Security chamber blames Sarraj for ISIS emergence

A security room belonging to the Libyan National Accord Government blamed the official bodies for the emergence of ISIS again, saying they ignored previous warnings in this regard. They said, “We hold all the official bodies that were previously addressed about the movements of the organization "Daash" before it penetrated into large areas.”

It added that the terrorist organization re-trained its operatives, secured fuel supplies, and provided communications lines. The security chamber warned of movements of elements of the organization in different parts of Libya, especially in the central region and the southern mountainous.

On political side, Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj and Libyan National Army leader Khalifa Hafter have been invited to the latest African Union (AU) mini-summit on the Libyan crisis which takes place in the Congolese capital Brazzaville on Friday. So too, according to the Libyan news agency LANA, have House of Representatives (HoR) president Ageela Saleh, State Council president Abdulrahman Sewehli and the head of the HoR dialogue committee, Abdulsalam Nassiyah.

The invitations have been confirmed by a number of HoR members, but none on those invited have yet confirmed their attendance.

All would be accompanied by separate delegations.

The mini-summit is being organised by the African Union High Level Committee on Libya, headed by Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso. Consisting of his country plus Niger, Mauritania, South Africa and Ethiopia, it has also invited Libya’s other neighbouring states: Chad, Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

It follows the AU summit in Addis Ababa two months ago at which it was decided that AU efforts on Libya needed to stepped up and Libyan national dialogue supported.

This will be the third mini-summit organised by the committee. At the last one in Brazzaville in January, it was agreed that changes needed to be made to the Libyan Political Agreement to make it acceptable to all sides – and be made quickly.

At the one before in the Rwandan capital Kigali, it was agreed a more proactive approach towards Libya was needed.

The Awagir tribe has reaffirmed its support for the House of Representatives, the interim government of Abdullah Thinni and the Libyan National Army (LNA) under Khalifa Hafter.

Tribal leaders met today in Soloug. Last week, Faraj Al-Gaem, an Awagir, flew to Benghazi immediately after being appointed the deputy interior minister in the Presidency Council’s (PC)  Government of National Accord (GNA). The move was seen as an attempt by PC head Faeiz Serraj to disrupt the tribal coalition that Hafter has assembled.

Gaem, who fell out with Hafter in 2015, was a Revolutionary fighter who ran a powerful militia that worked within the LNA . Members of that militia welcomed and guarded him when he flew into Benina.

However today,  Awagir leaders told their tribesmen serving with the LNA to continue to support it.  The tribe is regarded as dominant in and around Benghazi.  Among those at their gathering in t town was dissident PC vice-president Ali Gatrani and the Benghazi mayor Abdelrahman Elabbar.

Also prominent was Waleed Ellawati, eldest son of the late tribal leader Braik Ellawati who was murdered this May in Soloug along with six others including his nine year-old son. A massive explosion beneath his car also injured 18 others. This crime has been blamed on the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council .