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CAIRO — Rebel militias have again threatened to cancel an agreement to surrender control over Libya’s oil terminals and ports.

Rebel leaders said they would not recognize or cooperate with the new government of Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq.

The rebel leaders said the refusal to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned government could include an agreement to withdraw from Libyan oil terminals and ports held over the last year. On May 27, Maiteeq’s home came under a grenade attack.

“All options are on the table,” rebel leader Ibrahim Jathran said on May 26. “If the parliament keeps with its decision on the new government, then we will take a different position than we have before.”

So far, rebel militias, which demand autonomy for eastern Libya, have
surrendered one of three ports to the Tripoli government.

The loss of the oil terminals has led to a drastic reduction in Libyan oil production —
from 1.4 million barrels per day in 2011 to 160,000 barrels today.

  Ahmed Maiteeq, Ibrahim Jathran, Libyan rebels balk at surrendering oil ports to Brotherhood-aligned government