Cross-governmental body failed to foresee tribal forces that would be unleashed by dictator’s downfall,select committee hearsA senior government minister wrote the phrase “fanciful rot” on a British stabilisation device for Libya drawn up for implementation after the descend of Muammar Gaddafi, the foreign affairs select committee has been told during a day-long session on the causes of Libya’s near collapse.
Former international development minister Alan Duncan said the paper, and drawn up by a cross-governmental body of officials,was “an unrealistic desktop exercise” that took no account of the tribal forces that would be unleashed if Gaddafi’s government fell.
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Source: theguardian.com