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Re: How Isil spread to Libya - and now has Europe in its sights
Well Done Egypt, exterminate these khawarjee pigs
Egypt bombs IS in Libya after beheadings video
The BBC's Sally Nabil in Cairo says the strikes send "a very strong message"
Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the militants released video of apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
State TV said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites and weapons storage areas. A second wave of strikes was reported hours later.
Libyan officials said Egypt hit targets in the militant-held city of Derna.
The strikes came amid widespread condemnation of the killings. The US and UN described them as "cowardly".
A video emerged on Sunday showing militants forcing a group of men to the ground and decapitating them.
The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in separate incidents in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups.
Relatives of Egyptian Coptic Christian workers mourn in Al-Our. 15 February 2015
There was open grief in Al-Our, Egypt, where many of the Coptic Christians were from
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Egyptian cockpit video footage reportedly shows air strikes in eastern Libya
The video of the beheadings was posted online by Libyan jihadists who pledge loyalty to IS. It was one of the first such videos to come from an IS group outside its core territory in Syria and Iraq.
The video describes the Copts as "crusaders" and refers among other things to two women, wives of Coptic priests, whose alleged conversion to Islam triggered a sectarian dispute in Egypt in 2010.
IS militants claim to have carried out several attacks in Libya, which in effect has rival governments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31483631
Well Done Egypt, exterminate these khawarjee pigs
Egypt bombs IS in Libya after beheadings video
The BBC's Sally Nabil in Cairo says the strikes send "a very strong message"
Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the militants released video of apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
State TV said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites and weapons storage areas. A second wave of strikes was reported hours later.
Libyan officials said Egypt hit targets in the militant-held city of Derna.
The strikes came amid widespread condemnation of the killings. The US and UN described them as "cowardly".
A video emerged on Sunday showing militants forcing a group of men to the ground and decapitating them.
The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in separate incidents in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups.
Relatives of Egyptian Coptic Christian workers mourn in Al-Our. 15 February 2015
There was open grief in Al-Our, Egypt, where many of the Coptic Christians were from
Jump media playerMedia player helpOut of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.
Egyptian cockpit video footage reportedly shows air strikes in eastern Libya
The video of the beheadings was posted online by Libyan jihadists who pledge loyalty to IS. It was one of the first such videos to come from an IS group outside its core territory in Syria and Iraq.
The video describes the Copts as "crusaders" and refers among other things to two women, wives of Coptic priests, whose alleged conversion to Islam triggered a sectarian dispute in Egypt in 2010.
IS militants claim to have carried out several attacks in Libya, which in effect has rival governments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31483631
