Rebel General's Killing Sparks Crisis in Western-Backed Libyan Opposition
Submitted on July 30, 2011
By Bill Van Auken - WSWS
The assassination Thursday of former Gaddafi official and military chief of the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council (TNC), General Abdel Fatah Younis, has raised the specter of a civil war within the Western-backed Libyan “rebels”...Younis's death...threatens to tear apart the TNC’s fractious alliance of ex-Gaddafi officials, CIA “assets” and Islamists precisely at the point in which the major powers...have recognized the council as the legitimate government of Libya.
