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Tripoli must be free of all unauthorised weapons by Sunday says PG commander
[Libya Herald] No unauthorised weapons will be permitted in Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... from Sunday the Presidential Guard commander has decreed after a high-level meeting on security in the capital. Colonel Najmi Ramadan Khair al-Nakua said that all light, medium and heavy weapons would be banned from entering the capital. His announcement came after a long meeting yesterday involving the Presidency Council’s (PC) defence and interior ministries as well as the Tripoli Joint Operations Security room. The gathering was seeking to drawn up a security plan for the capital. It is unclear if any of the commanders of the often heavily-armed militias which support the PC were present at the meeting or had been consulted beforehand. The six-day timeframe would seem ambitious if not indeed unrealistic if there has been no prior agreement with the militias. Nor is it clear that the police and the Presidential Guard are sufficiently strong in both numbers and weaponry to take over city-wide security. Nakua also appealed to foreign diplomatic missions to return to Tripoli from which most withdrew in 2014 after the Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... takeover. He said the envoys should come back to take advantage of the current security and stability in the capital. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Italia are the only two major embassies to have so far returned full time to their embassies in the capital. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-28 |
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