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| Bomb Hits near Libya Prison Holding Former Gaddafi Officials |
| 2015-09-10 |
[ALMANAR.LB] A boom-mobile went kaboom!near a prison in the Libyan capital where former officials of Muammar Gaddhafi's regime, including the dictator's playboy son, are being held, an official said. "A boom-mobile went kaboom!close to the Al-Habda al-Khadra prison, where there is also an interior ministry brigade headquarters," prison front man Othman al-Ghellani told AFP. "The car blew up around 150 meters (yards) from the prison's perimeter wall," he said. "Initial investigations found that a woman parked the car there under the pretext of wanting to visit an inmate." Ghellani said no one was hurt in the blast, which damaged two nearby cars. Al-Hadba is controlled by the Fajr Libya militia coalition which seized 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... last year and is opposed to the internationally recognized government which is based in the east. The jail is currently home to several former Qadaffy henchmen, many of whom have already been sentenced to death or to life imprisonment for crimes committed during the longtime autocrat's decades-long rule. His son Saadi is being held there. The former Libyan football team captain was extradited to Libya from Niger in March 2014 and is due back in court on Monday. Last year, a video emerged appearing to show officials and guards at the prison ill-treating several detainees, including Saadi. The krazed killer Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group has taken advantage of the chaos engulfing Libya since Qadaffy's ouster in 2011 to expand into some coastal areas and claim a number of bombings in Tripoli, including a boom-mobile last week on an oil firm headquarters. |
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