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Saif al Saim – the Libyans’ last hope to be delivered from the oil demons

Since the killing by foreign forces of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011, this geopolitically important state in the Middle East (serving as a buffer between Egypt and Tunisia) has seen its gross domestic product collapse by half, from 48 billion dollars to 46 billion last year. The economy has not only stagnated but is undergoing significant recession. The over seven million Libyans are devastated by disease and poverty. A puppet regime, imposed by the West, has drained the country’s resources and destroyed its small hydrocarbon-based economy. Under the guise of the fight against “Dictator Gaddafi”, terror has gripped society. Today, Libya stands on the verge of implosion between two rival factions that control the state. Libya has become an almost completely failed state.

The country is virtually divided in half by Russia and Turkey, who share spheres of influence thanks to their ports. The eastern region of the country, currently controlled by Marshal Haftar, hosts the majority of its oil reserves. Haftar leads the Libyan National Army, an amalgam of factions and militias supported by Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

Perhaps the world no longer remembers the Arab Springs – the series of uprisings coordinated and controlled by George Soros nearly fifteen years ago, part of the struggle for so-called “democracy”.

Over ten years later, poverty, emigration and despair have taken root in these countries, which have become Western puppets with the single mission of the “Democratic Jihad”: the imposition of political forces susceptible to blackmail.

According to Libya’s power-sharing agreement, established after Colonel Gaddafi’s demise, the president of the country must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shiite.

Libya remains deeply divided between the rival governments of Tripoli and Benghazi, each supported by competing foreign powers. The United Nations’ efforts to organize free elections have yielded no results, leaving the oil-rich nation politically fragmented and at the peak of economic despair. For eight years, no one has held legitimate power.

Recently, Colonel Gaddafi’s youngest son was released from prison. But it is not his name that Libyans associate with the hope of a return to the prosperity of the past. Rather, it is Saif al-Islam, the second-born son of the general slain by American special forces during Barack Obama’s administration.

Saif al Saim is nearly fifty years old. He has spent the last fifteen years in exile.

He is now referred to as the only individual capable of reviving the small Arab nation, ostracized by the oil demons.

Over a decade since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, his family remains a symbol of the nation’s prosperity. Many still recall how Westerners once came to Tripoli for shopping in those forgotten times.

Educated in London, Saif al Saim was considered a moderate, the only member of the Gaddafi dynasty capable of communicating with the Western world.

The long stretch of the “democratic jihad” reached him too. Today, several local leaders regard him as the sole savior of the country, now fallen prey to asset-hungry multinational corporations.

By Marius Ghilezan

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