Days after the killing of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, and while 14 members of the "Abu Bakr al-Siddiq" battalion that was formed after the Libyan revolution were performing their tasks as a border patrol in the desert and on top of those tasks followed the path of remnants of the Gaddafi regime, those elements saw a man dressed as a Tuareg accompanied by others are trying to flee across the Libyan border. This was on November 19, 2011, when Gaddafi's elder son, Saif Al-Din, and a number of his father’s regime figures believed that they could flee the rebels across the desert to Niger, but he was arrested by the battalion that formed after the Libyan revolution in The city of Zintan (southwestern Libya), where he remained throughout his detention, even after his release and disappearance from view since June 2017.
The most important station in the process of arresting Gaddafi's son was belonging to a former officer who worked in the Libyan army during the era of Gaddafi, his star has risen after the Zintan forces that he leads managed to arrest the son of Gaddafi, he is the commander in chief of the Zintani Military Council, "Osama al-Juwaili", founder of one of the largest military alliances. Also, a mediator has an important role in the Libyan political scene.
Al-Juwaili's name came to prominence early after the Libyan revolution that broke out in mid-February 2011, when he chose to remain in his hometown and be active as a local leader agreed upon by important figures in his city, "the cradle of the bull", Zintan, where his military capabilities allowed him to work as an "ambassador" who wrapped around His decisions included the Zintan militias, and even other revolutionary forces formed by military officers who defected from the previous regime throughout Libya, and in particular Al-Juweili's move towards military action in August 2011 when he was able to establish a major force that participated in the process of extracting the capital from pro-Gaddafi forces, were compatible with him. He continued his leadership role in the Zintan Military Council even after the arrest of Gaddafi's son, and after his designation as the first post-Gaddafi defense minister, following his appointment by the Transitional National Council to this position from November 2011 to September 2012.
Al-Juweili, who denied that his appointment as defense minister, was born in 1961 in Zintan, which is located about 180 km southwest of the capital, which is a city that witnessed a split between loyalists to the National Accord government and supporters of Major General Haftar. The city’s journey in the post-revolutionary events in Libya related to its political and military division with the city of Misrata, which occurred in July 2014 as a result of the Zintan forces ’withdrawal of the political coup announced by Haftar, which was rejected by Misrata, which caused a military clash known as the“ Dawn of Libya ”operation, and in this clash Al-Juwaili's role as a leader with a military weight has contributed to peace between the Zintan and Misrata in March 2018, as he is the main interlocutor who worked to promote talks between the Zintan Military Council and the Misurata Military Council until the conclusion of the reconciliation, which was important to the success of the national reconciliation government and stabilization of the situation In the capital, the Jawili-led council later remained "one of the institutions that determines the success or failure of international efforts to achieve stability in Libya under the National Accord government," according to the James Institute report. Town. "
Al-Juwaili preferred to leave the work as a military commander independent of any political entity. He joined under the banner of the National Accord government in December 2016 to work under the framework of its international legitimacy. The most prominent leg of his political journey with Al-Wefaq is his appointment in April 2019 as commander of the joint operations room by Al-Wefaq Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, where the latter found in al-Juwaili the man of the important stage in confronting the movements of retired brigade Khalifa Haftar against the capital Tripoli, and al-Juwaili is known to deal realistically with the events, he is "the first to warn of the seriousness of Haftar's progress toward Tripoli, and tried to counter him on the way when His forces moved towards Tripoli and succeeded in delaying him for a few days due to the difference in strength, "says Libyan journalist Omar Maatouq, adding to" Maidan ":" Al-Juili, the first military commander from the Al-Wefaq government, came out publicly from the first day of the Haftar attack and began assembling forces and forming a defensive arc until He was formally assigned to lead the joint operations formally and the rest of the fighters joined him.
One of the scenes that captured the hearts of combat elements in the Libyan National Accord government was related to their vision of six Haftar forces leaving inside the base and the surrounding area surrendered without weapons, the scene was enough to assure them that the storming of the strategic base had succeeded this time, twice in two previous tricks between them and Control of the fortified base, and the military achievement was limited to cordoning off and bombing the base by land and air. This was on the ninth day of May 2020, after the scenes of the Al-Wefaq victories rolled out loudly one after the other, dozens of cities in the province of Tripoli and others were restored, but after the fall of the strategic al-Wataya base (140 km southwest of Tripoli), which means full control of western Libya It became clear how successful the military plan for the Al-Wefaq leaders led to the seizure of the largest military base converted by Haftar forces since its control six years ago to a center for the command of Western operations, a center whose leaders have been unable to give orders to launch military raids on the areas of Tripoli.
It was the man who planned the attack on al-Qaeda al-Jawili. The leader of the joint operations room, who heard al-Sarraj vowing during his meeting with him during the month of Ramadan last to take over al-Qaeda, was the one who prepared the last plan to control the patriot, that control that gave al-Wefaq a military achievement represented in controlling along the border with Tunisia, in particular, the two land crossing points: Ras Jdir and Dehiba / Wazzan However, the role of al-Juweili, who stated that "the process of controlling the al-Watiyah base was done quickly, thoughtfully and without losses in our forces" is more general and comprehensive than planning to control that base, as he is the architect of the "Storm of Peace" operation launched by Al-Wefaq on March 25, 2020 and adopted for the first Once a great deal on Turkish military support pledged to Ankara, where Turkish drones participated for the first time alongside artillery and missile fire in the battle.
After the fall of Al-Wattiya, al-Juweili, who is known as the most trusted Libyan leader in the Turks, pledged to work to bring down Haftar’s last stronghold in the region, which is a pledge. Indeed, the commander of the Western military sector fulfilled what he talked about on June 5 last. Indeed, Juweili less than a week after The fall of Tarhuna managed to extend his control over areas of Zintan, so his allied forces now controlled Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the local headquarters of the parallel government in the east, and others. Al-Juwaili, as the Libyan military analyst Adel Abdel-Kafi believes: “He managed the battle with good military professionalism and wisdom in dealing with The social dimension of the western region as much as possible without affecting the conduct of the military operation, as it dealt with the military forces and princes of other regions with a team spirit. "
Now, after the operations of Al-Wefaq forces stopped on the Sirte border after those forces were subjected to air strikes by Russian warplanes, which left more than 60 people dead, as the city reached large Russian reinforcements to prevent the forces of the Al-Wefaq government from entering them, Al-Jouili realizes the seriousness of the military situation in Libya, says the media. The Libyan Omar Matouk that Al-Juweili understands that the battle of Sirte will be an international battle, and he also knows that the battle needs much more preparation than the battle to defend Tripoli, and he adds: "What distinguishes the previous battles of Gueli is victory with the lowest human losses possible, and he now heads the joint operations room And all weapons, especially airspace, continue to follow the Chamber's instructions and exchange information with it, and the force difference will be compensated with specific weapons. "
On May 19, 2019, the sight of the passage of dozens of Turkish-made BMC Kirby armored vehicles stopped many Libyan citizens from following their path as a car or driving cars, and they were astonished by the new military equipment they had just come through The port of the capital, Tripoli, because they used to see mostly worn out tanks and armored vehicles on the streets of the capital Tripoli, which could not match the power of the modern tanks and armored vehicles with which Haftar was supported by his regional allies.
Video .. The arrival of a new batch of military vehicles and armored fighting vehicles at the port of Misurata and Tripoli .. The military reinforcements have moved to the fighting axes. pic.twitter.com/lDWbQPaki8
- Eye of Libya (@EanLibya) May 18, 2019
This qualitative support was the first thing that Al-Wefaq leaders gained from their move towards Turkey, and not the last of the results of the security agreement signed by the two sides last November. After days of an official Libyan visit to Ankara, it aimed to move stagnant water in Turkish relations with the government Al-Wefaq, which was limited to only limited political support, responded to the request of the Libyan Minister of Interior, Fathi Pashaga, that Ankara support his country militarily, specifically by providing military aircraft to strike a strong balance on the battlefield with Haftar, as the Turks heard on this visit military leaders who were accompanied by Pashaga with him and on their head Al-Gweli, who provided with his colleagues a full explanation of the importance of the presence of modern aircraft that repel Haftar's planes for their successive strikes on the Al-Wefaq areas, and indeed he soon touched the importance of the Turkish weapon in the hands of the Al-Wefaq forces that regained in late June 2019 the strategic city of Gharyan located 60 km south of Tripoli The city fell in the first use of Turkish drones, while the same weapon was completed by a series of victories, most notably the liberation of Tripoli, the cities of Tarhuna and Bani Walid, the cities of the entire West Coast, the base of A Strategy homos, towns, and western mountain.
Al-Juweili, who had a great ability to communicate with all parties inside Libya, was aware of the importance of foreign relations as well, and within this vision came his participation in Al-Sarraj in his meeting with the commander of the American Military Command in Africa (AFRICOM), General Stephen Townsend on June 22, 2020. The land of the coastal city of Zwara (120 km west of the capital, Tripoli), Al-Juwaili reviewed the latest military and security developments in Libya in order to move the American efforts to achieve stability in his country.
Al-Juwaili's conviction that international relations have a role in the Libyan arena was not the result of recent developments. From the beginning, the man realized the feasibility of establishing the Military Council of Zintan, which was headed by relations with wealthy foreign entities, such as Italy, for example, which wished to invest in the Zintan region, and soon walked Al-Juwaili is on the same path when he became involved in the work under the banner of the National Accord Government, as he cautioned that Al-Wefaq could not consolidate its authority in Tripoli and elsewhere without providing an international network that gives it international influence.
Goueli is a Libyan man, appreciates the ally who knows that he does not have colonial ambitions, and on this basis he deals with the Turkish ally under the civil leadership of the Government of Concord, deals realistically with events, knows very well that the American role is central to Libya, and he also knows that the United States has been an influential time On the Libyan issue, and it has its bases in the balance of power, which does not contradict the country's stability under common interests, which is what Russia lacks, for example, as it is seen as an occupier and not a partner. "
Now, while the Al-Wefaq forces are preparing to liberate the city of Sirte (450 km east of Tripoli), military analyst Adel Abdul Kafi tells us about Al-Jueli’s preparation for the next stage, saying: “All the leaders will work under a common room to provide all military support and capabilities to all land, sea and air units to eliminate Russian mercenaries. Of Haftar, where the Presidential Council is now seeking to ally with countries that support stability in Libya.