ISIS Fighters Kill 14 Soldiers in Southern Libya
Group Looks to Expand Beyond Its Coastal Territory
ISIS affiliates in Libya have launched an attack on government soldiers in southern Libya, according to government officials, who say 14 soldiers were slain in the incident.
The incident is the first time the ISIS affiliate, which signed on back in October, has looked to operate much outside of their territory in Derna, along the eastern coast.
Initially called Jaish al-Islam (not related to the Syrian group of the same name), the Derna faction pledged loyalty to the ISIS Caliphate in late October, declaring its territory an emirate under the ISIS flag.
Since then, they’ve set up a training camp and tried to use the name recognition of ISIS to recruit, hoping to expand their territory. Today’s incident may reflect that working well.
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John Ellis
January 5th, 2015 at 7:36 am
Religion based politics — Wave of the future
Actually, it takes very little for a movement strong on morality to overthrow a secular democracy, as they all allow the voting majority to hoard all the wealth and use poverty as a tool to enslave the lower half of society.
Just look at what the Islamic State is comprised of, for their fighters are most all from the laboring-class and escaping from the police state poverty that a Western style democracy imposed upon them.
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 8:35 am
This total fabrications and was false flag operation planned and executed by Egyptian and French agents and operatives in order to justify their taking control of Libyan natural resources.Most of the report is false information put out the dissolved Parliament and government in Tobruk and Egyptian information ministry and its mouthpieces..Compare this report with the report on the attack on the Greek tanker ship of the cost of Libya ,"Unknown warplane bombs Greek tanker ship in eastern Libyan port, killing 2 seamen, injuring 2.Here some how it is unknown warplane?It is very well known ,but they pretend not to know ? http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/05/unknown-w…
This story is similar to the Sony hacking incident.They already to decided on the villains beforehand. Those soldiers killed as well those killed guarding electric power plant in Sirte were forces loyal to Tripoli government not to one in Tobruk which much better and huge propaganda machine and from which most world news outlets get their news,while totally ignoring the other side.
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 9:14 am
Nowadays every tin pot dictator and weak governments and western powers that look back with teary eyes to their lost colonies have found their perfect boogeyman in "ISIS" to scare everybody and implement their agenda and get what they want ,be it arms ,staying in power,legitimacy,political,economic ,and military support,occupying and taking over other countries territories and resources and whatever they have eyes on.And if they have to fake and invented that threat so be it ,no problem.
So the so misnamed recognized government wants more arms to fight ISIS that materialized out of the blue in a place that never was in the first place took pictures too!!
""Members of IS staged an attack . . . during which they executed 14 members of the Libyan army belonging to the infantry battalion 168," the government said, asking the international community to lift an arms embargo to help fight what it called terrorists."
Give us arms to fight terrorists ,how convenient?
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 9:15 am
Many of the news coming out of Libya is one sided and very often staged and false.
ragheadthefiendlyterrorist
January 5th, 2015 at 10:25 am
I do hope the Libyans are enjoying their NATO-inflicted, oops, facilitated Freedom and Democracy.
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 11:05 am
The name that you call yourself with speaks volume about you.
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 11:10 am
The Liberian-flagged tanker is operated by an Athens-based shipping company, Aegean Shipping Enterprises Company.
The company said there was no leakage of oil and it was assessing the damage.
((Col Mesmari told Reuters the vessel had been bringing Islamist fighters to Derna.))
"We had warned any ship not to dock at the port without prior permission," he was quoted as saying.
The National Oil Corporation did not comment on the allegation but said the bombing of the tanker would have a "very negative" impact on oil shipping from Libyan ports.
It said it remained neutral in the conflict in Libya and the incident would hinder its ability to maintain supplies within the local market.
Blatant lies and no one cares.But If it were bringing no-Islamic fighters is OK?!
Salem
January 5th, 2015 at 1:00 pm
An eyewitness who lives nearby speak of hearing and seeing of a Helicopter that was landing in the area,then hearing the sound of several guns being fired .The attack happened at night.I very much doubt t the so called Libyan government story line.