US, Britain, France Ready Military Action In Libya As ISIS Closes In On Country’s Oil

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/27/2016

On January 19, representatives from Libya’s rival factions negotiating in Tunis announced they had formed a unity government comprised of a new 32-member cabinet.

Yay.

Six days later, lawmakers for the country’s internationally-recognized Parliament in Tobruk rejected the proposal.

Damn.

“The Parliament rejected the 32-member cabinet out of concern that it was too large, and that its members had been chosen not for their competency but to satisfy various regional factions,” The New York Times said on Monday.

As a reminder, there are two governments in Libya, an internationally recognized body operating out of Tobruk in the country’s east (where the House of Representatives was exiled in 2014 after elections produced an outcome that wasn’t agreeable to Islamist elements in the west) and another group in Tripoli which claims to be the only legitimate authority.

The country’s inability to come to some manner of political consensus has opened the door for ISIS which recently mounted a series of assaults on the country’s oil infrastructure. Earlier this month, Libya’s National Oil Corp issued a “cry for help” in the midst of the fighting. “Pray for us,” a spokesman for Ibrahim Jadhran (the militia leader who controls the forces tasked with guarding the nation’s oil) said.

“[Islamic State’s] objective is to prevent the new government from stabilizing the economy, and unless they are stopped, they might succeed in their aims,” Mustafa Sanalla, the head of Libya’s state oil company warned on Sunday.

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