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| Beheadings and suicide bombings: The new rage in Libya |
| 2014-11-19 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] he jihadist militias fighting the Libyan Army in Benghazi, which are in complete control of Derna, are in an alliance known as the Libyan Dawn which is dominated by the 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... militia which has now formally announced its affiliation to the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of ISIS, where they started flying the ISIS flag even before the formal announcement of affiliation. Embassy attacks This past week, boom-mobiles went kaboom!outside the UAE and Egyptian embassies in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... - both embassies had been evacuated when Moslem Bruderbund led militias seized the Libyan capital last summer after the Brotherhood and allied Islamists' poor showing in the elections of a new parliament back in June. So, the bombings were basically symbolic gestures to protest Egypt and the UAE's strong support for the government formed by the recently elected parliament after it fled to Tobruk. It is assumed that the Moslem Bruderbund-dominated alliance of militias in control of Tripoli known as Libyan Shield were responsible for the symbolic attacks against the two embassies. There was nothing symbolic in the case of a suicide kaboom and a series of boom-mobiles this past week in Tobruk and neighboring towns which resulted in a number of dead and maimed. Since the Libyan Shield militias are still fighting the Libyan Army which is loyal to the legitimate government in Tobruk in towns located close to Tripoli, it is assumed that Libyan Shield is also responsible for the attacks in Tobruk. But the jacket wallah and those who set off the boom-mobiles in Tobruk could have also been sent to Tobruk by the Libyan Dawn. Both alliances are fighting against the Libyan Army supporting the legitimate government in Tobruk. Condemning the attacks The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the attacks against the embassies in Tripoli as did the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) which declared, according to a U.N. blurb, that it was "greatly concerned" about the beheadings, but it continues to talk about the need for political dialogue between all parties. This curious sort of moral equivalence has been encouraged by a ruling of the Libyan Supreme Court two weeks ago that the legitimate parliament in Tobruk was unconstitutional. The Court had remained in Tripoli and when it announced it would hear a case challenging the elected parliament the legitimate government made the mistake of participating in the proceedings. This was naive on the part of the government for the Court was now meeting in an environment in which any ruling against Libyan Shield could result in arrest or even liquidation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "So what ever happened to that Responsibility to Protect, Susan?" |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-19 20:46 |