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Libya: Islamic State seizes government security HQ, beheads 12

Feb 25, 2016 9:43 am By Robert Spencer

“A second security official said that the militants used the headless bodies of the officers they killed to block the roads leading to the security headquarters—which they occupied for about three hours.”

“Narrated Anas: The Prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men belonging to the tribe of Uraina and did not cauterize (their bleeding) till they died.” (Bukhari 8.82.795)

A view of the street after a violent clashes between Libyan interim government forces and loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte

“Where ISIS Is Doubling,” by Adam Chandler, The Atlantic, February 24, 2016:

The Libyan branch of ISIS staged a gruesome attack Wednesday on government-security headquarters in the western city of Sabratha. According to the AP, the group beheaded 12 officers before taking control of the complex.

“A second security official said that the militants used the headless bodies of the officers they killed to block the roads leading to the security headquarters—which they occupied for about three hours,” the report added.

The attack came less than a week after American airstrikes hit an ISIS training camp in the city, killing about 40 people, including two Serbian hostages. The renascent U.S. efforts in Libya speak to a growing concern shared by a number of countries about ISIS’s increasing ability to flourish in the North African country.

American intelligence officials estimate that the group’s ranks in Libya have grown to 6,500 fighters, more than doubling since the fall. ISIS first declared its intentions to establish a presence in Libya in 2014 and has been launching attacks ever since. The group is now thought to control 150 miles of Libyan coastline.

Part of this surge is being attributed to the civil discord in Libya among the country’s competing political factions and militias, which have produce rival governments with their own security forces. The chaos has had major economic repercussions as well. Last month, the head of the country’s national oil company estimated that Libya has lost $68 billion in oil sales since 2013.

With Islamic State fighters suffering under heavy fire in Iraq and Syria, the group’s strategy of exploiting the security vacuum in Libya also appears to be a conscious one….

No kidding, really? You mean, they didn’t just luck into it?

The media as well as the governments of the West continue to underestimate the Islamic State.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 9:50 am

    Muslims doing heir holy religious duty of beheading human being and offering their heads to Mo/allah! Is there any word to describe these people – many people call them beasts but I would avoid that since animals/beasts are much better than them and only do what nature has intended for them to do for survival! But Muslims following Mo/allah and Quran is another story – they are totally converted into demons following Mo/allah.

  2. quotha raven says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Arab spring. What a beautiful thing. Benghazi. Mayhem. Thank you, Hillary and Barry. Nice job setting the middle east on fire. Libya, first, last and always?

    Cheers!

    quotha raven

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:19 am

      I’m sure you’ve noticed, Quotha, that the term “Arab Spring” has quietly been retired–although few touting this rose-colored vision ever actually acknowledged they got things entirely wrong. How could a resurgent Islam have *ever* resulted in anything positive?

      • quotha raven says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 10:24 am

        to Gravenimage – Yes, I have noticed that the term “Arab Spring” (kumbaya, my love, kumbaya!) has been retired, in much the same way as “man-made global warming – or freezing – ” were retired, traded in for the much more serviceable “man-made climate change”!

        Cheers!

        quotha raven

      • Jay Boo says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 11:24 am

        Strangely …
        The faces of battered and bruised war-torn children have been suddenly retired as well in the Arab Spring files as well — whenever Islamic ideology is mentioned.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 3:01 pm

        …the term “Arab Spring” has quietly been retired–although few touting this rose-colored vision ever actually acknowledged they got things entirely wrong.

        The hard-core Leftist originators of the “Arab Spring” did not really get “things entirely wrong.” Their aim was to entrench and empower fanatical Muslim “revolutionaries” throughout the Arab world. This strategy has succeeded brilliantly in countries such as Lybia, Syria and Iraq.

        Egypt was a major set-back, probably due to Saudi alarm at enabling the Muslim Brotherhood leading to determined counter-action. It may well be Saudi Arabia’s disloyalty to the Obamites’ revolutionary ambitions that led to Obama’s decisive shift towards alliance with the Saudis’ arch-enemy Iran.

        • quotha raven says

          Feb 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm

          to Custos Custodum, who suggests that “Egypt was a major set-back, probably due to Saudi alarm at enabling the Muslim Brotherhood leading to determined counter-action. It may well be Saudi Arabia’s disloyalty to the Obamites’ revolutionary ambitions that led to Obama’s decisive shift towards alliance with the Saudis’ arch-enemy Iran.”

          That is a brilliant notion, Custos, and it’s new to me. Makes complete sense to me, but I never thought of it myself. Instead, I’ve had a little rational disconnect when it comes to our shifting alliance from SA to Iran. Another big piece of the puzzle falls into place. Thank you for supplying that piece.

          I’m experiencing one of those “Eureka” moments that smart JW commenters like you make possible. Thank you again..

          Cheers!

          quotha raven

        • Custos Custodum says

          Feb 25, 2016 at 5:21 pm

          Thanks for your kind words, quotha raven.

          Of course, we can only guess at what goes on under the surface of very murky waters, and there may be many other factors and explanations. We should certainly continue to explore different scenarios and explanations for a better fit with what sparse and contradictory “facts” have emerged.

          Another enigma is what really happened in Benghazi – what were Hillary/Barry trying to achieve in Libya? Create a revolutionary bridgehead? Why did the Muslim forces humiliate and murder Chris Stephens – the very man who had been instrumental in establishing Muslim gang control over Benghazi? Why did Stephens meet with a Turkish representative in Benghazi on the day of his death? The meeting must have been important to Stephens’ work in Benghazi.

        • Custos Custodum says

          Feb 25, 2016 at 6:07 pm

          Ambassador *Stevens*. BTW, Stevens being gay certainly was NOT the reason he was raped and murdered.

          Stevens had never made a secret of his orientation. Some routine reports by Stevens suggest that he was a cautious and intelligent diplomat. Something must have changed to precipitate the sudden, organized attack on the consulate.

          Incidentally, there were persistent reports of U.S. security personnel using laser target designators to highlight targets for aerial strafing or bombardment. Activating lasers only makes sense if a C-130 was actually circling overhead.

          Most likely, General Carter Ham and Rear Adm. Gaouette dispatched one or several C-130 to Benghazi immediately upon receiving Stevens’ call so as to avoid losing time, and then started the process of getting clearance in DC. When clearance was denied, everyone had to pretend that the planes had never taken off. Both officers were summarily cashiered.

      • Christianblood says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 6:15 pm

        US and Nato bombed Qaddafi and Saddam to bring ‘democracy’ to Libya and Iraq and this is how it ended. They are trying to do the same in Syria now but after 5 years they are unsuccessful. Let us hope and pray that Syria becomes a new Stalingrad for the regime changers and their barbaric islamic jihadist allies.

        • Christianblood says

          Feb 26, 2016 at 12:04 pm

          Trump is for Christians worldwide! May he be victorious!

  3. Don McKellar says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 10:02 am

    I am pretty certain that during the upcoming Trump vs. Hillary battle, Trump will use Hillary’s sins of Libya against her. I believe that I’ve read that it was her idea to take out Ghadahfi, wasn’t it? Does anybody have any links to accounts that are reliable of her pushing for that?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:21 am

      You could be right, Don:

      “Trump rents theater to show Benghazi movie, hands out free tickets to Iowans”

      http://www.infowars.com/trump-and-benghazi-the-real-story-of-what-happened-in-libya-will-take-down-hillary-clinton/

      • Don McKellar says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 10:25 am

        Haha! I asked for reliable links and I get an Alex Jones! Thanks, though. Even Alex Jones does get right once in a while.

        • Dave says

          Feb 25, 2016 at 2:07 pm

          Try these

          http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261442/hillarys-benghazi-stand-down-order-exposed-kenneth-r-timmerman

          http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/250310/gowdy-comes-out-swinging-kenneth-r-timmerman

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 10:02 am

    Libya is one of the most perfect examples of the Islamic Death Cult in action.

    This is what Muslims do whenever they have weapons in their hands. Muslims should not be allowed any weapon…even a knife…if they cannot show the world they can behave in a civilized manner.

    Muslims murder THEIR OWN KIND when they have weapons and when no TOTALITARIAN REGIME is in place.

    Vigilantism is normative Islam, so Muslims can only be restrained by a vicious dictatorship, such as those of Kaddafi or Saddam Hussein or Saudi Arabia.

    Islam is irreconcilable with democracy or pluralism. Libya is evidence of that.

  5. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Wait – I thought Ilsam respected the bodies of the dead. Isn’t that what Obama told us at the time OBL was killed?

    • quotha raven says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:10 am

      To Islam_Macht_Frei – There was only one of OBL, not quite enough for a roadblock.

      Cheers!

      quotha raven

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:23 am

      Yeah–you hear Muslims say this, IMF, but it is belied by their vicious actions all the time–as is so often the case with any Muslim claim to civilized behavior.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 8:24 pm

      I think Mohammed (Pigs be upon him) said that it was allowed by Allah to have sex with a dead body.
      Pedophilia, necrophilia……….Whatever. Allah apparently allows sex with any object, dead or alive.

  6. gravenimage says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 10:16 am

    Libya: Islamic State seizes government security HQ, beheads 12
    ………………………….

    This is Islam at its purest–the “leaders” are the most vicious of the thugs. This has been the case since the days of the “Rightly Guided” Caliphs. *Ugh*.

    When pious Muslims reject democracy, keep in mind this is what they they are rejecting it *for*.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 11:34 am

      I suspect that at least one of the “Rightly Guided” Caliphs supplied to Aisha and the Jewish captive sex-slave the deadly poison that slowly severed through Muhammad’s aorta.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Feb 25, 2016 at 6:13 pm

        Very astute deduction – makes eminent sense if one considers that back then, knowledge of poisons and the ability to produce and use them was the exclusive preserve of the rich powerful and a narrow guild of trained specialists.

  7. Angemon says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    American intelligence officials estimate that the group’s ranks in Libya have grown to 6,500 fighters, more than doubling since the fall. ISIS first declared its intentions to establish a presence in Libya in 2014 and has been launching attacks ever since. The group is now thought to control 150 miles of Libyan coastline.

    But remember: according to Obama, ISIS is losing ground…

  8. Guest says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    “Progressives” and all of the world’s democrats need to be confronted BLUNTLY and publicly in a way that helps them to feel Islam as experienced by the Uraina and other people attacked by Muslims. To this end, it might work to publish a new hadith collection, e.g. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī Islamophobī. Changes would be very straightforward. For example,

    “Narrated Anas: The Prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men belonging to A tribe of DEMOCRACY and did not cauterize (their DESERVED bleeding) till they died.” (Bukhari Islamophobī 8.82.795)

    Changes are in CAPS, and they ought to elicit huffing and puffing from the usual humorless, hard-headed suspects. Since there are numerous collections of hadith, other authentic, trusted compiliations could be published. For examples,…

    Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim Islamophobim
    Ṣaḥīḥ ibn Khuzaymah Islamophobah
    Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān Islamophobā

    See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_terminology#Sahih

  9. Dave says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    This should be called Hillary’s War …

  10. Mark A says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    Thank you Obama and Hillary Clinton.

    Muammar Gaddafi was a thug, but at least he was keeping the jihadis in check. By taking out Gaddaffi, Obama & company have unleashed something far worse.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm

      Obama & company have unleashed something far worse.

      Ain’t it great when government policy actually does what it was meant to do?

  11. dlbrand says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 3:22 am

    “The media as well as the governments of the West continue to underestimate the Islamic State.”

    Indeed, as we did with the group in its infancy, Islamic State of Iraq, in Iraq–called defeated, annihilated, mujihadeen in retreat to the deserts of Anbar to refit, rename, and reemerge.

  12. Elizabeth lawson says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 11:01 am

    How long are we going to tolerate butchery by those who profess a faith belief for their actions? Don’t we owe the already slaughtered the debt of avenging their deaths? Does not the civilized world have a duty to protect the innocent from the horrors of these primitive marauders? I have read, over and over again,of the outrages perpetrated by followers of this particular demonic ideology, and sickeningly, I have also read the comments of their apologists. The ideology of anti-semitism produced the horror of the extermination camps; the ideology of Stalin, Pol Pot and many others brought about the deaths of millions-are we all blind and so obtuse that we cannot see where this ‘new’ ( in the Wesr ) ideology is leading? Regarding Sabratha, Libya, this is the site of Roman, Greek and Carthaginian antiquity. Over many years, the Italian government restored these beautiful remains for all the world to see. Leptis Magna is of equal beauty and importance in the world. Are we now going to see these historic sites destroyed by a band of illiterates, thieves, drug addicts and murderers- for that is what most of them are by many of the news accounts that I have read. My advice to their apologists is to acquaint themselves with the fate of those who collaberated with the German Nazis in Ww2

  13. Carolyne says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    I do not think it is the proper role of the United States to invade countries with whom we are not at war, and cause the death of that country’s leader. I do not want that done in my name. Basically, because if we condone that and if we do that, one of these days it will be done to us.

    Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are directly responsible for the complete disintegration of order in the Middle East. It is outrageous that we attacked Libya with our Tomahawk missiles. Libya had not attacked us and was not causing us any trouble. Kadify had calmed down, no longer allowed terrorism and was it was not in our national interest to attack Libya, Egypt’s government was overthrown and replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood at our instigation. Fortunately, the Egyptian army overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood and installed Al Sissi as President. I believe our ally, Mubarak, is still languishing in jail at our behest.

    The groups we armed in Syria to overthrow the government are now fighting each other. We are battling ISIS half-heatedly while Russia is bombing hundreds of ISIS sites.

    Hillary Clinton caused this. Her second in command, Huma Abedin, is the offspring of one of the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Did she urge Hillary Clinton to replace governments in Libya and
    Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood? And if she did, why did Clinton do it? And Hillary Clinton wants another chance at it by becoming President? I hope the American people are not so dumb as to elect her, but they elected Barack Obama, so who knows?

    There is an interesting article in the latest Smithsonian magazine about the important historic sites which ISIS has destroyed in several Middle East countries. Some of the earliest known churches, monasteries, even mosques have been destroyed by these barbarians. They have also created a huge market for stolen articles of antiquity, i.e. statues, etc. During the Egyptian uprising, the barbarians stole 70% of a museum holding ancient Egyptian works of art, mummies, etc. They even stole mummies of animals and beheaded mummies in the Cairo Museum.

    Yet we sit here on the other side of the world and our government does as little as possible to appear to be fighting ISIS but Barack Obama is fooling no one but himself.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 8:43 pm

      I guess that should have been “Kadafy,” Whatever.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 8:46 pm

        I’m sorry there were several misspellings in my post. I did it hurriedly. But what is lacking in spelling is not lacking in passion.

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