Topic: English-speaking female jihadis in Libya issue Islamic State call to arms (Read 293 times)
September 27, 2015, 06:53:59 AM
They don't need to "open up a new front". The battle-front is already open, and the ISIS control tens of thousands of square kilometers of territory in Libya (including major cities such as Sirte, from which boats full of Sub-Saharan refugees are launched towards Italy). That said, I don't know how these European female Jihadis managed to reach Libya.
September 27, 2015, 06:50:25 AM
Three women, believed to be British, are using social media to reach out to western Muslims to open up new front in north Africa
English-speaking female jihadis have been using social media to try to lure western Muslims to join them with Islamic State in Libya, a new front in the war on terror just 400 miles from Europe’s shores.
Three native English-speaking women have been monitored for months by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a UK based thinktank, and are believed to be British. They say they have been living in the war-torn North African country since at least the start of the summer.
Using a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter and encrypted messaging apps such as Surespot and Telegram, the three have reached out to their hundreds of followers, and as routes into Syria via its 500-mile border with Turkey have become further restricted they have advertised the journey to Libya as the easiest way of joining Isis’s so-called caliphate.
Isis has been in Libya for just over a year and the country is home to its largest forces outside of the Middle East. The group has its headquarters in the northern coastal town of Sirte, birthplace of Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but also has a major training base to the west of the capital, Tripoli.
Melanie Smith, ISD researcher and an expert in western female jihadis, said evidence of women travelling to Libya to start a new life under Isis represented a dangerous tipping point.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/english-speaking-female-jihadis-libya-islamic-state
English-speaking female jihadis have been using social media to try to lure western Muslims to join them with Islamic State in Libya, a new front in the war on terror just 400 miles from Europe’s shores.
Three native English-speaking women have been monitored for months by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a UK based thinktank, and are believed to be British. They say they have been living in the war-torn North African country since at least the start of the summer.
Using a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter and encrypted messaging apps such as Surespot and Telegram, the three have reached out to their hundreds of followers, and as routes into Syria via its 500-mile border with Turkey have become further restricted they have advertised the journey to Libya as the easiest way of joining Isis’s so-called caliphate.
Isis has been in Libya for just over a year and the country is home to its largest forces outside of the Middle East. The group has its headquarters in the northern coastal town of Sirte, birthplace of Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but also has a major training base to the west of the capital, Tripoli.
Melanie Smith, ISD researcher and an expert in western female jihadis, said evidence of women travelling to Libya to start a new life under Isis represented a dangerous tipping point.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/english-speaking-female-jihadis-libya-islamic-state
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