MPs attack Cameron over Libya collapse

Britain’s military intervention in Libya, ordered by former Prime Minister David Cameron, relied on flawed intelligence and hastened the North African country’s political and economic collapse, according to a parliamentary report. The Foreign Affairs Committee analysed Britain’s decision-making in the run-up to its intervention alongside France in 2011, which the government said at the time […]

Britain’s military intervention in Libya, ordered by former Prime Minister David Cameron, relied on flawed intelligence and hastened the North African country’s political and economic collapse, according to a parliamentary report.
The Foreign Affairs Committee analysed Britain’s decision-making in the run-up to its intervention alongside France in 2011, which the government said at the time was aimed at protecting civilians under fire from long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Cameron, who ran Britain from 2010 until July, had a “decisive” role in the decision to intervene and must bear the responsibility for Britain’s role in the crisis in Libya, the report says.
“UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence,” the MPs said in the report.
Nearly five years after Gaddafi was toppled and killed, chaos continues to reign in Libya, with two rival governments vying for power and fierce battles over the country’s valuable oil assets.