Conflicting reports about Libyan Gen Haftar’s possible demise

Some sources say that Libya’s Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, 75, the most prominent candidate as future president of the fractured country, has died of a heart attack, after a special plane rushed him unconscious through Jordan to a Paris hospital. Other sources claim that Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, is alive and well. A former general of – and later defector from – the late Muammar Qaddafi’s army, Haftar was strongly supported in recent years by Egypt, the UAE and Russia, turning away from his long ties with Washington when Moscow offered his militia weapons. After Qaddafi was toppled by NATO’s 2011 operation, Libya split into a series of militia-ruled pockets. Haftar, who set up a base in eastern Libya contested the Tripoli government and fought hard against Islamist forces in the oil-rich eastern region. His demise, or even incapacity, would be a grave setback for Russian and Egyptian strategic goals in Libya and remove a potentially unifying figure from the national scene.

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11 thoughts on “Conflicting reports about Libyan Gen Haftar’s possible demise

  • Apr 15, 2018 @ 16:59 at 16:59
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    ‘here, hold this ak47 while i go load out the A10 with DU munitions.

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    • Apr 15, 2018 @ 18:12 at 18:12
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      here is the greatest pig ivan the pig

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    • Apr 15, 2018 @ 19:49 at 19:49
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      “Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.”

      So, Ivan, who are you trying to influence? People in the insane asylum? I doubt they will listen and most likely they will tear you apart. Your crazy posts go unread – I see your name and just ignore your rant.

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  • Apr 15, 2018 @ 18:23 at 18:23
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    Everyone will survive without him, although Libya will be likely under the control of Islamists and terrorists again. But who knows in a place populated by barbarian Arabs and Muslims?

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  • Apr 15, 2018 @ 19:45 at 19:45
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    The ones who overthrew Qaddafi should take control of yet one more Islamist hell hole and then give the people jobs, western education without hate curricula, wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist influences and pay themselves back for all the foreign interventions necessary in the past, present and future to restore some semblance of peace and sanity to lands ruled over and destroyed by terrorists who have ruined everyone’s’ life due to their distorted upbringing and beliefs.

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    • Apr 16, 2018 @ 11:13 at 11:13
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      How can you control it?A modern western state cant control a state like this.If you want to control you must kill kill kill-and this is a warcrime today.

      And the Lyb. are sc.
      Some time ago the Brits wanted to school Lyb. soldiers in GB.They stole alcohol and grabbed women and looked for fights and at the end the RAPED A BRITISH YOUNG SOLDIER!But beofre they OFFICIALLY ASKED THE COMMANDER IF THEY CAN BUY THIS SOLDIER!So it must be normal for them.

      Also i read a holiday trip from a german who had a Lyb. wife.He wrote PROSTITION IN THE FAMILYS is normal there.

      What a great culture!

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  • Apr 15, 2018 @ 23:33 at 23:33
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    Only a general, but he had the honor of a ayatollah death? Stepping on his own balls, tripping, and hitting the heat on toilet seat is indeed a very rare type accident, mainly reserved for ayatollahs.

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  • Apr 16, 2018 @ 8:50 at 8:50
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    Another Nato regime change operation.

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  • Apr 16, 2018 @ 9:18 at 9:18
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    European Globalist playing with a hart attack gun. You really got to be evil to thrive in chaos.

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  • Apr 16, 2018 @ 14:30 at 14:30
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    WELL SAID, XTHAT!!!!! U HAVE TO BE VERY EVIL!!!

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