ISIL’s Rise in Libya

Politico ^ | 29 January 2015 | Christopher Stephen

[Lorianne]

The Islamic State announced its arrival in Libya in brutal fashion this week with the slaying of an American contractor in a suicide attack on a Tripoli hotel, an act that will make it harder for Washington to continue ignoring the conflict and chaos raging in this North African country.

Until now the United States and the European Great Powers have been content to look the other way as Libya had descended into violence and anarchy. Four years ago, NATO bombed the rebels to victory in their war against Muammar Qadhafi, then packed its bags and left the country to its own devices. It’s remained off the Washington radar, even as threats in places like Syria and Iraq have commanded top-level attention and media headlines.

The rapid growth of ISIL may now change that equation rapidly, as the attack underscores the vulnerability of even the few well-protected Western officials left in this splintered country. The United States and European powers can’t allow the group to gain more of a foothold, lest it risk creating a second Mediterranean safe haven for one of the world’s deadliest terror groups.

Radical Islam itself is not new to Libya. In the 1990s the main armed resistance to Qadhafi was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whose guerrillas were crushed in a bitter ten-year war in the eastern Green Mountains. Many militants then jumped ship to join fights elsewhere. In 2006, U.S. forces captured a roster of foreign fighters in Iraq that declared no town on earth, proportional to its size, had provided more fighters than Derna, on Libya’s eastern coast.

[McGruff]

McCain's Freedom Fighters?

[longfellow]

Guess my son is going to Tripoli. Wouldn’t be the first time the Marines were there.

[scooby321]

Thanks Hillary

[SunkenCiv]

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• US Furious After Source Of "Mystery" Libya Bombing Raids Revealed
• War planes attack Libyan capital again as airport terminal is destroyed (The Mysterions?)
• ISIS Blows Up Egypt-Jordan Gas Pipeline
• Islamic State leader urges attacks in Saudi Arabia - speech
• US Expresses Fears As Isis Takes Control of Northern Libyan Town [Isis Expands To Libya!]
• Obama Sides Against Egypt in Fight Against Muslim Brotherhood
• Qatar expels Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leaders
• Obama Seeks to Calm Saudis as Paths Split
• Awkward relations (American president and the Saudi king will have an unusually edgy meeting)
• Obama Dithers, Kerry Bungles Egypt Crisis
• Libyan renegade general announces readiness to cooperate with Israel
• Egypt's President Al Sisi calls for "religious revolution" in Islam
• Egypt's Sisi: Islamic "Thinking" Is "Antagonizing the Entire World" by Raymond Ibrahim
• Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance
• Egypt, the divine surprise in 2014 (Cairo wants French weapons)
• Arab ministers in Saudi discuss Syria, IS crises
• Dubai retailer Al Futtaim to invest $2.3bn in Egypt
• Why Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and UAE will all cut oil output
• Egypt presidency says diplomacy failed to end crisis
• Egyptian Army's Financial Coup: 12 Billion Petrodollars from Saudi, UAE, Kuwait
• Saudi Arabia Cheers the Coup in Egypt
• Report: Israel, UAE, Saudis in huge US arms deal
• US finalizing arms sales to Israel, Arab nations - ($10 Billion, Hagel,Saudis,UAE)

[cardinal4]

All going to Obama’s handlers’s plan. There is no doubt Obama’s strings are being pulled, and it has to be someone who has unlimited resources and is muslim. The House of Saud..