By Saber Ayyub.
By Saber Ayyub.
Tripoli, 26 January 2016:
A Tripoli-based militia has promised to fight any foreign troops that seek to intervene . . .[restrict]in Libya and said that any laws that violate Sharia are invalid.
The vow came after militiamen of the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade tonight paraded noisily through the streets of Tripoli in ninety vehicles led by their commander Haitham Tajouri. The convoy’s destination was Martyrs’ Square.
Al-Naaba TV which covered the event, broadcast a statement from Tajouri in which he rejected the proposed Government of National Accord which he said was in fact a government of foreign occupation. Any foreign intervention would be an invasion.
It may be significant that for the first time, the brigade’s statement began with some verses from the Koran. There was an insistence that any political agreement had to be accepted by Islamic scholars. Sheikh Sadek Al-Ghariani, the grand mufti still recognised by the Tripoli government, has already rejected to Libyan Political Agreement as unIslamic.
Tajouri promised that his brigade would fight any foreign forces that sought to intervene in Libya. He said that he supported “revolutionaries” fighting in Benghazi, Derna and Ajdabiya, saying that they were the true revolutionaries. He added that Khalifa Hafter and IS were opposite sides of the same coin.
This article has been updated to include fresh details [/restrict]
