Oorlog in Libië #117 Libië wil Gadaffi terug

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rConflictNews twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 11:03:11 BREAKING: 21 Egyptian fishermen abducted in #Libya freed: state TV - @AlArabiya_Eng reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 17 februari 2015 01:26 schreef J0kkebr0k het volgende:

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Ze gaan samenwerken met de Libische regering

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Islamist Faction in Libya Now Strikes From the Sky

CAIRO — The Islamist-backed faction in Libya’s civil conflict said Tuesday that it had carried out its first airstrike, targeting opponents in the town of Zintan in an escalation of the violence tearing the country apart.

The attack occurred two days after the Islamic State, the extremist group also known as ISIS or ISIL, released a video showing fighters for one of its Libyan branches beheading as many as 21 Egyptian Christians. In retaliation, Egypt carried out an airstrike on Monday against a town in eastern Libya that is a hub of Islamist militancy and the home of another Islamic State branch.

The extent of the damage was unclear. But the attack on Tuesday raised the possibility of an air war between the rival Libyan factions and diminished hopes for United Nations-sponsored talks about ending the conflict.

“This may well upend the U.N.’s mediation efforts,” said Wolfram Lacher, a Libya researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Word of the bombing on Tuesday came as Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, visited the United Nations in New York, intending to push for a Security Council measure to strengthen what he called the “legitimate government of Libya.” That government has moved to two towns near the border with Egypt because the conflict has left its Islamist-backed opponents, who call themselves Libya Dawn, in control of Tripoli. The Security Council plans to meet Wednesday and discuss the Libya crisis.

Mr. Shoukry said, “We believe a more expanded form of assistance to the Libyan government is necessary in view of the threat terrorism poses.”

With no effective government since the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011, Libya has largely disintegrated into a patchwork of fiefs controlled by local or ideological militias. Over the past year, those militias have picked sides with one of the two warring coalitions.

Libya Dawn includes moderate and extremist Islamists. The other coalition, calling itself Operation Dignity and vowing to eradicate the Islamists, includes former Qaddafi soldiers as well as fighters from Zintan, a powerful Western mountain town. That faction has the support of Libya’s internationally recognized government, which is under Operation Dignity’s protection.

Operation Dignity’s main advantage in the fight has been the use of a small air force of helicopters and Russian-made fighter planes left over from Colonel Qaddafi’s military, which its officers have said the Egyptian military helped to repair and maintain. Operation Dignity has used the force to strike armed opponents and occasionally their civilian neighborhoods.

Under pressure from the United Nations and the West, Dignity’s leader, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, recently suspended airstrikes against civilian targets in the opposing cities of Tripoli and Misurata in order to make the peace talks possible, Mr. Lacher said by email. But Libya Dawn’s airstrike on Tuesday “now threatens a spiral of retaliation,” he said.

Leaders of the Libya Dawn coalition had long threatened to repair their own damaged jets and helicopters left over from Colonel Qaddafi’s air force and use them to strike back. It was unclear how they had made the aircraft flight-worthy.

A spokesman for the provisional government that Libya Dawn has established in Tripoli said Tuesday night that its forces had used “two or three” Russian-made MIGs to hit a Zintan airstrip and another location where the city’s fighters had gathered.

The spokesman, Jamal Naji Zubia, accused Zintan’s militia of using the airstrip to import weapons, ammunition and military support.

A statement from the airport authority in Zintan said a warplane had bombed the airport around noon, just as a civilian flight was preparing to take off.

The attack “created panic among the passengers and families” and forced the cancellation of the flight, the statement said. It asked Libya’s internationally recognized government to condemn “this terrorist crime” and to “ensure accountability for those who carried it out so that it is not repeated again.”

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 10:21 schreef Bolsjewiek het volgende:
https://twitter.com/HananShamounNL/status/567974501994115072

ISIS reportedly plans to send jihadists to southern Europe disguised as migrants from

http://www.foxnews.com/wo(...)sguised-as-migrants/

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 10:48 schreef MotherFoker het volgende:

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Dit was toch al een tijdje gepland?

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 10:48 schreef Bolsjewiek het volgende:

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De geruchten gaan al heel lang inderdaad, maar heb een beetje het gevoel dat het bangmakerij is.

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 10:50 schreef MotherFoker het volgende:

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Zou me niet verbazen, we laten toch zomaar iedereen toe.

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GissiSim twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 17:56:59 #ISIS in #Libya very proud to be burning a drum set before their assault on Europe. Priorities on point. http://t.co/XilvIMyGJz reageer retweet

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michaelh992 twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:09:52 More pictures of the Islamic State parade in Sirte #Libya http://t.co/Oo5NBXRczO reageer retweet

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michaelh992 twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:14:17 PT: Video of the Islamic State convoy driving through Sirte, #Libya http://t.co/GtST74eHJC reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:10:50 #BREAKING: U.N. Security Council meets to discuss situation in #Libya http://t.co/DLps2Um0dp reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:28:16 #BREAKING: #Libya foreign minister slams killing of #Egyptian Copts by #ISIS http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:31:59 #BREAKING: #Libya FM at U.N. Security Council meet says counter-terrorism top issue for Libyan government http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:34:11 #BREAKING: #Libya FM at UN Security Council meeting says #Libyan army needs to be armed http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:35:42 #BREAKING: #Libyan FM says extremist groups are seeking to turn #Libya into a #terror hub http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:36:36 #BREAKING: #Libyan FM says situation in #Libya threatens neighboring states, even #Europe http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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AlArabiya_Eng twitterde op woensdag 18-02-2015 om 21:39:35 #BREAKING: #Libyan FM says has asked #Egypt to continue strikes against #ISIS http://t.co/Zq2muVq0Ft reageer retweet

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Arab states to ask U.N. to ease Libya arms embargo

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Wednesday, 18 February 2015}

Egypt said Wednesday a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Libya submitted by Arab states makes no mention of the international military intervention against jihadists that Cairo originally proposed.

"There is no call for foreign military intervention," the foreign ministry said of a proposed resolution that would lift a UN embargo on arms sales to Libya for the benefit of the country's internationally recognised government.

The announcement comes after Western powers balked at taking on the local branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which recently beheaded Egyptian Christians in Libya, stressing instead the need for a political solution to the unrest there.

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 10:48 schreef Bolsjewiek het volgende:

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De geruchten gaan al heel lang inderdaad, maar heb een beetje het gevoel dat het bangmakerij is.

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 21:42 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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Op donderdag 19 februari 2015 06:37 schreef Gabrunal_2013 het volgende:

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Absurd, alsof er nog niet genoeg wapens zijn daar. Deze "regering" is net zo goed een van de strijdende terroristengroeperingen. De legitieme leider van het land zit nog in de gevangenis.

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2015 22:56 schreef J0kkebr0k het volgende:

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Gedropt? Of wat?

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Qatar roept ambassadeur terug uit Egypte

Qatar heeft zijn ambassadeur uit Egypte teruggeroepen "voor overleg", meldt staatsomroep QNA. Qatar is niet blij met Egyptes eenzijdige besluit om luchtaanvallen uit te voeren in Libië.

Egypte begon met die aanvallen als reactie op de de moord op 21 Egyptische koptische christenen door terreurbeweging Islamitische Staat in Libië. Caïro overlegde niet met andere Arabische staten over de vergeldingsactie.

Qatar heeft volgens een hoge functionaris op een bijeenkomst van de Arabische Liga twijfels uitgesproken over Egyptes eenzijdige optreden.

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De diplomatieke rel kan leiden tot een nieuwe breuk binnen de Samenwerkingsraad van de Arabische Golfstaten. Vorig jaar hebben Saudi-Arabië, de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten en Bahrein hun ambassadeurs teruggetrokken uit Qatar, omdat het land islamisten zou steunen.

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