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Militias Kill 18 Soldiers, Burn Oil Tank In Libya by chidiezeh(m): 9:05am On Dec 26, 2014
Libya Dawn militias killed at least 18 soldiers and
damaged an oil tank during an attack against an army
battalion in the northern city of Sirte on Thursday,
officials said.


An army source said that fighters of Libya Dawn and
Ansar al-Sharia groups launched the surprise attack
against guards of a power plant west of Sirte, some 500
km east of the capital Tripoli.


Some 14 killed soldiers belonged to the army’s Al-Jalet
136 Infantry Battalion, many of whose staff came from
the same tribe of the renegade major-general, Khalifa
Haftar, who has led a military operation since May to
“cleanse the country of terrorism.”


Witnesses said that the clashes, still going on, broke out
around the steam power plant in Al-Gbeba area, about
30 km west of Sirte, between the battalion, which was
backed by armed Furjan tribesmen against Libya Dawn,
and Ansar al-Sharia fighters.


Last week, Libya Dawn militias carried out an operation
“to liberate oil fields and ports” in the oil crescent, an
area along Libya’s northern coast between the second
largest city Benghazi and Sirte, including the ports of
Sidra, Ras Lanuf and Brega, the largest Libyan oil port.
The oil crescent contains country’s most oil reserves.
Libya Dawn claimed that they are commissioned by the
outgoing General National Congress. Its operation leader,
Tarig Shnena, was killed in an air raid by Haftar’s air
force.


Since December 13, the battles have slashed Libya’s oil
production from 800,000 barrels per day to about
200,000 barrels, causing a loss of billions of U.S.
dollars to its general budget, according to Libyan
officials.

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