FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
The "National Unity government" is only backed by the Islamist side in the civil war. The Tobruk based non-Islamist government has not endorsed it.
US Airstrikes in Libya still don't dislodge ISIS
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The "National Unity government" is only backed by the Islamist side in the civil war. The Tobruk based non-Islamist government has not endorsed it.
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
The Hildebeast voted for it.
I think those bees you talk about entered your brain
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
So she's stupid enough to believe Bush.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
Bingo.
Whatever political capital, or moral indignation, the left thinks it has stored up in the Iraq War, it is blown out of the sky by the Crooked Hildebeast.
Hillary is just another neocon.
There has been a Republican president the last 8 years, haven't you watched the MSM?
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
Prove it.
I'll understand if you can't.
If Hillary believed Bush she's too dumb to be president.
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
She cackled on camera about a man's death, a man she had known and worked with.
Monad Portal
Was it me?
Yeah. More of the same. Go with that. Call the campaign and help them with their messaging.
The United States ramped up its air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya over the weekend, increasingly targeting jihadist snipers positioned in buildings around the city of Sirte, a U.S. defense official said.
Since the U.S. military opened a new front against ISIS by launching strikes in Libya, the terror group has adjusted its tactics, U.S. officials said. ISIS still depends on snipers to maintain its control of the Libyan city, but the group is no longer is as mobile because of U.S. airpower.
“ISIS knows we are in the air, and they are adjusting,” a U.S. defense official told The Daily Beast.
The ISIS fighters appear to be restricting their movement during the day in an attempt to avoid the air strikes.
A U.S. official said that change may have contributed to a more aggressive air campaign over the weekend, which is being directed by the Libyan government. The U.S. military conducted nine strikes in the Libyan city Sirte over the weekend. That marked an increase in the rate of the strikes, since the U.S. conducted only 11 strikes over the prior five-day period. The total number of U.S. strikes in Libya, which began Aug. 1, is now 20.
The defense official said U.S. strikes were not pre-planned, but rather were a product of “emerging targets.”
The air strikes are meant to aid pro-government militias who are seeking to take Sirte back from ISIS control. The militiamen have stalled just outside the Libyan city’s center, an urban area covering about four miles, according to The Washington Post.
When the U.S. military campaign began, officials said they had hoped to move conservatively as they believe the campaign to retake Sirte must be seen as Libyan-led.
Less than 500 ISIS fighters remain in former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown, which now is ISIS’s north African capital, the U.S. defense official said. ISIS has placed snipers, land mines, and booby traps throughout Sirte, making the city increasingly dangerous for pro-government militias.
Since May, at least 350 Libyan brigade members have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded while fighting ISIS in the Libyan city.
Since the U.S. military opened a new front against ISIS by launching strikes in Libya, the terror group has adjusted its tactics, U.S. officials said. ISIS still depends on snipers to maintain its control of the Libyan city, but the group is no longer is as mobile because of U.S. airpower.
“ISIS knows we are in the air, and they are adjusting,” a U.S. defense official told The Daily Beast.
The ISIS fighters appear to be restricting their movement during the day in an attempt to avoid the air strikes.
A U.S. official said that change may have contributed to a more aggressive air campaign over the weekend, which is being directed by the Libyan government. The U.S. military conducted nine strikes in the Libyan city Sirte over the weekend. That marked an increase in the rate of the strikes, since the U.S. conducted only 11 strikes over the prior five-day period. The total number of U.S. strikes in Libya, which began Aug. 1, is now 20.
The defense official said U.S. strikes were not pre-planned, but rather were a product of “emerging targets.”
The air strikes are meant to aid pro-government militias who are seeking to take Sirte back from ISIS control. The militiamen have stalled just outside the Libyan city’s center, an urban area covering about four miles, according to The Washington Post.
When the U.S. military campaign began, officials said they had hoped to move conservatively as they believe the campaign to retake Sirte must be seen as Libyan-led.
Less than 500 ISIS fighters remain in former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown, which now is ISIS’s north African capital, the U.S. defense official said. ISIS has placed snipers, land mines, and booby traps throughout Sirte, making the city increasingly dangerous for pro-government militias.
Since May, at least 350 Libyan brigade members have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded while fighting ISIS in the Libyan city.
as the United States pursues it’s 30-day campaign against ISIS in Libya, concerns, if not panic, is running high across the country. And they ratcheted up when the Italian government said it would “positively consider” any requests by the United States to use Italian airspace and American bases on Italian soil to launch anti-ISIS strikes.
So far, the raids have been conducted from aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, but that de facto go-ahead from the Italians, it is almost certain that as the campaign continues, the use of Sigonella airbase in Sicily will become the most logical launching pad for sustained attacks due south across the Med.
There are also armed military police in the shopping malls and along the busy pedestrian thoroughfares in most major Italian cities, trying to stop knife and machete attacks like those that have claimed victims in Germany, France, Britain, and Belgium. There are sharpshooters hovering on the rooftops during busy summer festivals to try to avoid the type of massacre that took place in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations.
There is even a constant buzz of military helicopters patrolling above the beaches, no doubt trying to thwart attacks like those that happened on the pristine seaside resort in Tunisia. Museums are barricaded, airports are like fortresses, and there is such a sense of preparedness for something dreadful, one can find it hard to remember that the country is a vacation destination.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ar-in-libya-italy-braces-for-retaliation.html
So far, the raids have been conducted from aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, but that de facto go-ahead from the Italians, it is almost certain that as the campaign continues, the use of Sigonella airbase in Sicily will become the most logical launching pad for sustained attacks due south across the Med.
There are also armed military police in the shopping malls and along the busy pedestrian thoroughfares in most major Italian cities, trying to stop knife and machete attacks like those that have claimed victims in Germany, France, Britain, and Belgium. There are sharpshooters hovering on the rooftops during busy summer festivals to try to avoid the type of massacre that took place in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations.
There is even a constant buzz of military helicopters patrolling above the beaches, no doubt trying to thwart attacks like those that happened on the pristine seaside resort in Tunisia. Museums are barricaded, airports are like fortresses, and there is such a sense of preparedness for something dreadful, one can find it hard to remember that the country is a vacation destination.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ar-in-libya-italy-braces-for-retaliation.html