DW: Egypt hits Libya training bases with airstrikes after attack on Christian Coptics
After a bus carrying Christians to a monastery was attacked by masked gunmen, Egypt has launched airstrikes against militant bases in Libya. Pope Francis called the attack on the Christians a senseless act of hatred.
Egyptian air force planes have carried out six strikes directed at camps near Derna in Libya where Cairo believes militants responsible for a deadly attack on Christians earlier in the day were trained, Egyptian military sources said on Friday.
The report came minutes after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had announced Egyptian forces struck jihadist camps but without saying where the strikes took place.
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2 comments:
Must suck to be Gaddafi,
Being both right,
And dead.
Always reactive rather than proactive with the airstrikes.
If you target the bases after the event then they should have been destroyed prior to the terrorism.
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