AP: "Derna Residents Said They Heard Loud Explosions And Realized That Dams Outside The City Had Collapsed."
25 % of Derna has "disappeared" with "large parts of the city washed out to sea."
I know I said “hiatus” but I caught this AP “small print” last night and felt it urgent to post, even if this will lack proper narrative and is posted in haste.
Devastation beyond the imagination in Derna, Libya.
Climate Change COVER STORY may make Covid Virus COVER STORY seem sane by comparison. They’re blowing up the world, flooding it, burning it, doing incantations of Climate Change as Scary Cause Of Everything, while at the same time hoping you don’t see any facts about JP Morgan Chase, the US Virgin Islands lawsuit documents against JP Morgan Chase, and what is emerging there. Not small potatoes.
[Meanwhile: My Yahoo newsfeed lately informs me of celebrities nail polish trends. Specifically—nail polish. It’s some kind of “op.” ]
درنة
Overview of Derna
Derna (/ˈdɜːrnə/; Arabic: درنة Darnah) is a port city in eastern Libya. With a population of around 85,000[1]to 90,000,[2] Derna was once the seat of one of the wealthiest provinces among the Barbary States. The city is now the administrative capital of Derna District, which covers a much smaller area than the old province. Among Libyan cities, Derna has a unique location and physical environment, as it lies between Jebel Akhdar (also known as Green Mountain), the Mediterranean Sea, and the desert. The city is also home to people of many different backgrounds.
The city was the location of the famous Battle of Derna (1805), the first victory achieved by the United States Military on foreign soil. Occurring during the First Barbary War, the battle was fought between a force of roughly 500 US Marines and Mediterranean mercenaries and 4,000 or 5,000 Barbary troops.
Parts of the city were taken over by Islamic State militants in October 2014.[4] In June 2015, the Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna defeated IS and took control of the town, before being expelled themselves by the Libyan National Army in the Battle of Derna (2018–2019).
In September 2023, about a quarter of the city was wiped out by a catastrophic flood caused by the collapse of two dams over the Wadi Derna river against the backdrop of Storm Daniel, resulting in the death of at least 11,300 of its residents.[5] Some 10,000 to 20,000[6] others were reported missing.[7][8]
Modern era
Ottoman times
Under Ottoman rule, Derna was initially under the governor at Tripoli, but shortly after 1711, it fell under the Karamanli sultanate until 1835, when it became a dependency of the autonomous sanjak of Benghazi, essentially Cyrenaica, which was governed directly from Constantinople.[15] This in turn, in 1875, became the vilayet of Cyrenaica.[16] In the 1850s, it had an estimated 4,500 inhabitants,[17] who lived by agriculture, fishing and the coastal trade.[10]
The oldest mosque in Derna is Al-masjeed al-ateeq, or the "Old Mosque", restored by wali Mahmoud Karamanli in 1772, vaulted with 42 small cupolas. This kind of vault was in use due to lack of some materials, like timber or stone in the region of Cyrenaica. There is another mosque, named Masjeed az-zawiyah, built in 1846, more strictly curved in the side of a hill.
The French admiral Gantheaume landed at Derna in June 1800 in an attempt to reinforce Napoleon in Egypt by bringing troops overland, but was rebuffed by the local garrison.[18][19]
Derna was the location of the 1805 Battle of Derne, in which forces under U.S. Lieutenant and former Consul to Tripoli William Eaton—who had marched 500 miles (800 km) across the Libyan Desert from Alexandria—captured the city as part of the First Barbary War.
In 2007, American troops in Iraq uncovered a list of foreign fighters for the Iraqi insurgency. Of the 112 Libyans on the list, 52 had come from Derna. Derna has the reputation of being the most fundamentalist Muslim city in Libya.[21]
Following mass protests on 18 February 2011, the city came under the control of the National Transitional Council, breaking from the Libyan government.[22][23] The city was never retaken before Gaddafi's ouster from Tripoli and the establishment of a new government. In October 2014, local militants affiliated with the Islamic Youth Shura Council publicly pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.[24] In November 2014, al-Baghdadi released an audio-recording accepting the pledge of allegiance and announced the expansion of his group.[25] On June 28, 2018, forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar claimed to have taken full control of the city, following a two-year siege of the city that culminated in a month-long battle.[26]
Storm Daniel
On 10 September 2023, Storm Daniel made landfall in Libya near Benghazi. While moving east-southeast, the storm caused torrential rainfall and extreme flooding in Derna, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency for the area,[27][28] after collapses (next day)[citation needed] of the Derna dam and the Mansour dam caused floodwaters to inundate the areas around the Wadi Derna.[29][30]At least 8,000 people were confirmed dead,[31][32] while a government minister said that 25% of Derna had "disappeared",[33] with large parts of the city washed out to sea.[34]
“Safe to say…” NO REAL JOURNALIST would use this phrase.
Is THIS “safe to say?”
Every single thing we have been told and brainwashed and assaulted with is a lie.
“Climate Change” is another THIN AIR form of occult magic to make us blind.
Stay strong.
Our thoughts and prayers to our brothers and sister in Libya from Morocco where we just endured the worst ever earthquake since 1960.
I can’t help but cry in my heart for the people of Libya and wonder if they losing their beautiful world this way is the same as how the people of Maui lost theirs?
I do not consent to the murder and plunder of any of the worlds peoples or lands.
Psychotic criminals is only the beginning
of how to describe those who would destroy God’s holy people in these ways.
God?? How would you have us proceed to deal with these individuals justly?!