Khalifa haftar and fire manipulation: from Libya to Sudan – Daghar
At the heart of the turbulent Libyan scene, the name of Marshal Khalifa Haftar is highlighted as one of the most controversial figures, while military aspirations intersect with regional and international interests, and his project interferes with the vocabulary of power, empowerment and decision -making monopoly. Since his return from his American exile in Libya after the 2011 revolution, Haftar began a thorny trip, which quickly turned into a military adventure that goes beyond the borders of the fatherland next to, in a dangerous game of fire.
This report highlights the characteristics of the Haftar’s political and military project, dismanting the sons of its alliances, and monitors the fate of its intervention in the region, in particular its flagrant interference in Sudan by supporting the rebel militias.
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From exile to the Libyan scene
Haftar was born in the Libyan military establishment and participated in the coup d’etat of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969, before falling as a prisoner in Chad during the 80s war, and was abandoned by the regime, which led him to live in exile, where he settled in the United States for decades.
He returned to Libya after the revolution and presented himself as a possible rescue of the country of weapons chaos and the division, taking advantage of the weakness of successive governments. Since the launch of what he called “the operation of dignity” in 2014, Haftar has sought to redraw the Libyan map by force of arms, bypassing constitutional and legitimate structures, under the cover of the fight against “terrorism”.
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Regional alliances at the price of sovereignty
Haftar quickly turned into a regional tool par excellence, supported by capitals seeking to organize the Libyan house in its own way. Its forces have received wide support from Emirates, Egypt, France and Russia, through modern weapons, air support, logistics equipment and “Wagner” mercenaries.
The Emirates have highlighted as a major supporter because he built the Air Base “al-Khadem” in eastern Libya, and invested in Haftar as a wall against political Islam. On the other hand, Haftar presented the decision of the ports, oil and sovereign of Libya on a plate. Thus, he went from a local military commander to an active element in a regional cross -project.
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Between the speech of the state and the behavior of the militia
Despite his speech pretending to fight against extremism and the state building, numerous reports on human rights have documented generalized violations committed by the forces of Haftar, which included executions outside the law, arbitrary arrests, targeting of civilians and infrastructure.
Haftar has established a parallel structure for the State in eastern Libya, controlling the security, oil and magistracy institutions, but rather issued special passports and form an unrecognized government. With this behavior, he emptied the concept of the state of its content and replaced it with a personal and central system, which he led from his head office to Al -Raqjah as if it were private property.
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The Battle of Tripoli: the articulated defeat
In April 2019, Haftar launched its broad attack on the capital, Tripoli, saying that it had been rid of militias. But he collided with fierce resistance from the Al -Wefaq government forces supported by Türkiye, to transform rapid progress into a military quagmire which lasted more than a year, and ended with its withdrawal under the impact of air strikes and drones.
Tripoli’s defeat was not only a military defeat, but was a political setback that has undermined Haftar’s ambition in all the seizure of power, and showed the limits of its popular support and its weak internal alliances.
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Haftar’s grip oil: a pressure and blackmail weapon
Haftar holds the Libyan oil crescent and uses it as a pressure card for central governments, because the ports have been closed several times on the pretext of an unfair distribution of yields or political ends.
With this behavior, petroleum has transformed from a national resource into blackmail and caused economic losses that exceeded billions of dollars, in the midst of an applied regional and international silence. This behavior reflects the absence of a national vision in favor of an authoritarian tendency which sees in the state only a political loot.
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Portfolio in Sudan: Haftar and cross sponsorship -BANER CHAOS
The most dangerous of all of the above is Haftar’s frank participation in the food of conflicts within Sudan. Intelligence and reliable media reports revealed that Haftar had provided direct and military support to the rebel militias, led by the rapid support forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Daglo (Hamidati).
The information indicates that training camps in southern Libya, the supply of supply lines for weapons and ammunition, and direct military coordination that have been carried out by regional intermediaries, especially water, which plays a double role in Libyan and Sudanese files, and seeks to create military balances that serve their interests.
This dangerous involvement comes at a time when Sudan suffers from a serious civil war which threatens its unity and its stability, which put Haftar in a position of legal and moral responsibility to contribute to destabilizing Sudanese security, and confirms that it behaves like a mercenary general, not as a national leader.
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HAFTAR SONS AND MILITYS PROJECT TURN
Haftar, who has exceeded his eighth decade, does not hide his desire to transmit his authority to one of his sons, in particular Saddam Haftar, who currently directs the elite units and is considered a possible successor. But this inheritance project is a general concern among the Libyans, who see a new version of Gaddafi’s dictatorship, but with new military clothes.
The political emptiness that Haftar can leave, in the event of death or retirement, makes fear an explosion of internal conflict in the Libyan East, between security and tribal wings and intertwined international interests.
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One last word: Haftar … A state project or a Trojan horse for chaos?
In conclusion, Haftar appears as a leader who is a professional game of contradictions, employing slogans fighting terrorism to build a special military rule and moving between capitals in order to support and weapons, while the remaining Libyan state institutions are collapsed.
His blatant interference in Sudan, and his embrace of rebel militias reveals the true face of his project: a chaos that does not stop at the borders of Libya, but is rather stretching to ignite the whole region.
When the homeland is reduced to a person and the armies become tools to serve personal interests, the manipulation of fire soon turns into a complete fire. The Libyans, the Sudanese and the peoples of the region must realize that the projects of domination do not make a state, but rather the interior.
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