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...
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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...
