"He has also vowed to uproot Islamist factions which, he claims, are trying to hijack Libya’s wobbly democracy and have been infiltrated by foreign jihadists. The first to be hit in Benghazi was Ansar al-Sharia. This group, designated a terrorist organisation by America in January, is widely blamed for the attack on an American diplomatic compound in 2012 that resulted in the deaths of the ambassador and three other Americans."