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| Gunmen Attack Mosque in Tripoli |
| 2011-10-11 |
| [An Nahar] A group of more than 200 heavily armed gunnies attacked a mosque in the Libyan capital and ransacked the tombs of two imams, witnesses said on Monday. "They arrived shortly after 10:00 pm (2000 GMT, Sunday night), between 200 and 300 of them, in pickups fitted with heavy machine-guns. They took off at about 1:00 am," said Mahmud Rahman, a resident of Tripoli's northeastern Al-Masri district. "They forced open the mosque's door and then started to dig up the tombs of imams Abdul Rahman al-Masri and Salem Abu Seif, and made off with their relics," said Rahman. An AFP journalist, visiting the mosque and its adjoining Koranic school, said Mohammedan holy books had been burnt. "They had beards and were in military uniform. They must have been Islamic Islamic fascisti wanting to make trouble. They want power, they want to control Libya," said a teacher at the school, on condition of anonymity. "They were very well-organized. Men sealed off the perimeter of the mosque and were communicating with walkie-talkies," he said. Last week, a Mohammedan cemetery in the western district of Gargaresh and another near Tripoli airport were also ransacked, apparently with pneumatic drills and other heavy tools, according to witnesses. Libya, which practices a moderate form of Islam and whose leader Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... was ousted in August in an anti-regime revolt, awaits the formation of a new government at a time of ethnic, regional and religious tensions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Did NATO provide air cover while the jihadis |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-11 12:05 |
| #2 The real enemy pokes his pointy little beturbanned head up... |
| Posted by: Fred 2011-10-11 10:13 |
| #1 New order. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-10-11 05:58 |