The USA is needed less and less in the Middle East. There has been participation by many countries to bring the region up to speed regarding those within their own countries and faith seeking to destroy civilization and kill those that resist.
Egypt has previously attacks Libya and continues to secure it's borders.
February 11, 2015
Egyptian sources (click here) say the country’s military killed a Hamas commander during an airstrike in the Sinai peninsula, Sky News Arabic on Wednesday....
The countries of the Middle East don't want the USA there, except, for what expertise and intelligence they can add to the arsenal of these countries. There is no room for American GIs in a battle. American soldiers are out of place there.
Egypt is the first country to receive attacks from the Gaddafi munitions.
February 5, 2015
Yochanan Visser
Egypt has previously attacks Libya and continues to secure it's borders.
February 11, 2015
Egyptian sources (click here) say the country’s military killed a Hamas commander during an airstrike in the Sinai peninsula, Sky News Arabic on Wednesday....
The countries of the Middle East don't want the USA there, except, for what expertise and intelligence they can add to the arsenal of these countries. There is no room for American GIs in a battle. American soldiers are out of place there.
Egypt is the first country to receive attacks from the Gaddafi munitions.
February 5, 2015
Yochanan Visser
...First, four bombings (click here) were carried out
in Cairo on Friday January 23th. Six people were killed, and more than
100 were injured in these explosions. In one case, a suicide bomber
detonated a car bomb near a police station killing 5 and injuring 51.
The blast also severely damaged a 19th-century Islamic art museum.
Last Friday, an Army helicopter was shot down with surface-to-air missiles. These missiles are smuggled into Egypt from the arsenals of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. The attack was carried out by the Al-Qaeda off-shoot Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis that declared its allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in December 2014. After the group aligned with Islamic State, it changed its name in Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) to underline that Sinai is now part of the Islamic State....
There are on going talks in Algiers that are facing an escalation in violence that could jeopardize those peace agreements. If the USA were to enter the battlefield as before in Iraq, these talks would implode and the region would return to higher levels of violence.
January 23, 2015
Algiers — Algeria, (click here) leading mediator in the Inter-Malian dialogue, represented by Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, and the UN through the voice of its representative in Mali, Hamdi Mongi, chief of Minusma, stressed Thursday in a joint communiqué that the "extremely worrying" developments in the north of Mali "may undermine the underway peace process in Algiers."
"Ramtane Lamamra, Foreign Minister of Algeria, leading mediator and Hamdi Mongi, Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General (UN) in Mali and Chief of Minusma, conducted with different parties, consultations on the extremely worrying developments having marked these days in the locality of Tabankort well as the climate of tension and insecurity in the region," the joint communiqué said.
"These consultations led to the conclusion that these developments are likely to jeopardize the ongoing peace process in Algiers," the two sides said, recalling the obligations of all parties under international humanitarian law, in particular with regard to protection of civilians in armed conflict....
The real challenge to the region is destroying munitions and machinery in Libya. It is the Gaddafi left overs that are adding to violence. It is nearly the primary disruptive problem. When looking across the reporting it is many times Libyan equipment and munitions that are escalating the killing and violence.
The Libyan threat isn't really from a specific military moving across the region, but, more salesmen of the equipment that empowers civil war and otherwise. Currently, the Libyan government appears to be powerless to end the raiding of military stores. I don't know why that is, except, for the diverse ethnicity in the region of north Africa, especially, Mali. Every ethnic group seems interested in arming and that is probably due to IS to some extent. But, this violence has been building since the attack of east Libya by Gaddafi. There is very little faith in governance.
Aren't they getting hungry? One would think these peoples would be complaining about empty bellies and not empty munition boxes. If the governments were providing valuable humanitarian aid perhaps some of this violence would be reined in, but, with heightened fears it is difficult to remove the guns from their hands.
There is no lost ground by offering humanitarian aid. Living people with full bellies are easier to deal with than those convinced the government is trying to starve them.
Last Friday, an Army helicopter was shot down with surface-to-air missiles. These missiles are smuggled into Egypt from the arsenals of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. The attack was carried out by the Al-Qaeda off-shoot Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis that declared its allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in December 2014. After the group aligned with Islamic State, it changed its name in Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) to underline that Sinai is now part of the Islamic State....
There are on going talks in Algiers that are facing an escalation in violence that could jeopardize those peace agreements. If the USA were to enter the battlefield as before in Iraq, these talks would implode and the region would return to higher levels of violence.
January 23, 2015
Algiers — Algeria, (click here) leading mediator in the Inter-Malian dialogue, represented by Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, and the UN through the voice of its representative in Mali, Hamdi Mongi, chief of Minusma, stressed Thursday in a joint communiqué that the "extremely worrying" developments in the north of Mali "may undermine the underway peace process in Algiers."
"Ramtane Lamamra, Foreign Minister of Algeria, leading mediator and Hamdi Mongi, Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General (UN) in Mali and Chief of Minusma, conducted with different parties, consultations on the extremely worrying developments having marked these days in the locality of Tabankort well as the climate of tension and insecurity in the region," the joint communiqué said.
"These consultations led to the conclusion that these developments are likely to jeopardize the ongoing peace process in Algiers," the two sides said, recalling the obligations of all parties under international humanitarian law, in particular with regard to protection of civilians in armed conflict....
The real challenge to the region is destroying munitions and machinery in Libya. It is the Gaddafi left overs that are adding to violence. It is nearly the primary disruptive problem. When looking across the reporting it is many times Libyan equipment and munitions that are escalating the killing and violence.
The Libyan threat isn't really from a specific military moving across the region, but, more salesmen of the equipment that empowers civil war and otherwise. Currently, the Libyan government appears to be powerless to end the raiding of military stores. I don't know why that is, except, for the diverse ethnicity in the region of north Africa, especially, Mali. Every ethnic group seems interested in arming and that is probably due to IS to some extent. But, this violence has been building since the attack of east Libya by Gaddafi. There is very little faith in governance.
Aren't they getting hungry? One would think these peoples would be complaining about empty bellies and not empty munition boxes. If the governments were providing valuable humanitarian aid perhaps some of this violence would be reined in, but, with heightened fears it is difficult to remove the guns from their hands.
There is no lost ground by offering humanitarian aid. Living people with full bellies are easier to deal with than those convinced the government is trying to starve them.
