If this did indeed occur where are all the photographs? Social Media would be blown up with this. Especially when you consider the Mujahideen Shura Council Derna's recent public affairs blitz.Originally Posted by davidbfpo
If this did indeed occur where are all the photographs? Social Media would be blown up with this. Especially when you consider the Mujahideen Shura Council Derna's recent public affairs blitz.
By far not everything is caught by the 'social media'; and 90% of what is reported on social media in Arabic never reaches English-language 'areas'.
Good point!
But there are a couple of reliable observers on Twitter. Charlie Winters, Daniele Raineri, Mary Fitzger to name a few.
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Much of the news reporting recently has pointed to this U.N. report.
Dash's long term prospects not good because they are seen as a foreign entity. True and when compared to AQ tied leaders & brokers the deficit looks pretty big.
http://untribune.com/wp-content/uplo...-Libya-ENG.pdf
Ex-Egyptian MiG-21MF '18' of the Free Libyan Air Force, only recently overhauled by technicians at Gamal Abdel Nasser AB (ex RAF el-Adem, south of Tobruq), was shot down by Islamists over Bo Atni district of Benghazi, yesterday morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRa8GBoV4Cg
Pilot ejected safely.
In line with what all the air forces seem to do in recent conflicts, LNA/FLAF declared the loss as caused by technical problem.
March to Folly 2.0: The Next Western Military Intervention in Libya
From ECFR by a recommended Italian SME (via Twitter) and starts with:Link:http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentar...vention_in5083Those who want to bring the western war against the Islamic State to Libya insist, as a US official put it in a private conversation, that any intervention would be about IS not about Libya. Alas, regardless of what it will be about, it will take place in Libya. That simple geographic reality means the complex political feuds and intrigues that have plagued Libya politics for the last five years will inevitably intrude on any Western intervention. Ultimately, a Western intervention that fails to account for Libyan politics and fails to consider what will replace ISIS in the event it is defeated will have no benefit for Libya or for the West.
Link to ECFR author's bio:http://www.ecfr.eu/profile/C238
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From the Soufan Group via Twitter. Possibly from this report last week:http://soufangroup.com/libya-extremi...s-of-collapse/
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