Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars by Robert H. Gregory

Author:Robert H. Gregory [Gregory, Jr., Robert H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS010010 History / Europe / Eastern, HIS027140 History / Military / Aviation, HIS027110 History / Military / United States
ISBN: 9781612347868
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2015-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

According to BBC News reporter John Simpson, who interviewed an “extremely nervous” Younis the next day, there was more to the story.27 In fact, Gaddafi did not try to kill Younis—it was actually the rebels.

In a spoiling attack the rebel fighters forestalled Younis’s arrival in Benghazi and captured him. To avoid being killed, in Simpson’s view, “Younis immediately announced that his plan all along had been to come to Benghazi to join the rebels. The rebel leaders immediately guessed this was a fiction, but they could see the advantages in going along with it.”28 Thus the rebels accepted Younis with great caution, making him a figurehead commander in chief rather than giving him a field command. Nevertheless, Younis’s defection was a major victory for the rebels—he brought along the interior ministry brigade and three thousand special forces.29 Altogether, the rebel side gained eight thousand troops from Younis’s defection.30 After combining Younis’s forces with the numerous civilians who had already taken up arms, the rebels now had an army.

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