The weekend takeover of Libya’s parliament by the leader of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army and its head Gen. Khalifa Hifter has made an unstable situation much worse, and has the nation’s countless armed factions picking sides for what is shaping up to be a full-scale civil war.
Though Gen. Hifter’s Army is itself just another “irregular force,” parts of Libya’s actual military are rushing to his side, including the Special Forces, which endorsed Hifter’s “Operation Dignity” against Islamist MPs.
Libya’s Army Chief of Staff, which remains loyal to the government, appears to know it can’t win the fight alone, and has issued a call for the Islamist dominated militias to come to Tripoli to fight by their side to restore the power of Prime Minister Malteeq, whose government was in power for only a few hours before the coup.
Malteeq’s power bloc was overwhelmingly Islamist MPs, which likely played a role in Hifter’s allegation of an Islamist takeover of parliament. That the military is now putting out an SOS call to Islamist fighters to save his government is likely to add to the division between Hifter’s anti-Islamist coup forces and the remaining loyalists.
You are providing some of the best, some of the only, coverage of what is going on. Thanks.
Hifter, eh?
Not the smartest choice for consumption by the American exceptionals whose national motto is of course; 'perception is everything'
Why confuse the boobousie, unnecessarily..
America will of course jump in to support the "rogue " General. Arms and equipment will be provided in the HOPE that they will give the USG some influence in the resultant outcome.
NOT IF THEY AGAIN PICK THE WRONG SIDE AS THEY APPEAR TO HAVE.
If the Establishment media isn't going berserk about this development, but starts wringing its hands over the blowback, you can bet the Establishment is pulling these strings.
Even the foreign policy of Islamization by EU far right governments as David Cameron and zarkozi the French mafia, Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton is backfiring, whats next for USG and EU? to start a real and truly your fascists regimes foreign policy?