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Attacks in Libya's Benghazi Kill Three
[An Nahar] Three people have been rubbed out in the eastern Libyan of Benghazi, where security forces also found the body of a kidnapped banker, security sources said Tuesday.Benghazi was the cradle of the revolt that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... in 2011, but since the strongman's ouster it has been rocked by a wave of deadly bombings and shootings. Late on Monday, gunnies opened fire on a protest tent outside a hotel, killing two people and seriously wounding five others, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. Most of the protesters were from the Al-Obaidi tribe which is demanding the authorities speed up an investigation into the killing of General Abdel Fatah Yunis al-Obaidi, the source said. Obaidi, the rebels' military chief in 2011, was killed after being recalled from the frontline in July that year. On the outskirts of Benghazi, security officers found the body of a kidnapped banker late on Monday, security forces front man Abdallah al-Zaidi said. He said officers found the body of Abdel Latif Zwai, the director of a bank in Benghazi, at a farm in the suburbs. Zwai had been rubbed out, Zaidi added, without saying when he was killed. Kidnappers seized the banker last month, initially demanding a ransom of 10 million Libyan dinars ($8 million), before lowering it to 8 million dinars, a source close to the victim told AFP. In other attacks, gunnies on Tuesday rubbed out a civilian working for the head of a brigade of ex-rebels that fought Qadaffy, Zaidi said. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-30 |
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