{"id":97786,"date":"2017-04-10T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97786"},"modified":"2017-04-10T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:06:44","slug":"divide-and-conquer-trumps-deputy-aide-proposes-to-split-libya-into-three-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/10\/divide-and-conquer-trumps-deputy-aide-proposes-to-split-libya-into-three-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Divide and Conquer: Trump&#8217;s deputy aide proposes to split Libya into three parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97787\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Libya_-_Location_Map_2013_-_LBY_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97787\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Libya_-_Location_Map_2013_-_LBY_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png\" alt=\"Libya has been in state of a civil war since its longtime leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was overthrown in 2011.  (Photo: OCHA\/ WIkipedia)\" width=\"253\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Libya_-_Location_Map_2013_-_LBY_-_UNOCHA.svg_.png 253w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Libya_-_Location_Map_2013_-_LBY_-_UNOCHA.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libya has been in state of a civil war since its longtime leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was overthrown in 2011. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">OCHA\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSCOW\u2013Sebastian Gorka, a White House Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, proposed that Libya be partitioned and at one point drew the suggested divisions on a napkin during a meeting with a senior European official, The Guardian reported Monday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has learned that Gorka proposed to partition Libya in the weeks leading up to Trump&#8217;s inauguration in January. The newspaper further reported that the deputy aide specifically suggested the country be divided into three areas based on three old Ottoman provinces: Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania in the north-west and Fezzan in the south-west.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Guardian, the European official responded that the idea would be &#8220;the worst solution&#8221; for the North African country.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been in state of a civil war since its longtime leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was overthrown in 2011. Since then, political power in the country has been split between two rival governments: the Council of Deputies based in Tobruk and the Tripoli-based General National Congress. Following the signing of a UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement in December 2015, a Government of National Accord has been established in the county and started its work in late March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW\u2013Sebastian Gorka, a White House Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, proposed that Libya be partitioned and at one point &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[3745,878,14087],"class_list":["post-97786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-divide","tag-libya","tag-president-donald-trump","mauthors-sputnik-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}