LNA puts an end to Turkish arms supplies to terrorists
“In accordance with the
commander-in-chief’s [Khalifa Haftar] decision to cut off supplies for militias
in the western region, the chief of staff of the Libyan naval forces, Maj. Gen.
Faraj al-Mahdawi, announced the mobilization of all naval forces and announced
a complete naval ban on all sea ports in the western region,” the Military
Information Division of the General Command of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces
said in a statement.
In September 2015, Greek authorities
seized a Turkish ship loaded with arms heading to Libya. In January 2018, the
Greek Coast Guards seized a Turkish ship loaded with explosives heading to
Libya.
In December 2018, the Greek
authorities had found Turkish weapons on a ship heading to Libya.
Libyan affairs specialist Abdel
Sattar Heteita said that the LNA’s decision is in line with speeding the
liberation of Tripoli under the leadership of Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
"LNA is doing everything it can
to stop any military and logistic supplies shipped to the terrorists in Tripoli
in order to defeat them and defeat and uproot all takfiris in Libya,” Heteita
told THE REFERENCE.
“The ban of ships in the west of
Libya is a very wise move as it will speed the elimination of terrorists in Tripoli.
The same happened in Derna, where the LNA couldn’t free the city in
northeastern Libya until its port was closed to stop the arms supplies to the
terrorists,” he added.
