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| Ansar Al-Sharia denies links to either IS or Libya Dawn |
| 2015-09-29 |
| [Libya Herald] 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 Libya and 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... has angrily denied a claim by IS that the home-grown Libyan terrorist group has sworn allegiance to its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... . In a rambling statement that appeared on its social media site Ansar blamed members in Sirte for who "numbered no more than the fingers on one hand" for the error. "If you mean the brothers in Sirte [who allied with IS], you should know that they were not from the Ansar al-Sharia leadership, and they were not even in alliance with Ansar". Interestingly the statement also went on to deny that Ansar had any kind of relationship with 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 government of "apostates ". Ansar insisted that it had never received assistance from 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... and that there was no alliance between between the two groups. The statement also sought to clear up Ansar's links with the Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shoura Council with which it was reported in August, there had been a serious split leading to the drowning on a BRSC commander Sulaimon Buazza.. Ansar said of its relations with the "former revolutionaries" of the BRSC that it was in favour of "taking a unifying stance against the enemy of religion [...] and, thank God, they were on the same path with us, killing the enemy in God's name and nothing else". |
| Posted by:Fred |