Qadhafi supporters who fled to Egypt as the revolution in Libya
progressed will soon find themselves on an unwanted return journey. The Egyptian
ambassador to Libya, Hisham Abdul-Wahab, announced that their
exile would soon be over as soon as the last legal technicalities were sorted.
The Judicial Co-operation Convention that has been signed between the two
countries means that several thousand persons could be affected.
One person who would receive a particularly special welcome, if
he should he forced to return, is Ahmed Qadhafaddam who was Qadhafi's cousin and
close confidant. He is widely believed that he is currently in command of very
large sums of Libyan state money, assuming that he and his confederates have
been able to conceal so large a cache. It is believed that he has also been
financing the current insurgency campaign by Qadhafi supporters inside Libya.
For many years he managed and manipulated Libyan relations with Egypt and he
will remain strong for as long as he and others can fund the insurgency and are
tolerated by Cairo as non-diplomatic guests.
Meanwhile Abdul-Wahab is attempting, as a priority, to arrange
the release of those Egyptians who are being held in Tripoli by the militias and
a connection between the two events is not hard to make.
© 2012 Menas Associates
No comments:
Post a Comment