By Ayman Amzein.
Benghazi, 26 November 2015:
War planes belonging to the Libyan National Army commanded by Khalifa Hafter have spent much of . . .[restrict]today, Thursday, hitting positions in Ajdabiya held by the Islamist umbrella group, the Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shoura Council (ARSC). The repeated strikes targeted buidlings in the industrial area in the south of the town being used by ARSC, although one is said to have hit an apartment building.
“We’re still being hit,” an official with Ibrahim Jadhran’s Petroleum Faciltiies Guard (PFG) told the Libya Herald late this afternoon. Two Egyptian workers and one from Sudan had been killed in the attacks, he said. He did not say whether anyone had been killed or wounded from the ARSC, which includes Ansar Al-Sharia but also has ties with Islamic State (IS) fighters.
The attacks follow the murders yesterday of three officials in the town, all said to be Salfists. There have been five killings in less than a week, all been blamed on ARSC. A six person, named as Mohamed Al-Maghrabi, was shot later today. His condition is unknown at present.
Today’s airstrikes are likely to further poison the already bitter rivalry between Ibrahim Jadhran and Hafter. Jadhran’s brother Usama is a leading member of ARSC and, despite being a firm Cyrenaica federalist, Jadhran himself is said to have sympathies for the group. [/restrict]
