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| Airforce bombs Benghazi's Al-Nuran Hotel |
| 2014-11-17 |
| [Libya Herald] Aircrafts under the command of the Libyan National Army (LNA) have carried out aristrikes on Benghazi's Al-Nuran hotel and other positions as they attempt to push 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... from the centre of the city. The Nuran hotel was one of the last positions held by Ansar al-Sharia in the Sabri district where LNA forces have been battling over the past ten days to gain control of Benghazi's seaport. Ansar al-Sharia, one of the largest forces in the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council, had reportedly deployed a number of snipers at the hotel according to Mohammed Hejazi, an LNA front man. Hejazi explained that the LNA had simultaneously bombed Benghazi's Libyan Club on the corniche in Sabri. He said Ansar al-Sharia fighters had been holed up there along with supplies of ammunition and weapons. Hejazi also shed light on air-raids over Derna three days ago following suicide kabooms carried out in Beida and Tobruk. Extremists from Derna are believed to have been responsible for the bombings. He said LNA planes had attacked Derna's former police academy building and structures close to a football pitch on a beach here gunnies were known to have stored weapons and ammunition. |
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