“He can’t make his own decisions and says nothing that’s not dictated to him,” Haftar said of Fayez Al-Sarraj, the head of the UN-backed government in Tripoli. For Libyan Warlord Haftar, Tripoli Campaign Is a Life’s WorkMore than 800 people have been killed in Haftar’s push for Tripoli, which was launched in April but has stalled on the capital’s outskirts. Smoke plumes rising after an airstrike south of Tripoli on June 29. “We don’t have any American weapons or have any weapons deal with America,” he said. “Let the politicians present their initiatives for peace and disarm the militias of their tanks, rockets and rifles,” he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 04, 2019 15:45 UTC