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Libya names onetime rogue general as army chief of staff
As word emerged Monday of a gruesome new round of Islamic State beheadings, Libyas internationally recognized government installeda onetime rogue anti-Islamist general asarmy chief.
Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who has emerged as a divisive figure since beginning a self-styled offensive last year, took the oath of office a week after he was tapped for the top defense post, said a spokesman for the legislature based in the eastern town of Tobruk. A rival parliament sits in Tripoli.
As Haftar has directed his main efforts against Islamist-leaning armed factions based in the western city of Misrata, Islamic State militants have taken advantage of the chaos and established a foothold in several locales.
An offshoot of the group is thought to have carried out an attack last week on an oil field in central Libya in which nine foreign nationals were seized part of what Libyan officials have described as a bid to take control of Libyas once-lucrative energy industry.
On Monday, a government spokesman said that during the attack on the Ghani oil field, eight Libyan guards were killed. The Associated Press quoted military spokesman Ahmed Mesmari as saying they were beheaded in front of a colleague, who then suffered a heart attack.
Attacks on oil installations, some of them carried out by the Islamic State, have led to nearly a dozen oil fields being idled, leaving the government unable to meet contractual commitments for those facilities output.
In the attack Friday outside the city of Zalla, the abducted foreigners have been identified as being from the Philippines, Austria, the Czech Republic, Ghana and Bangladesh. They were working for an Austrian company.
Islamic State, while dwarfed by other militia groups and blocs, has staged several high-profile strikes since the start of the year. An Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in the capital, Tripoli, in January, and fighters loyal to the group have also claimed responsibility for several suicide bombings that caused large numbers of casualties.
Last month, in one of the groups trademark grisly video productions, Islamic State militants beheaded 21 men, all but one of them Egyptian Christians, on a Mediterranean beach in Libya. That prompted retaliatory airstrikes against the militants by Egypt and the air force of the internationally recognized Libyan government.
Haftar, the new military chief, had also served as defense minister under dictator Moammar Kadafi. But he broke with Kadafi and played a role in the uprising four years ago, in which the strongman was toppled and subsequently killed.
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Libya's oil economy at risk, envoy says
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The fire that resulted from the militant bombing of a pipeline at the Sarir oil field, the largest in Libya, was extinguished during the weekend. Sarir is in the same region as oil fields attacked last week by fighters claiming loyalty to the group calling itself the Islamic State.
Libya before NATO forces intervened to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi was producing around 1.2 million barrels of oil per day. In its monthly report for February, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said member-state Libya was producing around 343,000 bpd as of January, a 27 percent decline from December. Sarir was producing around 185,000 bpd.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Deborah K. Jones wrote in the Tuesday edition of the Libya Herald the country may go broke if oil continues to get caught in the cross fire.
"Disruptions to Libya's oil production, essentially the country's only source of income, have become so severe that Libya will be broke in 18 months or less, by some counts," she wrote.
Libya was once a major international oil supplier. War in 2011 prompted members of the International Energy Agency to tap into strategic reserves to cope with the loss of oil from the North African producer.
Michael Marseille, president of Italian oil trade union FederPetroli Italia, said Italy, a net-importer, is at risk because of the conflict spillover.
"The situation is out of control," he said in an e-mailed statement. "All fields, both onshore and offshore, we believe are at risk."
The Libya economy boomed in the wake of Gadhafi's late 2011, but shrank by 10 percent two years later, the World Bank said.
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