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IS militants retreat from Libya bastion
AP ^ | Jun. 9, 2016 | RAMI MUSA and MAGGIE MICHAEL

Posted on 06/09/2016 2:35:58 PM PDT by BeauBo

Islamic State militants were retreating Thursday from their main bastion in Libya, as militiamen allied to a U.N.-brokered government pushed into the central city of Sirte, officials said. ...it was the only major IS-held city outside Syria and Iraq, and was seen as a possible fallback option for the capital of its self-styled caliphate. ...forces found sinks full of shaved-off beards, suggesting that the militants tried to get rid of their trademark looks before fleeing.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; libya; sirte
ISIS just lost its alternate headquarters. It also just lost a major source of revenue from Libyan oil as well.

There was a quick collapse of the ISIS defense, with lots of desertions. There are still jihadis left in the city, clustered around a conference center - but their future seems rather bleak.

1 posted on 06/09/2016 2:35:58 PM PDT by BeauBo
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KILL’EM ALL; anybody found outside or around the city with a fresh shave, rope and lampost or the wall.


2 posted on 06/09/2016 2:48:49 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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yup, kill every last one of the IS vermin....


3 posted on 06/09/2016 2:57:33 PM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverSHRILLARY)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
So, where are all these deadly drones when they'd really be useful?

4 posted on 06/09/2016 3:00:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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The prognosis is pretty grim for foreigners to get out of town alive. Fallujah too. Manbij not real promising either...

By the end of Ramadan (6 July), ISIS will probably be collapsing down into a few last sieges - Raqqa and Mosul. Clueless greenhorn low-level foreign recruits won’t find the kind of well-organized help getting out of the country, that they found getting in.


5 posted on 06/09/2016 3:01:21 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Enchante; 5th MEB
"KILL’EM ALL; anybody found outside or around the city with a fresh shave, rope and lampost or the wall."

"yup, kill every last one of the IS vermin...."

Put them in cages, douse them with gasoline and let the local women set them afire.

6 posted on 06/09/2016 3:06:26 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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maybe they can go hang out at the new mosque being built on the South Side of Chicago next year, aka the Obama Library.


7 posted on 06/09/2016 4:17:08 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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The cowards shaving off their beards and doing the “Me no Alamo, Me no Goliad” bit.


8 posted on 06/09/2016 5:22:26 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I want nitric acid vats and these screaming bastards looking at videos of Donald Trump as their last image before they go to hell.


9 posted on 06/09/2016 8:05:03 PM PDT by WENDLE (GO TRUMP!)
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Separately, the "Little London" of Manbij in Syria, where ISIS based most of its recruits from Western countries, is now completely encircled:


10 posted on 06/10/2016 4:46:10 AM PDT by BeauBo
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Waste every last one of them. Especially the newly shaved.


11 posted on 06/10/2016 5:43:17 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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In Sirte, Libya, ISIS lost control of the city, and fell back to a stronghold at the convention center.

Thanks for bunching together like that for the airstrike Haji!


12 posted on 06/10/2016 7:46:32 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo; no-to-illegals; SunkenCiv; 2ndDivisionVet; headstamp 2; blam; All

Now that is what I call “closure.” Also, by their pale chins and cheeks ye shall know them. There really is not much around Sirte except a few small towns on the way to Benghazi.


13 posted on 06/10/2016 10:48:28 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: fella; BeauBo; no-to-illegals; SunkenCiv; All

The boys from Misrata are fighting fiercely. Misrata was under siege for months by Ghadaffi’s forces, and are particularly determined not to have another dictatorship controlling their lives. Also given the long time they were fighting and resisting they probably have had more experience than other Libyans.


14 posted on 06/10/2016 11:04:06 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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[singing] Mis-ra-ta! No! We will not let you go! Mis-ra-ta! No! Never never never... [/singing]


15 posted on 06/11/2016 2:20:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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