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| Dawn calls for anti-IS mobilisation while Mufti slams security laxity |
| 2015-06-02 |
| [Libya Herald] The 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... -based Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... antigovernment this evening called for a general mobilisation against IS, following the suicide kaboom attack at the Dafniya checkpoint outside Misrata. In a social media statement is urged officers, soldiers, revolutionaries and all security forces to mobilise and fight IS. "The Tripoli government is determined" said the statement,"to continue fighting extremism and criminal gangs who operate under what is known as 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.... [ISIS] until they are uprooted". The antigovernment also issued a plea to the international community to help it fights myrmidons, because they represented a major threat to Libya's security. The Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani appeared to be openly critical of the state of alert against IS attacks. In a statement published by the Dar Al-Ifta he urged "the brigades of the General National Congress" to tighten their grip on checkpoints and all other places. He also launched into IS. He called on Libyans to unite against the ideas of IS which were spread by foreigners, whose ambition was to distort Islam's peaceful image and plunge Libya into the same destruction as in Syria and Iraq. In a fatwa, Ghariani, whom the Libya Dawn regime still recognises as Grand Mufti, condemned IS for its deviant beliefs. But he also criticised Congress and the Ghwell government saying that as the country's sole authorities they had to provide the security forces with the arms and equipment they needed. He also said they needed to take care of those maimed in fighting on the various fronts and at checkpoints, ensuing they received the best treatment in the world, by sending them to quality European hospitals, not corrupt ones in Libya. |
| Posted by:Fred |