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Libya clashes 'kill 60' at Brak El-Shati airbase
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39972847
Venäläisten liittolaisia mukiloitiin.
Ehkä länsi on vihdoin tajunnut, että demokratian juurruttaminen tuonne on vähän vaikeampi prosessi kuin pelkkä diktaattorin syökseminen vallasta?Haftar haiskahtaa wannabe-suurmieheltä eli jos miehen annetaan huseerata rauhassa niin saadaan uusi Gaddafi. Se on sitten ihan up yours onko se hyvä vai huono asia. Toisaalta jos yritetään saada aikaiseksi jotain yhteisrintamaa niin tuntuisi hölmöltä olla ottamatta hänen kööriään mukaan.
Ehkä länsi on vihdoin tajunnut, että demokratian juurruttaminen tuonne on vähän vaikeampi prosessi kuin pelkkä diktaattorin syökseminen vallasta?
Uusi diktaattori, joka olisi länsimielinen, olisi paljon riitojen repimää islamistisille vaikutteille ja ryhmille altista heikkoa demokraattista hallitusta parempi vaihtoehto lännelle.
Libyan faction threatens Italian Navy
http://www.janes.com/article/72855/libyan-faction-threatens-italian-navyThe powerful faction in eastern Libya has implied that it will target Italian naval vessels that enter Libyan territorial waters.
"Commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has instructed the chief of staffs of the air force and navy to deal with any instance of maritime territorial intervention except authorised commercial ships," the media office for the General Command of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), also known as the Libyan National Army, stated on 2 August.
Led by Khalifa Haftar – a general who was exiled during the rule of Muammar Ghaddafi – the LAAF is backed by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, controls much of eastern Libya, and has allies in the west of the country.
The announcement was an apparent response to the Italian parliament's approval of a plan for the Italian Navy to deploy ships into Libyan territorial waters in support of the North African country's coast guard, so that it can more effectively prevent migrants moving across the Mediterranean.
Italy and the European Union have been supporting the Tripoli-based coast guard that is loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is opposed by Haftar.
Italian defence minister Roberta Pinotti told the defence and foreign affairs committees that it was necessary to operate in Libyan territorial waters and ports to deliver the support that had been requested by the GNA.
Soon after the vote, Italian news agency ANSA cited the ministry of defence as saying that the Comandante-class patrol vessel Comandante Borsini (P 491) had already entered Libyan territorial waters to conduct the reconnaissance necessary for the plan to proceed.
Se samainen "hiekkakenraali" on näemmä käynyt Moskovassa aseostoksilla. Ainakin toistaiseksi lännen tavoite saada Libya omaan valtapiiriinsä näyttäisi ontuvan...Siellä taas yksi hiekkakenraali kaivaa verta nenästään.
http://www.janes.com/article/72855/libyan-faction-threatens-italian-navy
Mmh.. Se ei muuta lopputulosta, mitä tapahtuu jos tulittaa NATOn sotalaivaa Mutta tuo kaupankäynti kertoo kyllä miten vituillaan asiat on Noh, popcornia riittää yhä.Se samainen "hiekkakenraali" on näemmä käynyt Moskovassa aseostoksilla. Ainakin toistaiseksi lännen tavoite saada Libya omaan valtapiiriinsä näyttäisi ontuvan...
Islamic State fighters overrun checkpoint in Libya, behead captives
By Thomas Joscelyn | August 24th, 2017 | [email protected] | @thomasjoscelyn
Jihadists loyal to the Islamic State’s arm in Libya overran a checkpoint manned by the Libyan National Army (LNA) yesterday. LNA officials confirmed that at least 11 people were beheaded after the raid.
The so-called caliphate’s Amaq News Agency claimed that 21 members of General Khalifa Haftar’s “militia” were “killed and wounded in an attack by Islamic State fighters on a checkpoint” in the Jufra region.
LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari told the press that Amaq’s claim was generally accurate. “The terrorist organization Daesh (Islamic State) attacked al-Fogha checkpoint in Jufra region this morning, killing nine soldiers and two civilians were slaughtered,” Mismari said, according to Reuters. Mismari added that the 11 people were beheaded.
The Jufra region is in the middle of Libya, south of the city of Sirte, which served as the Islamic State’s stronghold in North Africa until late last year. Local Libyan forces, backed by the US and its allies, pushed the jihadists out of Sirte over the course of several months.
The State Department reported in July that the Islamic State’s Libyan branch had “as many as 6,000 fighters in its ranks” as of early 2016, but “more than 1,700 ISIS terrorists were killed during the Sirte counterterrorism operations.”
This left the group with approximately 4,300 fighters, at least some of whom have stayed in Libya. It is not clear how many Islamic State loyalists are still in the country. But State confirmed that “many members of the terrorist organization fled to Libya’s western and southern deserts, abroad, or into neighboring urban centers.” [See FDD’s Long War Journal report, How many fighters does the Islamic State still have in Libya?]
The attack in the Jufra region yesterday confirms that the organization continues to operate well south of its former safe haven along the Mediterranean coast. Since the loss of Sirte, the jihadists have been reorganizing for future operations.
It is certainly possible, if not likely, that the jihadists recorded the beheadings for use in propaganda. In Feb. 2015, the Islamic State released a gruesome video documenting the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians along the coast. The video was used to announce the Islamic State’s growing presence in the country, frighten its local opponents and threaten the West.
U.S. Precision Airstrikes Kill 17 ISIS Militants in Libya
By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2017 — U.S. forces, in coordination with Libya's government of national accord and aligned forces, conducted six precision airstrikes in Libya against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria desert camp Sept. 22, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning said here today.
Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of Libya's unity government, and Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command, render honors before a meeting at the U.S. Africa Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, April 5, 2017. During the visit, Sarraj and his delegation received operational updates and discussed future U.S. cooperation in Libya. Africom photo by Nate Herring
The strikes killed 17 ISIS militants and destroyed three vehicles in a camp about 150 miles southeast of Sirte, Manning told reporters during a briefing that also covered operations in Iraq and Syria.
ISIS used the camp to move fighters in and out of the country, stockpile weapons and equipment and plot and conduct attacks, Manning said. "ISIS and al-Qaida have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks," he added.
No Safe Haven
The terrorists, U.S. Africa Command officials said in a statement, also use such spaces to recruit and facilitate the movement of foreign terrorist fighters and to raise and move funds to support their operations.
"These terrorists have sought safe haven and freedom of movement in Libya to launch external terror attacks in neighboring countries, and their operatives in Libya have also been connected to multiple attacks across Europe," Africom officials said.
Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, the government of national accord and their aligned forces have been stalwart and valued partners against terrorism, Africom officials added. And while Libya has made considerable progress against ISIS, most notably by dislodging ISIS fighters from Sirte last year, the terrorists have tried to take advantage of political instability there to create safe havens in parts of the country, they said.
Leaving this unaddressed, Africom officials said, would allow the violent terrorist organization to inspire attacks against America, its allies and American interests around the world.
"The United States," Manning said, "will track and hunt these terrorists, degrade their capabilities and disrupt their planning and operations by all appropriate, lawful and proportional means, including precision strikes against their forces, terror training camps and lines of communications, [and] partnering with Libyan forces to deny safe havens for terrorists in Libya."
The United States stands by its Libyan counterparts and supports their efforts to counter terror threats and defeat ISIS in Libya, he added. "We are committed to maintaining pressure on the terror network and preventing them from establishing a safe haven," he said.
Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.
And how did we get to this point? As the BBC reported back in May, “Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011
And who was behind that overthrow? None other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Under President George W. Bush in 2003, the United States negotiated an agreement with Libyan strongman Gadhafi. The deal: He would give up his weapons of mass destruction peacefully, and we wouldn’t try to depose him.
That seemed a good deal at the time, but the Obama administration didn’t stick to it. Instead, in an operation spearheaded by Clinton, the United States went ahead and toppled him anyway.
The overthrow turned out to be a debacle. Libya exploded into chaos and civil war, and refugees flooded Europe, destabilizing governments there. But at the time, Clinton thought it was a great triumph — "We came, we saw, he died,” she joked about Gadhafi’s overthrow
How likely is North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons after seeing the worthlessness of U.S. promises to Gadhafi?)
Aika kumma juttu että kun Usa sekaantui Irakiin ja Afganistaniin, niin se oli väärin koska ahneet Jenkit ja sitten kun Usa ei sekaannu arabikevääseen ettei lietsoisi radikaaleja islamisteja niin taas meni päin per&€ttä koska ei ollakaan maailman poliiseja.
Aika kumma juttu että kun Usa sekaantui Irakiin ja Afganistaniin, niin se oli väärin koska ahneet Jenkit ja sitten kun Usa ei sekaannu arabikevääseen ettei lietsoisi radikaaleja islamisteja niin taas meni päin per&€ttä koska ei ollakaan maailman poliiseja.
Kyllä nää arabit ihan itse tekee kaikki kauheutensa. Ei se Ameriikan syy ole!
Ja yhtälailla EU, eli lähinnä Ranska, Englanti ja Italia olisivat voineet auttaa jollain tavoin.
Usa:han on melkein kaikkien sodien takana...Jos haluat voittaa pressavaalit siellä niin pittäähän sotia silloin, että näyttä, We are number 1, do it for your country, where are youre patriotims...ja niin edelleenEi se Ameriikan syy ole!
Ei ymmärrä... Usahan nimenomaan sekaantui arabikevääseen ja otsikon aiheeseen eli libyaan. Muutkinmaat eritoten ranska oli ja on libyassa aktiivinen.
The Libyan National Army Targets Sudanese and Chadian Militants
The civil war gets more complicated
WIB FRONT January 25, 2018 Arnaud Delalande
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Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army — a top contender for control of Libya — has launched a retaliatory offensive targeting Sudanese and Chadian militias in the war-torn country’s south.
Libya’s civil war grows only more complex.
On Jan. 15, 2018 near the Jaghboub Oasis, close to the Egyptian border in Libya’s northeast, Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement fighters killed six soldiers from the Libyan National Army’s 106th Infantry Brigade and the 501st Brigade. JEM captured one LNA soldier.
The 106th is a salafist unit led by Abdulrahman Hashim Al Kilani from the southern Kufrah region. The 501st Brigade is a small reconnaissance unit that is normally responsible for protecting and securing of Tobruk International Airport and Gamal Abdel Nasser air base.
Three days after the ambush, the LNA launched Operation Desert Fury. It began with air strikes targeting militia vehicles.
Brig. Gen. Al Mabrook Al Ghazwi, the acting mayor of Al Kufra in southeast Libya, said that some warplanes engaged in the operation flew from Al Kufra airport. But there’s reason to doubt his claim. Satellite imagery dated Jan. 18 indicates no military activity at Al Kufra airport. It’s likely the Egyptian air force carried out the initial bombings in cooperation with the LNA.
At top — the LNA’s 21st Infantry Brigade patrols in the Libyan desert. LNA photo. Above — FACT fighters in Libya
Sudanese and Chadian armed groups have been in southern Libya since at least 2013. Some of these militias support the Libyan National Army while others support the LNA’s rivals based in Misrata.
The pro-LNA Sudan Liberation Army deployed to Libya starting in March 2015. By March 2016, they had gained a measure of autonomy and played a key role in the LNA’s capture and protection of oil installations.
Meanwhile, the Chadian groupRassemblement des Forces Democratiques, or RFC, had started operating in the southeast of Libya by the end of 2015. It was allegedly involved in attacks against drug traffickers’ convoys.
The LNA had made overtures to the JEM, too, according to a June 2017 report from the U.N. Security Council’s Panel of Experts for Libya. But the JEM and the LNA ultimately came to blows. In September 2016, JEM fighters reportedly kidnapped four Libyans near Jaghboub and demanded ransom. A month later, the LNA’s 106th Brigade kiled 13 JEM fighters.
The Chadian group Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad, or FACT, has been in Libya since 2014. Misrata-allied forces recruited FACT fighters in 2017 following hard fighting in Sirte, Sabha, Al Jufra and Braq Al Shati. FACT participated in the Benghazi Defend Brigade’s March 2017 attack on the Ras Lanuf and Sidra oil terminals.
On Jan. 22, 2018, the LNA claimed to have destroyed 18 Chadian militia vehicles out of a convoy of 25 in an ambush south of Al Kufra. And the Libyan war rages on.