Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam visits Israel to seek military and diplomatic assistance in exchange for normalisation with Tel Aviv if the father and son come to power, local media report
PR companies and strategic advisers from France and the United Arab Emirates also joined Saddam during his 90-minute stop in Tel Aviv, the news outlet said.It is not clear whom Saddam Haftar met during his visit to Tel Aviv, but he is considered his father’s right-hand man, with the warlord’s health fragile, the paper wrote.
It split in 2014 between warring eastern and western camps with rival administrations based in each region. Haftar, supported by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Russia, and France, among others, carried out a military onslaught to topple the Tripoli-based internationally recognised government for control of the North African country.
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