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Published date: 4 March 2021 15:41 UTC | Last update: 1 month ago
Libya’s prime minister designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah paid a private visit to Ankara to meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last month, days after his election to the post in a UN-led peace process.
A person familiar with the issue told Middle East Eye that Dbeibah arrived in Ankara on 11 February as part of routine engagements between the two countries.
The source, who didn’t explain why the visit was kept confidential, said that senior Turkish officials personally wanted to convey their good wishes to the newly elected leader and offer support in any areas possible, from military training to the rebuilding of infrastructure.
WITHOUT MUCH FANFARE LAST week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation placed on its most wanted list Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest collaborators. Known as “Putin’s chef”, for providing catering services to the Kremlin, Prigozhin was indicted in February 2018 by United States prosecutors for his alleged role in Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential elections. According to the Special Counsel investigation, led by Robert Mueller, Prigozhin bankrolled the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which in turn played a central coordinating role in the effort to influence the outcome of the elections.
But it is one thing to be indicted by the US government, and quite another to be placed on the FBI’s most wanted list. What does this mean? And why did the FBI wait three years to place Prigozhin on its list of infamy?
Turkey and US share Russian defence system captured in Libya
Russia s S-400 missile defence system in Ankara, Turkey on 12 July 2019 [Turkey’s National Defense Ministry/Anadolu Agency] February 26, 2021 at 3:09 pm
A captured Russian-built missile defence system which was reported last month to have been taken by the US military is now said to have been shared between the US and Turkey, according to Libyan officials.
In a report last month by the Times in London, the truck-mounted Pantsir S-1 missile battery – made by Russia and given to the UAE, which then gave it to Khalifa Haftar s forces in eastern Libya – was captured by militants affiliated to the Libyan government when they captured Al-Watiya Air Base in May last year.