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| Alleged IS Gunmen in Libya 'Seize Radio Station' |
| 2015-02-14 |
| [AnNahar] Gunmen claiming to be members of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have seized control of a state-run radio station in Libya's coastal city of Sirte, residents said Friday. Jihadist websites also posted pictures showing gunnies sitting in front of microphones in a broadcasting studio and brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles. "They took Radio Sirte yesterday (Thursday). Since then they have been broadcasting (verses from) the Koran and speeches by (IS chief Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi," a resident of the central city told AFP by telephone. The resident said speeches of IS front man Abu Mohammed al-Adnani were also being played on the air. A former local administration official said the gunnies have also set up a headquarters in the center of the city, and voiced concern that they could declare an Islamic emirate in Sirte. "They could take advantage of the absence of any central government authority to transform the city into an Islamic emirate as they did in Derna," an eastern city held by jihadist groups including IS. The man, who declined to be named, said the gunnies apparently seized the radio "as a first step to communicate with the population". "The situation in Sirte is very complex," he said, because many radical groups have a foothold there. Since the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... , Sirte, the former strongman's hometown has become a stronghold of myrmidon groups. Sirte is a bastion of 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... , an Islamist blacklisted by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and the United States. And militias of the Islamist-backed Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... ) coalition control some parts of Sirte, and launching attacks against key oil installations nearby in December. Powerful militias, backing rival governments and parliaments, have been battling for control of key cities and the country's oil riches since the uprising. Amid the chaos, IS has made an appearance in Libya where it has claimed a series of deadly attacks. The latest targeted a luxury hotel 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 January 27, when nine people were killed, five of them foreigners. |
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