The interim government in Libya has so far failed to deal with the issue of disparate groups of militias that remain organized in independent and defiant brigades throughout the country and who are now demanding top roles in government.
The militias, basically armed thugs who refuse to give up whatever limited control they’ve gained since helping to oust former dictator Muammar Gadhafi, have been waging turf battles with other militias and defying the government’s pleas to lay down their arms.
On Sunday, Libya’s ministers of defence, interior and planning unveiled a plan register these former rebels as members of a national army. The United States has been working closely with the interim government to help build up, train, arm, and equip a new Libyan national army, despite earlier promises from the Obama administration that interventions would be limited to the U.N. mandate to protect civilians from Gadhafi.
But many of these fighters have been demanding a much different role in the Libyan government. On Monday, representatives of the Union of Libyan Thwars (revolutionaries), which claims to represent 70 percent of these ex-rebels, demanded the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) grant them 40 percent of its seats.
The serious delinquency and war crimes committed by many of these groups has resulted in the NTC pushing back on these demands, urging the fighters to go back to the jobs and education they were committed to before the war. The U.S. role in bringing these factions to victory and power has yet to be acknowledged in the mainstream for the blunder that it is.
Everybody in the world knows that al Qaeda militia commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj is in control of Tripoli. That Belhaj was sent to Libya by Qatar that the militant groups were imported into Libya in a fake color coded revolt from Qatar. Belhaj is according to Interpol the number three in al Qaeda but he has been granted an office in Turkey to establish the Free Syrian Army financed by Bandar Bush. Everyone can see clearly that NATO supports and assists al Qaeda and yet Anti War trots out these tired old disinformation agents to claim these groups are separate years after the whole world can see they are one and the same thing. I don’t who Jason Ditz and John Glasser are kidding but it isn’t the international public who are aware of the glaring holes in their stories which are simply ignored
Will someone ask the National Transitional Council (NTC) if they are kidding? What 56they used to call ‘freedom loving revolutionaries’ are now tagged as’ armed thugs who have committed war crimes’?
The fact is that these former demonstrators or revolutionaries or whatever they are called, have now become smart and want to rightfully have a share in the government. After all, NTC was composed of non-fighters who were in cahoots with NATO who destroyed Libya and killed many Libyan civilians. These revolutionaries should eventually kick out NTC and replace them by righteous people who have the best interest of Libya in mind.
Will someone ask the National Transitional Council (NTC) if they are kidding? What they used to call ‘freedom loving revolutionaries’ are now tagged as’ armed thugs who have committed war crimes’?
The fact is that these former demonstrators or revolutionaries or whatever they are called, have now become smart and want to rightfully have a share in the government. After all, NTC was composed of non-fighters who were in cahoots with NATO who destroyed Libya and killed many Libyan civilians. These revolutionaries should eventually kick out NTC and replace them by righteous people who have the best interest of Libya in mind.