Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar’s Bid To Seize All Of Libya

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• Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar’s Bid To Seize All Of Libya
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  “Haftar would not be a player today without the foreign support he has received,” a Libyan affairs expert told The Wall Street Journal in a new lengthy profile of the Benghazi-based General Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army (LNA) is advancing this week on Tripoli.
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  As Haftar consolidated power over much of the country’s war ravaged east, also making huge gains in the past year over the south, he’s all along enjoyed the political backing of an unlikely assortment of powerful countries that include the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, France, and Russia. But the new WSJ report reveals his latest major external backer with endlessly deep pockets:
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  Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of dollars to help pay for the operation, according to senior advisers to the Saudi government.
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