Bernard Lévy in troubled Libya…on a mission for compromise deal on crisis settlement

Private sources in Libya told Echorouk that French philosopher-turned-politician, Bernard Henri Lévy, whose fiery rhetoric prodded the so-called Arab Spring upheavals in several Arab counties last year, is currently in Benghazi, Libya, with the aim of finding a way out of the vexed crisis now besetting the country.

Bernard Henri Lévy is expected to expound to the Libyan authorities an initiative likely to trash out a solution to the current crisis-situation which has steeped Libya into virtual civil war over the past few months owing to the bitter antagonistic armed groups who sowed death and havoc notably in Tripoli, Benghazi and elsewhere in the country.

The same sources affirmed that the proposed deal on an end to the crisis provides notably for the reinstatement of dismissed Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan who was replaced by Ahmed Maatik, a political figure close to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and the appointment of Major General Khalifa Hafter as Army Chief of Staff and defense minister who will be enjoined to shun the political sphere altogether,  in addition to the nomination of Hakim Belhadj as interior minister in charge of internal security and the police.

Dissident Army General, Khalifa Hafter who is leading a sizable para-military force intent on neutralizing all Islamist fighters in Benghazi and elsewhere in Libya, has been heavily pressurized of late by the USA and France to endorse such an initiative.

General Hafter was also  requested sternly by the two countries’ governments to put an end to his forces’  ongoing military combing drive in Benghazi so as to avert a further exacerbation of the security situation there, the same sources added.