Ruthless corporations, corrupt Government Agencies and criminal cartels. Targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. W for mm mm ah ah, with one of them leave your computer. They have clue all month. And the libya is a big country, but weve got everything we need to develop the ha chavira they as you. But weve got the see that they are huge Desert Mountain oil gas mina, gold mine, that has all kinds of mineral seem good at the federal washable balcony. All this for a population of about 6000000, but the countries around us, itll just cant leave us alone. And theyve been to whom disabled a med shannon is the libby, and fighting against foreign interference in his country is could all bow. Oh, europe, turkey, russia, the us, our neighboring countries. You are, theyre all trying to exploit libya for their own interest. Though the woman for their slicing up libya like a caca, no didnt good. Ah. Since market duffy was ousted, libya has had 9 governments. 142 Political Parties have been found it. And every new attempt to hold elections has re ignited conflict. As africas 4th Largest Oil Producer libby arouses great interest ah, and its chronic instability has attracted many dubious actors. Room of the audio this nation has become the playground of the worlds great palace, raising a key question, who is so in chaos in libya . Ah, too. When the beginning, the libyan revolution seemed full of hope. I car no, got it wrong now. Ah, wow. It put an end to the 42 year reign of a dictator, colonel moammar gadhafi. But after the full of good duffy, the revolutionaries did not lay down their owns. The country was divided to 3 big cities that spurred the revolution, vied full power and control of the oil fields. The western cities of tripoli and miss rossa were on the one side facing the eastern city of been gauzy on the other. Cassandra duffy, a funeral about bush, subtle into the split, began in 2014. During the 1st election, tripoli and miss rata were the western command centers bubble rosie and in the east ben garza and some of them the population gradually took sides, eating bombs, and it wasnt long before the guns started going on. The hood to see the hold on silicon as lemming extremist soon seized the opportunity to infiltrate the vulnerable country museum. Also told me i was with they so terror among the population. Get done with what you got. Thats good. Thats good. I mean, they took away the revolutionaries weapons. Oh, good. Going with the flow of good looking lumens. I think you know that the oh, can look and look in with hello the come on. Lowered book. Good man, is lupe a solution to solution in the midst of this chaos, one man decided to take matters into his own hands. I am jason robin libby. Miss miller, his name khalifa, half tar metal. He declared he would take over the country in order to unify it. He appointed himself leader of the libyan army. The hello causation, opening libby, the Libyan National army has been mobilized with up on saving the country as its duty. Hm. We dont want to seize power or govern, amen. While little we want to restore peace and conduct Free Democratic elections, a link to talk about the way to be a dont at all. So yeah. Hill vas this mysterious figure and how could a man without financial resources, all political support, mobilized an army to back him. Mm. You got to the body catholic with the city of all state representatives. Police officers and soldiers are to report to their barracks and debases monarchies. He, him, one more. Okay. Our goal is to save the nation. What and father linwood am the key to the mystery might lie in the command is korea path khalifa. Half towel was a tough military officer in the cat duffy regime in 1987 on behalf of the dictator half tell led and offensive against the neighboring country of chad. He was taken as the prisoner of war it was during this period that half toll was recruited by the c. I a to topple gadhafi as we posted in the new york times. Quote, mr. Half tells word for the c i a like almost old spy, operations is draped in mystery. When his mission fell through half till went into exile in the United States. Quote, mister hafta and his sons settled in Northern Virginia with a eventually bought several properties. Mm. He started to attract in the interest of external actors, especially in the west of the us and france especially were interested in the role hoshal could play in helping fight terrorism on the theory. Ah, sit down the law. Hello. Didnt it object if to convey his army is top goal, was fighting terrorism, which it did, do you always make it thought terrorism and down on because in been causing you to, to insert it and, and facade, delingo. Fizzle. Baskerville is to always terrorism was a real and serious threat or us as well. Sit them in and his army with our support. One big victories against this threat wont. Well do what we can to witness, hit new juicy. After 27 years of exile in the us khalifa have tell, reappeared on to the libyan political scene. He seemed to be the only figure, capable of standing up to the so called islamic state. Terrorist group whose advances across the middle east had the west worried this out of the hello. This isnt a kuda top. Its not a kuda tall in the traditional sense of the term. Im leading many libyans in the east rally to his site. But tripoli and miss ross refused to fall in line with hafta whom they saw as a new dictator. War broke out to oppose half to us ami the western cities on the young men and prepared them for battle. A mention knob was one of the 1st to join. The fight might were you was the middle of us and then with them and then go a med lover, a med and i met you when you were a student at university. Now youre in uniform carrying a gun and the best. A one. Yes liberalism, i thought, and this is osama, but hes a student to lily cauthen. Were here to help with the war. Need. Were civilians armor than you, but we dropped out of school to lend our revolutionary brothers. A hannah angelica to what it is the right thing to do and living because their struggle is just that we believe in them. And its as simple as that there. Ah, me, are you afraid of dying with death can strike at any time. The hot darrs bombs could land on us at any 2nd. Right here. At my home, at my school, them in the street will we have to fight so that our younger brothers and our children can live in peace and libya. Bishop, i face death every single day. To call you a few years later, a med would lose both his brother and his friend osama on the battlefield. Their name is al, sanity a lot of little on, but that was jenny mitchell. In 2014. I was only 2 years away from graduating. I was studying the architecture of spain, the United States, france, italy, dubai, and i thought to myself in my greatest wish, his for libya to develop that way. And im helping make that happen. I never would have imagined to kill even in my worst nightmares feel that our country would be divided between been gassy and miss rata. Between the west and the east. Never the walla, nobody could have imagined such a thing can show from the wall, connecticut, m, libya plunged into endless war the country went from cease fires to conflict and back again. They were International Conferences and the Un Security Council issued report after we court. But nothing changed on the ground. 5 years into the conflict, the battle lines hadnt budged. Nobody could win. Until 2019 gone. Khalifa hafta launched a large scale offensive conquering 85 percent of the country. He advanced to the gates of the libyan capital. Sizes from his ross have flocked to tripoli to bolster the forces of the government of national the code. They try to defend the city from half to us attack aphasia, jimmy at me, we were all surprised by the swiftness and violence of half doors attack on tripoli was it baffled us up at a loss yet many of them who was backing this powerful force that had covered 1200 kilometers from east to west. So quickly that for me we had lots of questions. The south cathedra and heavy boom. Mm mm mm. On the ground. Both sides. Foot ferociously full control of tripoli add port. Mm hm. Okay. And my name was what the hell kind of the, our intelligence was clear, can see her initially. We intercepted messages, shook we let them by the decade, but we still had doubt. See what we do see, it should it. We eventually confirmed they were russian mercenaries working for the wagner group. One of the worlds biggest private military company near leave ya about olivia has become a woo theater spool. Other countries knocked up though the sonata, those nations fight each other here as a unfortunately where only their property had the ha ha, sit up. A Un Security Council report confirmed this documentation proofs the presence of wagner in libya. And that they were reporting on white military issues to their headquarters in saint petersburg. The same report confirms the wagner grips presence entire who now just outside tripoli and crucially, near libby as 3 most Important Oil fields. And we saw wagner intervene and syria, and were seeing wagner intervene in the Central African republic and in libya. And they follow the same pattern every time. They come in and start waging a war without answering to anybody. Because they supposedly operate independently of any world power can bodily deli dont admit to working for the russian states. But theyre malicious, obey rushes orders, help themselves to oil. Here were a gold mine. There were a diamond mine in the Central African republic. All the method is always the same and its not acceptable to 3 bucks it. Them all guns we have you been with me which booting my question is for the russian president , mr. Prudent slide. Can you confirm that the wagner group has 2000 mercenaries in libya to can before tell us how many russian and wagner mercenaries are fighting their missouri high position . Deep enough . She used to tell me if these soldiers are indeed death and russian citizens, they are not acting on behalf of the russian state, nor did they receive Financial Support from the russians. Danial, pacific, no unicorn. But russia isnt the only foreign country interfering in libya. In 2019 sudanese fight has appeared on libyan soil, alongside half toss. Forces up the last story, like hundreds of others, started with a work contract in the united arab emirates. Lana, i left sudan with big dreams, so that even whether i had the id so long, i was going to work in abu dhabi. I will send money to my family life. My and i was an save up to start my own business back in su dab. This was an unbelievable opportunity given is that it was a look good. 00, one was online last. When we arrived at the airport in abu dhabi, we saw muradi troops with tim on vomiting in foot. We were brought to a military camp and started asking ourselves, i know we came here for jobs as civilians and allowing me so what are we doing here . Danny, about that the thought of law and they started training us to use weapons slash uncle to keep we started with kalashnikov. Well then moved on to more powerful stuff. How rocket launchers grenades and machine gun re i one old leanna shush after several months of training up della was sent to libya along with 600 other sudanese, with no explanation alive i didnt have enough is when we understood wed landed in libya, love it all became clear, and not again little. They turned me into a mercenary and shed better. I thought, you know, im here to fight anna, but against whom like and how got to do it and why when additional and how can i escape lady i told myself youve got a one percent chance of getting out of this alive. I think id simply been sold and any rooms that had been ah let them in the house. Well do that. I told him id take on the case pro bono because it was a matter of humanity, harry, of the honor and dignity of civilians that had been trampled on. Who did it . I. Li, i not. And is the proof as in Chronological Order reported to say, oh, it had gotten about noon 1st . The immorality war contract . Oh, i did it over this contract states they will hire to work as security guards. I did our work a little while all over the web security monica, hadnt they look happy in these photos in our st ultima video . Yes, they thought theyd landed a civilian job or the show would im, you know, now theyre depressed and unemployed. Some of them had even given up their jobs. Others had sold the land, they lived on to be able to leave the country to betty out the been lead. Is there no justice for them that there is no justice . None at all. Murphy. Ha of obviously this is our courtesy of the fee. I libyan whos one of the half does offices in the army. I believe hes russian. Im thinking of a roving group report. Shereka black jim black shield is a Company Registered in the merits, but it really operates under the authority of the Intelligence Service model, the man who calls himself the c e. O is actually an immorality Intelligence Officer about a new model. Hes the one in charge of the war in libya and her leave. Mm. Mm. Young sudanese men became cannon fodder in the deadliest theaters of war and libya. Many of them never returned. I added that. Im up to his new. I dont, you dont appreciate what you have until you lose it. Follow them so that it for young people like me, life is hard here in sudan, lacking a lot of them was it. But the day i came back and saw the look on my mothers space, only with the corners of that look, the love i have for her. Why did tech love is over there without hopefully good out. It was such an intense feeling can. Its very difficult to explain whether you look at a very difficult thought ronald can. Id escaped death or better sandlin. It was like i had died and come back to life. Ah, foreign powers supplied half tell with both troops and weapons. In 2015, the east and the west 40 each other with an arsenal from the gadhafi days, a scene in this footage low then in 2019 a new military era dawned in libya. The weapons appeared near russian battle tanks. North american, heavy artillery and many serbian portable rocket launchers in these few seconds of footage, 10 mortar shells go up and smoke, theyre worth more than half a 1000000 euros. This is all despite the arms embargo that the United NationsSecurity Council imposed on libya in 201115 to the american law gaskin as a member of the army. And im not allowed to talk about these things, but ill summarize the situation in logic, a neighborhood also. Today, its become routine, did the uncomfortable for do the land borders, are open, especially with egypt, left to her, and all kinds of weapons can be smuggled unimpeded had delano duly, despite the International Embargo of his gideon, emma must have from the emirates to egypt, and then to the city of tow, brooke, and he would get, it would do. Its easy to however, the dilemma to the land and air borders will remain open as long as half star controls this region. Month of a tenure, even a nuclear bomb could be brought in. I did the dental, hadnt had a good, huge long back go the paper to pay. You can only speak to very few countries have respected the un and bog. But the problem with the United Nations is they have despite broken infrastructure, theres a sense of courage in the it is their hope in the midst of destruction. Why focus on europe . 90 minutes on d. W. Lab has no limit. I love is for everybody. Love is live, love matter, and thats my new podcast. Im evelyn char, mom and i really think we need to talk about all the topics that more divides and deny that. And this i have invited many deer and well known gas. And i would like to invite you to an end ah ah, this is the w. Twos line from bar lane, the United States impose these new sanctions against iran, as the rainy of Security Forces intensify back cracked out on protesters. 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