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Libya Updates 6/12/17
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 54153621:MV8zMDUxNjUyXzU0NDU2NzcxX0E3ODZFRTAw] [b][i]Who is General Haftar?[/i][/b] ~~~~~~~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Haftar ------- [b][i]Khalifa Haftar: The man who left Virginia to lead Libya's rebels[/i][/b] 4/4/11 [i]CNN) -- His story reads like a political thriller. Once a confidant of Moammar Gadhafi and then his sworn enemy, he led a band of Libyan exiles trying to overthrow the Libyan regime before being spirited in secrecy to the United States when things went bad. His name is Khalifa Haftar.[/i] http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/04/libya.rebel.leader/ ------- [b][i]Libya's New Strongman[/i][/b] 2/13/15 [i]Haftar’s work in Chad did not bring him glory. His enemies like to recall that Chad’s government accused the Libyan forces of employing napalm and poison gas during the war. Afterward, two of Haftar’s fellow-prisoners reported that those who refused to join his coup were left behind in their jail cells. As military commander of the Salvation Front, he plotted an invasion of Libya—but Qaddafi outflanked him, backing a disruptive coup in Chad. The C.I.A. had to airlift Haftar and three hundred and fifty of his men to Zaire and, eventually, to the United States. Haftar was given citizenship, and remained in the U.S. for the next twenty years. For a time, Haftar stayed involved with the C.I.A., and with the Salvation Front’s abortive efforts to topple Qaddafi, including a plot in which a number of Haftar’s fellow-conspirators were captured and executed. According to Ashur Shamis, a former leader of the Salvation Front, Haftar lived well in Virginia, though no one knew how he made his money. But he did not return to Libya, fearing that he would be executed. After the U.S. invaded Iraq, in 2003, Qaddafi, who had been among America’s most vitriolic enemies, suddenly agreed to give up his nuclear-weapons program and attempt a rapprochement. By then, the C.I.A. had evidently loosened its ties with Haftar, and, when he returned to Libya, in March, 2011, he was on his own. Nevertheless, Haftar’s enemies accuse him of being a C.I.A. plant, a traitor, and a vicious killer, and of seeking to install himself as a latter-day Qaddafi.[/i] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/unravelling ------- [b][i]Libyan General With U.S. Passport Wages War On Islamist Extremists[/i][/b] 5/30/14 [i] Into the chaos of post-revolution Libya rides Gen. Khalifa Hifter, a former confidant of Muammar Gaddafi with a U.S. passport and a reputed history with the CIA. A resident of northern Virginia until the 2011 revolution that deposed his old boss, Hifter, 71, returned to his homeland and, after a couple of embarrassing personal setbacks, recently persuaded elements of the military forces to join him in battling the most extreme of the many armed militias operating in Libya today.[/i] http://time.com/2797347/libya-khalifa-hifter/ ------- [b][i]Profile: Libyan ex-General Khalifa Haftar[/i][/b] 10/16/14 [i]Libya's enigmatic General Khalifa Haftar has been on different sides of almost every power struggle in Libya since the 1960s. He initially fought for Muammar Gaddafi, then against him. He fought alongside Islamist rebel groups in the uprising that toppled Gaddafi in 2011 before becoming their nemesis this year.[/i] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27492354 -------- [/quote]
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In 2011, during the 'Arab Spring', NATO forces and western-backed militias brought down the government of Muammar Gaddafi, leader of Libya.
This thread is about the aftermath of that action.
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