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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Is the USA thinking of going back to Libya to undo the mess there?


There have been rumors floating around that some members of the original gang from NATO responsible for the Libya of today are conducting air operations in parts of Benghazi.  Chances are that those rumors are  not rumors after all.

From RTNews:
....US moves Marines to Italy as situation in Libya becomes tense.  Two hundred United States Marines are being mobilized from a base in Spain to an Italian site neighboring Libya where an Army raid over the weekend resulted in the capture of suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Anas al-Libi.

CNN reported early Tuesday that a US military official confirmed the repositioning of 200 heavily armed Marines to the naval base at Sigonella, Italy, a Sicilian fort south of Catania that sits on the opposite side of the Mediterranean from Libya. 

According to the military source, the US Department of State aided in the troop movement and considers the maneuver “a prudent measure” following Saturday’s raid in Tripoli. There is now the potential for a security crisis to arise at the US Embassy in Libya, CNN reported, should tensions worsen as a result of the capture. .....

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