• Serbian embassy staff abducted in Libya in November possibly killed in latest US air strikes against
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[quote]Serbia says two members of its embassy staff who were abducted in Libya in November are believed to have been among at least 49 killed in US air strikes on a suspected training camp of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. US officials said the site targeted in Friday's strikes in Sabratha, a coastal city in western Libya, was a camp used by up to 60 fighters, including Tunisian Noureddine Chouchane, blamed for two attacks on tourists in Tunisia last year in which dozens were killed. [B]Sladjana Stankovic, a Serbian communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, a driver,[/B] were taken hostage on November 8 after their diplomatic convoy, including the ambassador, came under fire near Sabratha. [B] "Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on the Islamic State in Libya, the two of them lost their lives," Ivica Dacic, Serbia's foreign minister, said, referring to Friday's air strike.[/B] He said they had received information from several sources, including other intelligence services, of the deaths of Stankovic and Stepic. [B]The information was yet to be officially confirmed by Libyan authorities.[/B] Dacic offered "sincere condolences to the families of the victims", saying they had been informed of the news and that the repatriation of bodies would be organised in the coming days. Hussein al-Thwadi, the mayor of Sabratha, said Libyan authorities had sent photos of the bodies to Serbian diplomats for an initial identification. He said the death toll from Friday's strikes had risen to 49. [B]It was the second US air raid in three months against ISIL in Libya, where the fighters have exploited chaos following Muammar Gaddafi's 2011 downfall to build up a presence on the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.[/B] Libya's attorney general said on Saturday that one of six wounded survivors told prosecutors that those in the building that was hit were "members of ISIL who came to Libya recently for training and then to carry out terrorist acts in Tunisia". [img]http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2016/2/19/213570ad2c55466498de660c610efc8e_18.jpg[/img][/quote] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/abducted-serbs-killed-air-strikes-libya-160220131703369.html[/url]
Call me when NATO considers serbs as humans
[QUOTE=Scarabix;49792228]Call me when NATO considers serbs as humans[/QUOTE] thats rich coming from the country who insisted we start bombing Libya to begin with
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