Libya army chief, General Khalifa Haftar, warns of ISIL/ISIS threat against Europe

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya will inflitrate Europe if the West fails to support Libyan forces with arms and ammunition, a top Libyan army officer has said.


General Khalifa Haftar, the army chief of Libya's internationally recognised government, said ISIL had seized control of at least two cities along Libya's long Mediterranean coastline and has a strong presence in several others, its first major expansion from its bases in Syria and Iraq.

In a sign of the group's expanding reach, ISIL claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack a day earlier on a museum in neighbouring Tunisia that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Haftar told the Associated Press news agency in an interview that his forces need backing from the West against ISIL.

"We want weapons and ammunition only. We have the men. The army is increasing in number every day," he said.......AP...........http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/libya-army-chief-warns-isil-threat-europe-150320050634976.html
20/3/15
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