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Libya capital under Islamist control after Tripoli airport s

hypocritexposer

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Looks like obama was successful in Libya...


Tripoli: Libya has lurched ever closer to fragmentation and civil war this weekend after Islamist-led militias seized the airport in the capital Tripoli, proclaimed their own government and presented the world with yet another crisis.

Fajr Libya (Operation Dawn), a coalition of Islamist and Misrata forces, captured the airport on Saturday in fierce fighting against pro-government militias after a five-week siege that has battered parts of the capital. Television images from the scene showed jubilant bearded militias dancing on wrecked airliners, firing machine guns in the air and chanting “Allah O Akbar” (“God is great”). On Sunday, they set the airport buildings ablaze, apparently intending to destroy rather than hold it.

The victory, which secures Islamist control over Tripoli, was a culmination of weeks of fighting triggered by elections in July which Islamist parties lost. Rather than accept the result, Islamist leaders accused the new parliament of being dominated by supporters of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and have sought to restore the old national congress.

“The general national congress will hold an emergency meeting in Tripoli to save the country,” said congress spokesman Omar Ahmidan.

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/libya/libya-capital-under-islamist-control-after-tripoli-airport-seized-1.1376111
 

Steve

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Maybe the Libyan government should consider some gun control laws.. and gun free zones.. :shock: :roll:

airports are gun free zones .. so the rebel/terrorists would have had to protest in a designated free speech area. :shock: :roll:
 

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