investigations revealed that Islamic State (IS) is responsible for a large number of terror operations in Libya, many of which were unknown before, Libya's chief investigator said Thursday.
Al-Siddiq Al-Sour Derek Barnett Eagles Jersey , head of the investigation bureau in the Libyan Attorney General's office, told a news conference in Tripoli that this was the result of preliminary investigations into IS leaders and members arrested in Libya.
"Those responsible for the operations were unknown the past few years, including the assassination and kidnapping of judges, military officers, journalists Dallas Goedert Eagles Jersey , religious figures, as well as attacks on foreign missions, oil fields, and security and military checkpoints by car bomb or suicide attacks." Al-Sour said.
Investigations also revealed that IS is responsible for the assassination of the former Attorney General, a member of the former National General Congress Carson Wentz Eagles Jersey , and a number of security directors in different Libyan cities, Al-Sour said.
"We have received new information about those responsible for the slaughter of christian Egyptians in Sirte and the location where they were buried." Al-Sour said, pointing out that DNA tests will be carried out at the burial site.
IS affiliates in Libya claimed responsibility for many suicide bombings and killings of foreigners in Libya over the past few years, including slaughtering 21 Christian Egyptian workers in Sirte in February 2015.
The operation angered the Egyptian government, which launched air strikes the following day at IS sites and camps in the city of Derna in eastern Libya.
There are 827 internal arrest warrants for IS member suspects and 50 international arrest warrants for IS leaders Wendell Smallwood Limited Jersey , many of whom are Libyans, Al-Sour said.
On the probe into the May terror attack in Manchester, the United Kingdom, Al-Sour told Xinhua that the father of the suicide bomber, Salman Abedi Isaac Seumalo Limited Jersey , has been released for not being involved in the attack, but the investigation continues with his brother Hashim Abedi.
Libyan security forces later in May arrested Hashim and his father Ramadan Abedi after the Manchester attack, in which Salman Abedi, a British national of Libyan origin, attacked a concert hall Jordan Hicks Limited Jersey , killing 22 people and injuring 59 others.
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