The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: Libya Burns

December 01, 2015

Monday 30 November 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, FDD and LongWarJournal, and Bill Roggio, FDD and LongWarJournal; in re: Under a certain international. Ansar al Shariah Libya:   The attack in Benghazi was launched by five groups all al Qaeda.   ISIS controls some territory in Libya, uses it to conduct attacks there and in Tunisia. Large contingent of ISIS Tunisians and Libyan fighters in Iraq and Syria.  Libya is a jihadist nightmare, a mini-Syria. Militias, or pseudo-armies.  Al Q is strong in Libya's east, in Durna, while ISIS controls some of its periphery. Libya is a wholly failed state, shot through with gangs, one of the horrible stories since 2011; West had zero policy in place other than taking out Gaddafi.  ObL wrote a memo: he believed there was a jihadist renaissance occurring in Libya; and boy, was he right.  Note: Libya is entirely the Obama Administration, and entirely on Mrs Clinton's watch.
Jihadists kill 3 in attack on UN base in Mali  Al Qaeda and allied jihadist groups have repeatedly targeted UN forces since early 2013.
British Prime Minister highlights Islamic State’s threat to UK, West  In a memo submitted to the UK parliament, British Prime Minister David Cameron claimed that seven terrorist plots have been broken up in the UK in the past 12 months, the number of terrorism-related arrests is up 31%, and the Islamic State has an "external operations structure in Syria" that is devoted to planning attacks in the West.