{"id":87884,"date":"2019-04-09T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/09\/libya-crisis-uk-officials-anxious-as-blame-is-laid-at-doors-of-gulf-allies\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:51:09","slug":"libya-crisis-uk-officials-anxious-as-blame-is-laid-at-doors-of-gulf-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87884","title":{"rendered":"Libya crisis: UK officials anxious as blame is laid at doors of Gulf allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be deep unease in Foreign Office over role of Saudi Arabia and UAEBlame for the renewed Libyan crisis has been laid at the doors of some of Britain\u2019s closest allies in the Gulf, highlighting again how the UK\u2019s commercial interests so often trump its political priorities in the Middle East.In exchanges in the UK parliament, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, traced the crisis to Nato\u2019s overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, an intervention described even by the government minister Mark Field as \u201ccalamitous\u201d. She also accused France of supporting Khalifa Haftar\u2019s attack on Tripoli, an accusation that the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace strenuously denies. Other MPs blamed Russian meddling. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/09\/libya-crisis-anxiety-uk-blame-laid-doors-gulf-allies\" target=\"_blank\">Libya crisis: UK officials anxious as blame is laid at doors of Gulf allies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be deep unease in Foreign Office over role of Saudi Arabia and UAEBlame for the renewed Libyan crisis has been laid at the doors of some of Britain\u2019s closest allies in the Gulf, highlighting again how the UK\u2019s commercial interests so often trump its political priorities in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}