According Libyan website Afrigate News after the terrorist ISIS commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi resurfaced, Libyan sources revealed that the reemergence of ISIS recently in southern Libya sends a dangerous message.
Sabha Mayor Hamid al-Khayyali said that “it is impossible for ISIS terrorist group to return to Surt, but it may appear in other cities again”.
He added that “some cities of the Libyan south are more susceptible for the emergence of the group, particularly on the side of the cities of Qadduwah, Tamanhint, and Umm al ‘Aranib, in addition to farming areas, to benefit from large desert areas”.
He noted that the organization relies on mobile hubs of non-Libyan and Libyan mercenaries, and they have no fixed hub in the south, but deserts are vast and farms help them attack those cities.
Sabha Mayor Hamid al-Khayyali revealed the details of the operation at dawn on 4 May targeting a camp for the armed forces.
Al-Khayyali said that “a group affiliated with ISIS terrorist group attacked a training center, slit the throat of a military officer and shot eight dead, while the number of the wounded remains unknown”.
ISIS claim responsibility for the attack on the LNA checkpoint near Zillah.
According to an activist who spoke anonymously to the Russian News Agency Sputnik, “ISIS members are active in farms in the Libyan south, and they include non-Libyan members, as they are seeking to bring in members from Chad and Mali to declare a new Wilayah in the south”.
The source added that “ISIS members are starting to appear in the desert and farms recently, amid fears that after the appearance of al-Baghdadi will make their main goal to carry out attrition operations targeting military personnel and civilians. The declaration of a Wilayah in Libya might not be announced unless tens of thousands are recruited on Libyan lands”.
