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U.S. general: Number of Islamic State fighters in Libya doubles

Apr 9, 2016 12:18 pm By Robert Spencer

At this point, what difference does it make?

Gen. David Rodriguez

“U.S. general: Number of ISIS fighters in Libya doubles,” by Nicole Gaouette, CNN, April 8, 2016:

Washington (CNN)U.S. intelligence estimates now put the number of ISIS fighters in Libya between 4,000 to 6,000, double the number in the war-ravaged country last year, according to the top U.S. military commander in Africa.

Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of U.S. Africa Command, said the intelligence community estimates the number of ISIS fighters in Libya at “around 4 to 6,000.” He added that the number has “probably about doubled in the last 12 to 18 months, based on what their assessments were last year.”

Wracked by violence since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, Libya has become a haven for militant groups.

From 2014, the country was divided between two rival governments, one in the capitol of Tripoli and another in the east. A December deal created a Government of National Accord that the United Nations and Western governments hope can unite the country’s armed factions against ISIS and set Libya on a more stable course.

Rodriguez said several types of foreign fighters are flooding into Libya, many of whom come from other northern African countries.

“The foreign fighter flow goes back and forth across” North Africa, which generates a lot of the foreign fighters who “go all the way across to Syria and Iraq,” Rodriguez said.

He said there are also militants already in Libya who are now pledging allegiance to ISIS….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    About that brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS. Most people know that the head and chief of that is a man who goes by the name of al Baghdadi By contrast, what few people seem to know is that al Baghdadi is just a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS. That the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.] Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]

    • Stephen says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm

      Satan is always sending ppl n its agents to kill one another.

      But in actual fact, Satan never dirty its hands.

      Satan is very cunning …

    • phillip says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 4:39 am

      You should be living in the 7th century with ideas like that…so sad.

  2. duh_swami says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    If character counts, where is it?

    Hillary said of Moammar…’We came, we saw he died…and then she laughed…I w3onder if she is still laughing…Thanks to her and her boss, Libya is a staging area for ISIS…The plan is working perfectly…

    • Angemon says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 3:49 pm

      That statement of hers gained another significance after the death of Chris Stevens, US ambassador to Libya. That was exactly what happened:they came, they saw and left him to die.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 9, 2016 at 10:33 pm

        Yes–appalling.

        • Carolyne says

          Apr 10, 2016 at 10:30 am

          What kind of uniform does satan wear? Is it black with a headband with writing in Arabic? Look. I respect your right to have religious viewpoints, but be realistic. We cannot fight a mythical enemy.

    • Carolyne says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Only recently Hillary said that she was the person behind the invasion of Libya and it was successful. We did not lose one person. She forgets Ambassador Stevens and the four other brave men. She is a liar and needs to be brought to account for that misadventure. We had no business invading Libya. Kadafy was not a threat to the US at that time.

  3. gravenimage says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    U.S. general: Number of Islamic State fighters in Libya doubles
    …………………….

    Because Libya wasn’t a big enough sh*t hole to begin with…

  4. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 1:05 pm

    Democracy is not working together with islam.
    Islam bewilders, demoralizes and destroys.
    Like islam controls democrats and stop democracy, islam must be stopped by democrats and democracy.

  5. Berengaria says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 1:09 pm

    The Satan who never dirties his hands,but commands the Muslim terrorists, under all their infamous names. Does this Satan have a long black Muslim finger & celebrates terrorist victories with a round of golf? Just an inquiry!

    • Carolyn says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      No, that would be Obama.

  6. Kepha says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    Sadly, Gen. Rodriguez is either right or else close enough to the truth–and I am well aware that he and others in the military and intelligence communities are paid to look at the dark side of things. A lot of us griped that the Obama [mal-]administration was handing the Middle East over to the Ikhwan and its offshoots. We all ought to loudly proclaim that the way things have worked out show that Shrillary Shrooooooo is indeed unfit to be POTUS.

  7. mortimer says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    A few hours of jihad study can turn an ordinary Muslim into a convinced fanatic. However, to deprogram a Muslims out of Islam may take many months if not years of intense study of the foundational source documents, their absurdities, inaccuracies, fallacies, dualisms and departures from reality.

    The mesmerizing, delusional world can take a firm hold of an individual’s mind that shows it is a sort of Stockholm syndrome or capture bonding. The delusion requires the professional attention of trained deprogrammers.

    National governments need to begin immediately to form a cadre of professional deprogrammers to tackle the delusional thinking of armies of jihadists.

    International security will depend mostly on the success or failure of deprogramming Muslims.

  8. mortimer says

    Apr 9, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    Muslims are burning the house of Islam down. Jihadists have turned the house of Islam into the house of jihad terrorism.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 10:38 pm

      mortimer wrote:

      A few hours of jihad study can turn an ordinary Muslim into a convinced fanatic. However, to deprogram a Muslims out of Islam may take many months if not years of intense study of the foundational source documents, their absurdities, inaccuracies, fallacies, dualisms and departures from reality.
      …………………………

      I’m sorry, Mortimer–you’ve never indicated why you think such “deprogramming” would work. Why would pious Muslims care what the “filthy Infidels” think?

      More:

      Muslims are burning the house of Islam down. Jihadists have turned the house of Islam into the house of jihad terrorism.
      …………………………

      Unfortunately, the house of Islam has never been *anything but* the house of Jihad terrorism. That is why the non-Muslim world is referred to as “Dar-al-Harb”, the house of war.

  9. Baucent says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 4:43 am

    Libya is a failed state and recent history has taught us Jihadists will congregate in failed states and steadily increase until they can take over completely. But interestingly it is a failed state because of the actions or lack of actions of Hilary Clinton and Obama. That may yet come back to bite her.

  10. Sam says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:18 am

    “Foreign fighters”. Our generals do not say Muslim fighters either. I am sure that our Generals know that all the foreign fighters in Libya are Muslims. If they do not say the forbidden world Islam how will they protect USA against Jihad?

    Are they really brained washed like Obama so they believe Islam is a religion of peace or something more sinister is going on. No freedom loving US general can not know that we are fighting Islam. Right?

    • Carolyne says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 10:37 am

      They want to keep their jobs. If they for once tell the truth and say that the enemy is Islam, they will be fired by Obama. He has replaced many top military officers because of their political views.

  11. SpiritOf1683 says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:26 am

    And who is responsible for this state of affairs? Step forward Cameron, Obama and Hollande, the three stooges.

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