Jadhran denies Israeli lobbyist and seeking recognition of a breakaway state

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.

Ibrahim Jadhran speaking this afternoon

Tripoli, 11 January 2014:

Cyrenaican break-away leader Ibrahim Jadhran today denied that his  Political Bureau of Cyrenaica had ever signed a $2 million contract with an Israeli lobbyist,  said that Cyrenaica was not seeking international recognition and warned that Libyans had to stand together against the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a broadcast speech he said that there had been no $2-million agreement with Ari Ben-Menashe’s consultancy, Dickens & Madson (Canada) Inc.  Nor, he said, did he want to lobby internationally for a independent Cyrenaica. Instead he said he wanted a federal Libya and said that representatives  from “the territory of Fezzan” would shortly be coming to meet him in Ajdabiya.

He warned that the Muslim Brotherhood was being funded by stolen oil revenues. Oil he said would not be exported, unless a committee was established made up of the three regions, which would oversee its sale

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