way to look at to Libya where what is happening there's confusing it sheds a
little
light on what is happening here the the
the the Freak Show for blackwood
such a bad dream that I a backtrack and not use it be a
circus a that is the united states congress
so in Libya there is a man named general
Khalifa Iftaar and he is leading a rebellion against in his words the
Islamists who control the government a
members that his militia a led by another general
Mokhtar from ana stormed the parliament
in Tripoli and cause the parliament obviously go out a session
a and late they came in with guns and took the place over and the suspended
parliament saying it would operate
on an emergency basis to break it down incredibly
simply the parliament is made up love a Islamists and
non-islamist in the non-islamist spend a lot of time calling the Islamist
terrorist yes but what is pretty clear that there are some terrorist
on both in there no question this is the guy
a Iftaar who worked for
us a in the ideal an idea yeah he alleges I
to give no doubt that it's true that we were working with him in some capacity
at least talk to him
in an effort to depose get up yeah while that's happening
in Tripoli what's happening over in Libya's second biggest city
Ben Ghazi is that have tar himself
by the way depending on which story read his name is your gift or or of tar
sort of the solute to Gaddafi who had his name spelled
well trade leads from Arabic of course they don't have the same balances out
the boys been
yeah amazed by how you decide which to go out which is too close to two dozen
al Jazeera and the Guardian and The Washington Post all get together in
which pic 1 yeah and then stick with okay um
but either have targeted our I will he did live in the united states but we
live in exile in the United States I find it hard to believe that we didn't
work with them
in some capacity shall be telling the truth on that so the Libyan army
which is not him has imposed a no-fly zone over Ben Ghazi
because heey with control love Libyan
planes and helicopters making this wildly confusing because you could look
in the sky and see a Libyan
yet plane or helicopter and not know who is in charge at that point
up he has his paramilitary force backed by warplanes and helicopters they've
been pounding
Islamist fighters in Libya him saying that he is trying to rid
that date in getting back got to try to rid Ben Ghazi
of all the terrorists there meanwhile the government is now imposing a no-fly
zone
even though their own planes are flying over I have the capacity to enforce
but they're not doesn't appear that they have the capacity to enforce it at
on Friday his forces let attacks in bed Ghazi
which killed 36 people injured another 138
and it should be a little reminder for those of us who were
you know reasonable about Ben Ghazi in relate to what happened in relation to
what happened in 2012 in Benghazi
that the gotti since 2012 since before
other murder Christopher Stevens is an incredibly violent dangerous place
yes yeah I mean be its under Cahill has you as you alluded to
he is not a representative of the military he is a rebel general right now
but different not sections in the military have defected bringing with
them
and military equipment like tanks like these jets
I mean a if you can if you can launch and fuel and maintain
a the equipment for jet bombings I think that your
you doing pretty well in terms of your rebellion and they're able to defy
the the no fly zone over the major cities there
just think about the calf work early having their that the parliament
building with
members have their parliament in the session was being hit by rockets and
anti-aircraft fire and was being bombed by aircraft
and yet for the most part in american media you've been thinking about this
you will see many references to Ben Ghazi but nothing
in relation to the other chaos militarily and get an in terms the
government is going on right now there's an actual story happening about a dozen
now right at me on this is what the investigation in congress is going to be
about
I'm sure that's what would their life has taken by the way very quickly
regarding that thomas pickering new co authored
are along with mike Mullen the report
a from the state department independent report it wasn't like chris Christie
independent reported an actual independent report they hired these guys
Pickering
has served as a in the state department and worked for republicans and democrats
that he's a respected diplomat
to work Republicans are unfamiliar with her %uh
and but but when they did respected he worked for sum up the normal guys you
don't exist anymore
but and he co authored the study which the Inspector General has signed off on
as an actual independent study
on and he was on what are the sunday shows
with our hunt and he said look I'm sensitive to it I recognize that it's a
issue have great
politically volatile issue and I've look at what's happening there
and try to see if the story there and he said I'm paraphrasing but I've got a
pretty close
he said Al I have looked to see if there's that there there
and there's no there there net his report is complete we did everything we
could he said
is actual there was but we don't need is another congressional investigation
we know what happened in 2012 and it was a tragedy
and now we figured it out and its time to
move on but there was no great fault there was no sinister cover up there was
no
there was no duck yet so if you want to cover by golly there's an actual story
going on and related through
as we see what's happening in neighboring Syria
with the a signal at that neighboring but regionally neighboring
up that's a real that's a poll on I guess what time it would be would be a
full on civil war
but now she hundred fifty thousand people dead in Syria
it's a little bit of a wonder in a sense that Libya has not
defaulted to that extent we put a dot that it's a wonder terms with good
that Libya has devolved into that but obviously it feels like you read the
stories that it could happen
yet and as the right now bear in mind despite the fact that over the past 20
years the US and Libya have had
and numerous skirmishes I guess is a lightweight putting it
and the right now they are an ally of ours and oddly enough Libya that the
population in Libya
is one of the most pro-u_s_ populations in the mideast over 50 percent saying
that they approve %uh US leadership in the area there now I but the question is
who is our bigger ally there is our ally of tar who claims to be reading it
have Islamist terrorist yeah but that were allied with the government
who he is obviously a significant threat to what would be nice
is if we can get a little bit more US press attention on
the area there I is CNN for instance has shown that they will go into great depth
to find out about los planes apparently some plans have been lost to the rebel
forces
scary in Libya why don't you investigate that