Daesh in Sinai’s Libya connection: The Jerusalem Post is running an excellent spotlight by Al Masry Al Youm released earlier this month on the weapons trail from Gaddafi's stockpiles of weapons in Libya to Sinai which is fueling Daesh’s operations there. AMAY’s reporters had attempted to categorize the advanced weapons — including Grad missiles (of the type recently launched at Eilat), anti-tank rocket propelled grenades, air defense Strela missiles, and DShK Russian machine heavy guns — in addition to tracing the many smuggling routes. Their report concludes that by the time President El Sisi took charge in 2014, the situation had gone so out of control that Daesh had established entrenched routes in the peninsula.

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