And not just civilians, but GNA veterans who had fought terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and even, alongside the United States two years earlier, the Islamic State in the city of Sirte. The drone attack of 29 November 2018 where 11 innocent people lost their lives in Libya is part of the broader U.S. program of extrajudicial killings. The United States has been conducting attacks in Libya since before there even was a Libya — and almost a United States. Libya has also been a longtime proving ground for new forms of air war. In November 1911 — 107 years to the month before that drone attack killed Nasser Musa Abdullah — Italian lieutenant Giulio Gavotti conducted the world’s first modern airstrike.

Source: Libya Today April 28, 2022 03:55 UTC