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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour

Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities

Fire fighting vehicles, and huge plume of smoke and flames rising from Zawiya oil station in western Libya.
Four people were arrested after drones attacked the Zawiya oil station, causing a fire. Three Libyans were arrested and have been linked to Saddam Haftar. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country.

Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions.

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