1/ An odd way of creeping towards the truth. "Islamist circles in Turkey"...i.e. the Turkish Government. The "individual networks" phrase makes it sound as if there's the GNA on one hand, & some unsanctioned lone operators on the other who may have done a naughty thing. #Libya

2/ In reality, there is no unified entity called "the GNA". It is *nothing but* competing individual networks whose only unifying interest is their need to stave off a functional civil state in #Libya. They have smuggled weapons & fighters in & out of the country since 2011.

3/ The fact that #Turkey now does that for them doesn't make those networks any less important. They have always been the real power behind the GNC/GNA. Muslim Brotherhood working with NFLS, w/ LIFG & Jihadist/Islamist/human traffickers & criminal militias as muscle. #Libya

4/ In 2012, I personally witnessed NFSL figures sitting for cozy meetings at the Radisson w/ LIFG figures, already known for smuggling fighters to/from Syria. Dismissing all this as "individual networks" conceals the fact that these networks are how things are done... #Libya

5/ Including how instrumental these "individual networks" were in bringing Turkey to Tripoli in the fist place. #Libya

6/ Here's how misleading the "individual networks" phrase is. The GNA Ambassador to Turkey is Abdurrazzaq Mukhtar, one of the most senior Muslim Brotherhood figures in both #Libya, & the USA, & among Libya's most powerful men. One example of an "individual" w/ a "network".

7/ Mukhtar is also responsible for securing the Central Bank of #Libya for the Muslim Brotherhood, by installing Sadiq al-Kabir as governor. Again, something that could be usefully dismissed as an "individual network". The question any reader should ask is why dismiss it as such

8/ Further "individual networks" that have been fundamental to the conflict in #Libya are the number of Islamist paramilitary leaders, such as Abdelhakim Belhadj, who have now based themselves in Turkey. Does anyone imagine that these are all coincidences?

9/ Another “individual network” that tells a great deal about the modern #Libya is the one which allowed senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, Usama al-Salaby, to procure a private jet to fly his son to Germany (from Misrata) after the latter was injured fighting in Tripoli.

10/ Article reference for point 9 above. https://akhbarlibya24.net/2019/10/12/%D8%A8%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%91%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%91%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A3/

11/ “Individual networks” are how politics is done. Anyone dismissing them as unimportant is either trying to conceal something, or is too naive to be commenting on the real world. #Libya.