War Lord: Khalifa Haftar and the Future of Libya

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. educated in Cornwall, served in the Royal Air Force as a logistics and air movements officer, lived and worked in Libya for eight years and for three years in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. However, more than the first half of the book gives a history of the country from pre Roman times and there onward.

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Of Italian colonists, Bedouin tribes, Texan oil barons, the Lockerbie disaster and mass murder in the Abu Salim jail. He has written several papers for the War Child Journal and for the Journal of the Daniel Ceramic Circle.

To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . The book is made up of 179 pages – but much to my surprise Gaddafi’s chronological antecedence as a child and young man continue (after Libya’s history) to page 125 – leaving little room for the period of September 1969 and onward - for which Gaddafi is ultimately renowned. Backed by the powerful Libyan tribes, Khalifa Haftar has also won the backing of several international governments who see him as Libya's last hope of a democratic solution.

In early 2011 a popular uprising against Gaddafi, a dictator nicknamed 'Mad Dog' by Ronald Reagan, finally looks as if he might be toppled from power, as the wind of change blows through North Africa and the Middle East. The remaining 54 pages are an equal disappointment – in my honest opinion the detail is of little interest and nothing more than a ‘cut and paste’ of information already well known and well documented.How has this unknown commander raised an army from scratch, controlled the powerful Libyan tribes and gained the support of powerful international players? If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. In this book John Oakes traces Libya's colourful history and details the events which shaped Gaddafi's personality, the influences which moulded his career, the security apparatus which kept him in power and the human rights violations he committed. He travelled widely in Libya and Papua New Guinea, led field studies in Norway, met Jomo Kenyatta in Benghazi, Louis Leaky in the Serengeti, and John Steinbeck in Port Moresby. Haftar appears to have come from nowhere, controlling the Libyan tribes and gaining international support.