“Two weeks before he masterminded an assault on two major Libyan cities, Khalifa Hiftar hosted a dinner to court a potential ally. Hiftar was normally a confident man, a former general who had gone on to spend years in Northern Virginia as an exiled opposition leader before returning home for the 2011 Libyan revolution.”

Source: Khalifa Hiftar, the ex-general leading a revolt in Libya, spent years in exile in Northern Virginia – The Washington Post