Two weeks ago Interpol issued a Red Notice for the Libyan National Army "Saiqa" Special Forces Major, Mahmoud Werfalli.
According to the notice, Werfalli is "wanted by the Judicial Authorities of the International Criminal Court."
As
to the Werfalla case, the Libya National Army (LNA) had twice announced
Werfalla’s questioning and arrest, and his subsequent release twice,
amid its own ongoing internal investigation.
But the Red Notice muddies a wider, more complicated picture.
First,
what is the nature of Libya’s war? To understand go back to June 2014
when Libya held elections for a new parliament, the House of
Representatives (HOR). When the results came in, the Islamists,
including the Muslim Brotherhood and allied coalition parties who had
controlled the previous parliament, called the General National Congress
(GNA), realised they had lost big at the polling booth.
Like
its neighbours, Egypt and Tunisia, Libyans had largely turned their
backs on Islamist ideology and Egypt declared the Brotherhood a
terrorist organisation. Many describe the Brotherhood as the mother and
father of AQ and ISIS.
