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2019-01-19 Africa North
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Libyan forces say Al-Qaeda commander killed in southern op
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[PULSE.NG] The forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar
 ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
said they killed on Friday three jihadists including a senior al-Qaeda member in the south of the country days after launching a security operation.
Ahmad al-Mesmari, a front man for Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, described the three as "terrorists" and identified them as Abdel Monem al-Hasnaoui, also known as Abu Talha al-Libi, al-Mahdi Dengo and Egyptian citizen Abdullah al-Dessouki.
He said they were killed during "a special operation... Friday in al-Qarda al-Chatti region of southwestern Libya".
Abu Talha -- a Libyan whose death was reported on several past occasions including in an 2016 air raid by unidentified aircraft -- is said by Libya to be a senior operative of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Mesmari gave no further details on the other two suspects.
Libyan authorities use the word "terrorists" to refer to jihadists.
Libya has been gripped by chaos since a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer Qadaffy in 2011, with rival administrations and multiple militias vying for control of the oil-rich country.
Jihadists and people-traffickers have taken advantage of the chaos to gain a foothold in the North African country.
Haftar supports an administration in the east of the country that is opposed to the internationally backed Government of National Accord 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...
On Wednesday his self-style LNA forces announced they had launched a military operation to "purge" jihadists and criminal gangs from the south of Libya.
Mesmari said at the time that the operation was aimed to assure security "for inhabitants in the south-west from terrorists, be they the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group or al-Qaeda, as well as criminal gangs".
The LNA said it was also looking to secure petroleum facilities and tackle flows of clandestine migrants colonists heading northwards to the Mediterranean coast.
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