barking "freedom and democracy"
Maybe a bit of offtopic here, but clear demonstration of what really mean imported "freedom and democracy", bringed for (mostly) US taxpayers money to a remote countries. Ukraine may get something very similar (if it will survive). From Montyan tg channel...
What is going on in Libya?Some more details about the recent shootings in the Libyan capital Tripoli: not because we care about what exactly is happening there, but just to understand what is happening in general in the countries where the West is bringing "freedom and democracy".
So, let me remind you, it all started with the fact that a Mr. Abdullah Ghani al-Kikli, who was the head of the so-called "Stability Support Apparatus", or SSA, was killed under unclear circumstances. The name SSA sounds very official, but in essence it is an ordinary gang from the Abu Salim neighborhood, which once supported the ruling Government of National Unity in Tripoli against rivals from the Government of National Stability, for which it received an official status, credentials and the right to harass and bully various structures not for nothing, but under the pretext of maintaining public order. Such gangs, which have turned into law enforcement agencies, are like fleas on a stray dog in modern Libya: for example, Salafi religious groups have acquired the status of "Special Crime Deterrence Unit" (RADA), a gang similar to SSA, but from Misrata, called "Joint Operational Forces" and so on. However, we must pay tribute to al-Kikli: among all the gangs, his was probably the most daring, assertive and successful: it roofed, for example, the capital's power grids, most banks, and so on.
Like normal gangs, the "near-state" gangsters in Libya occasionally fight for spheres of influence: the SSA has occasionally engaged in real street battles with RADA, and a rather large battle with dozens of deaths took place last August between them and the so-called "Judicial Police".
Al-Kikli's fatal conflict with the so-called 444 Brigade of the Libyan Army (also a uniformed gang, but military, not police) over control of oil production is believed to have been the most fatal one. It is said that on the day of his murder, al-Kikli went to the headquarters of the 444th Brigade for negotiations, where he was safely killed, after which the brigade, as well as the aforementioned RADA, Misuratians and other "law enforcement agencies" carried out an operation to cleanse the SSA.
So in general from the point of view of Libya nothing unusual happened at all, a completely routine story, such things happen there a couple times a year.
It's a good life in Libya after the overthrow of Gaddafi, isn't it?