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| Presidency Council changes final statement of Libyan Army meeting to please Khalifa Haftar |
| 2016-10-21 |
| [Libya Observer] The UN-installed Presidency Council has unilaterally rephrased the final statement of Libyan Army meeting and deleted classification of 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... as war criminal. Officers of Libyan army regarded renegade General Khalifa Haftar a war criminal at the end of their meeting 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... on Wednesday. The meeting brought together Libyan Army officers from all regions of Libya. Classification of Khalifa Haftar as war criminal was announced live on TV, but the UN-installed PC claimed in a statement late at night that the classification of Khalifa Haftar as war criminal was just a rumour and incorrect. It’s not clear what was the reason behind the deletion of the phrase, but political analysts said Head of the PC Fayaz Sirraj is still in favour of Khalifa Haftar and works secretly to install him in a leading position in the Libyan Army command. |
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