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| Clashes continue in Sirte |
| 2015-04-24 |
| [LibyaHerald] Battalion 166 and fighters belonging to the 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.... (IS) have continued for the fifth day running. A front man for the Battalion 166, Khaled Abujazia, said that fighting involving heavy artillery was taking place at a number of downtown locations in Qadaffy's former hometown and that two members of the battalion had been killed and five others maimed as it tried to dislodge the Islamists from positions held by them. These include the Ouagadougou Hall, centrepiece of Qadaffy's makeover of Sirte as a base for African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and other pan-African gatherings, and the University of Sirte. Both are being bombarded by the battalion. Meanwhile random missiles are reported to have fallen on a military housing area, the offices of Radio Free Sirte, a supplies centre and a local school. Clashes are also reported taking place on the coastal road west of the town. The two soldiers killed today have been named as Musa Abushalah and Belgassem Safar. |
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