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Interesting article on Libya and how it clearly is playing a role in attacks on Europe.

Manchester attack: Why the Libya connection matters

As CNN was first to report, after US intelligence detected the possible presence of terrorist operatives linked to Amri's attack in two camps near the Libyan coastal town of Sirte, the Obama administration on its last day in office dispatched two B-2 bombers to destroy the facilities.

Interesting that Obama sent 2 B-2s against this town on his last day in office.

The presence of an ISIS external attack cell on the southern shores of the Mediterranean is especially concerning because thousands of irregular migrants have been setting off from the Libyan coast and arriving by boat in Italy each month. In the autumn of 2015, several of the ISIS Paris and Brussels attack cell posed as refugees to gain entry into Europe, during a huge influx of refugees through Turkey and Greece.

This town is a major dropping off point for refugees into Europe. Which would allow terrorists to blend in with legitimate refugees.

Why Libya?

In the years since the fall of the Gaddafi regime, Libya has become a haven for terrorist groups, including ISIS. At the peak of the group's expansion in early 2016 it could draw on as many as 6,000 fighters and controlled swaths of territory, including the town of Sirte.

Obviously US officials had intel that the Libyan coast is a hotbed of terror and now we are seeing the results.