Militia in Benghazi Flees After Deadly Gun Battle

New York Times ^ | Nov. 25, 2013 | David Kirkpatrick

[Republicanprofessor]

CAIRO — A militia in Benghazi, Libya, tied to the killing of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens fled its headquarters on Monday after an hourslong gun battle with a local military unit, a potential turning point in a continuing struggle between Islamists and their foes for control of the city.

Libyan army troops during clashes with Ansar al-Shariah, a local hard-line Islamist group, on Monday in Benghazi. At least nine people were killed and more than 50 were wounded, health officials said, as the battle flared out across Benghazi, beginning before dawn. Stores and schools were closed. The local authorities advised residents to stay in their homes and avoid the streets. And by late afternoon, the militia, Ansar al-Shariah, appeared to have disappeared underground. Photographs circulated over the Internet that appeared to show its headquarters emptied and smoking, with the wreckage of a burned-out car sitting outside.

The melee followed the deaths of more than 40 people in a similar battle in Tripoli this month, when militiamen from the coastal city of Misurata opened fire on civilians protesting their continued presence in the city. Both battles come during the run-up to another attempt to elect a constitutional assembly that might relieve the expiring transitional Parliament and lay the foundations for a new national government two years after the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

[Cicero]

I think this is a case of terrorists fighting against terrorists. And it’s also tribal. Different terrorist gangs, different tribes.

[melancholy]

Now I know where National Review “stole” The Corner from! /s

The Corner = El Rukn in Arabic.

Those Rukn idiots wearing fezzes that were discontinued in the Middle East since the 1940s!

Talking about retarded Neanderthals in search of a culture!

[hoosiermama]

You do know that JJ biological dad was Noah Robinson. From the same area Michelle Robinson family was from and that she spent enough time in the JJ home babysitting to be called Sis by the siblings

Noah jr is doing life for his involvment in the black Muslim street gang “they were close until his arrest”.
Will add your link to the repository

[hoosiermama]

For more background on Jeff Fort and el Runk start at 749 here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2151323/posts?page=749

[hoosiermama]

From what I’ve read the whole conversion to Muslim ( by Louis. FerretCon) was a ruse to keep the government out of the gangs business. Hiding behind church front good details in several of the posts above

[MestaMachine]

Yes, and much more. I was not aware that you didn’t know about the rukn archive at Ken’s site. There is in depth info there.

Goldmine
http://www.kentimmerman.com/

[hoosiermama]

Just hadn’t run across it There is a treasure of materials out there. Absolutely no excuse for the media not to have completely vetted 0 and his associates

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for the ping.

Here’s a story with some interesting comments:

http://www.propublica.org/article/why-reporters-in-the-us-now-need-protection

[Graewoulf]

Dereliction of Duty File and First Degree Murder File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.