Another round of fighting broke out in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi today as troops loyal to former General Khalifa Hifter clashed with the Islamist militias in control of the city.
At least 13 people, including nine of the soldiers, were reported killed in the Wednesday fighting, though locals say the toll is very preliminary and could rise significantly.
Gen. Hifter, who tried to oust the previous parliament as “terrorists,” vowed yesterday to “liberate” Benghazi, while Ansar al-Sharia, one of the factions in the Shura Council that currently governs Benghazi, attacked one of the last of the Hifter bases on the city’s outskirts.
Libya has splintered along several lines, with most cities under the control of some militia or other, and the “parliament” confined to a tiny town along the Tunisian border. Hifter’s forces have vowed to take over the country, but so far they don’t appear to control much other than military bases.
Also backing Hifter is the Egyptian military junta, and Egyptian warplanes launched attacks on Benghazi today, with junta officials saying they have trained the Hifter forces to take Benghazi back from the Islamists.
General Hifter lived here in Virginia in the vicinity of CIA for over twenty years, with income — not clear from whom — ever since he fled from Gadhafi's Libya. Now, transported to Libya to take over with the help of new US "ally" Egypt. Sort of like the current president of Rwanda, when he was shipped over to Uganda from where the Tutsi/Ugandan operation against Huti majority leader was organized, and country plunged into civil war. Naturally, "our" Tutsi minority was favorite, so, they became victims of "genocide", even though if indeed there were so many dead, there would have been not a single Tutsi left in East Africa. But instead, many times over "exterminated" minority ended up exterminating majority Hutu population into the jungle, where milions died. But the mythology persists. So we will rewrite the story of Libya — once we have it sufficiently formated according to our favorite narrative.
USA develops and has shadow governments available for virtually any country in the world.
Why actually the bombing of Benghazi by Egypt fighter planes is not reported here ???
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Empire expansion — Total democracy destruction
Fascist Hiter and his fascist band of mercenaries, surely they have brutal imperialism at the hands of Empire USA written all over their militarized coup.
Comes now a realization that Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Ukraine and Yemen all have one thing in common, by a fascist militarized coup funded and orchestrated by Empire USA was their dictatorship established.
Hafter no longer has any rank.He has no position in Libya military.He is under indictment and wanted for his coup attempt in Feb2014.He is the cause of much of the problems in Libya.He is nothing more than a paid stooge of the United Arab Emirates megalomaniac crown prince who so much obssesed with preventing any Arab country and its People to rule themselves .He has been interfering and hiring gangs to spread chaos,bombing ,assassinations,kidnappings,and murders in Libya immediately after the fall of Gaddafi.He wants to be the one who decides who should be allowed govern Libya,not the Libyan people.He wants to see every Arab country ruled absolute dictators who are easily bought to do his bidding.He has been trying to repeat what he did in Egypt.He wants people who would sell Libya productive infrastructures such oil,petrochemical,and port facilities to him on the very cheap.He really has a hand in most of the problems that Libya experiencing now.The terms militants ,extremists,radicals,and Islamist are only used to fool the west in supporting these efforts.The United Arab Emirates has recruit criminal gangs and supplied them with weapons and explosives to kill people ,assassinate,and bomb any facilities that would then blame groups that had nothing to do with.The Egyptian military has become a rent cop for the United Arab Emirates.And now are being used by the United Arab Emirates to rescue their other stooges in Libya who are clearly failing miserably.Hafter is losing despite the huge and limitless support of every kind he has received from the paranoid crown prince the same way he failed in Chad.
A point that never mentioned about Hafter is his war crimes committed in Chad war.
Finally,the so called parliament is holed up in the small city of Toburk close to the Egyptian border not the Tunisian border.