Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces have revealed that they have seized cross-border gangs with Algeria and Mali, which were carrying out operations to smuggle large quantities of weapons to extremist groups operating on the common borders with the two neighboring countries of Libya.
Haftar’s forces announced, according to the Libya News website, that they had seized a huge amount of weapons and explosives that were in the possession of a gang operating near the border with Algeria.
The director of the Libyan army’s moral guidance department, Major General Khaled al-Mahjoub, said in a statement that his forces crisscrossing the southwestern desert to fight transnational organized crime, which works on the trafficking in people, arms, and fuel, succeeded in arresting a criminal gang that deals in arms and deals with extremist groups in Algeria and Mali.
Al-Mahjoub confirmed that one of his units prepared an ambush near the Algerian border and was able to seize and confiscate the weapons and explosive materials that were in the possession of this gang.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune mocked Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s threat against Algeria while answering a question during his meeting with representatives of some media.
Tebboune replied with a popular sarcastic expression to the journalist’s question, indicating that the marshal’s threat against Algeria was only empty talk and that he would not dare to do anything.
It should be noted that President Tebboune stressed that Algeria would have intervened to prevent the fall of the capital, Tripoli, to the hands of mercenaries who besieged the city for months, in reference to the militias of Khalifa Haftar.