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#Haftar has history. "In 1987, Haftar led a Libyan invasion force into neighboring Chad and was captured and imprisoned by Chadian forces. Gaddafi did not negotiate for Haftar's release." He was defeated by the tiny mobile forces of "GUNT" and captured. nytimes.com/1987/04/13/wor…
1987 The Toyota War: Ouadi Doum was Libya's "Death Star", defended by 5,000 Libyan troops. 1,269 Libyans died, 438 Libyans captured vs 29 Chadian soldiers killed and 58 wounded. "Prisoners included the regional commander, Col. Khalifa Hastar" (Haftar) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
January 1987: "(Haftar) made disastrous mistakes, such as dispatching Libyan columns to recapture the city of Fada, only for these columns to be mauled, and requiring a secondary force to rescue them, which was also crushed." washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Docume…
It was the Chad war that led Haftar to turn on Qadhafi. “I was suffering from lack of morale,” he told a journalist. “This was due to our total incomprehension of Gaddafi’s senseless determination to carry on with the war...Our armed forces doubted the legitimacy of the task"
"The Libyans lost 89 tanks, 42 T-55s, 12 T-62s, 120 BMP-1s and 400 vehicles, 11 L-39 jet trainers, 12 SF.260s, 2 An-26 transports, 4 Mi-25s, 5 Mi-8s, 2 SA-6s air-defense missile launchers, 2 ZSU-23-4s and immense supplies of fuel, water and ammunition. warisboring.com/49425-2/
Thus began Operation Mount Hope, one of the most bizarre secret missions in American history. Work with the French and Chadians to loot all of Haftar's captured Soviet era equipment and even the guy that lost it: Khalifa Haftar sobchak.wordpress.com/tag/operation-…
