Il colonnello Nadhuri sostituisce il generale Abdessalam Jadallah al-Abidi, che è stato accusato dal parlamento libico di incapacità nel ristabilire la legge e l'ordine a Tripoli e Bengasi, dove i miliziani hannosconfitto a più riprese le truppe governative.
Libya gets new chief of staff to tackle militia threat
Benghazi - Parliament in Libya has named a new military chief of
staff tasked with tackling armed militias that control vast areas of the
violence-plagued North African nation.
"Colonel Abdel Razzak
Nadhuri was chosen by 88 out of 124 MPs present and promoted to the rank
of general" on Sunday, parliament spokesperson Mohammed Toumi told AFP.
Nadhuri
replaces General Abdessalam Jadallah al-Abidi, who was grilled by
parliament on 10 August on the army's inability to restore law and order
to Tripoli and Benghazi, the country's two largest cities where
militiamen have run rampant.
Parliament, which sits in Tobruk, 1
600km east of the capital, held Abidi responsible for the deteriorating
security situation and blamed him for backing certain militias that in
theory report to the army.
"General Abidi was in fact sacked" after his appearance, Toumi said.
Libya's new chief of staff comes from Marj some 1 100km east of the capital.
During
the 2011 uprising against long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi, his
battalion joined insurgents in second city Benghazi, the cradle of the
revolt.
Legitimate target
Overnight on
Saturday-Sunday, the Libyan parliament branded as "terrorists" Islamist
militias and jihadists who challenge its legitimacy, and stated its
intention to fight back through the regular armed forces.
"The
groups acting under the names of Fajr Libya and Ansar al-Sharia are
terrorist groups and outlaws that are rising up against the legitimate
powers," parliament charged in a statement.
"These two groups are a
legitimate target of the national army, which we strongly support in
its war to force them to halt their killings and hand over their arms,"
MPs said.
Fajr Libya is a coalition of Islamist militias, mainly
from Misrata, east of Tripoli, while Ansar al-Sharia, which Washington
also brands a terrorist group, controls around 80 percent of the eastern
city of Benghazi.
Islamist militias openly challenged the
legitimacy of parliament on Sunday after announcing their seizure of
Tripoli airport, plunging Libya's rocky political transition into fresh
crisis.
Tripoli airport, 30km south of the capital, has been shut
since 13 July because of deadly clashes between the Islamists and the
Zintan force of former rebels that previously controlled it.
Source: http://www.news24.com
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