| A lovely idea, if one controls the country. |
The new proscription was signed by Armed Forces commander General Khalifa Hafter, who in June last year controversially ordered Turks and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
is to quit Libya. The decision on the Turks was rescinded when it became apparent that the departure of Turkish engineers was hindering the completion of the few major construction projects still under way. In particular the Turkish company Gama felt obliged to withdraw its people from the new Gulf Power Station at Sirte.
Work came to a halt until Hafter's climbdown three weeks later when the Turks returned to complete the commissioning of the first of four new 350 megawatt turbines. The company finally withdrew its people in August as security plummeted out of control.
Hafter has maintained that the banned nationals represent a danger to Libya's safety and were likely to join terrorist groups. It is not clear why the ban was announced by Hafter rather than a member of prime minister Abdullah Al-Thinni's government.
It is also unclear how the new ban will affect the nationals concerned who are here legally. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the majority of Syrians and Bangladeshis is in Libya illegally, working in menial jobs and, more often than not, intent on finding passage on a Europe-bound migrant vessel.