Posted on 05/18/2016 9:24:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Surveillance flights over the country's 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) coast have been in operation from the remote Sicilian island of Pantelleria for over a year, and Special Forces have recently increased their presence on the ground. Witnesses and Libyan officials told CNN they are in evidence near the city of Misrata, with an estimated dozen soldiers operating out of a base near the city.
The U.S. presence in Libya was acknowledged by Pentagon officials in the past few days, who admitted groups of Special Forces were "meeting a variety of Libyans." The teams are said to be in action around the capital Tripoli, as well as Misrata and the east of the country.
The U.S. publicly only supports the latest of the three groups who claim the right to govern the country -- the Government of National Accord, led by Fayez al-Sarraj and recently installed by the United Nations. But the presence of these Special Forces teams in the strongholds of the other two groups claiming to be the country's legitimate government shows that America retains wider private contacts.
It is unclear what precisely the U.S. Special Forces' scope of operations is in Libya, as airstrikes and other attacks have been limited. But they join an increasingly fraught Libyan battle against ISIS, who are now estimated to control about a tenth of the coastline
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I don’t believe a damn thing coming from this government.
Yup, all 300 of them...
An estimated dozen soldiers? Wow. Do they have targets painted on their backs?
Anybody seen John McCain lately?
More BS propaganda from Obama meant to cover up the fact that he has been an abysmal failure in fighting ISIS. He feeds it to his lackeys at CNN and they dutifully report it. And if he has to disclose secret special forces missions to get some PR value, so be it?
Gee.
I thought Hillary was all about taking blame (er, credit!) for overthrowing Libya and bringing the Muslim radicals into power on the blood of their former dictator....
Or something like that. Maybe it all due to a movie on Ytube. And not official US policy of “regime change”
Yeah, they're fine with the People's Front of Judea but not with the Judean People's Front...
FFS. Identify the targets, load the aircraft, hit the targets. Repeat as needed.
Anyone caught in the blast is either working with ISIS or not working against ISIS. Erin go boom.
SPLITTERS!
teamObama re-arming Isis again.
Authorization of force? Or did the dictator just send them into war on his own again??
Authorization of force? Or did the dictator just send them into war on his own again??
Cousins son is Special Forces. He’s over seas but family was not told where he was being assigned I cringed whenever one of these non story —maybe story pops up from the government !
Many more families in suspense knowing government could care less about their sons and daughters
“I ended two wars”
—Barry H. Obama
Hope they don’t need air support...
I know our guys can do the job, it is the leadership in the White House that I am worried about.
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