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Operation Dignity takes control of Guwarsha gate as fighting goes into seventh day
2014-10-23
[Libya Herald] Pro-government forces have pushed Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shura Council (BRSC) from one of its most prominent Benghazi positions over the course of the seventh day of festivities in the city.

The Commander of Operation Dignity's Airforce, Adam Saqr Geroushi, told the Libya Herald the victory was "deeply symbolic" and "full of meaning". 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 Libyaand 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...
's control of the entrance to Guwarsha, a predominantly pro-Islamist area, was one of the most visible signs of BRSC power in Benghazi.

Elsewhere in the city, the violence which has plagued Benghazi for a week continued. Operation Dignity carried out Arclight airstrikes on an Ansar al-Sharia stronghold in the Masekin area where there has been heavy fighting in recent days. Further army reinforcements to bolster pro-government fighters also arrived in the east of Benghazi, Geroushi said.

In Fweiha,t fighting continued near the 17 February Brigade base that Operation Dignity claimed to have pacified on the first day that it reentered the city. Residents said tanks were deployed from 204 Tank Battalion during the festivities.

Senior military sources claimed they had enjugged
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12 individuals related to the commander of the Brega Martyr's Brigade Mohammed Al-Araibi which is aligned with BRSC. The whereabouts of Araibi, also referred to as Bouka, is unknown. In September he was maimed in Benghazi after he was hit in the leg by shrapnel.

Residents in Benghazi have said, echoing claims made by Operation Dignity, that pro-government forces now control roughly 80 percent of Benghazi. The districts of Benina, Buatni, Fuwaiyhat, Majouri, Kish, Budheima, Sabri, Sidi Mansour and Al-Rajma just off Benina are said to be firmly in pro-government hands.

In the Hmeida district a jacket wallah detonated an bomb but managed to kill only himself, locals explained. Because of the fear of suicide bombers, there is now reportedly a shoot-to-kill policy at Benghazi checkpoints maintained by Operation Dignity and the army. Reliable sources have told this newspaper that the majority of recent suicide kabooms in the city were carried out by young men from Derna.

Because of the gains by pro-government forces, BRSC can now only reportedly move in and out of Benghazi through the port, resupplying in Derna. A source familiar with the town explained that "every single day a minimum of three bodies arrives in Derna." BRSC has never reported how many of its troops have been killed in festivities but it they generally retrieve their dead taking them for burial to nearby towns they control.
Posted by:Fred