With today’s post about the rehash of a made up scandal, Benghazi, I thought I would bring my readers a little more update on what happening in the country that caught our attention about 2 years ago….Libya.
With the murder or Qaddafi the whole little empire that he had for himself for about 40 years began to unwind…..there were lots of stories about a new form of violence toward the population…..like black Libyans becoming the targets of increasing amounts of violence, and of course the usual infighting among the different Muslim sects. There have been all kinds of incidents aimed at the government officials like kidnappings and assassination attempts….so many sects vying for control………
Source: London Guardian
Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafi with the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution.
Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya’s oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.
For months, radical militias and regular forces in Benghazi have fought a tit-for-tat war. Last week two soldiers had their throats slit as they slept in an army base. But Friday’s killing of Libya’s military police commander, Ahmed al-Barghathi, shot as he left a mosque, has became the trigger for wider violence. Hours after an assassination branded a “heinous act” by US ambassador Deborah Jones, armed units stormed the Benghazi home of a prominent militia commander, Wissam Ben Hamid, with guns and rockets.
Fighting continued into the night, with army units heading for the home of a second militia commander, Ahmed Abu Khattala, indicted by the US for the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens last year. There, they were turned back by powerful militia units.
There is more going on in Libya than this lame Benghazi conspiracy….there is more that can turn this country into a Syria or Iraq or Lebanon……this North African country is simmering and at any moment can boil over and when it does the US will be ass deep in another Middle East country’s internal affairs…..something that we Americans need to keep an eye on…..we do NOT need another Syria or Iraq…..enough said?
I worry that this cartoon may say it all……thoughts?