Libya Archive
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‘Trick them, kill them’: Former Ottawa imam issues call to arms after son killed in Libya
Posted on 08.03.2016 | No CommentsAbdu Albasset Egwilla, a 'known hardliner,' said, 'Allah they have gathered against us and are scheming against us, so scheme against them' -
Former Ottawa man killed in Libya was not an extremist, spokesman says: ‘He was absolutely normal’
Posted on 08.03.2016 | No CommentsThe young man was not an extremist, but was inside a building hit by a bomb dropped by forces loyal to a Libyan general, a spokesman for a Canadian-Libyan group said -
Son of ex-Ottawa cleric who urged youths to ‘take part in jihad’ dies fighting government in Libya: reports
Posted on 07.03.2016 | No CommentsThe former Ottawa university student reportedly died fighting for a militia called the Omar Al-Mukhtar Brigade in a battle against the 'infidel forces' of Libya -
The grim task of identifying the refugees and migrants who don’t reach Europe
Posted on 23.10.2015 | No CommentsSome migrants have become so acutely aware of the dangers at sea that they've begun writing relatives' phone numbers on their life jackets -
At least 40 migrants found dead at sea in smuggling boat near Libya, another 320 rescued by Italian navy
Posted on 15.08.2015 | No CommentsThe migrants were apparently killed by fuel fumes in the overcrowded smuggling boat they were being transported on -
Unrelenting surge of migrants sees 93 survivors washed ashore in Greece as bodies in capsizing off Libya brought ashore
Posted on 20.04.2015 | No CommentsWarning, disturbing images: Fears are growing that ‘the worst massacre ever seen in the Mediterranean’ has arisen with 900 people drowned in a capsized ship off Libya -
Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck that could be the ‘biggest human tragedy of the last few years’
Posted on 19.04.2015 | No CommentsA boat believed to be crowded with 700 migrants capsized north of Libya overnight in what could become the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant sea disaster -
Canada rules out military intervention in Libya despite Islamist expansion in the country
Posted on 02.03.2015 | No CommentsGunmen associated with various Islamic extremist groups control parts of Libya or have set up training camps -
Parliament Hill shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s body buried in Libya, says cousin
Posted on 28.02.2015 | No CommentsThe Embassy of Libya in Ottawa says Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s body was sent to Libya, and a family member in that country said the body was buried in mid-November -
UN: At least 300 migrants unaccounted-for in new Mediterranean Sea tragedy
Posted on 11.02.2015 | No CommentsThe UN refugee agency says as many as 300 people are now unaccounted-for in the latest tragedy among migrants crossing the frigid Mediterranean. -
Call to duty: Montreal student went to Libya to fight Gaddafi and returned with a bullet in his spine
Posted on 28.06.2014 | No CommentsUnlike the detestable cabal of Canadian jihadists despoiling places like Syria and Iraq, Tarek Ben-Kura was not a religious extremist, but motivated by the Arab Spring
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Female activist assassinated in Benghazi on election day: report
Posted on 26.06.2014 | No CommentsLibya's official news agency says one of the country's most prominent female activists was assassinated on election day in the restive eastern city of Benghazi.
