TRIPOLI: Libya´s Tripoli-based government vowed on Tuesday to keep fighting smuggling networks and people traffickers after a series of drone strikes sparked claims of political score-settling. “The security operation will continue until the achievement of its objectives,” the Tripoli government said in a statement. “Seven migrant smuggling boats, six drug trafficking depots... and nine tanker trucks used for fuel smuggling” had been destroyed, it said, adding that the operation would now enter a “new phase”. Armed groups have exploited the turmoil to fund their activities through fuel smuggling and the illegal trafficking of migrants. On Monday, the eastern-based parliament denounced the Tripoli government´s operation as the “settlement of political scores rather than a fight against traffickers”.
