Meeting Haftar in his eastern Libya base soon after he launched his op in 2014. The pics followed a testy interview. His aide took the out of focus pic on left. Tellingly, aide didn’t want to annoy Haftar by taking another one (because Haftar had blinked). I took pic on the right

The point at which Haftar got most testy during our interview: when I raised question of Libyans who supported tackling designated terrorist groups but had misgivings about Haftar’s ultimate ambitions. His aides were franker, admitting he wanted to ‘rule’ Libya. And here we are..

It was the first interview Haftar gave to a foreign (and non-Arab) journalist. I published it in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/libyan-renegade-general-khalifa-haftar-war