(London Free Press-Canada) Gwynne Dyer - Much of the eastern half of Libya, Cyrenaica, has been under the control of a coalition of tribal militias led by Ibrahim Jathran since last year. He seized control of the terminals on the coast through which two-thirds of Libya's oil production is exported, and set up the "Cyrenaica Political Bureau," which acts as a proto-government in the east. The central government in Tripoli is too weak and its army too small to take on a powerful warlord like Jathran.
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