Islamic State covets Libya as global terror base, envoy warns
Libyan diplomat Aref Ali Nayed urges Washington to step up its involvement in the country.
One of Libya’s senior diplomats is in Washington this week on a lonely mission to drag the US back into the Libyan fray.
Aref Ali Nayed, the Bayda-based government’s ambassador to the UAE, says the Islamic State (IS), or ISIS, risks taking over Libya and turning it into a global terrorism base. He wants help kicking IS militants out — along with the rival Libyan Dawn government in Tripoli that he says made their rise possible.
