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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 09:52 PM Aug 2014

Warnings of Civil War, 'Critical Plight of Civilians' in Libya

Military intervention is always a fuckup, period. Hope all the "humanitarians" are happy.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/29/warnings-civil-war-critical-plight-civilians-libya

As instability continues to grip Libya, officials are sounding alarm over the deteriorating situation that could lead towards civil war in the country, where destabilization, critics charge, has deepened since NATO's bombing in 2011.

"The situation in Libya is complicated," Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's United Nations Ambassador, told the UN Security Council Wednesday. "Yet the situation since the 13th of July has become even more complicated and the situation might unravel into a full-blown civil war if we're not very careful and wise in our actions."

On July 13, as Reuters reports,

heavy fighting broke out between rival militias vying for control of Libya's main airport, killing at least seven people and forcing a halt of all flights in the worst fighting in the capital for six months.

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