Excerpt:
Irish Times view on unrest in Libya
David McWilliams
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General Khalifa Hafter, a military leader whose power base is in its eastern parts, intensified his assault last week on the capital Tripoli. That is the seat of its nominal government and where a UN-sponsored constitutional convention was due to meet later this month. The battle threatens to reignite a full scale civil war with potentially major consequences for surrounding states.
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He is effectively backed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and militarily by France, with further support from Russia and recently from the US. All support his promise to restore order against Islamic terrorism. That is a facile caricature of the political and economic interests really at stake in this conflict. Italy and most European Union states support the political process led by al-Sarraj.
All fear that renewed civil war would loosen the controls put in place – with EU support – to stop the mass migration of sub-Saharan and other refugees across the Mediterranean, which recruit local militias to create a deeply inhumane system of camps. Only renewed diplomacy can prevent this looming danger becoming much worse.
Read more at: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/irish-times-view-on-unrest-in-libya-1.3866107
I don't know if this piece is 100% correct but I'll bet it's mostly correct. So France supports this guy too? I wonder? Strange allies, France, Russia and the US.... I doubt if we really are supporting this guy too much. It seems possible though if the Saudis and Egypt are.
