Thanks for the pics Tom!
Have you been focused on Iraq, Syria, Central Africa, Ukraine and Israel?
Well add a new hot spot to your list.
Libya.
Check this out from Yahoo News.
Tripoli (AFP) - Fighting between powerful militias battling for control of Tripoli's airport broke out again on Friday, just hours after they had agreed a truce, an airport official and witnesses said.The worse part of this?
The clashes came as the government sought United Nations help to prevent the country from becoming a "failed state".
"The airport was once again today hit by mortar fire which struck the security offices," but caused no casualties, airport security official Al-Jilani Al-Dahech told AFP.
Airport security forces returned fire, he said without giving further details.
Libya's main international airport has been closed since Sunday, with rockets causing damage to aircraft and the main terminal building amid warnings by officials the facility could remain closed for months.
The violence erupted when Islamist gunmen from the city of Misrata attacked anti-Islamist fighters from the city of Zintan who have been controlling the airport for the past three years.
The rival fighters are among several heavily-armed militia groups who hold sway over Libya since they fought in the NATO-backed 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
Friday's clashes broke out just hours after the mayor f Tripoli announced that the rival militias had agreed to observe a truce and that control of the airport would be handed over to neutral forces
The US govt will be caught unaware...again. We are in a terrible time. Our government appears to be comfortable lurching from one crises to the next.
Hand a barbarian a sword, and he can swing it as easily at you as he can your enemies. Short-term thinking at its finest.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the source of the pics? Also is the photographed equipment part of the force attacking or defending the airport...or just an older file photo?
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