![]() ![]() It was from the east that he would announce the formation of Operation Dignity, a military campaign launched on by a loose alliance of armed groups against Islamist-leaning battalions in Benghazi, and claim leadership of Libyan armed forces. His call to arms fell on deaf ears and resulted in Haftar fleeing to eastern Libya to reach safety. ![]() Haftar had been among the cohort of officers that had supposedly been forced into retirement by the GNC a year earlier. In February 2014, Khalifa Haftar announced in a YouTube address that the ‘Libyan army’ was set to ‘rescue’ the nation by removing the General National Congress (GNC) – the first legislative authority of Libya after the fall of Gaddafi. Unlike other Libyan armed groups, which remain tethered to their social bases within communities, the LAAF has expanded its territorial control by absorbing new groups into its structure. ![]()
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