Egypt Launches Airstrikes on ISIS Targets in Libya After Beheadings

[Randy]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/egypt-launches-airstrikes-isis-targets-libya-after-beheadings-n306841

CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt said Monday it had carried out dawn airstrikes against ISIS targets in Libya in revenge for the videotaped beheading of 21 Coptic Christians.

The country's Armed Forces General Command announced that its fighter jets targeted weapon stores and training camps "to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers."

It was Egypt's first confirmed foreign military intervention since the 1990 Gulf War.

"Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them," said a statement posted to Facebook. A video showed warplanes taking off from Egyptian bases.

The statement did not mention targets, but Libya's air force said it had carried out bombing raids in coordination with Cairo, striking targets in the eastern city of Derna which was overrun by ISIS-linked Islamists last year.

A commander told the Alwasat news channel that Libya jets had also struck targets in Sirte and Ben Jawad and that more raids were planned.

Unverified pictures from the city, posted to social media, showed clouds of smoke rising from several locations.

Charlie Winter @charliewinter
Woke up to reports of #Egypt strikes in #Libya. Make no mistake people, #IS wanted this to happen. Dictators are so predictable.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has repeatedly said militants based in Libya pose a serious security threat to Egypt, a strategic U.S. ally that is fighting ISIS-linked insurgents in the Sinai.

Thoughts?

 

[Webster]

Egypt is another country that seems to have more balls than America does in regards to dealing with these Islamonazis'....good on 'em!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-P-i8zKZc
(Weasel Zippers)
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Via Fox:

Egypt’s military said Monday that it had launched airstrikes against ISIS-affiliated militants in Libya after a video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages surfaced Sunday.

A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced the strikes on state radio Monday, marking the first time Cairo has publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya, where extremist groups seen as a threat to both countries have taken root in recent years.

The statement said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning safely. It said the strikes were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers.”

“Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them,” it said.

 

[Nebulous]

If I lived in Egypt, I'd be on the lookout for retaliation and paranoid at all times

 

[+paradox]

@webster, egypt and plenty other countries are in that area so the usa needs to let them deal with them and stop going in that region every time war breaks out there and making things worse...