CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings February 24, 2015
Of isis. The idea of libya as a base, as a haven for extremism is not new. Obviously it existed under gadhafi with the city of durna and syria. After the revolution, you had the growth of Al Qaeda Affiliated groups, and, indeed general heftars campaign was designed to root out those groups. I think what youve had in the wake of the campaign is not the decisive defeat of those groups, but rather their mutation. And this is what were seeing now with isis. Isis in libya is really peeling away a lot of members of these older post revolutionary jihadist groups that had affiliation to al qaeda. Youv...