According to Egyptian state media, the nation’s military junta has launched multiple airstrikes against ISIS targets in neighboring Libya, hitting camps and training sites nationwide.
The pre-dawn attacks followed a Sunday video released by ISIS showing them beheading 21 captured Egyptian Coptic Christians, who were held in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte.
Junta leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed revenge for the beheadings on Sunday, and wasted no time in launching the airstrikes. A second round of airstrikes was reported later in the morning.
The Egyptian junta has been backing Libyan General Khalifa Hifter in his attempts to take over the country, first in a coup against the parliament and then on behalf of the parliament that replaced them. Egypt has launched a handful of airstrikes in support of Hifter’s force, though they control very little of the nation.
The ISIS faction in Libya was originally an unaffiliated Islamist faction in the nation’s northeast. Since pledging allegiance to ISIS, the group has become much more powerful and influential, and has carried out operations in several cities across Libya.
ISIS…every gov't. who needs a distraction from lousy governance at home, has one in the shape shifting and ever-present Al-Qaeda…I meant ISIS
The question is, which "government" do you mean? It could be the government of videographers from god-only-knows where. Then the push polls allow one to bypass the usual gears of government. Is that liberation from government? Or enslavement to special interests who want to direct US foreign policy?
How to go around US foreign policy? Post some videos which are so disturbing, yet impossible to verify, and the public will answer the push polls. It's a slam dunk.