English-speaking women to question the Libya Islamic Jihad weapons state

English jihadists women use social media to try to attract Western Muslims to join the Islamic state in Libya, a new front in the fight against terrorism is only 400 miles of coastline in Europe.

Three women in the native language is not English, were followed for months by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, the brain center, based in the UK, and it is believed that the British. They say that they have lived in the country ravaged by war in North Africa, at least since the beginning of the summer.

Using social networking platforms such as Twitter and e-mail programs are encrypted and Surespot and Telegram variety, three have been in contact with hundreds of supporters and the road to Syria through the 500-mile border with Turkey has been further restrictions announced the Libya trip, the best way to join the so-called caliphate Isis.

Isis was in Libya for more than a year and live in the country of the greatest forces in the Middle East. The group is based in the northern coastal city of Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace, but also have a basic education, according to the capital, Tripoli west.

Melanie Smith ISD researcher and expert on jihadist Western women said that women traveling to Libya to begin a new life figures Isis represented a turning point.

"When we see the immigrant movement, which represents the body [Isis] try to establish their territory and nation building, not only to fight and conquer the region. [And] will consolidate more territory, the more you fill the ground, the harder it is for it to be accordingly, "he said.

In late June, a woman who calls herself Um [sister] unknown wrote: "Come to Libya. Hijra [religious migration] is not only Shaam [Syria] now. Libya needs as well."

On the same day, he added: "5 Hijra brothers made about a month ago, and it all Shaheed [martyr] ... If the Mujahideen in Libya !!!!"

Twitter, Umm an unknown account worked for almost two years before the suspension. He said he came to Libya in June 19, 2015, posted a link to a variety of events in Libya and had connections with the English fighter controlled by Libya and two other English-speaking women intend to be parties.

A second extremist goes by the name Umm Asiyah said Ask.fm, online forums questions, because he went to Libya, he said. "To live according to Sharia law [] of Allah" it. He also wrote about leaving his family on 2 July pain, he wrote: "Every time I hear that my mother die of Allah Darul kufr [disbelief land] voice."

A week earlier, she wrote that Libya still was not so hard, for example, travel to Turkey.

The third root, Umm Mus'ab says that arrived in Libya in May 2015, telling his supporters to comment on life in Libya responds: "It is," Come to the land where no one will ever see your face. It is mind-bogglingly great.

Although none of the suspended accounts now there is no clear link to the previous existence of the United Kingdom, Smith said other evidence indicated the British associations.

"The type of familiar phrases they use is quite common among women in the United Kingdom will be followed by other countries to Syria and Iraq ?. language very similar, very similar jargon and references"

Smith added that social media networks have been "very British heavy" and relates to the defense of British jihadists known abroad and extremists within the UK.

This week, from East London, who lives in the capital jihad Raqqa, Syria, the self-proclaimed Isis, he encouraged his followers to go to Libya. The woman, who is in his early 20s and Pakistani heritage, seen as a widow, her husband was killed in mid-July.

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"How many brothers in Turkey RN, can not go home and can not get to ... Make your visa and go to #IS to #Libya," he wrote on Twitter, adding that "we need to communicate better."

Smith said the study trend with Libya, as a new website has grown extremists. "They [the jihadists] to speak Libya as a new wall, and as an extension of the caliphate. And it seems that the game plan [terrorist attack] will go through Libya to Europe. So, close to Libya is at the forefront of North Africa are geographically quite disturbing."

From the fortress of Sirte, Isis pushed along the east coast and the west and south of the Sirte Basin, the largest concentration of Libyan oil. More than a dozen sites have been invaded engineers were killed and at least nine kidnapped.

The second objective is about Sabrat, west of Tripoli area. This area belonged to the Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia, a group Washington accuses US ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi killing 2012 until he declared his belief in Isis.

According to Sabrat, a former military warehouse outside the city, volunteers are trained, so much so that to leave Iraq, Syria and Tunisia. Tunisian government said that the attackers thought shook tourists Museum of Bardo and Sousse Beach Resort this year in the capital have been trained on this basis.

Isis has increased, because the Libyan government will struggle to force led by Islamists, Dawn Libya, who won last year in Tripoli, plunging the country into civil war. Sirte is located along between government forces units recognized in eastern Libya and the dawn of the West, both of which are struggling isolated clashes with Isis strife.

Libya reports indicate that foreign volunteers flocking Isis in Tunisia and sub-Saharan Africa. There are also indications that many British volunteers Isis move to Syria, via Tunisia and Libya, where they trained before going to Turkey to have crossed into Syria. The road, which makes it harder to detect up to hundreds of thousands of British tourists who flock to Tunisia. However, this is the first evidence that British chooses to stand in the same Libya.

The British government spokesman said. "The UK advises against all travel to Libya who are traveling, for some reason, it poses a serious threat to people seeking to receive. To participate in terrorist activities abroad should be no doubt that it will take the strongest possible measures to protect our national security.