Khalifa Haftar

The biography of the Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar is worthy of a work in the style of Tom Clancy. The officer repeatedly faced betrayal and betrayed his allies himself. In the life of Khalifa there were prison and the loss of loved ones, studies in Russia and emigration to the United States.

The soldier was born at the height of World War II, on the day and year when a regular trolleybus service was launched in Soviet Kirov on the occasion of the anniversary of the October Revolution. Unlike the city on Vyatka, which was in the rear, Haftar's small homeland, the Libyan city of Ajabiya, was at the epicenter of the fighting between the Germans and the Americans. Khalifa's father belonged to the Berber tribe al-Farjani, his mother was from Egypt.

After studying in his hometown and Derna, the young man entered the Royal Military College in Benghazi, where he became friends with Muammar Gaddafi. Friends-cadets, like the Decembrists, together created an anti-monarchist underground organization "Free Officers".

The Libyan rebels proved more successful than their Russian counterparts, and in 1969, with the help of Egyptian intelligence and the tacit support of a group of Soviet warships off the coast of Libya, overthrew King Idris I. An important role in the success of the rebels was played by the determination with which the Khalifa blockaded the American airbase near Tripoli. Haftar became Gaddafi's right hand man.

The young commander's first external military success is associated with the confrontation between the Arab coalition (Libya, Egypt and Syria) and Israel. As a result of the operation carried out by Haftar in the "Yom Kippur War" in October 1973, the troops of the Jewish state were pushed back from the Suez Canal by 30 km.

However, a few days later the Israelis had already approached Cairo and fired at Damascus. The “fraternal Arab triumvirate” collapsed, and in 1976 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ordered troops to seize Libya and execute “the traitor Muammar”. Khalifa's unit armed with Soviet Grads repelled an Egyptian attack on Musaid, and Sadat signed a ceasefire.

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At the turn of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, Haftar studied at the Moscow officer courses "Shot" and improved his qualifications at the Mikhail Frunze Military Academy. Classmates remembered the Libyan officer as friendly and smiling, but avoiding gatherings and drunkenness.

Haftar's series of victories was interrupted by a hybrid war between Libya and Chad for the Aouzu strip, in which geologists discovered uranium ore. In February 1986, a high-explosive bomb dropped by a French attack aircraft exploded near the tent that housed Khalifa's headquarters. Haftar received a shell shock and surrendered.

The act of Khalifa Gaddafi was regarded as a betrayal and renounced his former friend. For almost a year and a half, the Libyan colonel spent in a cage standing in the sun on the territory of a former outdoor pool in the capital of Chad - N'Djamena.

In 1987, Haftar was found by CIA agents. He agreed to cooperate with the US special services, and through Zaire (Congo) the Americans took the former enemy to Virginia.

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In the early 90s of the 20th century, Haftar led the National Salvation Front, which recruited Libyan politicians and officers for an anti-Muammar coup. Rebel uprisings were repeatedly suppressed by Gaddafi, but in October 2011 the leader of the Arab Jamahiriya was captured and became a victim of extrajudicial killings.

In 2014, a dual power emerged in Libya. Most of the country is controlled from the city of Tobruk by the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Haftar. However, the Government of National Unity (PNU) meets in Tripoli, which is supported by Turkey, the United States, Italy, Great Britain, Qatar and Tunisia, and Haftar is supported by France, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, and Jordan.

Russia is mainly on the side of the LNA (Khalifa met with Sergei Shoigu on several occasions, and in January 2017 he even visited the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov). However, not forgetting about its geopolitical interests in North Africa, Moscow is also negotiating with the PNU leadership.

Khalifa's first wife and his young sons were killed on the orders of Muammar Gaddafi after Haftar surrendered. After moving to America, the man began his personal life all over again: he remarried and became a father again.

It is now known that the military leader has Asma's daughter, who lives in the US state of Virginia, and five sons, of whom two - Uqba and Al-Muntasir - also live in the United States, and three - Saddam, Khalid and Al-Sadik - in Libya.

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Haftar himself has dual Libyan-American citizenship. In addition to his native Arabic language, the man speaks Russian, English, Italian and spoken French.

In April 2018, the European media spread the news that the Libyan commander-in-chief was hospitalized in a Paris clinic. First, Haftar's stroke was reported, then Field Marshal's cancer spreading from the lungs to the brain. There were rumors of a coma and the subsequent death of the Khalifa. However, even before the beginning of May 2018, the Arab leader, despite his venerable age and illness, returned to his duties and in the photo he looks quite cheerful.

On January 4, 2020, the Khalifa declared jihad and general mobilization. All citizens of the country, men and women, will be given weapons to resist external aggression against Libya. This decision was made by the military leader after the Turkish parliament approved the dispatch of armed forces to help the Tripoli government of the opposition Haftar.

During the January visit of Vladimir Putin to Istanbul, the Russian and Turkish presidents came up with an initiative to end hostilities in Libya from January 12, 2020. However, Haftar, thanking the leaders of the Eurasian states, said that he would continue to fight the groups that, according to the UN resolution, are terrorist.

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