Libyas Quiet War: The Tuareg of South Libya
In remote southwest Sahara, the indigenous Tuareg tribe variously used and discriminated against by former strongman Muammar Qaddafi fight for their place in a postrevolutionary Libya. Living deep in Libyas desert near large oil fields and lucrative smuggling routes, hundreds of miles from Libyas capital, the Tuareg find themselves impoverished and isolated on this prized land. Nowhere is this felt more than in the oasis town of Ubari. Here the Tuareg are pitted against former neighbors in a proxy
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