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US Launches Air Strikes Against ISIS Targets In LIbya
Zero Hedge ^ | 8/1/16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/01/2016 10:08:39 AM PDT by lafroste

In what comes as the most expected geopolitical development in recent years, moments ago the United States announced that it had launched multiple airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya on Monday, opening a new, more persistent front against the group at the request of the United Nations-backed government, Libyan and U.S. officials said.

The strikes, which allegedly targeted an Islamic State tank and vehicles, come amid growing concerns about the group's increased threat to Europe and its ability to inspire attacks across the region. "The presidency council, as the general army commander, has made a request for direct U.S. support to carry out specific airstrikes," Serraj said. "The first strikes started today in positions in Sirte, causing major casualties."

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1 posted on 08/01/2016 10:08:39 AM PDT by lafroste
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To: lafroste

Two years too late.................................


2 posted on 08/01/2016 10:11:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: lafroste

Lemme guess...Hillary ordered it, right?


3 posted on 08/01/2016 10:12:16 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Red Badger

It’s an election year ... Dems are always war mongers for an election year.


4 posted on 08/01/2016 10:12:21 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: lafroste

Hopefully nobody is taken in my this token move and changes their vote for November.


5 posted on 08/01/2016 10:12:52 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: lafroste

Libya was going just fine until we decided to “help”. NATO created this whole mess and the neocons won’t be satisfied until it’s another Iraq....complete with hundreds of billions in defense funding.


6 posted on 08/01/2016 10:13:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: lafroste

“The strikes, which allegedly targeted an Islamic State tank and vehicles”

WOW! Looks like we might have taken out a tank and a couple of Toyota pick-ups.

/S


7 posted on 08/01/2016 10:13:20 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: lafroste

More press on our phony “War on Terror”.


8 posted on 08/01/2016 10:14:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: lafroste

This is just sad...

We can no longer trust our government to be honest with us.

Why do I believe this is nothing but a diversion to get the people minds off the Democrats poor performing convention and Hillary’s email scandal?


9 posted on 08/01/2016 10:17:00 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The government is the problem, not the solution.)
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To: lafroste

This should never have been started to begin with, shipping guns through Fast and Furious to over throw other countries like Barky and Hillary did, with the help of Eric Holder and others in Barky’s cabinet, namely ValJar...

Now we are faced with more of our sons, daughters, brothers, fathers, uncles going into war, and why? Because of a failed system in our government, our voting laws and rights have been violated, we vote for who we want, and get who the NWO and globalists want...rigged system...

I hope and pray that Russia and China stay out of this until after Trump takes his Oath of Office as POTUS and we can find a solution to this mess that idiot people, and that includes John McCain and his Bagdaddi friend, can solve and save America and her people...


10 posted on 08/01/2016 10:18:32 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: lafroste

What happened to leading from behind and coalitions? /s


11 posted on 08/01/2016 10:19:24 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: lafroste

What is the legal justification for this?
Is this from a notification to congress?
Or is this just more wag the dog.


12 posted on 08/01/2016 10:19:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: P.O.E.

Looke like they found the Libyan whistleblower who can identify Hillary as the seller of ISIS weaponry.


13 posted on 08/01/2016 10:20:56 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Hits for Hillary. Get paid to sign onto YouTube and watch Hillary's speech over and over.)
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To: lafroste
US Launches Air Strikes Against ISIS Targets In Libya

Yeah, the ones who won't fork over Libyan oil to the US designated terrorist funding recipients.

14 posted on 08/01/2016 10:22:05 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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This is some real theater we’re witnessing.

Hardball.


15 posted on 08/01/2016 10:22:25 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: lafroste

Just trying to appease those “No More War” Sanders supporters.


16 posted on 08/01/2016 10:23:43 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: lafroste

A whole tank?

A wasted effort of show,
where the REAL TERRORISTS were warned IN ADVANCE
by Obama and his minions.


17 posted on 08/01/2016 10:25:33 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Gadsden1st

Wait, let me take a look at the score card here, isn’t the Current Regime supposed to be on the SAME SIDE as ISIS in Libya?

Wasn’t that the whole reason the consulate outpost at Benghazi was allowed to be taken by radical Islamists, while the Current Regime stood by passively in September 2012?

And now the Current Regime says, with a straight face, that they are “attacking” ISIS. Just a pinprick, “limited force”, you understand, hardly be noticed.


18 posted on 08/01/2016 10:26:25 AM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: lafroste

Now why is it that ISIS is in Libya? Oh, yes, Hillary and Obama supported violent extremists to overthrow a leader who had become cooperative about battling terrorism in his country. But, no, that wasn’t good enough for Hill-bama, they had to defeat him to put radical terrorists in charge.


19 posted on 08/01/2016 10:29:36 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Obama committed a half a million to death and destruction for political gain.

And, he wiped the place clean of Coptic Christians only to resettle Muslims in America, leaving the others dispersed to oblivion.

He has crucified us.


20 posted on 08/01/2016 10:29:44 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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