Posted on 07/01/2016 8:24:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sirte, 450 km (280 miles) east of Tripoli, became Islamic State's largest outpost beyond its Iraq and Syria territory. It was taken last year by militants who profited from Libya's war among rival factions to gain control of territory and impose their hardline vision on the city.
Losing Sirte would be a major setback for the group and a big blow to morale as it also struggles to hold ground in Iraq, where it has lost the city of Falluja and other territory to forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
Islamic State are being squeezed by a tightening ring of separate fronts around a 5-km central area where earthen berms crisscross roads, cutting off escape routes. Tanks and howitzers lob occasional shells into areas held by Islamic State.
Many of those fighting Islamic State are from the nearby port city of Misrata.
Wearing mixed camouflage uniforms and jeans, some in flip-flops and others in flak jackets, they are trying to clear out snipers and landmines and booby-traps strapped to corpses in the street and in houses. They have positioned gun-mounted vehicles behind earthen roadblocks and fire aging anti-tank canons from villa rooftops.
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I wish them the very best in their efforts. I wish to spend not one damned dime more in libya or any where in the middle east. Good luck and God speed.
Now we find that Obama flat out lied to the American people and there are 6000 -10000 ISIS fighters in Libya alone.
I wish them the very best in their efforts. I wish to spend not one damned dime more in libya or any where in the middle east. Good luck and God speed.
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What happened in Libya is Obama and Hillary’s fault. They were not a threat to us. They had opened their weapons arsenal for inspections. Obama and Hillary overthrew their government and caused this chaos.
Before Obama and Hillary’s invasion, Libya was prosperous and not much of a threat to anyone else. Now Libya is a failed state.
Personally, I wouldn’t want the USA to get involved over there now because of our incompetent leadership. If needed, I hope the Russians help the people of Libya defeat ISIS.
This is what we have all come to expect from criminal mind basta*d obama.
Barky and Cankles have a lot to answer for
That is so true and right on. Keep that going. We have meddled our last. Trump will waste the Isis bastards and take the oil . I am for that. We will have many casualties with all the girls and queers but that is what they signed up for— so be it. It will get down to the men and then we gut the bastards and take their oil for pay back. GO TRUMP!!
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