Sunday People

Obama felt Cam let him down on Libya’

- By Karen Rockett

BARACK Obama expected more investment from David Cameron to rebuild Libya after Gaddafi was overthrown, according to one of the former US president’s top aides.

Former White House foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes also said the internatio­nal response in Libya “should have done better”.

He told BBC Radio 4: “I think people thought there was going to be a longer timeline to build up institutio­ns in Libya, and within about a year following when Cameron and (French president Nicolas) Sarkozy travelled to Libya, it was going to be impossible to put things back together.”

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