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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Because Gaddafi was a bad man, it was OK for the West to help overthrow him? [View all]Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)14. Libya now open for ISIS, Africa destabilized and flooded with guns, new immigration crisis...
ISIS comes to Libya (http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/world/isis-libya/)
(CNN)The black flag of ISIS flies over government buildings. Police cars carry the group's insignia. The local football stadium is used for public executions. A town in Syria or Iraq? No. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, in Libya.
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
The fighters are taking advantage of political chaos to rapidly expand their presence westwards along the coast, Libyan sources tell CNN.
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
The fighters are taking advantage of political chaos to rapidly expand their presence westwards along the coast, Libyan sources tell CNN.
ISIS Beheadings In Libya Devastate An Egyptian Village (http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/02/17/386986424/isis-beheadings-in-libya-devastate-an-egyptian-village)
Over the weekend a video emerged apparently showing the Libya branch of the self-proclaimed Islamic State beheading 21 men. All but one were confirmed to be Christian laborers from Egypt.
While this new variation on brutality shocked people around the world, the horror and sorrow hit hardest in a small, poor Egyptian town: Residents say 13 of the men were from El-Aour, a hamlet on the Nile River that is a mix of Christians and Muslims.
While this new variation on brutality shocked people around the world, the horror and sorrow hit hardest in a small, poor Egyptian town: Residents say 13 of the men were from El-Aour, a hamlet on the Nile River that is a mix of Christians and Muslims.
Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/09/us-libya-arms-un-idUSBRE93814Y20130409)
Weapons are spreading from Libya at an "alarming rate," fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria and elsewhere and boosting the arsenals of extremists and criminals in the region, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday.
The report by the U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts - who monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya at the start of an uprising in 2011 which ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi - said the North African state had become a key source of weapons in the region as its nascent government struggles to exert authority.
The report by the U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts - who monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya at the start of an uprising in 2011 which ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi - said the North African state had become a key source of weapons in the region as its nascent government struggles to exert authority.
US intervention in Libya was a bad idea.
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Poll: Because Gaddafi was a bad man, it was OK for the West to help overthrow him? [View all]
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
OP
Can you point to examples of how one was obviously worse than the other?
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#17
Egypt had the military to fill the vacuum, which certainly was not the most ideal
Exilednight
May 2015
#35
No, what he actually meant is exactly what he said. He DID live under a dictatorship. Your contempt
okaawhatever
May 2015
#88
Libya now open for ISIS, Africa destabilized and flooded with guns, new immigration crisis...
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#14
Sadly Republicans clouded the real issues of US intervention in Libya by extreme focus on Benghazi
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#56
Here's a synonym for Clusterfuck or FUBAR ... the Hydra ... every time you cut off one of the
libdem4life
May 2015
#28
We should only step in if we have a good shot at improving the situation,
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#51
I think that you and I have a different understanding of the English language.
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#61
Is there any situation where "progressives" would consent to killing a dictator?
wyldwolf
May 2015
#52
"Just" means for true defensive or humanitarian causes, i.e., not to grab land, resources or cash
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#73
How does anyone think how we would feel if some other country decided to invade and overthrow
-none
May 2015
#43
No one. No one at all.`But we keep poking other countries with sticks until they do something in
-none
May 2015
#55
It's like being forced to go to a lousy movie E-V-E-R-Y day. same ol' plot, same characters.
BlueJazz
May 2015
#75
The UN authorized intervention in Libya at the behest of France and the UK primarily
pampango
May 2015
#89