Libyans are killing ISIS now, instead of each other | New Eastern Outlook
Libyans are killing ISIS now, instead of each other
“I am not going to leave this land. I
will die as a martyr at the end. I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is
Leader of the Revolution until the end of time.” – Muammar al-Gaddafi, address to the nation (22 February 2011)
This past month has seen a strange turn
of events that no one saw coming. Factional fighting was put on hold to
focus on routing ISIS out of the country, which so far has been
successful. Libyans went through a nasty war to get rid of Gaddafi but
then threw that all away through the tribal and oil control wars that
sprang up almost instantly.
A country which could have had a dream
economic base for the size of its population watched as its oil
production went down and down…where all became losers in the
post-Gaddafi era. The million barrels a day oil cash flow is down to
360,000, and at the current lower prices versus the good old days.
The Misrata brigade is a key faction in
the fighting, where its 100+ dead and 500 wounded have overwhelmed its
hospital staff, many of whom had already left the city due to unpaid
wages. The seriously wounded are being shipped out to neighboring
countries for treatment.
The new Government of National Accord in
Tripoli, the GNA, has fielded a group of Western militias aligned with
the forces guarding the oil installations. They have coordinated an
East-West envelopment of ISIS’s last main base in Sirte, Gaddafi’s home
town, or I should say what is left of it after heavy fighting during
their civil war.
http://journal-neo.org/2016/06/20/libyans-are-killing-isis-now-instead-of-each-other/
