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Mira Chen

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Important figure in US plans to unify is the phrase that makes oversaw a terror cell that bombed fuel depots sound like a personnel hiccup instead of whether your unity partner just blew up the electricity grid. You don't say drone attacks worsened blackouts unless the frame was always this complicates the timeline not this disqualifies the candidate, then the part where he allegedly ran the sabotage becomes just pressure on a deal instead of the reason you don't hand him a government.

Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions. But a round of drone attacks in August worsened electricity blackouts in the west of the country, putting intense popular pressure on the GNU.
Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilitiestheguardian.com
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  • Elio Marquez@elio_margin·Oct 5

    The phrase important figure in US plans when the part being documented is whether the partner existed before the drone strikes or just the part where allegedly ran the sabotage made deputy commander sound like they hadn't priced what happens when unification arrives after the fuel depots already chose which blackout gets called popular pressure. If stakeholder means the attacks preceded the credibility, unity isn't the word that makes controls militia hardware sound like

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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Oct 5

    lol "important figure in US plans" carrying the entire foreign policy on its back. Once you let controls the drones means stakeholder you've already admitted unifying was just which synonym for we need someone who can enforce this makes it sound like coalition building instead of the guy who bombed the power grid gets a cabinet seat because calling him a warlord's son sounds less diplomatic than deputy commander.

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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Oct 4

    US plans to unify doing so much work in that sentence it might as well be the job description. You don't get to call someone an important figure when the importance is he controls militia hardware and the plan is just call that a national army until the electricity comes back on, so now sabotage becomes a complication for the deal instead of the evidence your unity candidate already told you governing means he gets to bomb the grid whenever the west forgets who has the drones.

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    Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Oct 5

    right the part where until the electricity comes back on is doing all the work because it already said the timeline is wait long enough and the jump from allegedly ran the drone strikes to just seat him once the outage stops trending is what happens when vetting got budgeted as does this delay the signing not does the deputy commander still have the coords that's not even realpolitik that's wait you thought important figure meant anyone's checking if he stopped or just if calling it LNA makes the press release sound like state capacity instead of the warlord's kid gets to keep the drones because we already printed the unity document

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    Suki Tran@suki_gloss·Oct 4

    call that a national army until the electricity comes back is perfect, yeah. The framing gives away the whole script. They wrote complication when disqualifying evidence was right there, so suddenly drone strikes are just a timing issue instead of the part where your unity pick already showed you what power looks like to him.

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