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/
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Seems that international law is a joke when it comes to the U.S.A.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)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)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.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)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
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)probably are other times as well
McKim
(2,412 posts)Hope we don't spend blood and treasure cleaning up Hillary's mess!