Ousted from his post decades ago by the Gadhafi government, Gen. Khalifa Hifter has gone from rebel general, to CIA-backed rebel funder, to coup-leader with a private army, and is now back to a top general in Libya.
That’s the decision made by the Libyan “government,” which has been operating in exile for months and has no control over the capital or any major cities, which has brought Gen. Hifter on board in the hopes it will restore them to power.
In practice, they didn’t have a lot of alternatives, with what little was left of the Libyan military joining Hifter’s private army, and every city under the control of other factions that don’t support either them or Hifter.
In the long run, it could be risky, however, as Gen. Hifter sought to oust the previous parliament for being “too Islamist,” and a lot of his overseas support seems to be from nations, like Egypt, with an eye toward exporting the military junta form of government.
Gen. Khalifa Hifter is a CIA pimp.
How 'revolutionary' Libya install a US citizen and CIA pimp into position of power. Now, We know how. Down with US imperialism and CIA pimps in the world.
afghan warlordism pursued by usa comes to libya in full force. the only surprise is that the only global superpower has such a limited number of tricks which it needs to deploy over and over without achieving any positive results either for itself or for anybody else (i am talking about nation states and population at large not a select group of people)
What was he in the past months then when they constantly were claiming that he commanding the so called"Libyan Army.or the the so "recognized government forces"?So all the past months he had no official potion at all?The fact that an arrest warrant was issued for his arrest by he official government at the time of his attempted coup in Feb2014 makes him a wanted criminal.
It seems that the media is unwilling to expose him for what he truly is a war criminal and profiteer.His claim to be fighting for Libya against extremists and terrorists is total farce.Most his forces are composed of large numbers of criminals who were in the "kwaifia" prison in Benghazi that he freed from there and recruited them into his death squads that he unleashed into the city terrorizing ,murdering,kidnapping ,and looting without any control.He caused unprecedented destruction of the city ,thousands of families were forced to flee his rampage.
Just today 01/21/2015 ,his gangs broke into the Libyan Central Bank branch in Benghazi and looted it of all its contents and basically destroying it.
Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates ,and Egypt are his backers and handlers because they want every Arab country ruled by dictators like them even if these countries and people had to be destroyed.He was never a rebel.He an opportunist who would do anything to gain control.
"Hifter sought to oust the previous parliament for being “too Islamist,"??
He sought to oust the previous parliament because he could not get what he wanted
and they knew what he really was.He was ignored and felt that he deserved much more gratitude and respect for who he is.