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World News See other World News Articles Title: A Libyan commander with ties to Moscow has kicked "moderate" rebels out of two key oil ports. Fighting terrorists — the Russian way. RI... Moscow denies any direct involvement in Libya, but we see bear tracks. A Libyan commander with ties to Moscow has just recaptured two key oil ports, Sidra and Ras Lanuf, from "Islamist militias" (fanatics affiliated with al-Qaeda) that seized them earlier this month. Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), has previously asked Moscow for weapons and equipment, and had a January meeting with the Russians aboard their aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, en route back to Syria. The LNA actually lost control of Sidra and Ras Lanuf on March 3, when the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) and "former Ibrahim Jadhran loyalists and units from other allied factions (some reportedly affiliated with al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia)" pushed them out of the oil ports. Yesterday Moscow denied a Reuters report claiming that Russian Special Forces are operating from an Egyptian airbase near the Libyan border. Of course, the Reuters report could be a well-coordinated western media blitz to play "the Russians are coming!" card (again), but the timing here does raise some eyebrows. Why did Haftar wait nearly a week to counter-attack? According to our calculations, it took Haftar less than 36 hours to retake Sidra and Ras Lanuf. Haftar was clearly waiting for "favorable conditions" — perhaps in the form of Russian military advisors. The level of direct Russian assistance to Haftar is not at all clear at this point, but what is known is that Moscow has aligned itself with the one Libyan general who has a no-nonsense stance on "moderate" rebels. Last year he pushed Islamist militants out of much of Benghazi. In other words: He fights terrorists like a Russian. (Just for some contrast: In nearly every interview he gives, Syrian President Bashar Assad describes the U.S. coalition "strikes" against ISIS as "cosmetic". In other words: Washington's idea of fighting terrorism involves bombing empty desert.) Again, it's still unclear just how "Russian-backed" Haftar really is. But one thing is certain: Haftar fights terrorists the Russian way. Playtime is over for Al-Qaeda in Libya. We think this is noteworthy — perhaps even deeply revelatory. Poster Comment: jabirujoe . Everything about the Americans is fake and cosmetic. It's not without reason that it's called "tinsel town". Plastic smiles all around. Just keep on selling those weapons and munitions so somebody can make a buck. Never mind the consequences. Assad's use of the word "cosmetic" is much to kind to actually describe what the Americans have been up to. tomo stojanovic jabirujoe . • you are right - I've lived in the US for more than a decade and that's exactly the problem here - it's not just fake news - it's fake everything: fake friendships, fake employment, fake money, fake statistics, fake government, fake mortgages, inflated everything - fake prices...The biggest problem we face here is a DEFICIT - but not in $$ - a deficit in reality. And because a few generations have grown up in this environment - they literally have no clue that there are better ways of doing things (i.e that not too long ago a grad in London, SF or NY could afford to buy a nice one-bedroom apartment etc - they think such a normal scenario could never exist - the only way they see to any kind of 'progress' is sabotaging others , including their best friends. Most of those fake smiles you refer to are actually signs of MANIA (not real happiness - but a caricature thereof) - there is a great book about it written by an English prof from UCLA: American Mania - when more is not enough. What we have here is really a new Dark Age - when even a memory of better times has been lost. Kjell Hasthi tomo stojanovic • - it's fake everything: fake friendships, I would worry most about the fake food for the fake money Tony/ tomo stojanovic • I had to stay in a medium sized town in California for 3 months to complete a machine installation and I must say the experience was surreal. I found Americans to be superficially polite but completely unauthentic when you tried to dig deeper. The Television there is so awful that watching for only a week would make you mentally ill but it was the food that finally convinced me that there is no hope for the US. The average diet consumed by Americans is so devoid of nutrients or rather so divorced from real food that it explains why so many of them are mentally ill. So rotten media, rotten food, GM and a vast array of chemicals has produced a race that is a clear and present danger to the rest of the world. Tatarewicz /Tony • America has too many regulations and bureaucrats for commonsense to prevail. Trump is trying to do something about that. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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