Libya’s Anti-Military Militias
The lack of a credible Libyan response to the September 11 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, which killed the US ambassador and three others, showed that Libya is neither governed by the rule of law nor able to impose it. To make progress, the newly elected government must disband militias and build up official security forces.
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NEW YORK – As the United States struggles to understand last September’s attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, a formal investigation has not even been opened in Libya – and likely never will be. The country’s leaders face myriad challenges – from a vocal federalist movement in the East, aimed at usurping the central government’s prerogatives, to a wave of assassinations targeting security officials – which leaves them few resources to allocate to a case that poses no immediate threat to their domestic standing.