ISIL advances in Libya's Misrata

[Zibago]

ISIL advances in Libya's Misrata

Key crossroads and villages seized by ISIL along southern coast, prompting deployment of militiamen to counter assaults.


Advances by the Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group along the southern coast of Libya's third largest city of Misrata have prompted armed groups in the city to deploy militiamen to counter the offensive.

The mobilisation came on Friday after ISIL took over the Abu Grein crossroads, which lies 120 kilometres south of Misrata where the highway along Libya's Mediterranean coast meets the main road south into the desert interior.

In a statement, ISIL said it captured five villages along the coast on Thursday in an advance from their stronghold in the city of Sirte 140 kilometres to the east., the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

ISIL captured Sirte in June last year and has since transformed it into a training camp for Libyan and foreign fighters.

Misrata hospital said it had received eight dead and 105 wounded after ISIL's assaults, without specifying whether they were all security force personnel or also included civilians.

The head of the Misrata military council, Ibrahim Bel-Rajab, said he had ordered all brigades under his command to head to Abu Grein without delay, Libya's LANA news agency reported.

"Numerous armed vehicles of ISIL have been spotted in this area," he said.

The developments came as the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli announced the formation of a new military command to take charge of the battle against ISIL.

The group is estimated to have around 5,000 fighters in Libya, and is trying to attract hundreds more.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/clone.of.isil-advances-libya-misrata-1605061835501.html
@jamahir @2800 @django

 

[django]

ISIL advances in Libya's Misrata

Key crossroads and villages seized by ISIL along southern coast, prompting deployment of militiamen to counter assaults.


Advances by the Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group along the southern coast of Libya's third largest city of Misrata have prompted armed groups in the city to deploy militiamen to counter the offensive.

The mobilisation came on Friday after ISIL took over the Abu Grein crossroads, which lies 120 kilometres south of Misrata where the highway along Libya's Mediterranean coast meets the main road south into the desert interior.

In a statement, ISIL said it captured five villages along the coast on Thursday in an advance from their stronghold in the city of Sirte 140 kilometres to the east., the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

ISIL captured Sirte in June last year and has since transformed it into a training camp for Libyan and foreign fighters.

Misrata hospital said it had received eight dead and 105 wounded after ISIL's assaults, without specifying whether they were all security force personnel or also included civilians.

The head of the Misrata military council, Ibrahim Bel-Rajab, said he had ordered all brigades under his command to head to Abu Grein without delay, Libya's LANA news agency reported.

"Numerous armed vehicles of ISIL have been spotted in this area," he said.

The developments came as the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli announced the formation of a new military command to take charge of the battle against ISIL.

The group is estimated to have around 5,000 fighters in Libya, and is trying to attract hundreds more.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/clone.of.isil-advances-libya-misrata-1605061835501.html
@jamahir @2800 @django

All part of the west plan to intervene.

 

[Falcon29]

All part of the west plan to intervene.

They are attacking the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups areas. Most of the country is now controlled by pro-Haftar forces, which the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt support. Hence the West supports these forces too. So don't expect any intervention, they are actively supporting the pro-Haftar alliance on the ground, and have special forces deployed in their areas. Meanwhile, Muslim Brotherhood are all being targeted by those elements.

So there must be no motivation among MB groups to fight, and why ISIS is easily advancing in those areas. Because MB is under attack by all sides, and nobody is targeting ISIS when it goes on offensive against them. They'd prefer the MB die out, hence they will let this play out until MB collapse completely, then they claim it is fight against terror and take over whole country after the coup which overthrew MB in Libya.

It's funny because these countries that support Haftar promote a notion that the MB is not a proper Islamic government because they don't implement Islam like ISIS, as a way to discredit the Muslim Brotherhood. It's funny because these countries(UAE, Jordan, Egypt) are hardly Islamic in their governance. So they fool some people into viewing the MB as apostates or people who use religion as a tool, hence these people become independent or join ISIS. And this benefits these pro-Haftar nations.

It's unfortunate that people are this gullible, of course you need to do democratic means to government and have smart people in control, because your country has to progress still. That does not mean they are apostates or people using Islam as tool. It means they have genuine solution for the region, and would make the Arab world a powerful world. Instead, you have people becoming independent because they fall for that argument. And think that ISIS is not doing it for politics or money, but they seem to live on other Universe where there are no responsibilities or need to progress your country or form government. If ISIS governed, nobody would fear such a state, it is not going to achieve much at all, it just weak militia state promoting pointless death. Hence why nobody fears ISIS, they fear the Muslim Brotherhood and work to topple it before anything else.

 

[Steve781]

Libya needs a strongman to hold it together. As soon as Gadaffi was overthrown there was chaos everywhere. This Haftar sounds like the kind of man who could stabilise the country again.

 

[Falcon29]

Libya needs a strongman to hold it together. As soon as Gadaffi was overthrown there was chaos everywhere. This Haftar sounds like the kind of man who could stabilise the country again.

Haftar orchestrated coup and put country into chaos. Nevertheless, he benefits the West and it's allies in the region, hence they will go forward with him. We already your kind of decision making. You're always enabling people who will ruin the region, or prevent it from achieving it's full potential.

ISIS won't achieve anything for the people of the region, it's not good to dwell on prophecy either, the people need to be pragmatic. They have choice between 'strongmen' that will keep their nations afloat due to foreign aid, or between MB led governments, that want to decrease ME reliance on foreigners. Which is why they keep getting overthrown every time they come into power.

 

[haviZsultan]

Libya has become worse than it originally was under Qaddafi. I hope this disorder ends soon and Al Qaeda does not find another grazing ground for its evil activities. The west has indirectly by its arrogance supported the militants.

 

[Falcon29]

Libya has become worse than it originally was under Qaddafi. I hope this disorder ends soon and Al Qaeda does not find another grazing ground for its evil activities. The west has indirectly by its arrogance supported the militants.

Al Qaeda is non-exisistent now, it's members/group just gave allegiance to ISIS it seems. But, this article is misleading, Misrata was not taken, some villages/towns to the south of it were taken. Libya was in state of war prior to Western intervention and it would have stayed that way, the West did topple Gaddafi. AQ existed in that region on much smaller scale before the Arab spring anyways. I know you're trying to promote your pro-Assad narrative in Syria, but you should drop that effort. It's not all black and white, Libya's case is different than Syria's.

 

[Steve781]

Haftar orchestrated coup and put country into chaos. Nevertheless, he benefits the West and it's allies in the region, hence they will go forward with him. We already your kind of decision making. You're always enabling people who will ruin the region, or prevent it from achieving it's full potential.

ISIS won't achieve anything for the people of the region, it's not good to dwell on prophecy either, the people need to be pragmatic. They have choice between 'strongmen' that will keep their nations afloat due to foreign aid, or between MB led governments, that want to decrease ME reliance on foreigners. Which is why they keep getting overthrown every time they come into power.

You're absolutely right. I can't see him letting hundreds of thousands of Africans move across the Med if he was in power. He'd deal with them the way Gadaffi used to.

 

[Falcon29]

You're absolutely right. I can't see him letting hundreds of thousands of Africans move across the Med if he was in power. he's deal with them the way Gadaffi used to.

There was a government in place prior to the parliament chaos that didn't allow for that either. It has no relation to 'strongman'. West's support to Haftar is not done for that reason, actually EU is still bringing in immigrants intentionally, go figure out why yourself, the main reason of this support however is to prevent MB dominated Arab world.

Will you please shut up and take away your stinking *** from from this forum. You and your allies destroyed Libya and now here are advocating that Libya needs a guy like Qaddafi.

The guy is clueless unfortunately, his EU brings in immigrant voluntarily and refugees in many cases, it's because the political echelon made that choice consciously. He doesn't want to take this up his political elite, and instead directs his attention to outside forces. On top of that, he is anti-Trump, even though Trump is against this migration to EU process. Which suggest to me that this guy is an insider himself, that is advancing neocon agenda of making life miserable for Muslims and White people who don't subscribe to neocon agenda.

 

[Steve781]

There was a government in place prior to the parliament chaos that didn't allow for that either. It has no relation to 'strongman'. West's support to Haftar is not done for that reason, actually EU is still bringing in immigrants intentionally, go figure out why yourself, the main reason of this support however is to prevent MB dominated Arab world.



The guy is clueless unfortunately, his EU brings in immigrant voluntarily and refugees in many cases, it's because the political echelon made that choice consciously. He doesn't want to take this up his political elite, and instead directs his attention to outside forces. On top of that, he is anti-Trump, even though Trump is against this migration to EU process. Which suggest to me that this guy is an insider himself, that is advancing neocon agenda of making life miserable for Muslims and White people who don't subscribe to neocon agenda.

I'm not anti trump I just don't believe he can win. He's not pro Muslim Brothehrood anyway. In fact he's more pro Israel than Obama.
http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Trump-pledges-to-move-US-embassy-from-Tel-Aviv-to-Jerusalem-442091

 

[Steve781]

There was a government in place prior to the parliament chaos that didn't allow for that either. It has no relation to 'strongman'. West's support to Haftar is not done for that reason, actually EU is still bringing in immigrants intentionally, go figure out why yourself, the main reason of this support however is to prevent MB dominated Arab world.

The Middle Eastern refugees go through the Balkans. It's sub Saharans, mainly Christian, who use the Libyan route.

 

[Falcon29]

I'm not anti trump I just don't believe he can win. He's not pro Muslim Brothehrood anyway. In fact he's be more pro Israel than Obama.

He has a good chance. You seem to have continued misunderstanding of my philosophy, I never expected any US administration to be pro-MB or pro-Palestinian. All I seek out of an US administration is to maintain semi-neutral stance on the ME. I don't follow the pro-government thinking in the Arab street that suggests reliance on the US or anyone else for that matter. I have visions for the region, which does not require assistance of anybody. All it needs is end to over the top campaign, that is lead by both foreigners and locals, to force upon the people a certain visions or visions which they push, but don't give any reason for pushing such agenda's.

Trump is a good candidate, and he doesn't seek to push any agenda in the ME. Which is why the neocon base oppose him. His statements on Israel don't matter to me, I told you before and will tell you again, I never expect anything from anyone in that regard. Israel is not valuable if my visions are implemented in the region.

 

[The Sandman]

I'll keep that last bit personal because this is public forum after all.

He is a troll don't respond to him he's personally attacking a female member here by using that name in the end and that DP just report him pls

 

[Hell NO]

Haftar orchestrated coup and put country into chaos. Nevertheless, he benefits the West and it's allies in the region, hence they will go forward with him. We already your kind of decision making. You're always enabling people who will ruin the region, or prevent it from achieving it's full potential.

ISIS won't achieve anything for the people of the region, it's not good to dwell on prophecy either, the people need to be pragmatic. They have choice between 'strongmen' that will keep their nations afloat due to foreign aid, or between MB led governments, that want to decrease ME reliance on foreigners. Which is why they keep getting overthrown every time they come into power.

A coup against who????? The democratically elected parliament which supports him or against terrorists militia men who used to kidnap parliament members and terroris them+you are not bashing the MB for taking power using their militias from a democratically parliament! !!!!!!

Haftar orchestrated coup and put country into chaos. Nevertheless, he benefits the West and it's allies in the region, hence they will go forward with him. We already your kind of decision making. You're always enabling people who will ruin the region, or prevent it from achieving it's full potential.

ISIS won't achieve anything for the people of the region, it's not good to dwell on prophecy either, the people need to be pragmatic. They have choice between 'strongmen' that will keep their nations afloat due to foreign aid, or between MB led governments, that want to decrease ME reliance on foreigners. Which is why they keep getting overthrown every time they come into power.

A coup against who????? The democratically elected parliament which supports him or against terrorists militia men who used to kidnap parliament members and terroris them+you are not bashing the MB for taking power using their militias from a democratically parliament! !!!!!!

 

[Zibago]

There was a government in place prior to the parliament chaos that didn't allow for that either. It has no relation to 'strongman'. West's support to Haftar is not done for that reason, actually EU is still bringing in immigrants intentionally, go figure out why yourself, the main reason of this support however is to prevent MB dominated Arab world.



The guy is clueless unfortunately, his EU brings in immigrant voluntarily and refugees in many cases, it's because the political echelon made that choice consciously. He doesn't want to take this up his political elite, and instead directs his attention to outside forces. On top of that, he is anti-Trump, even though Trump is against this migration to EU process. Which suggest to me that this guy is an insider himself, that is advancing neocon agenda of making life miserable for Muslims and White people who don't subscribe to neocon agenda.

You are pro trump despite knowing his pure hatred for Muslims?