In new comments, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford said the US is planning “decisive military action” against ISIS targets inside Libya, and that while the decision hasn’t been finalized, it will be in the next few weeks.
Other officials say that US special forces have been engaged in “clandestine reconnaissance missions” in Libya for months, aiming to map out the networks of ISIS in the country ahead of the attack. The US has also been trying to find some allied faction inside Libya to work with.
Several European nations have talked up interest in a military operation in Libya, particularly France and Britain, and the expectation is that these nations will all be involved in the attack, though the lack of credible allies is going to make it difficult to present this as mirroring the strategy of the ISIS war in Iraq and Syria.
The US attempted to send some ground troops into Libya last month, but the troops were publicly outed by the Libyan Air Force and expelled shortly thereafter. The comments on special forces reconnaissance suggest there may be more US boots on the ground in Libya already, paving the way for a bigger invasion.
When will people learn that daésh … I won’t defile the name of the Goddess Isis … is a creation of the us/nato/israel. They fund, support, and arm them, so come off the BS that the us is fighting them. They are fighting those that are working to stop their plan of hegemony and their made up “terrorists” gives them the excuse they use to attack sovereign nations illegally.