Faisal Feituri sets up pro-Haftar lobbyist in US called Dolton Fonseca Group

摘要

Faisal Feituri, the Libyan businessman and lobbyist for Khalifa Haftar in the United States, is boosting his US networks. He has just set up the Libyan American Coalition and American-African Security & Economic Coalition think-tanks (AI, 20/10/21), which will work as lobbying groups promoting a positive vision of Haftar. Now Feituri, the former right-hand man of Abdul-Basit Igtet, who unsuccessfully bid to become Libyan president in 2014 and with whom he is now estranged, wants to create another lobbying firm in Washington called Dolton Fonseca Group. He is said to be enlisting the services of Jesse Binnall, who is Haftar's lawyer in the crimes against humanity trials against him in Virginia (AI, 16/07/21) and a long-time supporter of Donald Trump. Feituri also plans to launch a new organisation called the Ibrahim Center for Strategic Studies (ICSS). Hajer Elgaid, a former member of Libya's General National Congress (GNC), the first body elected after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 who later moved on to the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), could join the ranks of ICSS.