Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Drone Wars: Libya

There is no way the total surveillance grid can not know who it was and where they came from and went.

"Airstrikes in Libya a mystery; 6 dead" Associated Press   August 19, 2014

CAIRO — Airstrikes launched by an unknown party targeting Islamist-led militias in Libya’s capital killed six people Monday, authorities said, as the interim government vowed to investigate the strikes amid raging street battles.

The confusion over who launched the two fighter jets shows the chaos still engulfing Libya after its 2011 civil war, which toppled longtime dictator Moammar Khadafy.

I have my suspicions as to who did it, and it could only be a handful of folks.

In a statement, the government demanded the chief of staff and military intelligence to investigate the predawn strikes on Tripoli Monday morning targeting positions of militias originally from the coastal city of Misrata and its Islamist allies.

The strikes, under the cover of darkness, sparked fears that a foreign country such as Italy carried out the attack, as the Libyan military does not have aircraft that can fly at night, according to a former colonel in the Libyan air force.

Oh, Italy was it? Ha-ha-ha-ha. Uh-huh.

Libya’s newly elected Parliament recently asked the United Nations to protect its civilians and stop the fighting. Italy’s ambassador to Libya denied his country was involved.

Ahmed Hadiya, the spokesman for Libya Shield, an umbrella group for militias, suggested that the warplanes took off from the Wittiya air base west of Tripoli and targeted a base taken over by his militias recently. He did not provide more details.

A militiaman from the coastal city of Misrata said the jets belong to forces allied to renegade General Khalifa Hifter. The militiaman spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to journalists.

Then they were US WARPLANES!

Ali al-Shekhli, an army spokesman, later told television station al-Naba that the jet fighters were ‘‘foreign’’ and urged the government to take action against what he described as a ‘‘blatant foreign intervention.’’

It is the UNITED STATES, they JUST CAN'T SAY IT because it would REALLY LOOK BAD for Obummer seeing as he had to send forces back into Iraq, he lost Syria, and now he is losing Libya.

A statement by the Libyan Army chief of staff’s media office said that jets used ‘‘guided bombs’’ not in the possession of the Libyan army.

That's a confirmation of sorts.

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Maybe it was ALIEN UFOs, huh?

I suggest you take a scroll through Libya to see how the Globe has been reporting it.

Also see: 

The Drone Wars: 21st-Century Red Barron
The Drone Wars: Pakistan
The Drone Wars: Iraq

Dam them

The Drone Wars: Yemen

Related: Yemen drone and air strikes 

Saw it on the crawl at Al-Jazeera.