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| Ajdabiya residents protest against Hafter's planned military council |
| 2015-09-20 |
| [Libya Herald] A group of Ajdabiya residents gathered in the town's main square yesterday afternoon to protest at Khalifa Hafter's plans to set to a military council to run Libya. The grou said that Libya had to be a democratic state. Clearly federalists and waving Cyrenaica flags -- not a Libyan flag could be seen -- they also called for the restoration of the 1951 constitution. There have been reports that Hafter plans to announce the council tomorrow, Sunday. Suggestions that yesterday's protest was organised by the key military operator in the town, Ibrahim Jadhran, have been denied by a source close to him. The source claimed the protests had been spontaneous and no one was behind it. Jadhran has come out firmly against Hafter, accusing him of trying to kill him. The new animosity is said to follow a visit by Jadhran to Tobruk last week at the invitation of the Obeida tribe. According to the Jadhran source, he Hafter's forces as well as military police and the security forces belonging to the House of Representatives president, Ageela Saleh Gwaider, tried separately to arrest him just outside Tobruk, but failed. |
| Posted by:Fred |