Daniele Raineri

@DanieleRaineri

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  2. May 24

    Can't wait to read it but I can't believe it's 2019 and there are no books about the CIA and military intel units targeting the Islamic State in Iraq between 2006 and 2011 (Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was already there) – in a long, violent and expensive campaign with lots of twists

    Have my first real copies, this is a surreal experience.
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  3. May 24

    Al Naba provides a new picture captioned: "Soldiers of the Caliphate in Libya while preparing for one of the raids". Looking at the vehicles (never seen before), I now suspect their units are at least two

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  4. May 24

    "The ambush started with a IED and the dead were mostly المعارضة السودانية (Sudanese opposition)". For now, not a single pic or footage to support those claims. For sure they have stuff for a video at this point

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  5. May 24

    Today al Naba (183) provides the Islamic State's version about the raid in Zellah on May 18. "Haftar forces chased the attackers till north of al Fuqaha and were ambushed. Six hours of fighting, 27 casualties"

    OnMay 18 after the raid near Zillah the Battalion 128 of LNA intercepted them and killed at least seven. Not posting the pics here, just one taken from facebook. Many had explosive belts – one blew himself up.
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  6. May 24

    This thread is following the activities of the islamic State in Libya since the start of the civil war near Tripoli on April 4. It goes on

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  7. May 22

    Latest video by Islamic State in West Africa reminds me of 2014 except this time the fighters are black and unbearded

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  8. May 21

    The saraya was formed by four Libyans – identified – one Tunisian (only the kunya, Abu Suyuf al Tunisi) and the rest were black fighters from unspecified places. Allegedly operating around Maradah

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  9. May 21

    That saraya is named after "Abu Tariq al Dernawi". Thought he was an Islamic State leader, but I checked and the name comes from a jihadist who fought against Gheddafi: Hamza Abu Chartila, born in Derna in 1967 and killed in Benghazi in 1999 – twenty years ago

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  10. May 21

    Allegedly that saraya was totally destroyed by LNA: 18 killed. I count only 10 bodies in the pics. We are not sure whether it was the same unit which attacked al Fuqaha and Ghadduwah, no matches in the photos. We'll find out in the next few weeks.

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  11. May 21

    Update about the marauding convoy of the Islamic State in Libya – according to the attackers near Zellah were a "saraya al sahara", a desert unit of the Islamic State in Libya of no more than 20 men

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  12. May 20

    The second group is where the foreign leaders sit – if any of them is still alive. They have the prisoners, they talk to the mothership in Syria/Iraq, they plan, they collect raw media stuff (al Naba recently quoted an anonymous "military emir of Fezzan", no names for now)

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  13. May 20

    The members of the fighting column are taking civilian and military hostages but they can't travel with them. They quickly transfer the hostages to the second group – the Brain, which is more sedentary – and leave for other targets. Hostages mean ransom and a coming video

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  14. May 20

    We don't know much about the dead, maybe one or two were important, maybe not. One allegedly is "Ahmad bin Naser", from Benghazi, a veteran – according to one of the facebook pages of LNA's Battalion 128. Never heard of him before

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  15. May 20

    OnMay 18 after the raid near Zillah the Battalion 128 of LNA intercepted them and killed at least seven. Not posting the pics here, just one taken from facebook. Many had explosive belts – one blew himself up.

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  16. May 20

    At least 1.000 kilometers in five weeks, mostly in Fezzan. They wish to be an Islamic State version of the Long Range Desert Group, a British raiding unit in Libya during the WWII which successfully operated much closer to the coastal road between Tripoli and Benghazi

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  17. May 20

    They arguably don't want to publish a drone-ready list of their vehicles and crews. And they carry their stuff with them for prolonged trips out in the open

    Plastic sheeting to protect the main weapons from dust, blankets. The vehicles of this cell of the Libyan Islamic State in Fezzan look like they are arranged for long-range raids
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  18. May 20

    Compare their most crowded pics up to date (15 and 16 men) with the latest picture posted one week ago by the cousins of the Islamic State in Greater Sahara (more than 60). That's a bit deceptive.

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  19. May 20

    About the first one, the muscle: the propaganda is showing just a part of the fighters. Never more than 5 vehicles and 16 men in the same pic. But witnesses talked about at least 13 vehicles in al Fuqaha on April 14 and six vehicles in Zilla on May 18

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  20. May 20

    The third is the network of informants/logistics, feeding the other groups. The less guarded targets? The safest routes? The kill list in a town? Also: providing water, food, fuel at meeting points

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  21. May 20

    Or, I'd say East of al Fuqaha because of the difficult terrain near the great volcanic field of Haruj

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