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Libya Closes Benghazi's Commercial Port Due to Clashes: Port Official
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Libya has closed Benghazi's commercial port due to clashes between the army and Islamist fighters in the area, a port official said on Tuesday.
"All ship movements and discharging of imports have been stopped," said the official. The port is a main entry point for wheat, fuel and other imports in eastern Libya.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/04/us-libya-security-port-idUSKBN0IO15S20141104
The country continues to crumble.
A salutary lesson for those craving more "humanitarian" interventions.
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Libya Closes Benghazi's Commercial Port Due to Clashes: Port Official (Original Post)
Comrade Grumpy
Nov 2014
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hatrack
(59,593 posts)1. Would that be The Port Of BENGHAAAAZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!! ?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. BENGHAZI!! BENGHAZI!!! BENGHAZI!!!!
It had to be done.
Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)3. Thanks, Obama
Is there nothing which he is not to blame?
jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)4. Only if Obama had listened to Ghaddafi
All this would not have happened instead he sided with the so called rebels and we have the real Benghazi crisis. Thanks pro war leaders