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2015-02-18 Africa North

35 Egyptians kidnapped in Libya after anti-IS strikes: report

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: Ansar al-Sharia

#1 Just warming up to invade Libya and get their hands on all that oil.

Posted by phil_b 2015-02-18 04:17|| 2015-02-18 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Egypt says it would be naive to hope for a speedy political settlement, insisting that turbans must be confronted with force.

They're SO unsophisticated! We should send them the State Department's spokes-bimbo Marie Harf to educate them. I got ten bucks towards her one-way ticket to Cairo.

Posted by Bobby 2015-02-18 08:00|| 2015-02-18 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Bobby, I'll see your ten bucks and raise you twenty. But let's send her to Tripoli or Benghazi. She needs to set up a jobs program for the Libyan to solve this.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-02-18 08:43|| 2015-02-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Just warming up to invade Libya and get their hands on all that oil.

More likely they'll establish a buffer zone in eastern Libya.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-18 10:20|| 2015-02-18 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Tobruk?

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-18 11:45|| 2015-02-18 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember the last Spring Uprising, it was cheered by the American media (read Obama's minions, we were supposed to participate in the 'joy'.
Wow, that did not end that well, right?.
But the media do not want to remember this at all, I wonder why?

Posted by Ana 2015-02-18 13:05|| 2015-02-18 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be a tit-for-tat response to MSM-Net Artics repor that Egyptian Commandos crossed into Libya + captured, kidnapped up to 55 Militants in wake of latest ISIS video depicting beheading of kidnapped or missing Coptic Christians from Egypt???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-18 21:10|| 2015-02-18 21:10|| Front Page Top

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