With more weapons flooding into the country and no real peace talks, the various combatant factions in Libya are all gearing up for a protracted civil war. This is true both of the large groups, like Khalifa Hafter’s Libyan National Army (LNA) and the UN-backed unity government, and smaller tribal groups.
With fighting looking to get worse, not better, the oil ports of Libya are under a state of blockade, with LNA forces and allies controlling the area, and everyone demanding a bigger cut of revenue to let the unity government restore shipments.
UN efforts to keep arms out of the country are failing miserably, and now every group sees new fighting as inevitable and is snatching up as many weapons for themselves as possible before that new round of violence.
And while a lot of the focus right now is on the influx of weapons, the fighting also threatens to drag a number of other countries in. Turkey is backing the unity government, and throwing Syrian rebels into the country to fight as well. The LNA, on the other hand, has allies from across the Middle East, s well as support from Russia.
Miss Gaddafi yet? You know, the Gaddafi who held Libya together and gave it the highest standard of living in Africa?
that is why he had to go.
Like Saddam. Like Assad.
The general Hafter is supported by the USA . He says Gaddafi son is who he wants to rule Libya .Seems one of Gaddafi sons is the most popular man in Libya today . Maybe it would have been better if NATO had stayed out of Libya and just let Gaddafi rule the country . He sure did a lot better job for the Libyan people than any thing we have seen since . How many time to we have to watch the United States and NATO destroy one country after another and see the civilian population suffer before w e learn