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Africa North
Egypt urges global action to wipe out IS scourge
2015-02-17
[ARABNEWS] Egyptian warplanes struck 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....
 targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the myrmidons' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier.

At the same time, Egypt called for international intervention in Libya against the Islamic State group. Loyalists of the Syria and Iraq-based group have risen to dominate several cities in the chaos-riven North African nation.

Italia, just across the Mediterranean Sea, says it is prepared to lead international action in Libya.

After the release of the beheading video Sunday night, the tiny Christian-majority home village of more than half of the 21 Egyptians believed killed by the holy warriors was gutted by grief. Inside the village church, relatives wept and shouted the names of the dead in shock.

"What will be a relief to me is to take a hold of his murderer, tear him apart, eat up his flesh and liver," said Bushra Fawzi in el-Aour village, as he wept over the loss of his 22-year-old son Shenouda. "I want his body back. If they dumped it in the sea, I want it back. If they set fire to it, I want its dust."

The 21 -- mainly young men from impoverished families -- had traveled to Libya for work and were kidnapped in two groups in December and January from the coastal city of Sirte. In the video, the group is marched onto what is purported to be a Libyan beach before masked bandidos gunnies with knives carve off the head of each. The killing of at least a dozen of them is clearly visible, though it was not clear from the video whether all 21 hostages were killed.

Two rounds of Egyptian Arclight airstrikes, several hours apart on Monday, struck targets in the eastern Libyan city of Darna, according to Egyptian and Libyan security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk the press.

Egypt's military announced the strikes on state radio, marking the first time Cairo has publicly acknowledged military action in Libya. It said the strikes hit weapons caches and training camps "to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers."

"Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield to protect and safeguard the security of the country and a sword that cuts off terrorism," it said.

Libya's air force commander, Saqr Al-Joroushi, told Egyptian state TV that the Arclight airstrikes were coordinated with the Libyan side. Libya's air force said it also carried out strikes in Darna.

Libya has become home of the strongest presence of the Islamic State group outside its core territory in Syria and Iraq.

With almost no state control in much of Libya, holy warriors loyal to the Islamic State have seized control Darna and the central city of Sirte and have built up a powerful presence in the capital 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...
 and the second-largest city Benghazi. Libyan Interior Minister Omar Al-Sinki has said some 400 bandidos gunnies from Yemen and Tunisia are believed to make up the group in Libya, along with Libyan militias that have vowed allegiance.

Egypt appears now to be launching a push for international military intervention in Libya to curb the group.
Posted by:Fred

#4  WE ARE ALL LIBYANS, + FILIPINOS = MAMASAPANO, NOW.

* See also TOPIX > [Vancouver Sun] ISIS PLANNING TO USE LIBYA AS "GATEWAY" TO WAGE WAR ON EUROPE: MILTANT'S DOCUMENT.

* RELATED SAME = ... ...
> [CTV] ISIS VOWS TO CONQUER JERUSALEM, ROME, AND SPAIN.
> [CTV] THE SPREAD OF ISIS: "EGYPT IS THE BIG PRIZE".

Perhaps because OWG Co-Superpowers RUSSIA + IRAN are to the north + flank of the ISIS???

> [BreitBart] ITALY FEARS ISIS INVASION FROM LIBYA.

Lest we fergit, THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA = VISION OF ROMAN/CATHOLIC POPE IN WHITE STRUCK BY BULLET OUTSIDE OF A BLACK OR DESTROYED ROME???

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-02-17 21:41  

#3  Is Egypt willing to cooperate with Israel?

If nothing else Egypt should be eyeing those Libyan oilfields.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-02-17 15:06  

#2  I like their leader more than our own.
Posted by: paul   2015-02-17 07:17  

#1  I strongly advise you give Egypt what they need.
Listen to Him. He is in the middle of it.

Prayers.
Posted by: newc   2015-02-17 00:37  

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