Mark P. Fancher Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns (L) meets Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (R) in Tripoli, Libya on January 13, 2023. (Photo: Libyan Prime Ministry – Anadolu Agency) The CIA director recently visited Libya, a state that was destroyed by the U.S. History shows that the CIA is never up…
Category: LIBYA
Libya: Reconciliation is Suspended on Impossible Terms
Habib Lassoued The logic of booty, division and external interference are challenges to reconciliation in Libya. The implementation of the reconciliation project requires an innovative plan and Arab and African intervention. All efforts to activate the reconciliation project in Libya ended in failure, as the conflicting and wealth-sharing forces indirectly insist on leading the country…
Libya: Ankara Dispatches Head of Intelligence to Tripoli to Protect Turkish Interests
Hakan Fidan meets with Dbaiba and Khaled Al-Mishri in an effort to explore understandings on the roadmap and the holding of Elections announced by the presidents of the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of the state. The visit of the head of the Turkish intelligence service Hakan Fidan to Tripoli on Tuesday just…
U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM as Part of a Deal Over Lockerbie
America seems to be getting skittish about its dirty work in Libya and how the greatest cover up since JKF – The Lockerbie bombing – might be coming apart at the seams. Like Afghanistan, Libya, a country rich in oil wealth and underpopulated, is heading towards being branded another major NATO f***-up as analysts worry…
CIA Arrives in Libya to Manipulate Elections
Steven Sahiounie William Burns, CIA director, arrived in Libya on January 12 and met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibe in Tripoli, and others. The meeting marked the highest-ranked US official to visit Libya since President Joe Biden took office. Dbeibe’s government began in February 2021 and was tasked with holding elections under the auspices of the…
Libya: Confusion Over the Performance of the UN Mission Deepens
Confusion characterizes the work of the UN special envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, raising concerns among Libyans about the latter’s ability to dismantle the political roadblocks that prevent consensus to end the current impasse. On Thursday, the United Nations Support mission in Libya (UNSMIL) denied reports of the UN envoy’s desire to form a new…
The UK Assumes Full Control of Libya’s Oil
Mark Curtis An oil and gas platform off the coast of Libya. (Photo: Antonio Sempere via Getty) British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK plunged it into chaos in its 2011 military intervention, which the British government never admitted was a…
Why is the Lockerbie Lie of Libya’s Involvement Still Being Kept Alive Today?
Martin Jay Pan Am Flight 103 If the American public knew that its own government, directed by Ronald Reagan, had covered up its own dirty work so as to stop the truth from coming out – that it was the CIA allowing terrorists to send drugs to America via U.S. airlines and protected by CIA…
The Libyan Knot and a Dangerous Conflict Brewing in the Mediterranean
Viktor Mikhin How Turkey and Europe will divide up Libya’s oil remains to be seen… In early October, Turkey and the outgoing government in Tripoli, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, signed an agreement allowing Ankara to explore energy resources in the Mediterranean. According to general opinion in the Arab press and among political scientists, this…
Dbeiba Remains in Power in Exchange for Turkish Influence (Control) in Libya
Habib Lassoued Anyone who knows Abdul Hamid al-Dbeiba well knows that he did not come to power by accident. He had been preparing for it for years, and often told his friends he was destined for the ruling platform and that nothing would prevent him from doing so. It would not be easy to abandon…
Remembering Muammar Qaddafi
A Sad Day, but a Good Day !! October 20, 2011 the martyred commander and his heroic comrades made their appointment with real testimony and not the fake testimony issued by the guarantees of the sheikhs of sedition and delusion, a day when a historical precedent was recorded that the enemies collectively and in solidarity…
By Killing Qaddafi, NATO Killed An African Dream
Under the fallacious pretext of “saving threatened civilians”, France, Great Britain and the United States unleashed on March 19 in Libya an international police operation which is a new war of aggression. The text of the UN Security Council resolution imposing a “No-Fly Zone” has only served to provide a guarantee for another war against…
Libya: Dbeibah’s Desperate Bet on Turkey
Habib LassouedLibyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush (R) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attend a press conference in the capital Tripoli, October 3, 2022. (AFP) Libya has entered a new phase of polarisation that perpetuates the state of political and social division after the signing by the Abdulhamid Dbeibah government of two memoranda of understanding…
Turkey-Libya Gas Deal Exacerbates Regional Situation
Vladimir Odintsov Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who was visiting Tripoli on October 3, signed with Najla Mangoush, Foreign Minister of the Government of National Unity (GoNU), memoranda on cooperation between the two countries in the oil and gas sector, including joint exploration. The deals were also signed by the North African country’s Minister of…
Tripoli Signs Controversial Agreements with Turkey, Provoking Widespread Rejection
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush (R) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attend a press conference in the capital Tripoli, October 3, 2022. (AFP) Media reports have talked about Ankara’s possible participation in a trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Libya with the aim of supplying Europe with natural gas. The project would upend Algeria’s…
Libya and the Way Out of a Severe Crisis
Viktor Mikhin Violence has returned to the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli for the third time this year, as prevailing tensions between the North African country’s two parallel governments have again escalated sharply. With 32 people killed and 160 injured, mostly civilians, the warring militias have not even spared hospitals in their attempts to…
Blowback for NATO’s Crime against Libya
Rainer Shea Eleven years ago, when the U.S. empire committed one of its most recent great crimes by bombing Libya into becoming a failed state, the Queen of Chaos Hillary Clinton celebrated by saying “We came, we saw, he died!” about Muammar Gaddafi. For someone whose role was to bring about chaos during the early years of…
Erdogan Exploits the Libyan Crisis to Further His Own Interests
The two simultaneous visits by the outgoing head of the unity government, Abdulhamid Al-Dabaiba, and the head of the parliament-backed government, Fathi Bashaga, to Ankara to meet with Turkish officials revealed that Turkey is sticking to the file of a political solution in Libya, and that the field is open for a combination of a…
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