{"id":1217225,"date":"2022-01-14T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217225"},"modified":"2022-01-14T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:49:59","slug":"hundreds-of-islamic-state-corpses-left-to-rot-in-libyan-food-fridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-islamic-state-corpses-left-to-rot-in-libyan-food-fridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Islamic State Corpses Left to Rot in Libyan Food Fridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhundreds-of-islamic-state-corpses-left-to-rot-in-libyan-food-fridges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Reuters<\/span><span> on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/militants-bodies-left-rot-years-symbol-libyas-disarray-2022-01-13\/\">pointed<\/a> to a particularly grim indicator of Libyan government malfunction: a pile of 742 dead Islamic State fighters have been rotting in refrigerated food containers outside the city of Misrata since 2016 \u2013 and growing quite fragrant due to intermittent power outages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some of the bodies are foreign nationals who remain uncollected by their home governments.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The refrigerators are sitting in a \u201cdusty corner\u201d of a police compound near Misrata, Libya\u2019s second-largest city and the setting for major battles during each of the factional wars that have erupted after former U.S. President Barack Obama, at the urging of his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/obama-administration-wrecked-libya-generation\"><span>invaded and destabilized<\/span><\/a><span> the country a decade ago.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe compound, run by a police unit and surrounded by fences and security cameras, reeks of decay. Weeds grow between the containers and an abandoned forensic tent stands under the burning sun,\u201d Reuters wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19497138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/YNL6LFKD2RNBNDUO6T2RI5D6HM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19497138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/YNL6LFKD2RNBNDUO6T2RI5D6HM.jpg\" alt=\"Food refrigerated containers, that hold corpses of alleged Islamic State fighters, are pictured in Kararim, near Misrata, Libya January 4, 2022. Libyan Criminal Investigation Bureau\/Handout\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Food refrigerated containers, that hold corpses of alleged Islamic State fighters, are pictured in Kararim, near Misrata, Libya January 4, 2022. (Libyan Criminal Investigation Bureau\/Handout)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Some of the bodies piled up in the freezers are relatively anonymous, but others have been identified through documents and personal testimony from ISIS comrades. Since Libya still lacks a stable national government, no one seems to have the authority, budget, or motivation to clean out the corpse refrigerators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reuters quoted local police who said the interim Government of National Unity has allocated a budget for burying the bodies \u201csoon,\u201d but has not announced a date or location.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The effort to elect a president and permanent government last month <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/12\/22\/never-mind-libyan-presidential-election-canceled\/\"><span>collapsed<\/span><\/a><span> and new elections have yet to be scheduled. The United Nations on Thursday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailynewsegypt.com\/2022\/01\/13\/un-reiterates-need-for-libyan-elections-to-be-held-in-june-2022\/\"><span>stressed<\/span><\/a><span> the importance of holding elections by June to resolve a \u201ccrisis of illegitimacy\u201d in Libyan institutions, but also insisted the Libyans needed to organize elections on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden administration also said this week it \u201csupports efforts to regain momentum for Libya\u2019s presidential and parliamentary elections after they were postponed in December,\u201d but offered no details of how the election \u201cprocess\u201d might be rebooted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Libyan officials are still digging up bodies from mass graves across the country. A new cluster of at least 89 hastily-buried corpses was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libyaobserver.ly\/news\/body-removal-crew-retrieves-more-corpses-tarhouna\"><span>discovered<\/span><\/a><span> this week in Tarhouna, a town about 50 miles southeast of Libya, bringing the official count of recovered bodies in that district of Tarhouna to 243.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hundreds of corpses were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2020\/07\/tarhuna-mass-graves-and-libyas-internationalized-civil-war\/\"><span>found<\/span><\/a><span> in other parts of Tarhouna after the town was reclaimed from the Kaniyat, a savage militia group allied with warlord Khalifa Haftar during his failed effort to capture Tripoli by force. Many of the dead, including women and children, were bound and showed signs of torture. One of the mass graves was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-libya-security-tarhouna-idAFKBN2H319I\"><span>discovered<\/span><\/a><span> under a still-operational garbage dump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haftar went on to become one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/east-libya-strongman-haftar-says-to-run-for-president-2\/\"><span>highest-profile presidential candidates<\/span><\/a><span> in the aborted December election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters on Thursday pointed to a particularly grim indicator of Libyan government malfunction: a pile of 742 dead Islamic State fighters have been rotting in refrigerated food containers outside the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}