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Islamic State's mass beheadings could draw West back into Libya
latimes.com ^ | Feb 16, 2015 | Laura King

Posted on 02/16/2015 5:26:53 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

For nearly four years, the West has largely stayed on the sidelines as Libya descended into post-revolution chaos. Now the bloody beheadings of a group of Egyptian Christians at the hands of Islamic State could draw the international community back into the densely complex tangle of fighting in the oil-rich North African nation.

Egypt, seeking retribution for the cruelly cinematic execution of 21 Coptic men who had gone to Libya to work as laborers, carried out at least two waves of airstrikes Monday in neighboring Libya. The warplanes targeted what Egypt said were training camps and weapons caches belonging to a Libyan offshoot of Islamic State, which in recent months has made inroads in several parts of the country, seizing on the power vacuum left by the chaotic but so far inconclusive struggle among an array of competing militias.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; egypt; isis; isisatrocities; libya; waronterror
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Everybody else is wearing shorts in that photo.

He certainly appears to be getting some air but then again, everyone else looks to be much larger which reminds me of the "picture" of him emerging from the Hawaiian surf with bulging pec's and not a drop of water on his body

21 posted on 02/16/2015 6:14:41 PM PST by fso301
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To: SandRat
Well,...the Barbarry Pirates were practicing Islam as the Koran instructed...and we send ships to face them as a Young Nation.
22 posted on 02/16/2015 6:31:40 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Marine_Uncle

“Yimmity Cata must be smugly grinning in recent days as how he no longer is thought of as being the worst president in recent times. “

Jimmah is still the worst White President in our country’s history. I guess though, that’s a distinction without a difference!


23 posted on 02/16/2015 6:58:00 PM PST by vette6387
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Won’t keep the One off of the golf course.

I have severe doubts that even if Sasha and Malia were beheaded it would turn him against islam.

Though to be fair, he might skip a round or two of golf.

24 posted on 02/16/2015 7:02:56 PM PST by null and void (People who deny history are trying to recreate it.)
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To: vette6387

Your evaluation is probably correct. But the goon from Kenya has to be a second place runner. :)


25 posted on 02/16/2015 7:26:26 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......but alas! Honor must be earned...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What? Me worry?

P.S. What a woofer.

26 posted on 02/16/2015 7:32:21 PM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

W87 low burst


27 posted on 02/16/2015 7:35:29 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002
A.S.A.P.....PLEASE




28 posted on 02/16/2015 7:37:49 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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