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| Mujahideen claims to push back IS from high ground behind Derna |
| 2015-08-01 |
| [Libya Herald] After three days of bitter fighting, the Shoura Council of Mujahideen in Derna claims to have forced 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) gunnies to pull back from the winding mountain road south of the town. The location, known as Kurfat Sebaa or seven curves, referring to the seven hair-pin bends on the road, leads to Fataiah, the area mainly full of farms still which is controlled by IS. Kurfat Sebaa was used by IS to target Derna's residential Shiha and Bab Torbuk districts. In the past two days, as many as ten locals are said to have been injured as a result of IS firing. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the two districts are now safe, the Mujahideen say. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... they admit the advances have come a heavy price. In the three days of fighting in what is being called the Battle of Nahruwan, they lost at least 13 men with another 48 maimed, but the number of dead is said to be set to rise. The figures for yesterday and today have not been announced. The fight in the larger Fataiah area is expected to be even more intense. IS does not disclose casualty figures. |
| Posted by:Fred |