EGYPT MUST INVEST AND DESTROY ISIS IN SIRTE - LIBYA NOW
THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS
FOR EGYPT TO INTERVENE AND PREEMPT
As western countries ramp up strikes against ISIS's de-facto
capital of Raqqa, Syria, the terrorist group is looking to Libya as
a potential back-up option at which to base its operations,
according
to The New York Times.
While ISIS (also known as the Islamic State) has other
affiliates throughout Africa and the Middle East that have pledged
their allegiance to its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group's
branch in Sirte is the only one that ISIS central leadership
directly controls.
The Wall Street Journal reports
that ISIS leaders in Libya have reportedly adopted a slogan that
reflects Sirte's heightened profile within the jihadist
organization: "Sirte will be no less than Raqqa."
The Sirte affiliate is also much closer to western Europe than
ISIS's territory in Syria and Iraq:
ACTIVE ISIS FIGHTERS' PRESENCE IN SIRTE
ISIS's influence in Sirte has been growing over the past year,
as it has evolved into what The Times describes as an
"actively managed colony" of the central group. The growth has been swift — the Libya affiliate has gone from
200 fighters to about 5,000 since ISIS announced its branch there.
And Libya might be an ideal location for ISIS' fallback capital.
The country lacks a functioning government and is rich in oil
resources, which ISIS uses to finance its operations in Syria and
Iraq, where it holds most of its territory.
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LIBYA HAS NO CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY AND NO GOVERNMENT
Fathi Ali Bashaagha, a politician from Misrata, Libya, told
The Journal: "We don’t have a real state. We have a
fragmented government. Every day we delay on a political deal,
it is a golden opportunity for Islamic State to grow." Rival governments in Libya agreed to a draft peace accord in
October, but so far it has not been implemented, according to
The Journal.
As ISIS has accomplished in Syria and Iraq, the group is
successfully exploiting "deep divisions" in Libya,
according to The Journal. ISIS has encouraged sectarian hatred
in Syria and Iraq to further divide the population and
convince Sunni Muslims that they need ISIS to protect them from
Shiites. Also as it did when it started seizing territory in Iraq and
Syria, ISIS might also have its sights set on control
of nearby oil fields.
Sirte is also being governed like other ISIS-controlled cities
in the Middle East. The group has reportedly set up propaganda
"media
points" in the city and started imposing its strict laws,
like requiring women to wear Islamic veils in public and permitting
public executions.
TERRORIST group Boko Haram has sent hundreds of fighters to Libya to help Islamic State (ISIS) conquer the wartorn country…and their next stop could be EUROPE.
TERRORIST group Boko Haram has sent hundreds of fighters to Libya to help Islamic State (ISIS) conquer the wartorn country…and their next stop could be EUROPE.
The Nigerian-based fanatics have dispatched up to 200 heavily armed troops to bolster ISIS forces in north Africa in a terrifying sign of the growing alliance between the two feared groups.
The terrorists have described Libya as the "gateway to Rome" and it is thought they are planning to stow away fighters on smugglers' boats full of migrants destined for Italy.
ISIS PROPAGANDA IS SURPRISINGLY SOPHISTICATED
But ISIS also runs a sophisticated
operation within the caliphate to brainwash the population it
rules. The group has set up "media points" in the cities
it controls to maximize the exposure of its propaganda to the
public.
The media points are surprisingly high-tech. People can submit
their own material or download media from machines that have
built-in slots for SIM cards and flash drives. Large flat-screen
TVs set up in public places show gruesome beheading videos
alongside scenes of utopia. One activist from Raqqa, Syria,
compared the screens ISIS has placed in central areas of the city
to Times Square in New York — highly visible and well-known to
those who live there.
ISIS also uses more old-school propaganda methods like blaring messages from speakers on trucks and hosting public beheadings.
"There's wall-to-wall propaganda in the caliphate. It's similar to North Korea," Charlie Winter, an expert on jihadism and ISIS propaganda, told Business Insider last month in London. "It obscures the realities of life and tempers discontent. It becomes a means of stabilization and continuous control."
Propaganda also serves to promote the ISIS brand — the group sets itself apart from other jihadist factions and terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda by casting itself as a legitimate government that provides services (like education, trash collection, and policing) to the people of the caliphate.
In tandem with blasting its propaganda out everywhere in the caliphate, ISIS — also known as the Islamic State — chokes off internet access to limit exposure to information from the outside world.
Nowhere is this sick philosophy more visible than the daily indoctrination of Jihadist children.
"A majority of people don't believe [ISIS propaganda], but that coupled with a lack of any other information will impact thinking and decision-making," Winter said. "It's totalitarian politicking. You can really break down someone's ability to resist the state."
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ISIS also uses more old-school propaganda methods like blaring messages from speakers on trucks and hosting public beheadings.
An ISIS fighter hands out propaganda in
queuing traffic in Sirte
"There's wall-to-wall propaganda in the caliphate. It's similar to North Korea," Charlie Winter, an expert on jihadism and ISIS propaganda, told Business Insider last month in London. "It obscures the realities of life and tempers discontent. It becomes a means of stabilization and continuous control."
Propaganda also serves to promote the ISIS brand — the group sets itself apart from other jihadist factions and terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda by casting itself as a legitimate government that provides services (like education, trash collection, and policing) to the people of the caliphate.
In tandem with blasting its propaganda out everywhere in the caliphate, ISIS — also known as the Islamic State — chokes off internet access to limit exposure to information from the outside world.
Nowhere is this sick philosophy more visible than the daily indoctrination of Jihadist children.
"A majority of people don't believe [ISIS propaganda], but that coupled with a lack of any other information will impact thinking and decision-making," Winter said. "It's totalitarian politicking. You can really break down someone's ability to resist the state."
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1. Egypt is next door to Libya. It shares a 1000 kilometres long border in the Western desert and what happened in Libya can spill over into the country.
2. Egypt cannot afford to wait until ISIS gain control of the whole or of large part of Cyrenaica.
3.It is a safe bet that ISIS who has $ millions of revenues a day (from selling oil at half price) can afford to hire and pay rogue jet pilots mercenaries ( Saudis, Ukrainians, Americans, Pakistanis) to fly captured Libyan MIG 23 fighter-bomber.
Hiring pilots-mercenaries must at all cost be prevented. ISIS must never be allowed to have anything flying in the skies.
4. Egypt must not remain neutral & watch the flow of Tunisian foreign fighters crossing, literally on foot, the border to join ISIS. Tiny Tunisia - one of the most progressive Islamic country having outlawed polygamy and shut down religious schools - is also paradoxically THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR OF FOREIGN JIHADIST FIGHTERS estimated today at 9,000.
Air strikes against IS positions have been
conducted by the Egyptian air force and by Libya's
internationally-recognised government. However, airstrikes ARE NOT ENOUGH TO CRUSH ISIS IN LIBYA. IT WILL REQUIRE NO LESS THAN A DECISIVE COMBINED ARMY-NAVY-AIRFORCE PUNITIVE INTERVENTION WHOSE OBJECTIVES MUST BE:
1. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF SIRTE
2. OCCUPATION BY EGYPTIAN TROOPS OF A WIDE STRETCH OF BORDER LAND IN LIBYA AS A BUFFER ZONE.
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1. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF SIRTE
2. OCCUPATION BY EGYPTIAN TROOPS OF A WIDE STRETCH OF BORDER LAND IN LIBYA AS A BUFFER ZONE.
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NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME TO STRIKE HARD BECAUSE THOUGH JIHADISTS has tried to build up the city to mirror Raqqa — with bureaucratic buildings, a "police" force, and courts — ISIS is having a difficult time meeting the basic needs of the population "Gas stations and hospitals aren't functioning, and checkpoints make travel difficult".
As a civil engineer who recently fled told the media: "Sirte has gone dark."
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Self-explanatory Egyptian Logo
EGYPT'S STRATEGY
1. A naval blockade and bombardment of the Gulf of Sirte
2. A three-pronged land assault
by 2 armored division
Egypt navy in action video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BcHfVWX6d8
Egypt's NAVAL FLAG
EGYPT'S COMPOSITION OF AN ARMORED DIVISION
Briefly, a division is comprised of 15,302 active-duty soldiers. Another 417 reserve-component soldiers are integrated into the division when it’s deployed, which means a division has about 18,000 soldiers.
M1A2 Abrams
The Army division will have
three maneuver brigades -- one armored and two mechanized infantry.
The armored brigade will have two armored battalions and one
mechanized. Mechanized brigades will be two mechanized battalions and
one armored. A battalion will four companies.
aviation attack and aviation support battalions will have 15 AH-64 Apache Attack helicopters + 10 MI28 Russian and these have a digital-communications systems.
In today’s tactics, the commander of a battalion’s 45 tanks has a better visibility over the battlefield, he doesn't have to worry about that other direction any more. Now he can focus all his energy in one direction.
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BATTLE PLAN FOR INVESTING THE TOWN OF SIRTE AND THE GULF OF SIDRA
OPERATIONAL MISSION
CALLED "DAESH PURGE"
FIGHTING UNITS
As mentioned the attack will be executed by 6 brigades (B1-B6),
1. Each maneuver Brigade with 45 battle tanks + 45 mobile fighter vehicles + 15 attack helicopters + 20 fighter-bombers
Assault plan
Sirte will be assaulted from 3 sides
EAST CENTER WEST
EAST: B1 & B2 will secure airports in BREGA & RAS LANUF along the coast line
CENTER: B3 + Libyan government forces will secure airports of SABHA
WEST: (the left hook) B4 & B5 will secure airports of MISRATA & BENI WALED with the 2 brigades posted in between
Brigade B6 in full alert in the CENTER at the town of HUN (north of Sabha) acting as a pivot ready to intervene in either directions.
Egypt's F16 being refueled in air
NAVY - 2 destroyers + 4 missiles firing Frigates patrolling the Gulf of Sidra 10 miles off shore facing Sirte.
ORDER TO ALL EGYPTIAN FORCES IN OPERATION
1. STRIKE WITHOUT MERCY (Jihadists will show none)
2. NO PRISONERS TAKEN
3. EXCEPT (IF POSSIBLE) FOR CHECHENS & KOSSOVITES TO BE GIVEN IN SHCKLES TO RUSSIA
More Maps showing attainable objectives
BREGA & RAS LANUF OBJECTIVES (East)
MISRATA OBJECTIVE (West)
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NOW IS THE TIME TO STRIKE AND STRIKE DECISIVELY 1. LIBYA IS A DIVIDED NATION
2. DAESH DEFEAT IN LIBYA WILL BE HAILED BY THE NEWLY FORMED 34 MOSLEM NATION COALITION AGAINST TERRORISM.
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TOTAL NUMBER OF EGYPTIAN FORCES UNITS TAKING PART IN OPERATION "DAESH PURGE"
ARMY
1. SOLDIERS 30,000
2. TANKS 270
3. FIGHTING VEHICULES 270
AIR FORCE
1. FIGHTER BOMBERS 120
2. ATTACK HELICOPTERS 90
NAVY
1. DESTROYERS 2
2. FRIGATES 4
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N.B. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT UAE WILL GIFT EGYPT WITH AT LEAST 1$ BILLION.
