A surrogate for Islamists, Stephanie's Scam exposed in all its glory

5+5 agreement was a blow to #Turkey- #Qatar as it stipulated the removal of all foreign mercs from #Libya, the disarming of militias+the voiding of all illegal military agreements.

"LPDF" is their backdoor https://twitter.com/ObservatoryLY/status/1326903509447536641

Needless to say, this latest attempt at foreign interference masquerading as a "Libyan" effort has met with widespread rejection in #Libya who've seen this song and dance before to disastrous effect: The unelected, unratified, unconstitutional proxy GNA. https://twitter.com/218newsenglish/status/1326912464227807243

Other than being totally illegal, the LPDF "75" are a random group of Libyans chosen by foreigners to create an "interim gov" to circumvent democracy, legitimacy, sovereignty+security. They have no Libyan constituency or mandate. More sordid details https://almarsad.co/en/2020/11/03/libyas-civil-society-criticises-unsmils-political-dialogue-for-over-representation-of-islamists/

Needless to say, no foreign institution has the right to choose what is effectively a 75 person parliament and foreign collaborators (which includes advocates of terrorism) to form a government in any sovereign state. Only elected citizens have the right to form a government.

As I had pointed out from the outset of this scam, this is a last ditch effort in a series of efforts over a decade by #Qatar and #Turkey to traffic and entrench their proxies in #Libya and upend hard won peace, stunt democracy, good governance and fight financial corruption.

For newcomers to #Libya's conflict, this is the historic agreement that Libyans have managed to achieve recently in Geneva in spite of all the spoilers. This is what the LPDF is attempting to sabotage-exposing @UNSMILibya role in the country's destruction. https://twitter.com/ObservatoryLY/status/1326608357004894208

15 min webinar for the Middle East Forum on #Turkey's aims in #Libya and the region: