- A spokesman for Government of National Accord (GNA) forces said they are advancing on all fronts in order to to secure the capital’s surrounding territory;
- The GNA claimed that its forces had recaptured the area of Wadi Rabia from the Libyan National Army (LNA);
- LNA units entered the town of Aziziah capturing several military facilities belonging to pro-GNA forces.
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For anyone uncertain why LNA/Khalifa Hiftar are the good guys here (apart from the obvious record of defeating and expelling the Islamic terrorist groups from Benghazi, Derna and the whole of eastern Libya) should read an informative and balanced (for once !) report on the corrupt Sarraf regime , backed by UN/NATO and propped up by the criminal oligarchs in Tripoli , see link :
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about-us/highlights/2018/highlight-sana-bp-tripoli.html
The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists who Killed US, NATO Troops in Iraq 2007. West Point Study Shows Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk Area was a World Leader in Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Recruitment
The Rebel Council: Half the Names Are Kept Secret; Why? http://tarpley.net/docs/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
This picture of a narrow, sectarian tribal and regional base does not improve when we look at the rebel council as a whole. According to one recent version, the rebel council is “chaired by the well-spoken former justice minister for Libya, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, [and] consists of 31 members, ostensibly representatives from across Libya, of whom many cannot be named for “security reasons”…. “The key players on the council, at least those who we know about, all hail from the north-eastern Harabi confederation of tribes. These tribes have strong affiliations with Benghazi that date back to before the 1969 revolution which brought Gaddafi to power.”
The Scenario Uncovered by the 1995 Shayler Affair is Operative under Crooked & still Today.
In 1995,[That would be during BJ Clinton & Tony Blair’s reign] David Shayler, an official of the British counterintelligence organization MI-5, became aware that his counterpart at the British foreign espionage organization MI-6 had paid the sum of £100,000 to an Al Qaeda affiliate in exchange for the attempt to assassinate Qaddafi. The assassination attempt did occur, and killed several innocent bystanders, but failed to eliminate the Libyan ruler. As Shayler understood the MI-6 scenario, it included the liquidation of Gaddafi, followed by the descent of Libya into chaos and tribal warfare, with a possible option for a direct seizure of power by al Qaeda itself.
We are thus witnessing an attempt by the Harabi tribe to seize dominance over the 140 tribes of Libya. The Harabi are already practically hegemonic among the tribes of Cyrenaica. At the center of the Harabi Confederation is the Obeidat tribe, which is divided into 15 sub-tribes. All of this might be of purely academic ethnographic interest, were it not for the fact of the striking overlap between the Harabi tribe and the LIFG and al Qaeda.