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IS recruiting "army of the poor" in Libya

The so called Islamic State is building an "army of the poor" in Libya by offering people up to $1,000 to come and fight for them. According to Libyan intelligence services the recruits are coming from Africa's poorest nations where some people barely earn a dollar a day.

Colin Freeman is the Chief Foreign Correspondent for the British paper 'The Sunday Telegraph' who wrote a special report on the so called "army of the poor".

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