Thursday 1 September 2016

HIDDEN COUP IN CYRENAICA

In the silence of the mainstream news, General Khalifa Haftar called national army to take possession of Eastern and South-East regions.
From the base of Tobruk, close to Egypt, where he met the exiled parliament which has not signed the UN agreement and  has discouraged the national unity government of Prime Minister Fayez to Serraj, from August Haftar it is expanding consistently the territories he controlled.
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REMOVED.
Through his military governor of Eastern (Cyrenaica) Libya Abdelraziq Al Nathori, Haftar appointed mayor of Kufra one of his lieutenants.
This is the third local government occupied, after the important municipality of Benghazi, Libya's second city after the capital, and that of Ajdabiya.
The mayors and elected democratically in the convulsive post-Gadhafi transition are replaced with military leaders.
A GRADUAL COUP.
The assignments are frozen and settled in command of Operation Dignity Haftar, who was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi general, then his betrayer paid by CIA and eventually revolutionary of the last hours of 2011.
Cyrenaica is undergoing a gradual putsch which none speaks even outside the national borders, which brings almost half of Libya to Egypt led, since summer 2013, general Abdel Fattah Sisi to the State, turned against legitimately elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Haftar advances frustrate UN agreement
Haftar advances defeat the national reunification plan agreed in Morocco negotiations, under the UN umbrella.
At this rate, will miss the Tripoli executive internationally recognized that, thanks to the raid of the US, through the League of militia headed by Misrata brigade drove out the Isis from Sirte stronghold.

LIBYA DIVIDED INTO TWO
"This step undermines the democratic process under way in Libya, for which Central Coordination of Commons has made enormous efforts during the difficult period of the last year. There is great concern ", he tells us to the President of Municipalities  League, Otman Gajiji among the architects of the agreement between militias and Municipalities at end 2015 at the navy base of Serraj government.
After hopes on its Executive looming new instability: the rift between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica becomes concrete hypothesis, which for Italy would have important implications also in terms of migrants.
MERCENARIES IN THE FIELD
The southeastern oasis of Kufra and Ajdabiya, the sea between Benghazi and Sirte, are the two main hubs of the historic route of central Africa traffickers: from Ajdabiya trafficking turns then towards the western coasts of Tripoli, to Sabratha and Zuara finally in boats to Lampedusa.
For almost two years Haftar, who recruited several mercenaries from Chad and the Sahel, bombed and besieged in vain Benghazi (administered by an Islamic faction bloc, including the most radical one), by downloading Daesh war in Sirte on philosophical rivals Islamists in Tripoli and Misurata.
Egyptian, French, eventually supported by Russians: who supplies weapons to Tobruk?

While British, American and Italian also trained Serraj militias, in recent months the military force of General Haftar has grown consistently and you have to wonder which foreign power is now behind his success.
The Tobruk Parliament is supported and armed by Egypt and UAE since the failed coup of Tripoli by Haftar in 2014. Especially Cairo aims to grab the neighboring Cyrenaica through a friendly government, but for years it has failed.
FRENCH MANOEUVRES
Alongside Tobruk then came the French, attracted by the oil and gas resources of Central and Eastern Libya which pass by Zweitina terminal (for Ajdabiya), Brega and As Sidr .
Special transalpine units were found to be on board a helicopter of Haftar militias shot down in July in Benghazi.
Under pressure from US and UN to avoid criticism, Paris maneuvers in Tobruk were made then more defilate. But, in the meantime, the 73 year old general has sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin: Haftar flew to Moscow for talks.
USA AMBIGUITY
on the questions, however, even hanging on the Western secret services and so-called international community: the UN resolution on Libya in December 2015 failed to stop the illegal trafficking of weapons from various foreign supporters and, with it, not even the proxy wars in Libya also important members of the UN headquarters; Now foreign diplomats are silent over the acts of the coup by Haftar in Benghazi, Ajdabiya and Kufra.
American, English and Italian, based in Misurata and Tripoli, would keep an open channel with Haftar and they would have their men in Tobruk and Benghazi.

1 comment:

Marco said...

Thank you.
You are always well informed and really precise in yours communications.
Un saluto
Marco