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Khalifa Haftar

Khalifa Haftar
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Birth name Khalifa Belqasim Haftar
Born (1943-11-07) 7 November 1943 (age 73)
Ajdabiya, Libya
Service/branch Libyan Ground Forces
Rank Field marshal
Battles/wars

Yom Kippur War (1973)
Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987)
First Libyan Civil War

Second Libyan Civil War

Yom Kippur War (1973)
Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987)
First Libyan Civil War

Khalifa Belqasim Haftar (Arabic: خليفة بلقاسم حفتر‎‎; born c. 1943) is a Libyan marshal and the principal commander of one side in the ongoing Libyan Civil War of 2014. On March 2, 2015, he was appointed commander of the armed forces loyal to the elected, internationally backed government, the Council of Deputies.Transliterations of his name include Heftar, Hafter, Hifter, Hefter, etc.

Haftar was born in eastern Libya. He served in the Libyan army under Muammar Gaddafi, and took part in the coup that brought Gaddafi to power in 1969. He commanded the Libyan contingent against Israel in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. In 1987, he became a prisoner of war during the war against Chad. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Gaddafi. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining U.S. citizenship. Haftar lived comfortably in Virginia, relatively close to CIA headquarters, from the early 1990s until 2011. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death.


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