ISIL loyalists at the training at a camp in Libya which was struck by the Americans in February 2016 Photo: SITE
The Telegraph: US planning to strike Isil in Libya based on 'faulty intelligence'
Experts and officials believe that America's assessment of Isil's strength in Libya is overblown.
The United States is basing plans for military intervention in Libya on faulty intelligence, Western officials and country experts have told the Sunday Telegraph.
American intelligence agencies assess that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has doubled in size in Libya, with between 5,000 and 6,500 fighters in the country.
Privately, however, some US officials say they believe these estimates to be overblown. Independent experts have come to the same conclusion.
"The estimates of the number of jihadists is grossly exaggerated,” said Karim Mezran, a Libya expert with the Atlantic Council in Washington.
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WNU Editor: It would not be the first time that U.S. intelligence was wrong.
