Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Libya's Tripoli airport becomes a graveyard for planes
Libya has become a country where hundreds of gangs are running amok armed with weapons looted from Gadhafi's stockpile or from the truckloads sent to them by NATO for ousting Gadhafi. Was NATO's action intentional? Was this situation exactly what the USA and her allies wanted? It can't be that all those NATO politicians holding the topmost jobs in their country couldn't have seen this happening, right?
Feras Bosalum and Ulf Laessing writing at Reuters:
....Militia shells Tripoli airport, U.N. pulls staff out of Libya.
A militia shelled Tripoli airport, destroying 90 percent of planes parked there, a Libyan government spokesman said, as heavy fighting between armed groups prompted the United Nations to pull its staff out of the North African country.
At least 15 people have been killed in clashes in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi since Sunday, and a Libyan official said several Grad rockets hit the Tripoli International Airport on Monday, damaging the control tower.
Government spokesman Ahmed Lamine said 90 percent of the planes parked at the airport were destroyed......
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