Current Events 2 20 15 Essay

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Krystal Favors
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Current Events: In Tripoli, Libya, the Islamic State militants acted out in suicide bombings in eastern Libya on friday. The group said it was in retaliation to Egypts previous airstrikes against extremists’ in North Africa. these bombings took place in the town of Qubba, which is controlled by Libya’s internationally recognized gov.
This confirmed that the extremist has spread beyond the battlefields of Iraq and Syria. They got a foothold less than 500 miles from the southern tip of Italy. The militants have taken over at least two Libyan coastal cities on the Mediterranean, Sirte and Darna.
The Islamic State has now established in Libya by exploiting the country’s breakdown since Moammar
Gadhafi, the dictator, was ousted and killed in 2011.
Hundreds of militias have taken power since then, and some of them have militant ideologies and beliefs. Libya
Dawn, a militia coalition has taken over Tripoli, where
Islamists set up their own parliament and gov.. The second-largest city of Benghazi was controlled by Islamic

extremist militias until late last year; this was when army troops began to battle them for control. The
Islamic group later took responsibility for Friday’s suicide bombings in Qubba, but said there were only two attacks, while the gov over exaggerated claiming there were three.
The army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi said one attacker rammed an explosives-packed ambulance into a gas station, where there were motorists lined up.
“Imagine a car packed with a large amount of explosives striking a gas station; the explosion was huge and many of the injured are in very bad shape while the victims’ bodies were torn to pieces.” said Hegazi. The other two bombers also detonated vehicles next to the house of the parliament speaker and the nearby security headquarters, he said.

Krystal Favors
2/20/15
P. 3

Current Events:
Google Pulls a Microsoft on Apple in Digital Pockets
In San Francisco this question will soon be asked a lot more around the city, “What, you own a phone without a payment system?”. They’re saying that this question will get asked more and more now that Google and Apple have taken their smartphone software feud into the payment department with a ferocity. The partnership google has with the largest U.S. wireless carriers is an attempt to by the Internet advertising giant jump-start it’s Wallet