Vicious Cycle: NATO’s New Libyan Military Campaign About to Begin
SputnikNews.com
27.01.2016
After the disastrous Libyan campaign of 2011, the Pentagon and a handful of US’ European allies are preparing for a “decisive action” in the northern African country, this time against Daesh (Islamic State/ISIL) in the next chapter of their never ending “war on terror.”
The Pentagon and NATO powers have been preparing for a new military intervention in Libya in order to stem the advance of Daesh in the region.
Initially, in late December 2015 UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon announced that London would send up to 1,000 British troops to the war-torn country.
According to the plan, the British contingent would form part of a 6,000-strong joint force with Italy. The initiative was supposed to get under way after the signing of the UN-sponsored “peace deal” aimed at creating a unified representative government in Libya.
However, there is many a slip between the cup and the lip. The formation of a unity government in Libya has been dealt a heavy blow on Monday when the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HOR) — the internationally recognized Libyan parliament —rejected the UN-backed unity government, British journalist Richard Nield notes in his opinion piece for Al Jazeera.
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