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  • ISIS survives in Libya [and Somalia, elsewhere]

    07/25/2017 2:53:20 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 3 replies
    John Batchelor show ^ | 24 July 2017 | John Batchelor interviews Bill Roggio, Tom Joscelyn
    audio 7:07 Still, taken at face value, the figures cited by the State Department suggest that the Islamic State could still have a significant footprint inside Libya. And we wouldnÂ’t be surprised if this is the case. On a per capital basis, Libya and Tunisia exported as many foreign fighters (or more) than any other countries for the war in Iraq and the follow-on conflicts. And the Islamic State made Libya one of its top priorities from 2014 to 2016, reversing these flows by sending some fighters back to their home countries in North Africa. In 2014, as the State...