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Message Subject Libya Updates 6/12/17
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Putin Promotes Libyan Strongman as New Ally After Syria Victory
12/22/16

Flush with success in supporting his ally in Syria, Vladimir Putin has a new ambition: supporting another one, this time in Libya. The effort is beginning to undermine the UN-backed government there.

Russian President Putin’s government is befriending a powerful military leader, Khalifa Haftar, who now controls more territory than any other faction in the tumultuous, oil-rich North African state. In two visits to Moscow in the past half-year, Haftar met the defense and foreign ministers, plus the national-security chief, to seek support. A top ally also visited last week and Russia is supplying funds and military expertise to Haftar’s base in the east.


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When I started this thread at the beginning of the year, I had never heard of General Haftar. There's been numerous articles about him posted here during that time, and you can see how he's gone from obscurity (in the West, anyway) to his current position. He was a former friend of Gaddafi, who allegedly worked with the opposition to overthrow the Libyan leader.
 
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