article_snippet: this's worth taking a closer look at how the Libyan branch of ISIS, which affiliated with this in November, has played out on the ground in Libya.
article_snippet: A senior U.S. government official told me that there is some debate in the U.S. intelligence community about whether ISIS' Libyan affiliate is more of a "wannabe" ISIS, and a "rebranding" of a local group that wanted to take advantage of ISIS' fearsome brand, than a group that takes orders from ISIS' central command in Syria and Iraq.
article_snippet: On January 27, ISIS' gunmen attacked the Corinthian Hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing 10.
article_snippet: And last month ISIS' released a video showing members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority being beheaded on a Libyan beach, apparently by members of ISIS' Libyan affiliate.
article_snippet: a video showing members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority being beheaded on a Libyan beach, apparently by members of ISIS' Libyan affiliate showed the victims in the orange jumpsuits that ISIS' forces ISIS' victims to wear.
article_snippet: Both the attack on the Corinthian Hotel and the beheading of the Christians do suggest some measure of command and control by ISIS' core of ISIS' Libyan affiliate, according to the U.S. government official, who says Libyan fighters frequently go back and forth between Libya and Syria and Iraq.