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| IS attacks Sidra |
| 2015-10-02 |
| [Libya Herald] 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.... (IS) forces launched a lightning strike on a checkpoint at Sidra oil terminal late this afternoon. According to Ali Hassi, the official front man the central Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), one guard was killed and two others maimed. Another report says two guards died in the attack. It is not known exactly where the IS gunnies came from. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Sidra is only 50 kilometres east of IS-controlled Nufaliya, and 190 east of Sirte, now the central IS power base in Libya. It is thought that the attack may be linked to reported plans tomorrow by IS in Sirte to force local residents to give an oath of allegiance to His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , its "caliph". Ibrahim Jadhran, the head of the Central PFG, is reported to have visited Sidra shortly afterwards. The terminal has been closed since December last year when 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... forces attacked it in a bid to takeover all the eastern oil terminals. |
| Posted by:Fred |