„Haftar calls on Egypt to occupy Libya”
On June 2, the Qatari-owned Al-Quds al-Arabi daily carried the following lead editorial: “In an interview published yesterday, “retired” Libyan General Khalifa Haftar said he supported “any military strike that would secure Egypt’s border, even if it is carried out inside Libya,” in a direct call to the Egyptian government to militarily intervene in his country. The geographic map proposed by Haftar extends from “Darna, Benghazi, Ajdabia, Sert and Tripoli” to the Algerian border, in what appeared to be a green light to occupy the Libyan territories from the east to the west, under the pretext that the ruling authorities in Tripoli were unable to secure the border. Now the first question that comes to mind in the face of Haftar’s controversial statement is the following: Since you volunteered to lead “Operation Dignity” against the so-called “diseased” groups among the Takfiris and terrorists throughout Libya, what is keeping you from protectin g the border?