Chadian president Deby has been killed, according to state tv. What started off a week ago as a small incursion from Libya by Chadian rebels and tribe members has ended with this.

This is a text book example of how instability and the use of mercenaries in Libya has regional implications. The rebels from the Garaan tribe had been based in Juffra alongside Haftar's LNA and the Wagner PMC.

Multiple sources say they were armed by the LNA (plausibly with the UAE having been the origin of the 4 by 4s they used and that were sent to LNA in several shipments) and received training from Wagner.

It remains to be seen whether the vaguely implausible official version--that Deby died of wounds while visiting soldiers at the front--is indeed true or just a nice account to see out the man who ruled Chad for five terms.

Another moral of the story: the rise and backing of Haftar continues to be an unfolding epic disaster. And there's irony in how his story really started in Chad decades ago and ended here.

It was in Chad that Haftar was captured when he led forces in an ill fated mission, and there that he defected from Qaddafi and started working with the CIA.

He went from being a CIA and traitor to Qaddafi to an aspiring junta leader whose top ranks are filled with Qaddafi era military men and whose war effort was bolstered by a Russian PMC (though they never liked or trusted him much).

It ended with Libya falling under the military influence of both Turkey and Russia, and the long time leader of Chad dead--with yet to be seen consequences in that country.