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The Hill - Spy leaders: Libyan politics complicating anti-ISIS fight

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Date: Feb. 25, 2016
Issues: National Security Defense Foreign Affairs

By Julian Hattem

Efforts to establish a capable central government in Libya have complicated the Obama administration's efforts to root out the growing base used by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), top intelligence said on Thursday.

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The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), said on Thursday that he was worried "that as the size of the tumor in Syria and Iraq decreases, that we're seeing a new malignancy in Libya."

"I'm concerned that … we may get to the point where ISIS is so firmly entrenched in Libya that we have to embark in the same multi-year process that we are undertaking in Iraq and Syria," he added.

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