# BREAKING: Libya

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 14, 2014, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317 "2014-02-14T09:37:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317/21 "2014-02-14T15:36:00Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Apparently a general called for a coup but it didn’t happen.](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/uk-libya-crisis-idUKBREA1D0CO20140214)

That’s like starting a slow clap, and no one joins in.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317/22 "2014-02-14T15:38:06Z")

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> [@Marmite\_Lover](#):
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> BREAKING: Libya

When news breaks…we fix it! 🙂

Yeah, from the \*\*BrainGlutton \*\*article:

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> (Reuters) - Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Friday the government was safe and security under control after a senior army official called for the parliament to be suspended and the armed forces to “rescue” the country.
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> Major General Khalifa Haftar, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution against Muammar Gaddafi, called for a presidential committee to be formed to govern until new elections could be held in what he described as a road map for Libya.
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> Nearly three years after Gaddafi’s fall, Libya has had only fragile government and armed forces unable to impose their authority on competing political factions and the brigades of former revolutionary fighters who refuse to disarm. Libya still has no new constitution.
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> “Libya is stable. The (General National Congress) GNC is doing its work and so is the government. The army is in its headquarters, and Khalifa Haftar has no authority,” Zeidan told Reuters. “No military units have moved to touch any institutions.”
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> He said legal proceedings under military law would be taken against Haftar for his statement.
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> Tripoli was calm, and there were no signs of any extraordinary troop movements or activity outside the parliament, the prime minister’s office or any ministries.
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> It was not clear how much influence Haftar has even within the small, nascent army in a country where brigades of militia groups and former rebels are more powerful.

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**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317/23 "2014-02-14T15:43:46Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Apparently a general called for a coup but it didn’t happen.](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/uk-libya-crisis-idUKBREA1D0CO20140214)

Yeah…you hate when that happens.

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-libya/681317/24 "2014-02-14T16:11:36Z")

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> [@nevadaexile](#):
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> Yeah…you hate when that happens.

His Twitter feed this morning just reads “AWKS! Totes kiddin U guyz! LOLOL!”

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