MOSCOW (Sputnik) — France and Britain led a military intervention into Libya in March 2011 that ousted its long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi and created security vacuum that was filled by Islamic extremists.
"This report determines that UK policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions," Foreign Affairs Committee chair Crispin Blunt said.
In particular, then UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element, the panel of lawmakers stated.
The Committee warned that the UN-brokered Government of National Accord, which is struggling for control of Libya, was the "only game in town" and its failure could plunge the North African nation into a full-scale civil war to control territory and oil resources.
