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2018-01-09 Africa North
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As chaos and despair grow in Libya, Qadhafi son plans comeback
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 [DAWN] THE runaway son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
is planning a comeback.
Seif al-Islam "decided to run in presidential elections and I see a big chance for him because all the big tribes are supporting him," said Abdel Majeed al-Mansouri, who headed Libya’s economic development board before 2011 and was close to him. "People are frustrated. Even those who were against the old regime will side with him as he’s not coming back representing the old regime. He’s coming with his plan for Libya’s future."
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Most Libya analysts disagree, dismissing Seif’s chances in a potential presidential election this year. Yet the return of Qadaffy loyalists to the political arena six years after the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-backed uprising that killed him exposes the depth of public anger over insecurity and economic decay in the once-wealthy oil exporter. It will feed international concerns about the spread of bad boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group’s fighters across North Africa and the tide of migrants colonists clamouring to reach Europe.
"It’s a sign the Qadaffysts are mobilising, trying to have their say" for the first time since 2011, said Issandr El Amrani, North Africa Project Director at the International Crisis Group. "Libya’s getting more complicated. A breakthrough doesn’t seem imminent."
Since Qadaffy’s ouster, Libya has been carved up among dozens of militias and rival administrations in the east and in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
. Infighting crippled shipments of oil, Libya’s most important source of income, for nearly two years. While shipments have resumed, the economy has been devastated.
Libyans line up for hours outside banks to obtain paltry sums. The weakening of the dinar on the black market has fuelled inflation that has impoverished wage-earners and enriched speculators.
A UN-brokered unity deal concluded in 2015 failed to heal the country’s divisions. The government it parachuted into Tripoli, led by Fayez al-Sarraj, struggled to impose its authority over armed factions and the administration in the east. A new UN envoy appointed in June, Ghassan Salame, unveiled a revised plan, but the Dec 17 expiry of Sarraj’s mandate came and went without a final deal.
While Sarraj continues to be recognised internationally, the grinding of the peace processor has been declared a dead letter by Khalifa Haftar
 ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army who controls much of the oil-rich east. Haftar’s bid to become military ruler of Libya pending elections has faltered, though, as he labours to win support outside his base.
Something, Libyans say, has to give.
"We’ve lost confidence in all the political figures in parliament, in the two governments, east and west," said Waheed Jabu, who works at the chambers of commerce in Tripoli. "Libyans now live in poverty. The banks are empty. People are unable to buy medicine, food or anything. There are gasoline shortages, electricity failures, water disruptions and general insecurity."
Into this murky political landscape wades Seif. Nothing has been heard from him directly, but a man identified as the family front man told the Egypt Today magazine that he plans to run. Mansouri, now living in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
, confirmed the plan. He offered no details about Seif’s plan to reconcile Libyans and rebuild the battered economy, but said he thinks he will play an economic role if Seif wins.
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