Inter-urban competition and the militias’ defiant independence are all the more worrisome because Libya is awash in weapons, with unguarded caches, abandoned stockpiles, looted ammunition depots, and thousands of shoulder-fired heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles. Last November, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), confirmed that AQIM seized the opportunity to secure some of this arsenal when the revolution started.
城市间的竞争以及各军阀肆无忌惮的闹独立令人极其担忧，因为利比亚随处都能找到武器、无人看守的武库、被弃的军需、被洗劫一空的弹药库以及成千上万肩扛式红外线地对空导弹。去年11月，伊斯兰北非基地组织（AQIM）指挥官贝尔莫赫塔（Mokhtar Belmokhtar）证实，革命爆发时，AQIM曾抓住机会弄到了这批军火中的一部分。