A statement issued today by the Libyan government reveals that they are discussing a “potential request for international forces” to ensure their hold on power, as violence continues to escalate nationwide.
Today, the violence centered on the capital city of Tripoli, where militias ripped through the international airport, destroying 90% of the planes there, and badly damaging the control tower.
The airport had been operating normally through Saturday, and suddenly became a battleground, as militias from Zintan aimed to defend it from militias from the rival city of Misrata. All flights are suspended now and it isn’t clear when, or even if, the Tripoli airport will come back on line.
The militia fighting is part of a growing civil war across the nation, as Gen. Khalifa Hifter aims to take over the nation with his self-proclaimed army. Hifter’s forces are being resisted by Islamists loyal to parliament, though even more extreme Islamist factions are coming into the picture, returning from Iraq and Syria to vie for power.
Hiftar is a US employee and has been for nearly 30 years. It was inevitable that the US would follow it’s Moslem crusader alliance to overthrow Gaddafi with a war to crush its allies. Exactly the same would have happened in Syria if US allies had been successful there.
The US fights for obedience, not democracy or even dictatorship in spite of its allies of the moment.
I don’t use the word Jihadist because I am addressing people who speak English not
Arabic. I suspect many of them don’t know that Crusade means exactly the same as Jihad because the Catholic Church copied the method from the Muslims.
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