Egypt bombs ISIS

The BBC has an article about revenge in the Middle East:

Egypt says it has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the group published video showing the apparent beheadings of twenty Egyptian Christians.
Egyptian state television said the dawn strikes had targeted camps, training sites, and weapons storage areas. A second wave of strikes was reported hours later.
Libyan officials said Egypt hit targets in the militant-held city of Derna.
A video emerged on Sunday showing militants forcing a group of men to the ground and decapitating them. ISIS militants claim to have carried out several attacks in Libya, which is in effect without a government.
The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in separate incidents in December of 2014 and January of 2015 from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, which is under the control of Islamist groups.
The video of the beheadings was posted online by Libyan jihadists who pledge loyalty to ISIS. It was one of the first such videos to come from an ISIS group outside its core territory in Syria and Iraq.
The video describes the Copts as "crusaders" and refers, among other things, to two women, wives of Coptic priests, whose alleged conversion to Islam triggered a sectarian dispute in Egypt in 2010.
Egypt did not give the locations of the strikes, but a spokesman for Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni told the BBC that Egyptian jets had taken part in co-ordinated air strikes on Derna. "Eight strikes have been conducted so far in Derna. The plan is to target all ISIS locations in the country wherever they are," said Mohamed Azazza.
Libyan Air force commander Saqer al-Joroushi told the Reuters news agency that Libyan planes had bombed targets in Sirte and Bin Jawad.
Several hours later, the AP news agency quoted unnamed security officials as saying that Egyptian warplanes had again struck Derna. 

At the scene: Orla Guerin, BBC News, al-Our, Egypt:

Thirteen of the dead men came from the village of al-Our in Minya. Screams of grief come from several houses in the dusty back streets, and groups of black-clad women go from house to house to offer condolences. One woman, wailing in the street, tells us she has lost five relatives. In the packed courtyard of the church, mourners are gathering for a memorial service.
Local men say they are desperate for work, and Libya is their only hope of a job. Many say they still have relatives working there, and that villagers will continue to go there in search of work. 

Egypt declared seven days of national mourning after the release of the video.
In a televised address, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi described ISIS as "inhuman criminal killers. Egypt and the whole world are in a fierce battle with extremist groups carrying extremist ideology and sharing the same goals," he said. He later visited St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo to offer his condolences to Coptic Pope Tawadros II.
Egypt is already fighting Islamist insurgents based in the Sinai peninsula who have declared their allegiance to the Islamic State.
Leading international condemnation, the United States called the killings "despicable" and "cowardly". Pope Francis expressed his "profound sadness".
Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians, with most working in the construction sector.
In the first kidnapping in Sirte, in late December of 2014, a group of Coptic Christians was abducted at a fake checkpoint while trying to leave the city. Days later, militants raided a residential compound in Sirte and separated Christians from Muslims before handcuffing their captives and taking them away.
Libya has been in chaos since 2011 and the overthrow of its then-leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Since then, numerous militia groups have battled for control.
It has two rival governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in Tobruk.

Analysis by Jim Muir, BBC News:

The butchering of the Egyptian Copts appears to signal Libya's arrival as yet another platform for the militants of ISIS, broadening the franchise and the challenge to Western powers and their regional allies.
Conditions seem to be ripe for them to flourish in Libya, as they have in Iraq and Syria, filling and expanding niches left by failed governments and a chaotic free-for-all of local militias.
Past horrors perpetrated and propagated by ISIS have apparently served only to attract more extremists to its black flag, creating a sense of dynamic momentum.
By bombing ISIS in Libya, President Sisi may have fallen into its trap and increased its appeal, given the repression he is meting out to Egyptian Islamists.
Meanwhile, the eastern city of Benghazi, where the 2011 revolution began, is largely in the hands of militant fighters, some with links to al-Qaeda.
The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency warned last month that ISIS was assembling "a growing international footprint that includes ungoverned and under-governed areas", including Libya. 

City locator (see map above):
Tripoli: government appointed by old parliament that challenged legitimacy of last year's elections
Tobruk: internationally recognized government, ousted from the capital not long after the 2014 election. 

Both backed by loose alliance of militias focused on local interests 

Benghazi: second city and headquarters of the 2011 revolution, largely in hands of Islamist fighters, some with links to al-Qaeda
Misrata: third city and main port, also loyal to Tripoli authorities. Its militias keep them in power.
Derna: home to the Islamic State

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