{"id":14409,"date":"2012-03-08T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14409"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:01:43","slug":"libyas-us-backed-militias-terrorize-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/libyas-us-backed-militias-terrorize-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya&#8217;s US-Backed Militias Terrorize the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> on how horrible Libya is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-libya-militias-20120308,0,6006445.story\">post-U.S. liberation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rising inter-tribal violence has left scores dead. About 100 people were reported killed last month when rival tribes battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the remote southern town of Kufra, probably for control of lucrative arms-smuggling and human-trafficking routes in the vast empty spaces near the Chadian and Sudanese borders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;A spate of torture, arbitrary arrests, wanton destruction of property and summary execution has beset the country, engendering an environment of impunity while ensuring that Libya&#8217;s people remain trapped within the violent logic of last year&#8217;s insurgency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/torture-and-a-brewing-civil-war-in-americas-latest-liberated-country\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/libya-intervention-exacerbated-suffering-syria-would-be-worse\/\">here<\/a> for some other of my recent Libya commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times on how horrible Libya is post-U.S. liberation: Rising inter-tribal violence has left scores dead. About 100 people were reported killed last month when rival tribes battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the remote southern town of Kufra, probably for control of lucrative arms-smuggling and human-trafficking routes in the vast empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14410,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}