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Libya: Islamic State jihadists storm hotel, kill three, take hostages

Jan 27, 2015 8:29 am By Robert Spencer

aliZeidanHotelBack in November, there were reports that the Islamic State was in control of the Libyan city of Derna. A couple of weeks ago, the Islamic State of Tripoli announced that it had kidnapped twenty-one Christian “Crusaders.” And now this. Libya has descended into jihadist chaos, courtesy Barack Obama.

Note also how the determinedly clueless Telegraph calls the group “the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” a name it discarded seven months ago, and which is especially non-applicable in a story in which it is operating far away from Iraq and the Levant.

“Hotel in Libya ‘stormed by Islamic State gunmen,'” the Telegraph, January 27, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

Islamist gunmen have stormed a hotel in Libya used by foreigners, killing at least three guards and taking a number of hostages, it was reported today.

The attack on the five-star Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli was carried out by fighters from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), according to a US-based intelligence monitoring organisation that quoted a message put out on Isil’s Libyan Twitter feed.

Details of the attack were still unclear, but according to security sources at the scene, four armed men had detonated a car bomb in front of the hotel, killing a guard, before rushing inside.

The men, who were wearing masks and bulletproof vests, then began firing randomly at staff in the lobby. It is understood that a number of hostages have been taken, but the nationalities were unclear.

Security forces have now surrounded the building, while residents fled out of emergency exits.

One member of staff said the hotel had Italian, British and Turkish guests, but the hotel was largely empty at the time of the attack. Other reports said that the claims of hostages having been taken were not yet confirmed.

Essam Naas, a spokesman for Tripoli security forces, told Reuters: “The security forces are evacuating the guests floor by floor. There was shooting between the gunmen and the security forces,”

“It is more than likely that there are hostages held by the gunmen on the 23rd floor.”

The Maltese-owned hotel is also used by senior Libyan politicians as a de facto headquarters for visits to Tripoli and political meetings….

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  1. Lookmann says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Latest toll 8.

    Eight dead, including five foreigners, in Tripoli hotel attack – official

    http://news.yahoo.com/eight-dead-including-five-foreigners-tripoli-hotel-attack-132949329.html

  2. Angemon says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 9:35 am

    Note also how the determinedly clueless Telegraph calls the group “the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” a name it discarded seven months ago, and which is especially non-applicable in a story in which it is operating far away from Iraq and the Levant.

    Maybe they don’t know about islamic terrorist groups other than al-qaeda or the islamic state, and since Obama declared that al-qaeda was on the run they automatically assumed that it was the islamic state. Or maybe they won’ want their readers to be aware of the existence of islamic terror groups other than al-qaeda and the islamic state.

    • albert says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 5:35 pm

      I agree makes you wonder why they need to say where they come from, a muslim islamonazi, jihadi from Libya is the same as a muslim islamonazi jihadi from England or America, its enough to know that this child murdering filth are muslim islamonazi jihadis.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 9:36 am

    Why do Westerners or for that matter anybody else go to Islamic hell holes for tourism????

    WE should boycott tourism of all Islamic nations for our own safety!!!

  4. thomas pellow says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 9:52 am

    Supplementary.

    An interesting and still relevant report on Libya

    (Oct 2014)

    23 mins video-

    “Libya Last Stand Against Jihad”

  5. Zebo says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 10:00 am

    Ooops,Sorry…we obviously missinterpreted the peacefull quran,
    just like millions of other people(incl.Pedo-Mo) all around the world since 635.

    You can can join us & the ultimate religion of peace and missinterpretation under
    “stronger than reality.com”
    In our peaceful trainingscamps you can learn to ignore logic and the rules of cause&effect by
    simply by crawling the carpet 5x a day ,repeating perpetually “this is not islam”and praying to former moon god allah

  6. pumbar says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 10:16 am

    “Note also how the determinedly clueless Telegraph calls the group “the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,”

    Note also that the supine, staggering, on-the-ropes, press of the US does not even report this. Such breath-taking dhimmitude by the “leader of the free world” is not only surprising but depressing as the US hobbles into its final, asymptotic, craven, grovelling, snivelling swan song to its now dead ruler in Riyadh.

  7. JamesonRocks says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 10:19 am

    A terrible situation and no surprise in a toilet like Libya. One part of the article did puzzle me, “The attack on the five-star Corinthia Hotel…” Really? How in the world is it possible to have a five-star hotel in such a s…hole? Hmmm… it must be a very low standard in Libya.

  8. thomas pellow says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 12:34 pm

    “Mission Accomplished: ISIS Overruns Libyan Hotel Used by United Nations”

    By Daniel Greenfield.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/mission-accomplished-isis-overruns-libyan-hotel-used-by-united-nations/

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