Back when the Libyan government was still an actual government, and still in Tripoli, former General Khalifa Hifter announced his intentions to take the country over militarily. The government now holds much less territory, and just in the east, but Gen. Hifter is still a thorn in their side.
Some of it is their own fault. After losing the capital, the Thinni government gave Hifter an official position of leadership in the Libyan Army, hoping he would retake the country for them. He quickly merged his own self-proclaimed army with what was left of the actual army, and became all the stronger.
He wasn’t able to retake the country, but he has convinced supporters in many eastern cities, including Benghazi, to take to the street to demand that the government be replaced by a military council, with him in charge.
That the rallies make twin demands of military rule and the ban of the Muslim Brotherhood makes it pretty obvious that Egypt has its hands deep in this affair, with the Egyptian junta keen to export the system of military rule to its neighbor, and keen to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, which was the elected government in Egypt before the 2013 coup, anywhere and everywhere, as a “terrorist organization.”
Egypt has repeatedly expressed support for Gen. Hifter, and has launched air strikes in support of him during his previous attempts to take over the country.
Nation of gross ingrates — Not fit to be self-governed
Surely the citizens of Libya are something else, for you would thing that after Gaddafi gave them decades of democratic socialism, with more free government cash to spend and more free healthcare and education then they knew what to do with, that when the CIA sodomized and butchered the body of Gaddafi, that the population would muster some kind of resistance to all the foreign troops on their soil.
But no, for most all of the self-appointed militias that now rule Libya, they are paid killers hired by the West or by the oil-rich dictators that monopolize power in the Middle-East.
Hafter ha s allied himself with some of the worst characters of Gaddafi area hoping to become the new Libyan dictator the same way the Sisi of Egypt has done.Birds of feather flock together with support from Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates,and France.
""This man is an opportunity, sir. He is speaking about the timing … they are planning something there [in Libya]. Yes, he is speaking about a form of secret cooperation … unannounced to anyone … no one will hear or know about it … he will come to you," said General Abbas Kamel, the chief aide of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the latest of a series of leaks.
"The man" was Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi's cousin and chief aide, who was pursued by Libyan authorities after the revolution as well as by Interpol for alleged crimes against humanity. He was also recently interviewed on a local pro-authorities Egyptian TV channel to publicly declare his support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The exact date of the leak is unknown. But it was certainly after Sisi's military coup on July 3, 2013, and before Khalifa Haftar's first "television coup" on February 14, 2014. The leak revealed no secrets; just further embarrassment. Sisi's military involvement in Libya became common knowledge in official and expert circles around November 2013." http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/…