"Hifter take Benghazi" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Jul 2017 9:45 p.m. PST |
"After three years of sporadic combat, the fighting is over in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, at least for now. The city erupted in jubilation late Wednesday after the commander of a militia in the area, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, announced on television that his forces had vanquished the Islamist fighters they had been battling in Benghazi for the past three years. Wearing military-style regalia, General Hifter said that all that remained was to clear battle-scarred neighborhoods of land mines and unexploded ordnance. Forces loyal to General Hifter, a brash and ambitious former Libyan Army officer, have prematurely claimed victory in Benghazi before. But this time residents said they believed that the news was genuine, with thousands of people streaming into the streets after his televised address to celebrate amid sounds of honking horns and triumphant gunfire…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2017 11:01 a.m. PST |
So he is claiming victory over a nearly deserted pile of ruins? Dan |
Tango01 | 07 Jul 2017 11:43 a.m. PST |
(smile) The tittle is tricky!…. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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Tgunner | 07 Jul 2017 1:45 p.m. PST |
So he is claiming victory over a nearly deserted pile of ruins? Sounds like Stalingrad. But cities can be rebuilt.
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Cacique Caribe | 07 Jul 2017 2:06 p.m. PST |
Wait. Didn't Nostradamus warn future generations of an antichrist named Hister? Wasn't that back when "s" was often substituted by an "f"? It's the end of the world!!! Dan |
Tango01 | 07 Jul 2017 10:40 p.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha…. Amicalement Armand
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CFeicht | 08 Jul 2017 10:36 a.m. PST |
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ITALWARS | 09 Jul 2017 3:50 p.m. PST |
the autonomous experienced Gen. Khalifa Hifter conquer cities and defeat terrorist backed gangs…while the puppet man put in place and recogniced by Western Countries need the Italian Navy even to have the toilet paper replaced in his Presidential Palace 's office bathroom |
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