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U.S. and allies ready to help arm Libyan forces against Islamic State
washingtonpost.com ^

Posted on 05/16/2016 12:39:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin

they are considering arming and training the new unity government in Libya so it can fight the spread of terrorist groups in the country and counter the smuggling of migrants to Europe.

In a joint communique following a lengthy meeting on ways to rein in chaos in Libya, the diplomats said they would support Libya’s request to be exempted from a United Nations embargo that was put in place five years ago to keep arms out of the hands of Islamist militants and rival militias locked in a power struggle.

Other parts of the embargo would be reinforced, the communique said, so that arms go only to the forces being established by the “government of national accord” that returned to Libya six weeks ago when Prime Minister Fayez Serraj arrived on a boat with his allies.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; angelamerkel; cologne; europeanunion; germany; iran; italy; libya; libyafailedstate; libyaisis; nato; operationarabspring; pegida; sicily; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/16/2016 12:39:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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How much you wanna bet that after its over they’ll turn our own weapons on us again like in Afghanistan?


2 posted on 05/16/2016 12:41:17 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: BenLurkin

Send Linda and Juan. They’re the experts on this kind of thing.


3 posted on 05/16/2016 12:41:20 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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U.S. and allies ready to help arm Libyan forces against Islamic State Again.
4 posted on 05/16/2016 12:42:19 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: BenLurkin

What could possibly go wrong?


5 posted on 05/16/2016 12:43:40 PM PDT by major-pelham
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These are the same jerks who put the terrorists in power in Libya in the first place. Any and all money we send there will wind up in terrorist hands. You can bet on it.

After all, we need that taxpayer money to bring in more illegal aliens from Mexico to rape our kids and run them over.


6 posted on 05/16/2016 12:44:13 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The Obama Administration is getting ready to arm the Libyan people who they recently went to war with and bombed the heck out of in order to remove them from the government in order to fight ISIS, an Islamic terror organization that was created , trained and armed by The Obama Administration and its surrogates in Qatar

You can't make this stuff up

7 posted on 05/16/2016 12:45:04 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraere)
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(from the article):" arming and training the new unity government in Libya "

Obviously, trying to replicate the Benghazi disaster
If you keep repeating the same action
but expect a different result,.. you are what ?

8 posted on 05/16/2016 12:47:16 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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A SNORE moment......


9 posted on 05/16/2016 12:50:29 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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Just take the oil.


10 posted on 05/16/2016 12:51:31 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Sure you can trust us.”


11 posted on 05/16/2016 12:52:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DIRTYSECRET

NAILED !


12 posted on 05/16/2016 12:53:07 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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This is pretty much a total joke.

Libya was turned into a failed state by Obama and Clinton. Chris Stevens was running an operation to turn over weapons seized from Khaddafi to our Syrian “allies” (pretty much Al Qaeda in Syria)

Now we have to bring in more weapons to train unknown jihadis in Libya?


13 posted on 05/16/2016 12:54:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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So Obama basically already handed Libya to al Qaeda, arming them “against ISIS” is basically arming ISIS.


14 posted on 05/16/2016 12:55:17 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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Hoping to clean that mess off the internet before November it seems.


15 posted on 05/16/2016 12:56:57 PM PDT by The Toll
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Oh good, that is what they need. More weapons. Remember Benghazi. That was the US buying back the guns we gave them. But they gave them back bullet first.


16 posted on 05/16/2016 12:57:17 PM PDT by poinq
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It’s all about the GOLD in the Libyan National Bank.


17 posted on 05/16/2016 1:01:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Put Hillary up front. Obama can be her Assistant Gunner.


18 posted on 05/16/2016 1:04:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

We just do not learn .


19 posted on 05/16/2016 1:10:42 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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Congress should freeze all of this Obama nonsense until he is out of office. Of course they won’t.


20 posted on 05/16/2016 1:13:56 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
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