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Africa North
Armed group kidnaps three civilians in Ghadduwah, southern Libya
2019-03-19
[Libya Observer] An unknown gang has kidnapped three people after opening fire on several others in Ghadduwah in southern Libya, sources from the town have reported.

The sources added that the gang entered in a heavily armed convoy of about 10 vehicles, adding that the vehicles "appeared to have logos similar to those of ISIS."

They indicated that the gang stormed into houses of two persons and ended up detaining them along with a third one from Ghadduwah town, which later descended into calm.

The head of the municipal council in the town Masoud Abdelsalam told news hounds that the armed convoy was not identified, adding that one person was injured by their fire and he was sent to Sabha Medical Center.

Ghadduwah and Taraghen in south Libya were subject to attacks by some button men who could be from ISIS or Chadian rebels or even Libyan gangs in the region.

Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's self-styled army launched last January an operation to "cleanse the south of criminals and terrorists, thus seizing control of most of the south but failing to exact law and order.

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