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| Ansar Al-Sharia in Ajdabiya bombed |
| 2014-08-02 |
| [Libya Herald] Operation Dignity forces last night launched air strikes against what they claim to be an 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 Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... base in Ajdabiya. Air Force Brigadier-General Saqr Geroushi, the commander of Operation Dignity's air forces, told the Libya Herald that his aircraft had hit the compound of a Chinese construction company camp in the town which had been taken over by Ansar and was being used as an arms depot and base for its operations in Benghazi. According to a source in the town, a number of people had been killed in the raids as weapons went kaboom!. For his part, Geroushi said he did not know if anyone had died or been injured in the assault but that it was not finished. "It will continue," he declared. It was a sign to people in Ajdabiya that Operation Dignity was determined to root out and destroy Ansar in their town, he said. He also claimed that Ansar had been taking their maimed from the fighting in Benghazi to the hospital in Ajdabiya which, he said, the Islamists had taken over. The severely maimed were then being taken from there to Misrata and flown to Turkey, he alleged. Genroushi's claim about the hospital and transfer of Ansar's maimed cannot be confirmed at present. |
| Posted by:Fred |