{"id":52478,"date":"2015-02-03T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/?p=52478"},"modified":"2021-03-29T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T19:28:49","slug":"obama-u-s-blind-to-islamic-state-threat-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/posts\/52478\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, U.S. blind to Islamic State threat in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top adviser to Libya\u2019s prime minister warned Tuesday that the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community have dramatically underestimated the Islamic State\u2019s expansion into his nation \u2014 a development that could have been avoided had Washington led a more aggressive counterterrorism strategy after Moammar Gadhafi\u2019s ouster in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding ties in recent months between Libyan extremist groups and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi\u2019s Syria- and Iraq-based Islamic State movement have attracted more international attention during recent weeks. But U.S. officials have resisted playing up the association \u2014 even after an outfit claiming allegiance to al-Baghdadi killed a U.S. citizen in an assault on Tripoli\u2019s Corinthia Hotel last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\">www.washingtontimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/3\/obama-us-blind-to-islamic-state-libya-threat-top-o\/\" style=\"background-color:#0061af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top adviser to Libya\u2019s prime minister warned Tuesday that the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community have dramatically underestimated the Islamic State\u2019s expansion into his nation \u2014 a development that could have been avoided had Washington led a more aggressive counterterrorism strategy after Moammar Gadhafi\u2019s ouster in 2011. Expanding ties in recent months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>The Islamic State terrorist group likely will launch an attack on Italy within weeks, not months, according to a senior Libyan government official.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aref Ali Nayed<\/strong>, Libya\u2019s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, said in an interview that one likely method of attack would be to use stolen Libyan airliners now believed to be in the hands of Islamists in Libya.<\/p>\n\n<!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":16} -->\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:spacer -->\n\n<!-- wp:buttons {\"align\":\"left\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignleft\"><!-- wp:button {\"borderRadius\":0,\"style\":{\"color\":{\"background\":\"#0061af\"}},\"textColor\":\"white\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/mar\/25\/inside-the-ring-islamic-state-likely-to-attack-ita\/\" style=\"background-color:#0061af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Article<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:button --><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:buttons -->","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-52478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-leader-videos","tag-link","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}