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2019-04-10 Africa North

In Haftar, Analysts Sees 'Moscow's Man' in Libya

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-10 00:33|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well, just another example of Foggy Bottom betting on the wrong horse. The GNA can't even clean out the militias in Tripoli. Haftar cleaned out Benghazi and Dernaa (no small feat).

I put Haftar in the same category as Savimbi in Angola. He was winning the civil war but the US chose to support this murderous thug instead. Savimbi had vast popular support and State and the CIA (are they the same?) wouldn't touch him. The only way to get supplies was from the Soviets.

The second Savimbi took one sou of aid from Russia, he was a communist. It was a set up.

Typical. Obviously our wonder boys in State want a bunch of incompetent Muslim Bruderbund sycophants in charge when there is an obvious solution to the mess that Hillary created.

Methinks that Haftar was pro-US but since we won't give him a dime of assistance, he follows the money.

The Russians were everywhere in Tripoli when I was there. You couldn't throw a rock at any of the coffee shops down town without hitting one. A lot of the locals thought I was Russian (blue eyes don't you know) and would talk to me in Russian...how the locals knew how to speak Russian is another story.

Haftar will fix the mess in Libya and if he's Putin's boy, that is our fault not his. We treated him like Typhoid Mary so what do you expect?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-10 10:34|| 2019-04-10 10:34|| Front Page Top

#2 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.

One can hope he is capable of still loving America while loathing its overt and covert representation abroad.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-10 12:20|| 2019-04-10 12:20|| Front Page Top

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