Posted on 03/04/2015 5:19:24 AM PST by thackney
Two major oil-ports in eastern Libya, Es Sidra and Ras Lanuf, were hit by an air-raid on Tuesday launched by the Islamist armed forces, according to security sources.
A warplane fired rockets at oil facilities in Es Sidra and the airport in Ras Lanuf but caused no severe damage or casualties, an official from the Petroleum Facility Guard (PFG) said.
The Islamist armed alliance Libya Dawn did not confirm the attack.
Since mid-December, Libya Dawn militants have mounted assaults trying to seize the oil terminals, aiming to cut off any oil income to the internationally recognised government and parliament, now exiled in al-Beida and Tobruk.
Libya has witnessed a drastic escalation of violence after the 2011 turmoil which toppled Muammar Gaddafi. The Islamist militants and pro-secular army forces have been vying for cities and towns for months, and fighting continues near major cities like Benghazi and Tripoli.
Such hath the Obamanation wrought.
Thanks, Barack! Thanks, Hillary!
Obama... the gift that keeps on giving, like herpes.
Thanks, John. Thanks, Lindsey.
Yet more foreign policy success through the collective genius of Clown prince nobama, kerry, biden, rice and the iranian-born reptilian. Sheer brilliance!
Warplane??!! That raises a myriad of questions. Can’t wait to hear some details.
The JV team got a Piper Cub?
Thanks Juan, Lindsey, Hillary and Obama
Still not much in the way of details:
Warplanes of the internationally recognised Libyan air force struck Tripoli’s militia-controlled Mitiga airport on Tuesday without causing any casualties, both sides said.
It was the latest in a series of raids carried out in recent months by forces loyal to controversial anti-Islamist general Khalifa Haftar, who was named head of the government’s armed forces on Monday.
The rival Libyan forces carried out tit-for-tat air strikes on oil terminals and an airport on Tuesday, escalating their battle for control of the country days before United Nations peace talks were due in Morocco....
A warplane belonging to Tripoli-allied forces bombed the oil ports of Ras Lanuf and Al Sidra, causing only minor damage, according to a security official with Al Thinni’s government.
“They targeted the civil airport in Ras Lanuf, and oil tanks in Al Sidra. The rockets fell near the tanks, resulting in only minor damage,” said Ali Hassi, a spokesman for the forces guarding Libya’s oil infrastructure....
The Islamists have an air force and it is still flying? Does Obama know?
Are they using controversial in the American domestic media sense of “saying something a liberal somewhere finds objectionable”?
I just had visions of “Washing Machine Charlie” from the Pacific theater of operations during WWII. :)
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