西利比亚的GNU表示，与美国支持的合并计划失败后，与萨达姆·哈夫塔尔合作“已不可能”。
有指控称，利比亚军阀哈利法·哈夫塔尔的儿子曾指挥一个“恐怖组织”，对西利比亚的燃料储存设施和发电站发动无人机袭击，这打乱了以的黎波里为基地的民族团结政府（GNU）与哈夫塔尔继续合作、实现国家统一的计划。
Western Libya’s GNU say working with Saddam Haftar ‘impossible’ as US-backed merger plan breaks down Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country.
作为所谓利比亚国民军（LNA）的副指挥官，萨达姆·哈夫塔尔日益被视为美国在统一利比亚安全、司法和政治机构方面的重要人物。
Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions.