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2023-01-13 Government Corruption

CIA chief visits Libya after Lockerbie suspect handover

[Aljazeera] The Central Intelligence Agency chief, William Burns, has made a rare trip to Libya, meeting the country’s interim premier weeks after authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based government said.

The meeting in Tripoli on Thursday, also reported by Libyan media, was part of the first visit by a CIA director to the North African country since the 2012 attack against a US mission in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador and three others.

The visit and the meeting with Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah were announced by his Government of National Unity on its Facebook page, where a picture of Burns and Dbeibah together was posted.

"Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibeh hosted the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns" at the cabinet office in Tripoli, along with Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush and Libyan intelligence chief Hussein al-Ayeb, Dbeibah’s government said in the post.

Burns "underlined the need to develop economic and security cooperation between the two countries", it said.

Libyan media reported that Burns also met Khalifa Haftar, the eastern Libya-based military strongman who has attempted to march on Tripoli and overthrow the Government of National Unity in the past.

The meeting took place at Haftar’s headquarters in Benghazi.

The CIA, which does not regularly announce such visits, declined to comment.

Libya has been in a tumultuous state since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that saw the demise of ruler Muammar Gaddafi and plunged Libya into division and violence.

The country has been de facto divided since 2014 between warring factions based in the west and east of the country.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-13 05:58|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Burns "underlined the need to develop economic and security cooperation between the two countries", it said.

Why does the head Klingon continue to make country visits? Filling in for the President? Is the head Klingon the actual president. I thought economic and security matters were the purview of national leaders, diplomats, and politicians ?

If I can be helped, someone please help me with this.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-13 06:06|| 2023-01-13 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2 In all fairness, 'LOL81million' probably couldn't be relied upon to recite a sentence that complex without some peculiar anecdote. The secretary of state isn't any prize. So what's a world power to do, send Kamala?

Posted by Cesare 2023-01-13 06:40|| 2023-01-13 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 It would have been much wiser for Burns to declare from Washington that the administration supports the creation of a Libyan duality. Viz., the old Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. With the Devil taking the hindmost in the south.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-13 07:26|| 2023-01-13 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 - excellent point

Posted by Frank G 2023-01-13 07:31|| 2023-01-13 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Haftar is intertwined with Wagner. Wagner secures many of the oil and gas fields in Libya and controls Europe's access...

Bad Agency decisions in the past that pushed that Nation into chaos are coming home to roost and as a result ole Mr. Burns is in the position of beggar.

Posted by Tennessee 2023-01-13 08:18|| 2023-01-13 08:18|| Front Page Top

Thanks TN. Giving you the 'GO' on that assessment.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-13 10:47|| 2023-01-13 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Gonna pick up his commemorative Innocence of Muslims Silver Anniversary plate?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-13 11:35|| 2023-01-13 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 advance man for Hunter's next "business deals".

Posted by AlanC 2023-01-13 12:09|| 2023-01-13 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 If they have Buttigieg visit next, they are trying to get the head of state overthrown.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-13 21:02|| 2023-01-13 21:02|| Front Page Top

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