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Libya's Haftar Comments on Tripoli's Offensive, Oil: Transcript
By Alaa Shahine
July 5, 2019, 2:30 PM CDT
Khalifa Haftar Photographer: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images
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Bloomberg: Is there any time left for negotiations with the GNA? Any contacts through mediators to reach a settlement?
Haftar: What we are doing now is a patriotic duty that has nothing to do with the so-called GNA. There is nothing to negotiate with them about. In reality, the GNA -- starting with its head -- is nothing but a mouthpiece for the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization and its armed militias, and a soft tool in their hands, does what it’s ordered to do.
This is the truth that all Libyans know from the start and the world now knows. What the national army is doing is the continuation of a comprehensive liberation and not against any political process or societal dialogue: it’s specifically against terrorists and armed groups that have kidnapped the capital with all its political and economic institutions, and started to terrorize the people and blackmail them by force. They’re standing against the creation of a state and the transition to a period of security, stability and development.
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There is the chance that what he says is just a sales pitch honestly, the UN recognizes that Tripoli government. Supposedly, Haftar has at times, beeen allies with Islamists (maybe even now) but not necessarily, Islamists like al Qaeda or ISIS or others of that bent.
