Under the scheme Haftar's son and deputy Saddam Haftar would replace Mohamed Al Menfi as head of the Presidency Council and Dubaiba would stay on as prime minister of a united government...
Yet under the Boulos scheme Saddam Haftar would have far more powers than the current head of the Presidency Council and be more powerful than Dubaiba...
Vol 67 No 17 |
- LIBYA
- CHINA
Another group of 13 Chinese companies agreed with Saddam Haftar's National Development Agency to build an industrial zone on a 1 000-hectare site south of Benghazi...
BEIJING TRIES THE BENGHAZI AXIS The development of the industrial zone at Al Magrun is not being undertaken by the main development agency in eastern Libya Belgassem Haftar's Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund but by the National Development Agency (NDA) which is a Libyan National Army entity and under the control of his brother Saddam Haftar...
In the east Saddam Haftar the son of warlord Khalifa Haftar presides over the National Development Agency a regional body which has signed the Magroun industrial zone deal with 13 Chinese firms...
It's easy to see why Saddam Haftar who was bizarrely feted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington in June: likes the Boulos plan: he gets an official national executive role and a claim on revenues allocated to eastern development and security structures...
DISPATCHES
Libya's power-sharing arithmetic shifted further in the Haftar family's favour this month after Saddam Haftar son of the eastern commander Khalifa Haftar was publicly credited by freed American hostage Kevin Rideout for securing his release from an Islamic State affiliate in the Sahel...
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The pressure ratcheted up on 29 June when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam Haftar in Washington DC to discuss plans to unify Libya's military economic and political bodies...
DISPATCHES
That could be because the settlement proposed by Massad Boulos United States President Donald J Trump's African envoy would install Saddam Haftar as head of a new presidential council while keeping Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in post prior to elections being held (AC Vol 67 No 9 A power-sharing deal – based on oil drones and secret cash)...
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But the terms of Washington's proposed settlement – which would install Saddam Haftar the son of the long-time Benghazi warlord and self-styled commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar as head of a new presidential council while keeping Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in post – has run into fierce resistance...
And schisms are emerging with the rival camps; Khaled Haftar brother of the proposed president Saddam Haftar says the arrangement falls outside ‘the framework of legitimacy'...
In return the Boulos deal appointing Saddam Haftar as President the Trump administration wants to secure new oil drilling rights building on the 11 February agreement between the National Oil Corporation and Chevron...
SAF commanders blamed these tensions on the UAE and its support for Libyan National Army commander Gen Khalifa Haftar and his son Saddam Haftar...
But it is now claimed that increasing amounts of the refined fuel are being sold on the international market for cash that is distributed to the GNU and the authorities in the east or given to Saddam Haftar to sell...
