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| ISIS menace al-Qaeda in Derna |
| 2014-06-14 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] A Libyan jihadist just home from Syria was rubbed out in Derna this week during a feud between rival terror groups. The al-Battar Brigade, which is affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIS), issued a statement on Monday (June 9th) saying that heads would be cut off, stomachs slit and Libya filled with graves to avenge Mahdi Saad Abu al-Abyadh al-Gaithi. Al-Ghaithi was killed in a clash with the Abu Slim Martyrs Brigade, inflaming the conflict between the jihadist groups. "The people of Derna are disempowered," said Tahani Obeidi, a 28 year old housewife. "Most hope that the army enters Derna to save them from the pressure they are suffering at the hands of the terrorists." "Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... sts are in control and [we] fear liquidations," she added. For his part, media figure Mahmud Shammam described bad boy groups as "forces of darkness and evil". "They are afraid of ballot boxes, and thus use their religious power represented by the mufti to encourage suicide operations," he said. "ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... are trying to push us into the abyss, but the Libyan people will not allow them to do so," Shammam added. On the other hand, Ramzi Yusef, a member of Ansar al-Sharia said, "The group of al-Battar, the word refers to one of the names of the sword an affiliate of Ansar al-Sharia. It was founded in Syria and all its members are from Libya. They are the fiercest because they do not negotiate but just act. " He affirmed that it was a group trained in weapons and specialising in suicide kabooms, bombings, and liquidations that they learned in Syria. According to local residents, the threat to Libyan civilians from the rival bad boy groups is not just violence. "A family next door with eight maidens of tender years was forced to escape to Benghazi in August," engineer Firas al-Mansouri, 32, told Magharebia. "The father was afraid and moved, to get away from bad boy groups that marry off Libyan girls to al-Qaeda, against their parents' will." "The Abu Salim brigade is another form of al-Qaeda and Ansar are the same as ISIS," al-Mansouri added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Whats remarkable is this - think how nuts the ISIL is considering Al Qaeda kicked them out for being too extreme! |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-06-14 01:54 |
| #1 Jets vs. Sharks from West Side Story. Where is my popcorn.... |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-14 00:42 |