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| France denies air strikes on Benghazi Defence Brigades as Gharani calls for protests against it |
| 2016-07-21 |
| [Libya Herald] La Belle France has vehemently denied allegations that its planes bombed the so-called Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) overnight at Al-Jlidiya, near Magrun, killing 13 of them. In a short statement this afternoon, the French authorities said that they had carried out no A French official meanwhile told the Libya Herald that the French government did not support Hafter or the Libya National Army. Its strategy was the destruction of 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.... and terrorism in Libya. The French statement (see below) followed a call earlier during the day by Libya’s controversial holy man, Sadek Al-Ghariani, for mass protests against La Belle France after it admitted the death of three French military officials in a helicopter crash on Sunday and the presence of French security forces in the country. On his Islamist Tanasah TV station, he accused it of effectively declaring war on Libya. He said people should take to the streets and demonstrate against its unacceptable intervention in Libya. There was, he claimed, a "conspiracy" by foreign countries and their ambassadors together with their supposed Libyan agents to destroy the Libyan revolution. On the equally Islamist Al-Nabaa TV, an organization calling itself the League of Displaced Benghazi Families similarly called on people to go to Martyrs’ Square 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... and protest. Other protests came from Misratan politician Fathi Bashaga, the Moslem Brüderbund and the now generally invisible General National Congress (GNC). In the event, there were demonstrations this afternoon in Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata and Gharyan. The biggest was in Misrata where several hundred turned out and a French flag was burned. In Tripoli, numbers were muted and in Benghazi even smaller. In his denunciation, Ghariani also attacked the entire Libyan Political Agreement and the Presidency Council which he accused of failing to solve the electricity and cash shortages and of being responsible for the the crash in the Libyan dinar and inflation. He also called the takeover of ministry building by the PC as illegal. He further demanded the rump of the GNC to hold a session as soon as possible to discuss the situation. Those who had joined the State Council must return to the Congress, he insisted. |
| Posted by:Fred |