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| Fresh Attacks Kill One in Libya's Benghazi |
| 2013-12-25 |
| [An Nahar] A Libyan soldier was rubbed out and a civilian maimed by a bomb under his car in separate attacks in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday, medics and security sources said. "A soldier from the Libyan army was killed and a civilian was seriously maimed," a security source said. The soldier belonged to the Saiqa special forces unit and was shot five times by unknown attackers Later, the 23-year-old son of a senior navy officer was seriously maimed by a bomb placed underneath his car in the city center. The victim's father, Commander Rafaa al-Awami is in Russia for training and had recently received threats, a security source said, without elaborating. Surgeons had to amputate the young man's foot, said Fadia al-Barghathi, spokeswoman for the city's Al-Jala hospital. In Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, security forces defused an bomb attached to the car of a woman said to have been linked to the regime of the late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... , a local source told AFP. Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled Qadaffy, has been caught in spiraling violence since his fall. A special forces soldier who had been acting as imam at a barracks in the city was maimed on Monday when gunnies opened fire on him, a member of his unit said. Militants in the city have targeted judges, members of the security forces, local government officials and journalists in recent months. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "We know Chicago and DC beat Karachi and Baghdad except on days when a car bomb goes off." Tijuana for that matter, considering the bad press TJ gets. |
| Posted by: mossom 2013-12-25 23:55 |
| #3 Having sited This Week in Guns, my attention span went south as I typed the rest of the comment. Yeah, I suspect I meant weekly chart, but with my short attention span, I can't remember for sure... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-12-25 19:10 |
| #2 That's not a bad idea. I'd make it weekly, though. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-12-25 13:08 |
| #1 Along with This Week in Guns, I think it's time for Rantburg to run a daily chart of street violence in the world's urban centers. We know Chicago and DC beat Karachi and Baghdad except on days when a car bomb goes off... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-12-25 10:51 |