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Italian Diplomats in Libya Escape Car Blast
[An Nahar] Italian diplomats in Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... beat feet from their booby-trapped car before it went kaboom!during a shopping trip in the Libyan capital on Tuesday, officials said. "The Italian diplomats got out of their car in the district of Zawiet al-Dahmani to shop when they noticed a wire hanging beneath the vehicle," a diplomat said. The driver called the police who blocked the road shortly before the kaboom, he said. "They evacuated the area before the car went kaboom!half an hour later," added the diplomat, who was speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . That version of events was confirmed by witnesses in the neighborhood located a few kilometers (miles) from the center of Tripoli. The witnesses said the blast was of low intensity and that the car was not completely destroyed. According to the diplomat, the bomb was attached to the car in another district of the Libyan capital where the Italians had made a first stop. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-12 |
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