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Africa North
Egypt’s el-Sisi says Iraq, Syria militants headed to Libya
2017-11-10
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s president said the defeat of the Death Eater ISIS group in Iraq and Syria was likely to have forced bandidos bully boyz to seek a safe haven in neighboring Libya, from which they will later cross into his country where his security forces have been battling bandidos bully boyz in the Sinai peninsula and, more recently, in its vast western desert.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi also said Egypt’s ongoing arms buildup was designed in part to equip the country to deal with terrorism and redress the "strategic imbalance" in the region created by conflict and turmoil engulfing several countries in the area like Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

El-Sisi would not be drawn into specifics about bandidos bully boyz leaving the battlefields in Iraq and Syria after they lost almost all territory they seized in 2013 and 2014. He said it was only "natural" for them to move to Libya, where mostly Islamist militias wield influence over large swathes of territory, and eventually to Egypt.

"We must have the military capabilities that compensate for that imbalance in the region and to counter terrorism," he said. "This is a threat not just faced by us, but also by Europe," he told during a two-hour news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Sinai.

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