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La pagaille s'installe dans le camp des rebelles en Libye
La pagaille s'installe dans le camp des rebelles en Libye
La situation en Libye continue de s'enliser, rapporte D. Kirkpatrick et C. J. Chivers du New York Times, en raison des querelles internes qui freinent la progression de la rébellion. Ces querelles ont atteint leur paroxysme depuis l'assassinat du général Younès il y a bientôt trois semaines. La confusion entraînée par ces disputes rend la conduite des opérations sur le terrain chaotique. Ainsi signale-t-on des comportements anarchiques au niveau des troupes rebelles :
"Still, questions remain about the rebel leadership’s control over its fighters. “I think that is a question they are asking themselves,” Mr. Feltman [assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs] said, noting recent moves by the council to rein in various freewheeling rebel militias, which often are formed along town, neighborhood or tribal lines."
En fait, les soldats rebelles profiteraient de la confusion pour piller et se venger des anciens profiteurs comme en témoigne un jeune réfugié :
"Outside Tripoli, the Qaddafi stronghold, about 500 civilian refugees from the rebel advance have gathered in a makeshift camp that formerly housed Chinese construction workers. “If you love Qaddafi in Yafran, they will kill you,” said Abdel Kareem Omar, 25, a dental student from a village of the Mashaashia tribe near that rebel city in the western mountains.“The rebels stole our furniture, our food, our animals and burned our homes,” he said, vowing that he, too, would take up arms. “To protect my people,” he said."
Tribal Rifts Threaten to Undermine Libya Uprising - NYTimes.com
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