The United States and Libya are working together in the fight against ISIL. Striking by air and ground, they have nearly retaken the seaside city of Sirte. As Libyan troops move into ISIL’s former stronghold, they’re making some gruesome discoveries, and perhaps some understanding of ISIL’s operations.
CCTV’s Stephanie Freid reports.
Once home to 70,000 Libyans, Sirte is a ghost town now populated by patrolling Libyan militia and ISIL operatives.
Part of the ISIL remnants is tools used in public executions, hallmark forced “taxation” stamps, a “Libyan ISIL” emblem, and basement prisons. In those ISIL prisons, prisoners were isolated and tortured, and once scrawled desperate messages.