The new Libya: various aspects

[davidbfpo]

Via Twitter from @BabakTaghvee, an aero-jornalist.

[CrowBat]

Via Twitter from @BabakTaghvee...

Aw please: avoid (and in big circle too). Sensationalist with illusions of grandeur (he considers himself 'elite', 'chosen to teach prolls' etc.), driving even well-informed French analysts crazy.

Few examples:
- there were 3 F-15Es involved (their route was actually 'quite reminiscent' of the Libyan Raid of April 1986)
- no deployment of US UAVs in Libya is necessary: Global Hawks and Predators are based at Sigonella.

[davidbfpo]

A story in The Daily Telegraph (UK) credited to a reporter in Washington DC, cannot think why. It starts with:

Britain has discreetly deployed military advisers to Libya in order to build an army to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant cells in the country...Special forces commandos are said to be working alongside their US counterparts in the city of Misrata to stop the jihadists’ progress in the lawless terrain across the sea from Italy.

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...sil-cells.html

[davidbfpo]

An interesting article, although my first reaction was where is the evidence. Would Boko Haram veterans fit in, but then US$1k per month adds to the attraction.
Link:http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-libya-...ly-war-1547640

[davidbfpo]

An almost revisionist article by Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy:http://www.vox.com/2016/4/5/11363288...ention-success

[CrowBat]

For anybody interested in such curiosities, here a short story on Libya’s Peculiar, Aerial-Refueling MiG-23s.

[CrowBat]

BTW, Arnaud Delalande, author of recently published book Iraqi Air Power Reborn (covering development of the Iraqi Air Force and Army Aviation since 2003, and available via Amazon as well), is running his own blog, and regularly providing coverage on aerial operations over Libya - by two local air forces.

Here his newest feature: "Libyan airstrikes" situation update 2 - 8 July 2016".

His approach to first-hand sources in Iraq and Libya is not only exclusive but (contrary to that of Taghvaee), also reasonable. Arnaud has got several of his articles on Iraq and Libya published by the WiB too.