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Libya is the only place outside Iraq and Syria where the jihadi group controls territory, but US and Europe have no strategy there, researchers say<\/h2>\n
Despite battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the West is woefully neglecting the spread of the terrorist group in Libya, where it poses a supreme danger not only to the Middle East and North Africa, but also to Europe, according to Israeli terrorism researchers.<\/p>\n
\u201cLibya is the only country besides Syria and Iraq where IS controls a large territory and controls government infrastructure, including a power plant, port, and economical ports,\u201d said Reuven Erlich, a former senior officer in military intelligence and currently the head of the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center<\/a> (ITIC). \u201cWe think that IS\u2019s establishment in Libya poses a grave threat and it needs to be taken very seriously by Europe and the US.\u201d<\/p>\n Several researchers at ITIC, which operates under the Israel Intelligence and Heritage Commemorations Center, spent a full year examining IS\u2019s activity in Libya, and this week are publishing their worrying conclusions in a 175-paper report, entitled \u201cISIS in Libya: a Major Regional and International Threat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n