There has recently been an attack on a government Air Force Base in Libya. The 150 armed militia fighters were Libyan. There is very little information that has been released on the subject, mostly because the investigation of the attack is still underway. The information that we do have shows that the government was able to maintain control of the base, and those stationed at the base suffered minimal casualties.
While this singular event doesn't effect much in the country, it is a testament to the civil unrest and the instability that is still extremely prevalent in Libya. The Libyan government still seems to have a long ways to go, even two years after Qaddafi's fall from power.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/gunmen-attack-military-air-base-in-southern-libya-killing-2-soldiers/2013/03/30/c4e74b96-9958-11e2-b5b4-b63027b499de_story.html
It's sad to say that Libya has not made much governmental progress since the overthrow of Gaddafi. I feel like these kinds of military attacks are a result of governmental insecurity. I wonder why not much has changed since the establishment of the new government. I hope things do develop eventually.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, it's good that the attacks only caused minimal casualties and that the base was able to be maintained under government control...Libya really needs to figure out a way to get their government into a more stable form in order to prevent this from happening in the first place. It's sad to see how little progress Libya has been making in the ways of stability...
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