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| Italian FM: Oil ports attack was conducted by Sudanese and Chadian rebels |
| 2016-09-16 |
| [Libya Observer] Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday that the Sunday attack on Libya's oil terminals is aimed at destabilizing the country. Briefing the Lower House and Senate defence committees of the Italian Parliament on Libya, he indicated that the attack was conducted by Sudanese and Chadian forces of Evil loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... "The situation is still unstable, one cannot say that Haftar has control nor that others have it, festivities are ongoing, albeit on a smaller scale," he said. The country's defense minister Roberta Pinotti told the parliament that the Italian government had agreed to set up a field hospital in Libya's Misrata to treat maimed al-Bunyan al-Marsoos fighters. Pinotti said the military hospital will be set up at Misrata airport and will feature 60 doctors and nurses, 135 logistics personnel and 100 'protection force troops. |
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