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Sep 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj didn’t accept a deal reached between his deputy prime minister and rival military commander Khalifa Haftar to lift an oil blockade, a top aide said, casting further doubt on an imminent resumption of production.
Maiteeq said in an interview that he thought Sarraj would embrace the deal, but the senior aide, who can’t be named because of internal policy, denied that in a response to questions.
An influential GNA military commander, General Osama al-Juwaili, tells me he also rejects the deal between deputy PM Maiteeq and Haftar
The agreement had not only leapfrogged over US UN and other efforts on oil, but also the UN sponsored 5 plus 5 military talks between GNA and LNA

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Jun 10, 2021
Exclusive: After years in hiding, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi is poised to go public imminently as he considers running in elections this December, having conducted outreach to diplomats and journalists thetimes.co.uk/article/gaddaf…
Saif al-Islam, who I spoke to by phone to verify his relationship with his political team, will be making a public statement (it will be via an interview with a Western newspaper).
His aides say it is premature for him to announce his candidacy, as the election law has yet to be ratified, but it is his aim to be president.
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Feb 27, 2021
Short thread here on Dmitry Utkin, the commander of the Russian Wagner mercenary force. A picture of this distinguished gentleman appeared on line showing he sports Nazi tattoos.

thetimes.co.uk/article/russia… Image
Just off the bat, a spokesman for the litiguous Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of Wagner, denies Prigozhin's links to Wagner or Utkin and said my questions prompted a 10 minute Prigozhin rant. ImageImage
Now that's out of the way, the notorious Wagner group is in fact thought to be named after Utkin's military codename...Wagner--an affectation by the former special forces commander who has a penchant for white supremacist ideology
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Feb 27, 2021
Details of that drone strike on Juffra had not been fully published. A commander directly involved in the operation said the Emirati officers were in the Pantsir cab when struck. It was operational.
Turkey used several Bayraktars in the raid. The Pantsirs succeeded in downing at least two but could not take all of them on and the remaining drones destroyed them.
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Feb 27, 2021
Exclusive details: In 2019 a Turkish drone strike killed Emirati officers in Libya. The UAE then tried to move in an American Patriot battery to Libya, drawing a rebuke from the US.

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries calls the shots in fight for Libya

thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
The Biden administration wants the UAE to end financing the Wagner mercenaries in Libya, who answer only to Moscow and no longer pretend to work with Haftar.
Soon after the Russian Wagner mercenaries appeared on the front lines near Tripoli, United States officials warned Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the man who recruited them, that he was making a Faustian bargain.
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Feb 25, 2021
Exclusive: Remember that Pantsir, the Russian missile defence system the US extracted from Libya? It ended up in Turkey, under joint US and Turkish custody.

theafricareport.com/68186/libya-ho…
The United States had ordered an operation to extract the Pantsir, fearing it could fall into the hands of extremists.Turkey, keen to study the Pantsir in detail, insisted it should take custody of it. Both sought to sway the Libyan government into siding with them.
The GNA’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and interior minister Fathi Bashagha “felt like children in a divorce,” said an official, explaining how the government in Tripoli was dragged into this international dispute.

They were relieved when the US and Turkey agreed a compromise.
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Jan 27, 2021
Exclusive: A Russian Pantsir air defence missile system captured on a Libyan battlefield was flown intact to a US air base in Germany in a covert mission, The Times has learnt.

thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
The operation involved sending a team on a US air force C-17 Globemaster cargo plane to Zuwara airport, west of Tripoli, last June to load the battery and transport it back to the Ramstein base
A Russian official said Moscow was aware the US removed the Pantsir but suggested its capture would be of limited intelligence value..Export versions..are stripped of a carefully guarded identification friend or foe database with the transponder codes for Russian air force jets
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