Libyan Army May Stay Post-Qaddafi as Allies Cite Iraq Lesson
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The soldiers and police under Muammar Qaddafi’s command can take comfort in knowing that they may keep their jobs even after the Libyan dictator has been deposed.
“One of the first things that should happen, once Tripoli falls, is that someone should get on the phone to the former Tripoli chief of police and tell him he’s got a job,” Britain’s secretary of state for international development, Andrew Mitchell, told reporters in London, previewing a 50-page report that maps out a contingency plan for a post-Qaddafi Libya.