Khalifa Haftar
Libyan war criminal
- Fame56.3
- Momentum0.0
- Business Professionals rank#177
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- Fame56.3
- Momentum0.0
- Business Professionals rank#177
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Born 1943 · age 83
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Updated 2026-06-09
The warlord who commands eastern Libya with military force once lived quietly in suburban Virginia for two decades. Haftar fought for Gaddafi, then against him, survived a Chadian prison camp, became a U.S. citizen, and returned to seize half a country through civil war.
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Khalifa Haftar was born in Ajdabiya in 1943 and joined the officers who brought Muammar Gaddafi to power in 1969. He fought for Libya in the Yom Kippur War and rose to chief officer during the Chadian-Libyan conflict until Chadian forces captured him in April 1987—a humiliation that ended Gaddafi's ambitions in Chad. Released around 1990 in a deal with Washington, he settled in Langley, Virginia, gained U.S. citizenship, and was sentenced to death in absentia by Tripoli in 1993. He returned for the 2011 uprising that toppled Gaddafi, then launched his own campaign in 2014 against the General N…
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