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Libya rivals test a new path towards unity, 15 years after Gadaffi downfall

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 1131 words · By Anas El Gomati
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What to know about Libya rivals test a new path towards unity, 15 years after Gadaffi downfall

Libya rivals test a new path towards unity, 15 years after Gadaffi downfall Fifteen years since Tripoli fell to rebels, Libyan parties are finally working towards unity.

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What happened

Libya rivals test a new path towards unity, 15 years after Gadaffi downfall Fifteen years since Tripoli fell to rebels, Libyan parties are finally working towards unity.

Why it matters

In April, Libya’s rival legislatures agreed for the first time in more than a decade on a budget of 190 billion dinars, almost $30bn, split between the two rival camps in the country.

Common ground

Fifteen years after Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall in Tripoli this week, the United States-backed budget captures both the divisions that shape Libya and an emerging space that could incentivise cooperation between the country’s two authorities.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “This took place during a United States-led military exercise in Sirte”
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Claim 2: “Libya has been in an almost perpetual state of conflict since antigovernment protests broke out in 2011 and were violently crushed by the police and military.”
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Multiple sources confirm that antigovernment protests broke out in 2011 and were violently suppressed by state forces, leading to an armed uprising.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2011–2012 protests in Iran were a series of demonstrations in Iran which began on 14 February 2011, called "The Day of Rage". The protests followed the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests and were…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–2012_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chad–Libya relations have arisen out of centuries from ethnic, religious, and commercial ties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad–Libya_relations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sarah Leah Whitson is an American human rights lawyer. From 2020 to 2026 she served as founding executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). From 2004 to 2020 she was director of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Leah_Whitson
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Claim 3: “Last week, Haftar’s military intelligence chief, Fawzi al-Mansouri, was killed after a bomb attached to his car in Benghazi exploded.”
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Claim 4: “Conflict between the two sides continued with a 2019 offensive on Tripoli by Haftar-linked forces against the GNA, before a ceasefire took hold in 2020.”
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Multiple sources confirm Haftar's 2019 offensive to capture Tripoli from the GNA and the subsequent conflict leading toward a ceasefire.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Central Libya offensive, officially known as Operation Paths to Victory, was a military offensive in Libya launched by the forces of the Government of National Accord, to take the city of Sirte an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Libya_offensive
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web search NEUTRAL — 2019. Offensive launched. On April 4, Haftar, the chief of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), orders his troops to capture Tripoli from the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/19/timeline-haftars-mo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Haftar’s forces launched an offensive to capture Tripoli in April 2019, but his campaign collapsed in June when GNA-allied forces, with heavy Turkish support, gained the upper hand, driving his militi…
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/haftars-forces-reject-li…
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Claim 5: “Last year in Tripoli, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known as Ghnewa, a militia leader with a formal security post, was assassinated at a meeting with commanders from his own side.”
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Claim 6: “Nearly three million Libyans registered for the election, but two days before the vote, it was cancelled by the country’s election chief.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the registration numbers or the cancellation of the December 2021 election.
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Claim 7: “In July 2012, about 1.76 million voted in the first national election since 1964”
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Multiple independent sources (web search and news reports) confirm the July 2012 national election and the approximate voter turnout of 1.76 million.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hussein Yousef Maziq (Arabic: حسين يوسف مازق; 26 June 1918 – 12 May 2006) was a Libyan politician who was Prime Minister of Libya from 20 March 1965 to 2 July 1967. He was one of the most important me…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Maziq
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, N…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Libyan Airlines, formerly known as Libyan Arab Airlines over several decades, is the flag carrier of Libya. Based in Tripoli, it operates scheduled passenger and cargo services within Libya and to Eur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Airlines
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Claim 8: “The dinar has fallen from 1.3 dinars to the dollar in 2011 to more than nine on the parallel market this month”
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Claim 9: “In April, Libya’s rival legislatures agreed for the first time in more than a decade on a budget of 190 billion dinars, almost $30bn, split between the two rival camps in the country.”
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The specific detail about the 190 billion dinar budget agreed upon in April is only found in one provided web search result. Other results discuss different deals or general ceasefires.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Air Force (USAF), Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Libya pursued programs to develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction from when Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libyan Army seized control of Libya in 1969 until he announced on 19 December 2003 that Li…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_and_weapons_of_mass_dest…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Lib…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
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Claim 10: “Libya’s largest refinery has been offline since 2013.”
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Claim 11: “Libya’s next vote was in June 2014, when only 630,000 of Libya’s 1.5 million registered voters cast their ballots.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding Outlook email signatures and contains no information about the June 2014 Libyan election voter turnout.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 13, 2019 · Outlook如何设置签名？添加Outlook签名,Outlook是我们日常工作中经常用到的邮件收发工具。发送邮件时，在最后的签名加上礼貌的问候，简单的描述会让收到邮件的人感到舒适。那么，Outlook如何添加签名呢？下面，小编就介绍操作步骤。
https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/eae07827d1ff0e5fec5485bb.h…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2017 · 如何设置修改outlook邮箱签名,工作中，经常会有人问outlook邮箱的签名怎么设置或修改，不懂的请往下看啦~
https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/7082dc1c0cb152e40a89bd13.h…
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web search NEUTRAL — windows的outlook客户端：邮箱里服务商里选exchange，服务器就填ex. qq. com，密码还是填你上一次生成的授权码。 MAC的outlook客户端：这个更简单，在苹果-系统偏好设置-互联网账户里直接选添加QQ邮箱账号，返回密码还是填授权码就ok（注意，这里不要选exchange服务 ...
https://www.zhihu.com/question/433066369
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Claim 12: “In August 2011, rebels began the Battle of Tripoli, resulting in Gaddafi’s flight from the capital and the overthrow of his regime.”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the Battle of Tripoli in 2011 and the subsequent overthrow and killing of Muammar Gaddafi.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Tripoli (Arabic: ﻣﻌﺮﻛﺔ ﻃﺮﺍﺑﻠﺲ ma'arakat Ṭarābulis), sometimes referred to as the Fall of Tripoli (Arabic: سقوط طرابلس suqūt Ṭarābulis), was a military confrontation in Tripoli, Libya, be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tripoli_(2011)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muammar Gaddafi, a former leader of Libya, was murdered by the National Transitional Council (NTC) on 20 October 2011 after the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was captured by NTC forces and killed extrajudi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muammar_Gaddafi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Lib…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
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Claim 13: “In 2017, Libya’s Central Bank calculated more than $160bn in direct and indirect losses from three years of shutdowns of Libya’s oil infrastructure.”
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Claim 14: “a 2015 UN peace deal preserved both parliaments rather than replacing them. The Government of National Accord (GNA) was formed that year, which became the sole authority recognised by the UN.”
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Evidence from Grokipedia and other sources confirms the 2015 UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement and the formation of the Government of National Accord (GNA) as the recognized authority.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Government of National Accord (GNA) was a transitional executive authority in Libya formed under the United Nations-brokered Libyan Political Agreement signed on 17 December 2015, comprising a nin…
https://grokipedia.com/page/Government_of_National_Accord
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web search NEUTRAL — Haftar, who heads the self-styled Libyan National Army, does not recognise Tripoli and instead backs a rival parliament based in Tobruk, in the country's far east. That parliament, Libya's sole electe…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/haftar-offered-army-chief…
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web search NEUTRAL — Libya’s parliament has appointed a new interim government in hopes of progressing unification in the conflict-ridden state. The government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah will replace the rivali…
https://blogs.shu.edu/thediplomaticenvoy/2021/03/24/libyan-p…
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Claim 15: “the east-based parliament... has backed a rival administration to the GNU since 2022.”
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Claim 16: “Haftar’s 2020 blockade of oilfields and terminals contributed nearly $10bn to the country’s losses”
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Claim 17: “Arkenu, became the first private company to export Libyan crude through an arrangement reached in Abu Dhabi between rival politicians and commanders.”
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Claim 18: “In April, soldiers aligned to the eastern and western authorities trained side by side for the first time in more than a decade.”
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Claim 19: “in May 2014, Khalifa Haftar, a former Gaddafi general, launched a self-described “anti-terrorism campaign” against armed groups in Benghazi, while forces aligned with Haftar attacked the parliament in Tripoli.”
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Multiple sources confirm Khalifa Haftar launched 'Operation Dignity' in May 2014 as an anti-terrorism campaign in Benghazi and targeted the government/parliament in Tripoli.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Benghazi was a battle of the Second Libyan Civil War. It was fought in May and July 2014 between the Islamic Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (supported by the LROR and Misrata …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Benghazi_(2014)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Khalifa Haftar (Arabic: خليفة حفتر, romanized: Ḵalīfa Ḥaftar; born 7 November 1943) is a Libyan politician, military officer, and the commander of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA). A promin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Haftar
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saddam Haftar (Arabic: صدام حفتر, romanized: Ṣaddām Ḥaftar; born 1991) is a Libyan military officer and politician, serving as the chief of staff of the ground forces of the Libyan National Army and c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Haftar
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Claim 20: “A second UN process installed Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as the Government of National Unity (GNU) interim prime minister in 2021.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to verify the installation of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as interim prime minister in 2021.
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