The blame for the destruction of Libya should be put squarely on NATO. They conducted a vicious campaign of airstrikes against the then Moammar Gadhafi’s government between March and October of 2011. One report said 26,500 sorties were carried out by NATO warplanes and they only ended after Gadhafi was ousted and killed (Alchetron, September 19, 2022 updated).
And a bitter civil war ensued – a domestic landscape torn apart by competing claims to power and with interference from regional actors serving to entrench divides.
Today, an uneasy peace has arrived but the country remains deeply divided.
Religious authorities in east Libya, aligned with the parliament which is based there, said they had sighted the crescent moon on Thursday, making it the last day of fasting and setting Friday as Eid.
In Tripoli, the capital, religious authorities linked to the national interim government said they had not seen the moon and the holiday would not begin until Saturday, meaning people should fast another day.
“This is madness and I pray it ends here”, said fifty-year-old Ahmed Mesbah, in Tripoli, who has chosen to celebrate Eid on Friday. “We are divided among those who fast and those who have stopped fasting”, he added.
This is sad!
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