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| No contact with government says Derna council leader |
| 2013-12-07 |
| [Libya Herald] The new head of Derna Local Council, Hussam Al-Nuwaissary, has refuted the Prime Minister's statement yesterday that the government was in close contact with various security bodies inside and outside the town, including as the local Security Directorate and a number of army battalions. On his Facebook site, Nuwaissary said that there had been no direct or indirect communication with the government. He accused it of being interested in the town only because people had started protesting against the lack of security there. Protests against the presence of Ansar Al-Sharia and other militias in the town continued today for the fifth day in a row, with demonstrators, as has become standard, setting off from the town's Sahaba mosque. |
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