Libya: Sisi brings Haftar to heel

The main reason why Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar was expected to keep Libya’s Sirte Basin oil facilities free of conflict was that intelligence supplied by the Egyptians enabled him to destroy any attacking forces from the air, long before they came in range. On the day that the Benghazi Defence Brigades moved in to Ras Lanuf and Sidra, either the pair of drones which supply this intelligence were not working, or Cairo failed to pass on the warning