Libya: Still a Terrorist Mess

Seventeen people died Wednesday in Libya as two Islamic militias battled for control of the international airport in Tripoli, the nation’s capital. Thirty-one others were injured.

Libya’s parliament voted Wednesday to dismantle the militias, but has been unable to disarm them. The parliament also voted to ask the United Nations for what it called “international intervention.”

June’s parliamentary elections left radical Islamist factions out of power. The affronted groups responded with terrorism.

Libya has become so dangerous that the United States evacuated its embassy in Tripoli.

In 2011, the U.S. decided to attack Muammar Qadhafi’s regime. The administration claimed to act in defense of the Libyan people. For seven months, the U.S.-led airstrike smashed Qadhafi’s forces, allowing radical Islamic rebels to lead an offensive on the ground. The rebels rounded up Qadhafi loyalists, conducted mass beatings and killings, and publicly executed Qadhafi.

At the time, the Western world celebrated what it believed was Libya’s path to democracy. However, three years after it intervened and gave the keys of this nation to rebel forces, the nation remains engulfed in violence and bloodshed.

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