War in Libya: Act II

Published March 30, 2011 4:00am ET



NATO has intervened. So what’s next? Gaddafi is only part of the problem. In every conflict since 9-11, terrorists have sought opportunity in chaos and tried to flood the battleground with foreign fighters.

The Examiner’s Byron York highlighed the issue yesterday, pointing out “An analysis of the so-called ‘Sinjar documents’ found that Libya sent more fighters to the Iraqi front than any other country except Saudi Arabia; Libyans accounted for nearly 20 percent of the foreign fighters in the Sinjar documents.” This analysis was done by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, which does some of the best cutting-edge research on the subject.

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