Saturday, July 30, 2011

Rebel feud puts UK's Libya policy in jeopardy

:: As I said in earlier posts Libya is a nation of dozens of tribes and the current strategy is doomed to put the country into extreme in-fighting and possibly civil war if they ever actually succeed in eliminating Gaddafi::

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rebel-feud-puts-uks-libya-policy-in-jeopardy-2328626.html

Rebel feud puts UK's Libya policy in jeopardy

Government demands answers after assassination of general

By Kim Sengupta, Defence Correspondent

Saturday, 30 July 2011

The credibility of the British-backed rebel forces in Libya has been thrown into doubt after the shock assassination of a top military commander led to claims that the movement is enmeshed in a bloody internal feud.

Increasing evidence has begun to emerge that the savage killings of General Abdel Fatah Younes and two other senior officers – who were shot and whose bodies were burnt – may have been carried out by their own side.

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