Libyan Rebels Struggle To Explain Rift

[Purveyor]

By Tara Bahrampour, Saturday, April 2, 9:14 PM

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s rebel military struggled Saturday to explain an apparent rift within its highest ranks while acknowledging its soldiers’ role in a mistaken NATO bombing of rebel columns the night before.

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The opposition has said its soldiers have started to receive better training and clearer leadership. But a day after the strike, the interim government sought to distance itself from a popular army commander it had earlier embraced.

Khalifa Haftar, a former army colonel who recently returned to Libya after living for many years in Falls Church, was initially hailed by the Transitional National Council as a leader who could help discipline the new army and train its largely volunteer ranks.

But Saturday, Ghoga said Haftar had no leadership role in the army.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyan-rebels-struggle-to-explain-rift/2011/04/02/AFEpJFRC_story.html

[tabatha]

1. When you have a newly formed group of people

that is going to happen - until all problems are shaken out.

Happens in business, non-business, sports, armies, etc, etc.

[Hannah Bell]

2. another long-time expat. there sure are a lot of them in this provisional government.

[dipsydoodle]

3. I smelled a rat from the outset

as would anybody with at least half a brain.

:hi:

[BOG PERSON]

4. n/t