Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a 'gateway' to wage war across the whole of southern Europe.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the document is written by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant propagandist who is believed to be an important online recruiter for the terror in Libya, where security has collapsed in the wake of the revolution that unseated Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.
The article says that the "jihadists hope to flood the north African state with militiamen from Syria and Iraq", who will then sail across the Mediterranean posing as migrants on people-trafficking vessels, according to Quilliam, the British anti-extremist group. The IS propagandist points out that the country is awash with weapons from the Libyan civil war, when large quantities of Colonel Gaddafi's arsenals were appropriated by rebels. Some of those weapons came from Britain, which supplied the Gaddafi regime with machine guns, sniper rifles and ammunition during his final years in power.
The former head of MI6, John Sawers, said that Britain should consider putting ground troops there to stop the country "being exploited by fanatics."
