The Libyan Civil War: Critical Views: Those Libyan Elections ~ #LyElection #Jibril #NTC #Libya #Gaddafi #Saif

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“A headline in the Guardian, July 14 : Mahmoud Jibril seeks coalition with Libya’s Islamists after his poll win makes it clear that this was the “wrong result” in a bogus election in which there were no candidates with links to the past Government. 
“Nobody saw this coming,” said Dirk Vandewalle, a US academic and former adviser to UN special envoy for Libya, Ian Martin. , i.e. democracy producing the wrong result. Normally this needs a post-election “correction”. 
So Mahmoud Jibril, who trounced the Muslim Brotherhood party, ”Justice and Construction”is now seeking a grand coalition. No mention of Abdelhakim Belhaj of the Al-Watan , orHomeland or Libyan National party in that article. So what is he up to?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi of Brasenose College Oxford also mis-read the tea leaves:Rethinking Libya, July 12 2012, The American Spectator: It appears that I underestimated the stigma associated with ties to foreign powers for Islamists (i.e. Qatar, and its sycophantic media channel, Al-Jazeera…) … “ 

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