By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli, 4 February 2015:
The Libyan government in Beida has sent condolences today to Jordan following the news of ISIS’s . . .[restrict]brutal execution of captured Jordanian pilot Moath Al-Kasabeh.
Speaking in a press conference on the national news channel based in Beida today, government spokesperson Mohamed Bozaza expressed the Libyan government’s condolences to the Kingdom of Jordan, its government and its people.
The burning alive of Al-Kasabeh was, said Bozaza, an attempt by the Islamic State (IS) to intimidate weak people. These kinds of events, he said, would strengthen the Libyan government’s resolve to rid Libya of the “scourge” of terrorism.
He mentioned that Libya, too, has been impacted by the “terrorist criminals” of IS, and expressed condolences to Libya for the “martyrdom” of ten Libyan Army soldiers who died yesterday fighting near Derna, a front-line in Libya’s fight against IS.
Meanwhile, the Libyan National Army (LNA) leadership also offered its condolences to Jordan, Jordanian King Abdullah II, the Jordanian army and the people of Jordan as a whole.
“This heinous crime shook the conscience of the world and all of humanity,” declared the General Command of the LNA.
Also drawing a link between events in the Middle East and Libya, the LNA statement mentioned that terrorists had targeted hundreds of LNA officers in Benghazi and other Libyan cities.
The LNA said of execution of the Jordanian pilot that it considers “this barbaric and cowardly crime to be a crime against all Arab soldiers that requires the concerted efforts of all to eradicate this epidemic” of terrorism. [/restrict]
