No one is safe in Libya these days. Judges, activists, human rights defenders and former officers in Moammar’s Gadhafi’s army are being silenced with bullets and knives.
There are no formal security forces, weapons remain unsecured and the economy is foundering because rebels seized oil ports in the east.
For all these reasons, a rogue general with a checkered past has found support in large swaths of the country as he vows to fight what he calls terrorist groups.
His name is Khalifa Hifter, a renegade general from Gadhafi’s old army who led a failed war in Chad in the 1980s before fleeing to the United States, where he settled in Virginia.
He isn’t particularly loved, but he’s finding support among factions of the patchwork militias that make up Libya’s security forces, as well as powerful political players, as he vows to fight extremism from his base in eastern Libya…
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