A big development in Libya’s journey to regain its place as an influential member of the international community took place in Tripoli yesterday. The public announcement that General Tom Waldhauser was in the Libyan capital meeting the Presidency Council and the Libyan military chiefs was not possible until the security situation and humanitarian problems improved.
There is a significant risk for the Libyan Government in welcoming the US military into the country. The memory of the US Ambassador’s assassination in Benghazi is still fresh and there remains very strong opposition to foreign troops on the ground. See chapter 6 of Belfast to Benghazi for the story of the first secret visit to Tripoli of the US commander of AFRICOM after the 2011 revolution.
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Rupert Wieloch 