Posted on 05/27/2014 6:18:56 PM PDT by mandaladon
The US is sending 1,000 Marines in an amphibious assault ship to Libya's coast as a “precautionary” move should the US embassy require evacuation, a US official said. Security concerns also led the US to suggest Americans in Libya "depart immediately."
Adding to tensions, gunmen attacked the Tripoli home of Libya’s new prime minister, Ahmed Maiteeq, on Tuesday. Businessman Maiteeq, 42, and his family escaped harm, according to AFP.
An aide to Maiteeq said "there was an attack with rockets and small arms on the prime minister's house" in Tripoli at 3:00 a.m. (0100 GMT). Maiteeq’s guards opened fire on the attackers, wounding and arresting two of them, the official added.
In reaction to the heightened strife in Libya, the USS Bataan, stocked with several helicopters in addition to the Marines, is to be in the nation’s coastal area “in a matter of days,” an anonymous US defense official said, according to AFP.
The preemptive move is a reaction to increasingly violent militia battles, which could threaten the American embassy’s security, the official said. Based on escalating security concerns, the US State Department recommended Tuesday that Americans in Libya "depart immediately."
"Due to security concerns, the Department of State has limited staffing at Embassy Tripoli and is only able to offer very limited emergency services to US citizens in Libya," the travel warning said.
The US also has 250 available Marines, seven Osprey combat aircraft, and three refueling aircraft in Sigonella, Italy, AFP reported.
The State Department said last week that its embassy in Tripoli was operating as usual despite offensives launched by a dissident general, Khalifa Haftar, against the Libyan parliament and Islamist factions.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Zahawi, the head of Libya’s Ansar Al-Sharia militant group in Benghazi, warned against any US interference in the nation’s ongoing tumult.
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But NOT necessary if OATH taking officials/military personnel had shown up on evening/morning November 4th/5th, 2008 making immediate arrests when their Constitution was swept under the rug, by installing an illegal undocumented alien, traitor and criminal. Something the United States of America NOW have to pay for dearly!!!
What now? Another nasty video about Mohammed, the camel jockey?
Oohrah!
Son of FE is at MCRD.
great post Rome 2000!
link pls
“She is not related to former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.”
No kidding!
well well well
“someone” in our state department or cia sure has an unrequited love for Libya - doesn’t he? Yet another secret military weapons program
Rice was sent to the UN as a post turtle
She is a tool
and so was the fat besotted dizzy (literally) Huma-obsessed Hillary
look at who was/is running this show- Samantha Power (radical anti-Semitic Berndadine-Dohr wannabe, 90’s style) overruling Gates and company and forcing the US into an extra-constitutional use of military force in a battle between bad and worse and neither benefitting US strategic interests
still? still with the “secret” advisors and secret weapons training in Libya to african radical militants?
Sends in the troops with orders not to shoot. Another Beirut set up by COIN rules of engagement. “We are going in only to bring out Americans. Do not shoot those who are aiming at you. Do not take out anyone reporting your positions via mobile phone, they may be talking to their mother.”
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