Southern Libya’s Tabu tribe came to an agreement with a Sabha militia early today, announcing that the days of fighting sparked by the killing of a Sabha militia member by a Tabu fighter in a dispute over a car (ironically on the way to another truce talk) had come to an end.
This lasted between an estimated two and three hours before the fighting jumped off yet again. The fighting in the afternoon and evening was every bit as fierce as it has been in recent days, and by the end of the day a Libyan government spokesman put the toll at more than 70 dead and over 150 wounded.
Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) initially sent 300 troops to calm the unrest. When they were chased out of the city another 300 were sent. Now, NTC officials say some 1,500 troops are in Sabha, and 1,500 more en route, and the fighting is still ongoing.
The Tabu are fighting not just in Sabha, but also in the oasis of Kufra, where they are fighting a rival tribe over smuggling claims. Tabu chief Abdel Majid Mansour yesterday threatened to launch a full scale secessionist bid, claiming that the NTC is trying to “ethnically cleanse” them.
"Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) initially sent 300 troops to calm the unrest”.
There is no such governing body in Libya, these people are nothing but puppets played by the EU mafiosi, the French connection and paid by NATO to supply them with Libyan oil so NATO countries can afford the shortage of Iranian Oil. These people been used and going to be abused by the west as long as this NTC can call itself the governing body of Libya, they don't even have structured their government bases, they are busy working on how to divide Libya after a model made by US and EU. In another word, as we said from the beginning, Saudis, UAE in one hand and US and EU are sharing the country and stealing the Libyan people wealth dividing it among themselves. Here US and NATO militarism got paid in forehand in “losing” the Libyans $53billion dollars.
In other news: “A State Department* spokesman said during a press conference today that no one could have predicted the outbreak of violence between tribes and the militias in Libya.”
(*If you’re reading this in the UK substitute Foriegn Office for State Department.)