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Libya crisis: Gunmen 'kill 12 including foreigners' at oilfield
BBC ^ | 4 February 2015 | BBC

Posted on 02/04/2015 12:29:24 PM PST by csvset

Unknown gunmen have seized control of a defunct Libyan oilfield in an attack that left at least 12 people dead, at least four of them foreigners, the oilfield's commander says. The gunmen, possibly Islamists, attacked the remote al-Mabruk oilfield south of Sirte on Tuesday night. The oilfield, part-owned by the French company Total, has not produced oil for more than a year.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: is; islam; libya; nato; terror
NATO helped these very same Islamic State barbarians. How's that working out?
1 posted on 02/04/2015 12:29:24 PM PST by csvset
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To: csvset

The French and Italian’s went after Libya to insure their supply of oil...how did that work out? We of course..lead from behind.


2 posted on 02/04/2015 12:33:09 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: csvset

>> The gunmen, possibly Islamists

No, this sounds more like workplace violence to me.


3 posted on 02/04/2015 12:34:21 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: csvset

What were the foreigners doing at the defunct field? Shades of Benghazi?


4 posted on 02/04/2015 12:38:30 PM PST by grania
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To: Nervous Tick

...and at some point, you have to ask yourself this question:

“What exactly is the difference between an “islamist” and a “muslim”? IS there any real difference?”


5 posted on 02/04/2015 12:39:39 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: csvset

More of what Obama’s victory looks like in Libya:

This video is from a WW II British Military Cemetery in Libya.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/RtgbvotqVFE?rel=0


6 posted on 02/04/2015 12:52:19 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A moderate muslim wants a radical muslim to cut your head off.


7 posted on 02/04/2015 12:52:57 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Nervous Tick
“What exactly is the difference between an “islamist” and a “muslim”? IS there any real difference?”

What difference, at this point, does it make?

8 posted on 02/04/2015 12:55:21 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> The gunmen, possibly Islamists...

Y’think?


9 posted on 02/04/2015 12:58:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: Eagles6; BenLurkin
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A moderate muslim wants a radical muslim to cut your head off.

heh... you got it. As per the picture Ben Lurkin posted here a few weeks ago:


10 posted on 02/04/2015 12:59:01 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: csvset

11 posted on 02/04/2015 1:06:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: csvset

Recently an American security contractor (former US military) was killed in an explosion/attack at a hotel in Libya, yet that story didn’t get the major coverage that one might have expected. It’s almost like the story was quietly shuffled off to the storage warehouse...

At any rate, Libya and the rest of the Middle East seems to be a hell hole. Poor Israel to be surrounded by all of this!


12 posted on 02/04/2015 1:08:02 PM PST by sassy steel magnolia
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To: csvset

This sort of thing will start to drive oil prices back up, imo.


13 posted on 02/04/2015 1:08:25 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: Eagles6

“A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A moderate muslim wants a radical muslim to cut your head off.”

Post of the day!


14 posted on 02/04/2015 2:50:23 PM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: RS_Rider

Stole it from someone here on FR. Don’t remember who.


15 posted on 02/04/2015 3:08:21 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Eagles6

None the less, I nominate you Ted Cruz’s Press Secretary.


16 posted on 02/04/2015 4:14:52 PM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: RS_Rider

I can’t afford the pay cut. ;-)


17 posted on 02/04/2015 9:36:13 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: sassy steel magnolia
Recently an American security contractor (former US military) was killed in an explosion/attack at a hotel in Libya, yet that story didn’t get the major coverage that one might have expected. It’s almost like the story was quietly shuffled off to the storage warehouse...

Some threads here:

1 American among the dead in Libyan hotel attack

Libya attack kills former Sierra Vista man. Berry a 2000 graduate from Tombstone

18 posted on 02/05/2015 12:31:09 AM PST by Lonely Bull
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