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| Half-hour air assault on Sirte hits multiple targets |
| 2015-08-15 |
| [Libya Herald] Early this evening Daesh positions in Sirte reportedly suffered a series of The targets appear to have included the town's internal security complex, the Ouagadougou Conference centre, part of the University campus and the Mahari hotel, some six kilometres to the west of the town. It is said that the missiles or bombs were fired or dropped from high altitudes and inflicted significant damage. No figures are yet being given for the casualties from these raids. Palls of smoke were seen to be rising in at least two different locations. The security complex which Daesh had been using as their headquarters was hit in June in an air raid claimed by 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... . Some sixteen people were killed in that attack and many injured. The town's Ibn Sina hospital was cleared of existing patients so that the maimed could be treated. The Ibn Sina hospital has itself been caught up in the fighting in the town between Daesh and locals, which has been raging for three days. This evening it was reported that at least 85 families had fled to Bani Walid where the municipality was seeking to accommodate them. It is also being claimed that the twelve decapitated corpses found together today were of carers and the maimed people they had been treating in a make-shift hospital. Daesh fighters allegedly seized and executed them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 [I]n an operation which is not characteristic of the Libyan Air Force... the missiles or bombs were fired or dropped from high altitudes and inflicted significant damage Iron Eagles? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-15 11:22 |
| #1 The Ouagadougou Conference centre Come for the team building, stay for the cluster bombs. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-15 03:01 |