Posted on 02/15/2015 10:37:51 PM PST by Eurotwit
Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the group published video showing the apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
State TV said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites and weapons storage areas.
Earlier, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt had the "right to respond" against IS.
A video emerged on Sunday showing a group wearing orange overalls being forced to the ground and decapitated.
IS militants claim to have carried out several attacks in Libya, which is in effect without a government.
"Egypt reserves the right to respond at the proper time and in the appropriate style in retaliation against those inhuman criminal killers," President Sisi said.
"Egypt and the whole world are in a fierce battle with extremist groups carrying extremist ideology and sharing the same goals."
The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups.
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SISI is highly respected in Egypt and why the people him, though he was reluctant to be their leader. HE will not mess around when it comes to anyone disturbing his people. He's an exceptional Military creme del a cream. He even said he can work with BOBO far better than with Obama!
I meant BIBI..HA!
-- hussein obama: Kenyan born, Indonesian raised
Meanwhile, Italy ready to lead coalition against Libya jihadists
Italy on Sunday said it was willing to lead an international coalition against jihadists in Libya, as it began repatriating its citizens from the troubled north African country amid security concerns.
Italy on Sunday closed its embassy in Libya, one of the last European missions in the troubled country. About 100 Italians were evacuated on a vessel escorted by the navy, the foreign ministry said.
Rome on Friday warned its nationals against travelling to Libya and urged those already there to leave in the face of mounting insecurity as jihadists gain ground.
Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said in an interview published Sunday that Italy was ready to lead a coalition from Europe and north African states to battle against the advance of jihadists in the violence-plagued country.
"We have been discussing this for months but now it has become urgent," Pinotti told Il Messaggero newspaper.
There’s been Approximately 300 of the 800 strong force in control of ‘Derna’ and are reportedly hard-line Libyan Jihadists who fought with ISIS in Iraq an Syria.
Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
I’d trade Obama, Biden and Boehner for either the King of Jordan or the Egyptian President and fill guilty because I got, by far, the best end of the trade.
If you drink you're beat with a rod
ISIS destoryign statues in Derna
Nice video showing Egyptian jets coming out of the hanger and into flight on their way to bomb ISIS...Egyptian Military posted this video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=616523398478646&set=vb.217455035052153&type=2&theater
More, I see from the article, there were protests in Egypt upon the initial abductions, the government did not act. That would have been a difficult position.
Get ‘em Egypt!
Couldn’t fighter planes do some damage against ISIS. This seems to be what attack helicopters do now. That seems to be what is needed against a group like ISIS.
“Obama” doesn’t want to waste our tax dollars. “Obama” has spent billions funding and arming ISIS. It makes no sense for him to turn around and blow up the stuff he’s given ISIS.
“The residence of ‘Basheer al-Darsi’, one of ISIS leaders in Libya, was among targets of the last night airstrikes.”
Coincidentally, that’s what Ted Cruz said in the video you sent me tonight.
Ted Cruz: “The solution to ISIS is to hunt down and kill the terrorist leaders.”
Approx 15 min into this video:
Ted Cruz rocks the Defeat Jihad Summit (Fri Feb 13, 2015):
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2015/02/ted-cruz-rocks-the-defeat-jihad-summit.html
The pit of vipers after Benghazi was Derna
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