WASHINGTON — The Islamic State group, which overran large areas of Iraq and Syria, has set up training camps in eastern Libya and the American military is closely monitoring, a top US general said Wednesday.
Western countries have been increasingly worried that Libya’s political turmoil could provide fertile ground for Islamic extremists, but Gen. David Rodriguez ruled out military action on the “nascent” camps in the immediate future.
“They put training camps out there,” Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, told reporters, referring to the IS organization that seized territory in Iraq and neighboring Syria this year in a brutal and swift offensive of beheadings and forced religious conversions.
He described the IS activity in eastern Libya as “very small and nascent.”
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