the loss of land,” would mean that the Islamic State has been defeated as long as the jihadists retained the will to fight.

The newly announced operations in Sirte are the first publicly acknowledged airstrikes by the US in Libya since Feb. 2016, when American warplanes attacked an Islamic State training camp near Sabratha. The US targeted Noureddine Chouchane, who was described by the Pentagon as a “senior facilitator” for the so-called caliphate and was “associated with the training camp.” Chouchane is thought to be involved in two high profile terrorist attacks in Tunisia in 2015 and reportedly played a significant role in the Islamic State’s external operations network that plots and executes attacks against the West. [See LWJ report, US airstrike targets Islamic State operative, training camp in Libya.]

On Nov. 13, 2015, the US killed Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, also known as Abu Nabil al Anbari, in an airstrike. Zubaydi, an Iraqi national, “was a longtime al Qaeda operative and the senior ISIL [Islamic State] leader in Libya,” according to a statement by the US military. Some accounts indicated that Zubaydi served as the lead executioner in the February 2015 massacre of Coptic Christians on the Libyan coast.

The airstrikes in Sirte highlight the expanding war against the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for multiple terrorist attacks in the West over the past year.
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U.S. Strikes Accelerate Gains Against ISIL in Libya

By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity




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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2016 — U.S. precision airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets in Sirte, Libya, that began yesterday at the request of the Libyan Government of National Accord have allowed GNA-affiliated forces to accelerate the fight to expel ISIL from the Libyan city, a Pentagon spokesman said today.

Five U.S. precision strikes yesterday took out one of ISIL’s T-72 tanks, two military vehicles, an insurgent fighting position, a second T-72 tank and two construction vehicles, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said, adding that so far today, the United States has made two more airstrikes on ISIL targets there, eliminating an ISIL rocket launcher and a heavy-equipment excavator.

Strike Removed Menacing Problem

Yesterday’s airstrike on the first tank in the southwestern Sirte neighborhood of al-Dular removed what was a menacing problem for GNA forces, Davis said. The ISIL tank was hidden in a group of trees and close to buildings where civilians could have been, he noted, “ISIL had used it repeatedly to beat back GNA forces, against civilians,” he said, “and it represented a challenge and a problem for [GNA fighters] to be able to get into the city.”

Since the airstrike that took out the first tank yesterday, GNA forces have moved into the neighborhood in their mission to drive out ISIL fighters, Davis said.

Coordinated Strikes

The U.S. airstrikes in Sirte are being done “in conjunction and coordination with, and in support of, the GNA,” the U.S.-recognized Libyan government, Davis told reporters. “The objective is to help the GNA retake Sirte,” he added. “Over the past few months, the [GNA-affiliated forces] have worked to defeat ISIL, and they have been spectacularly successful.”

The GNA forces collapsed an area of the ISIL stronghold of Sirte where the enemy controlled much of the coastline along the Gulf of Sidra, stretching from near Tripoli up to Benghazi, he said. And ISIL fighters’ numbers are shrinking in Sirte, he noted.

“We have seen those forces work very effectively to collapse ISIL’s control down to a very small area, which really comprises the city center of Sirte,” Davis said. “As they’ve gotten that far, they needed help getting across the finish line. This is a chance for us to help them.”

(Follow Terri Moon Cronk on Twitter: @MoonCronkDoD)

http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/886019/us-strikes-accelerate-gains-against-isil-in-libya
 
Tästä samasta aiheesta vielä.

US announces nine airstrikes against Islamic State in Sirte, Libya

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United States Africa Command announced today that it has carried out nine airstrikes in Sirte, Libya since Aug. 1. The bombings are part of “Operation Odyssey Lightning,” which is targeting the Islamic State’s positions, weapons and equipment in the city.

Five of the airstrikes took place on the first day of the air campaign, destroying two tanks (a T-72 and a T-55), “two military support vehicles,” “an enemy fighting position,” and “two pieces of heavy engineering equipment.” Four subsequent airstrikes on Aug. 2 and 3 took out a rocket launcher, “one piece of heavy engineering equipment (excavator),” “one pickup truck with mounted recoilless rifle,” and “one pickup truck with mounted recoilless rifle.”

Africa Command has also posted a video of the airstrike that disabled the T-72 tank.

As The Long War Journal noted at the outset of the airstrikes, local fighters loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) had stalled in their campaign to clear the so-called “caliphate’s” fighters from Sirte. Al Bunyan Al Marsoos (“Solid Structure”), a military operations room that recruits fighters from Islamist militias in Misrata and elsewhere, made progress during the first weeks of its offensive in late May and early June. But the Islamic State is hunkered down inside the city and this prompted the GNA and Al Bunyan Al Marsoos to call in air support from the Americans.

US Africa Command says that the bombings and other actions “taken previously” are intended to “deny Daesh [Islamic State] a safe haven in Libya from which it could attack the United States and our allies.”

In February, the US targeted a Tunisian named Noureddine Chouchane. The Pentagon described Chouchane as a “senior facilitator” for the Islamic State in Libya. He had been implicated in high-profile terrorist attacks in neighboring Tunisia. The Defense Department also suggested that Chouchane could “potentially” be involved in “planning external attacks on” American “interests in the region.”
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ISIS:tä uhkaa jättitappio, jihadisteja ollaan ajamassa mereen
ARNO RYDMAN
18 minuuttia sitten
Hallituksen joukot ja Isis ovat taistelleet Sirten hallinnasta kesäkuusta lähtien.

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    Sirte sijaitsee Pohjois-Libyassa Välimeren rannalla.

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Libyan YK:n tukeman hallituksen joukot ilmoittivat keskiviikkona vallanneensa Isisin viimeisen tukikohdan Libyassa, Sirten rannikkokaupungissa, kertoo The New York Times.

Yhdysvallat tukevat YK:n neuvotteleman Libyan kansallisen yhtenäisyyden hallituksen joukkoja ilmavoimillaan.

Mikäli valtaukselle saadaan vahvistus, se merkitsisi vakavaa takaiskua Isisin suunnitelmille levittäytyä Pohjois-Afrikkaan. Jihadistit ovat joutuneet perääntymään aikaisemmin tänä vuonna tärkeiltä alueilta Irakissa ja Syyriassa.

Libyalaismedian mukaan joukot etsivät jäljelle jääneitä Isis-jihadisteja, jotka piileskelevät kaupungissa. Joukot ilmoittivat vallanneensa vahvasti linnoitetun Ouagadougoun konferenssikeskuksen, jota Isis on käyttänyt päämajanaan.

Al-Ahrar televisioasema latasi Twitter-tililleen kuvia, joissa väitetysti hallituksen joukkojen taistelijat poseeraavat lippunsa kanssa.

Yhtenäisyyshallitusta tukevat joukot aloittivat hyökkäyksen Sirteen kesäkuussa. Sirteä on pidetty Isisin tärkeimpänä tukikohtana Syyrian ja Irakin ulkopuolella.

Isis valtasi rannikolla sijaitsevan Sirten runsas vuosi sitten. Libya on ollut sekasortoisessa tilassa sen jälkeen, kun Muammar Gaddafi syrjäytettiin vallasta vuonna 2011.

Libyassa on toiminut vuodesta 2014 asti kaksi kilpailevaa hallitusta ja parlamenttia. Molempien hallitusten tukena on löyhästi liittoutuneita asejoukkoja.
http://www.verkkouutiset.fi/ulkomaat/Libya ISIS Sirte-53754
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https://www.libyaherald.com/2016/09...lightning-attack-fighting-still-in-zuweitina/

LNA seizes Sidra and Ras Lanuf in lightning attack; fighting still in Zuweitina

By Aymen Amzein.


Benghazi, 11 September 2016:

In a lighting strike this morning, the Libyan National Army (LNA) has taken control of the neighbouring Sidra and Ras Lanuf oil terminal towns from the central region Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) headed by Ibrahim Jedhran. LNA forces also took the south and east gates at Ajdabiya. In Zuweitina, however, where the PFG has been in control of the oil terminal, there was still fighting between the two sides, Colonel Ahmed Al-Mismari, the LNA spokesman, said this morning.

“We got to Sidra and Ras Lanuf without almost any resistance”, he told the Libya Herald, although one member of the PFG had been killed and an empty oil tank had been set on fire by them. There had been no LNA casualties. They fled, leaving all their weapons, he added. These included three tanks, two armoured vehicles as well as other vehicles, mortars and Kalashnikovs.


However, while PFG spokesman Ali Al-Hassi admitted that there had been clashes this morning, he has denied that the LNA had taken Sidra and Ras Lanuf.


The appropriately named Operation Al-Barq Al-Khatif (“Sudden Lightning”) was launched at 5 am this morning, Mismari explained, and had been planned well in advance. “We worked on it. It was not a sudden move,” he said. The operation had consisted of four separate advances, he explained, all of them under the direct control of General Khalifa Hafter. He would not give numbers involved but said that the attacking forces had been “very large”.

He added that air strikes west of Ajdabiya were still taking place, and that the road between Ajdabiya and Benghazi would remain closed until further notice.

The head of Magharba tribe in Ajdabiya, Salah Al-Atewish, has meanwhile called on all members to support the LNA.

Ras Lanuf and Sidra include not only the terminals but also a 220,000-b/d refinery, a petrochemical complex, a military and a civil airport and oil company buildings but are also home to some 25,000 people.

In a separate development, Mismari also divulged that there has been further fighting in Benghazi’s Ganfuda district today, including a number of air strikes.
 
Espanjan turvallisuuslähteiden lukuisista lähteistä saamien tietojen mukaan terroristijärjestö Isis yrittää vallata Andalusian organisoimalla iskuja Libyasta ja muista Maghrebin alueen maista...

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Isisin arvellaan pyrkivän iskemään Libyasta käsin myös muualle Eurooppaan.
http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2016091922340527_ul.shtml
http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2016091922340527_ul.shtml

Jos Isis saa haltuunsa Marokon ja Andalusian, niin siinä sitä onkin ihmettelemistä...muuallakin kun Espanjassa ja Portugalissa :D
 
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