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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    WTF??? Why attack the UN??
    The UN is not welcome in Bengazi/Tobruk/east - the UN backs the GNA government in Tripoli

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    The UN is not welcome in Bengazi/Tobruk/east - the UN backs the GNA government in Tripoli
    NK was @ war w/ the UN....
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Fighting Around Tripoli Resumes, Truce Over
    https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/...mes-truce-over

    GNA forces n southern Tripoli June 2019

    Libyan officials say the fighting around Tripoli has resumed, following a two-day truce observed during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

    The officials said on Tuesday that the self-styled Libyan National Army led by commander Khalifa Hifter carried out airstrikes overnight on the southern outskirts of Tripoli.

    They say the militias allied to the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli also shelled Hifter's forces in the area. On Saturday, both sides had accepted a U.N.-proposed truce during Eid al-Adha, which began Sunday.

    The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

    Hifter's forces launched an offensive in April to capture Tripoli. The fighting has killed over 1,100 people, mostly combatants, and displaced more than 100,000 civilians.

    The battle lines have changed little over recent weeks.

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    For the first time ever, a weaponised laser shot from a combat vehicle destroyed an enemy vehicle in battle, and it is Turkish technology behind one of the more significant recent advancements in military technology, according to the military news site Army Recognition.

    “Turkey is not sufficiently recognised in the ranks of the countries-innovators in military affairs,” Alexander Timokhin wrote for Army Recognition on Monday. “But it seems that they will be able to surprise the population of the planet in this century.”

    In Libya’s conflict, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been supporting the UN-backed, Tripoli-based government, mainly for its links to Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. On the other side, the Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar is supported by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Russia, and has received verbal support from U.S. President Donald Trump.

    “Haftar is slowly but surely winning,” said Timokhin, adding that Turkey has sent heavy weapons, advisers and instructors in response, and recently began transferring militants from Syria as well as advanced high-tech weapons.

    Earlier this month, an armed UAE drone, made in China as the Wing Loong II, was doing reconnaissance over the Misurata area for Haftar and looking for targets for its anti-tank missile. Suddenly, it plummeted and crashed into the desert, and the photo soon flew around the world.

    The Turkish laser that shot down the UAV in mid-flight, according to Timokhin, is mounted on an off-road armored car and equipped with a Turkish-made opto-electronic guidance system.

    “The system allows you to accurately inspect the target for firing, to select a vulnerable point, and then hold the laser marker on this point until the target is completely destroyed,” said Timokhin.

    This is no longer an experimental technology, he added, but a fully functional combat vehicle armed with a laser gun, tested in battle against advanced military technology, not against a commercial drone bought on eBay.

    said Timokhin.

    Turkey has long sought to achieve military superiority in the region and seriously invested in innovative weapon systems. Working with state research institute Tubitak, the Turkish company Savtag developed experimental lasers, from 1.25 kW up to 50 kW, and by 2015 they had begun successfully hitting targets, according to Timokhin.

    That year alone, Turkey spent $450 million on the programme. “For a country that has access to all Western technologies and already saves a lot of money on R&D, this was a very impressive amount,” said Timokhin.

    Aselsan Holding, Turkey’s top defence contractor, soon took over the laser weapons programme, and by July 2018 announced it had successfully tested a combat laser capable of destroying unmanned drones from 500 meters and explosive devices from 200 meters.

    Even conscripts could use these new weapons, and the cost of firing the laser gun is equal to the price of diesel fuel spent during the shooting, Timokhin added. This epochal news is unlikely to have a big impact, until Turkey uses the weapon on a bigger stage. But that doesn’t mean it is insignificant.

    “This is all the more surprising because both Russia and the United States are superior to the Turks in laser technology,” said Timokhin, adding that both do have laser weaponry in operation.

    https://ahvalnews.com/turkish-milita...litary-history

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    All that and ..... nobody cares !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loving91390 View Post
    All that and ..... nobody cares !
    The media is more interested trumps latest tweets.
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    The Democratic Party of the Jackass and lying left do not like being reminded of all of Obama's failures.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    ^ please leave domestic politics and inanities out of this thread. TY

    Libya capitol flights suspended after deadly rocket fire
    Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...-fire-11812442

    Flights from the Libyan capital's sole functioning airport were suspended Thursday (Aug 15) after deadly overnight rocket fire, a spokesman for the country's unity government said.

    Moustafa al-Mejii of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) said Wednesday night's rocket fire "killed a guard and wounded several security agents tasked with protecting the airport".

    The attack was carried out by "the militias of (military strongman Khalifa) Haftar from their positions south of Tripoli", he told AFP, adding that flights to Mitiga were being diverted.

    Located east of Tripoli, Mitiga is a former military airbase that has been used by civilian traffic since Tripoli international airport suffered severe damage during fighting in 2014.

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    Libya sends mobile petrol stations to conflict-hit west
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/libya-sen...122826827.html
    ripoli and parts of western Libya have been engulfed in war since forces loyal to the chief of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) force, Khalifa Haftar, started a campaign to take the capital, held by an internationally recognised government.

    Haftar's forces have not been able to breach southern suburbs of the capital but the conflict has displaced more than 100,000 people in and around the city and hit water, electricity and fuel supplies.

    As truck drivers have been reluctant to deliver fuel to petrol stations in conflict areas Brega Petroleum Marketing Company (BPMC), owned by state oil firm NOC, has sent fuel tanker trucks to serve motorists on the streets.

    "We are a country famous for oil...but we have to queue up most of the day to get gasoline," said a motorist waiting to be served at one such mobile station. "This does not make sense."

    People view their cars as vital in a country with scant public transport and where they face long journeys to work and to buy food and household goods.

    Oil-exporting Libya has been hit by fuel shortages since the country plunged into chaos in 2011 when Muammar Gaddafi was toppled.

    "I drive every week from Riqdalin to Tripoli ... to get a full tank of gasoline, but often I go back home with empty hands," said father-of-three Jlaidi, speaking at a mobile station made up of a truck, two pumps and a small red canopy.

    The queues of waiting cars stretched back for more than a kilometr

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    Pro-government forces claim advance south of Libya capital


    Fighters loyal to the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord are pictured during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar, in Espiaa, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Libyan capital Tripoli

    Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said Wednesday they had made territorial gains south of Tripoli against commander Khalifa Haftar, whose fighters are trying to take the capital.

    "Our forces have won ground... and have successfully retaken important positions, including the air force academy," said Mustafa al-Mejii, a spokesman for forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord.

    He said the gains were made in Esbea sector, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital.

    Haftar's forces said in a Facebook statement that they had repulsed a GNA attack, inflicting "significant losses", without giving further details.

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    On July 26, Libya’s internationally-recognized government announced a brazen air raid on a hangar housing drones deployed in support of rival commander Khalifa Haftar. A day later, his forces said they retaliated with strikes on a military base that sent fireballs into the night sky.

    Neither side officially acknowledged the worst-kept secret of the North African state’s civil war: as the opponents face a stalemate on the ground, their backers in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are engaged in an aerial campaign that’s seen them target each other’s unmanned planes in a bid to determine Libya’s future in their favor.

    The Tripoli government’s attack on the airfield in Jufra was carried out by Bayraktar aircraft owned and operated by Turkey, according to two Western diplomats and a Libyan official, who all spoke on condition of anonymity. The U.A.E. struck back with Chinese-made Wing Loong drones, according to the two diplomats and an Arab official, targeting Bayraktars located in the coastal city of Misrata. Airstrikes have also destroyed three Ukrainian cargo planes supplying both sides.

    Regional and European powers have competed for influence in the oil-rich country for years, but Haftar’s offensive to capture the capital in April sparked an escalation in foreign intervention that has prolonged and deepened the conflict, sidelining United Nations efforts to seek a negotiated peace.

    “The fact that these local actors can turn to outside factions is a disincentive for them to come to the table,” said Frederic Wehrey, senior fellow in the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They’ve got a stream of weapons” to tap.

    The U.S. indicated tentative support for Haftar, who’s based in the eastern city of Benghazi, once his assault was underway and France has quietly supported both sides. But for the most part, Washington, with more pressing priorities elsewhere in the world, has watched as some of its most important Middle East allies battle for dominance in an OPEC state with Africa’s largest oil reserves.

    Libya has been under a Security Council arms embargo since 2011, when NATO-backed rebels overthrew Muammar Qaddafi and the country became fractured by infighting, creating a security vacuum that allowed jihadists and people smugglers to flourish.

    But the sanctions are among the world’s least enforced. The European Union’s Operation Sophia, originally intended to intercept human trafficking across the Mediterranean and later extended to include the weapons ban, has little chance of intercepting arms shipments.

    Turkey’s Agenda

    Oded Berkowitz, an Israeli security analyst, said in an interview he’d verified through open source images the deployment in Libya of Russian-made Pantsir surface-to-air missile systems and several types of armored vehicle manufactured by Turkey and the U.A.E.

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    Eight fighters allied to Libya’s internationally recognized government were killed in air strikes as rival eastern forces stepped up an offensive to retake a strategic city south of Tripoli, officials said on Monday.

    Another 10 members of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord’s (GNA) forces were wounded, their spokesman Mustafa Majae said, and the rival Libyan National Army (LNA) had taken control of “some military points” near Gharyan, some 90 km (56 miles) south of the capital.

    “Our forces are still fighting to repel them,” Majae told Reuters.

    The city’s council said Gharyan had been under attack from drone-propelled air strikes since Sunday morning.

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    Mercenaries arrived from Turkey to Libya’s Misrata,
    https://ahvalnews.com/libya-turkey/m...a-spokesperson
    The terrorists arrived via the Libyan Wings Airline, owned by Islamist militant Abdelhakim Belhaj, to join Fayez al-Sarraj militias in their fights against the LNA,” Libyan Address Journal quoted Khalid Al-Mahjoub, spokesperson of the LNA's Tripoli Operations Room, as saying on Saturday.

    The claim arrives amid a string of accusations against Turkey of funding and arming Islamist factions in Libya fighting on the side of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).

    Three unnamed senior GNA officials told Bloomberg that the Tripoli-based government received armed Turkish Bayraktar drones a short while ago.


    The Bayraktar TB2 is a medium-altitude, long-range tactical UAV system. It was developed by Kale-Baykar, a joint venture of Baykar Makina and the Kale Group.

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    all flights at Mitiga airport have been suspended “until further notice.”
    https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/...t-after-attack


    Libya's airport authorities say they have closed the only functional airport in the capital, Tripoli, a day after it was hit by shelling amid clashes between rival armed groups fighting for control of the city.

    Nasr al-Din Shaab el-Ain, the head of Tripoli's civil aviation authority, said Monday that all flights at Mitiga airport have been suspended “until further notice.”

    The U.N. mission in Libya said four projectiles struck the civilian parts of the airport Sunday, with one hitting an airplane carrying pilgrims coming back from Saudi Arabia

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    Benghazi Port Bustling Again Despite Libya's Divisions

    https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/...byas-divisions

    he commercial port in Libya's second city Benghazi is working round the clock three years after reopening, attempting to raise revenues for its restoration and expansion.

    The port was caught in the cross-fire as rival factions battled for control of Benghazi from 2014 in a conflict that left parts of the eastern Libyan city in ruins.
    It suspended operations as the main gate and some buildings were destroyed and the roads strewn with shells.

    Before the war, revenues were deposited with Libya's General Administration of Ports in the western city of Misrata, but the management of Benghazi port is now separate, he said, a situation that reflects the divisions in the country.

    Misrata, a coastal city in western Libya with a major port of its own, is a hub of opposition to Haftar's LNA, which since April has been waging a military campaign to try to take control of the capital Tripoli.

    Hope

    Since reopening, Benghazi's port has been receiving more than 400,000 tons of grains at 18 docks, twice what the port was receiving before 2014.

    It pays salaries of 2.25 million Libyan dinars to 1,400 employees. It does not export oil, but imports gas and some petroleum products as well as general cargo.
    Forces led by Khalifa Haftar eventually declared victory in Benghazi in 2017. Repairs and reconstruction have been limited — two out of three damaged tug boats are still out of service.

    But the port is now doing brisk business and trucks loaded with cars and containers carrying foodstuffs, motor oils and other goods can be seen streaming out of the main gate near the city center.

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