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Africa North
Suspected Emirati spy dies in jail
2017-01-27
UAE cleaning up
An Emirati man accused of being a spy has been murdered while being held in detention in Tripol. Attorney General Sadiq Al-Sour has announced. Yousef Mubarek, a former police sergeant in Dubai, was apparently by a member of Libyan intelligence who was then himself killed by prison guards.
That's a story line worthy of the RAB...
One report suggests that the Libyan intelligence member was killed as he stormed the detention centre where Yousef Mubarek, a former police sergeant in Dubai, was being held. Al-Sour has said another prison guard believed to have being involved in the murder is also being investigated.

Other reports, though, suggest that the Emirati was killed during an abortive attempt to escape.
That's a bit more of a pedestrian prison story, not that it can't be told well...
Mubarek was arrested in November 2015 by Libya Dawn officials at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport while trying to leave for Tunis. He was then accused of espionage after videos of a number of embassies in Tripoli were supposedly found on his computer.

A trial had still been pending.

There has been no comment from the UAE.
Posted by:badanov

#2  Kind of a 'wet cleanup in aisle 3' event.
Posted by Skidmark


Referred to in some quarters of Law Enforcment as PSH (Public Service Homicide).
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-27 11:32  

#1  That's a story line worthy of the RAB...

Very similar to the RANTburg story about Obama's pardoned felon being killed by 'two unknown assailants'.

Kind of a 'wet cleanup in aisle 3' event.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-01-27 10:44  

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