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jpak

(41,756 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:14 AM May 2016

U.S. Special Forces take the fight to ISIS in Libya

Source: CNN

Misrata, Libya (CNN)It is a tiny, remote aircraft hangar, carved in the Sicilian rock decades ago, but now home to a new and vital front for the United States against ISIS.

U.S. Special Forces and surveillance flights are operating on the ground and over Libya as the West moves to boost security operations in the country to bolster Libya's increasingly desperate fight against ISIS.

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.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/libya-isis-us-special-forces/

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U.S. Special Forces take the fight to ISIS in Libya (Original Post) jpak May 2016 OP
Oh joy, another illegal war... Human101948 May 2016 #1
So, we are boots on ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and I think.... Yemen. dixiegrrrrl May 2016 #3
Don't forget the troops Jesus Malverde May 2016 #5
So true ... (n/t) Nihil May 2016 #7
I want to know where Article I Section 8 Paragraph 11 has been called? turbinetree May 2016 #2
16 times Obama said there would be no boots on the ground in Syria AntiBank May 2016 #4
Hope We Don't Spend Blood and Treasure McKim May 2016 #6

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. So, we are boots on ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and I think.... Yemen.
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:47 AM
May 2016

And that is only reporting the "official" troops....the paid mercenaries are so much more expensive, and unaccounted for.

Plus every time the WH says they "only" have a small number of troops involved, they are not telling how many thousands of Democracy drones they are firing off.

and then there is all the "military aid" we hand out, which is really weapons subsidies for the arms makers...Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, etc.

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
5. Don't forget the troops
Wed May 18, 2016, 01:26 PM
May 2016

In Uganda #Koney2012, Liberia #ebola, Chad #SaveourGirls, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia #alshabap.

One of the biggest achievements of the Obama Administration has been the under the radar expansion of the US military all over Africa. The pentagons AFRICOM command grows by leaps and bounds.

turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
2. I want to know where Article I Section 8 Paragraph 11 has been called?
Wed May 18, 2016, 10:26 AM
May 2016

We haven't had one hearing that I can remember to declare this "stuff", and what the Congress is going to do on funding of this "stuff"-------------------

This is outrageous-----------------------

Honk-------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016



McKim

(2,412 posts)
6. Hope We Don't Spend Blood and Treasure
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:46 PM
May 2016

Hope we don't spend blood and treasure cleaning up Hillary's mess!

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