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Africa North
UN staff leave Tripoli after mob attack
2011-05-03
[Al Jazeera] Mobs attacked Western embassies and UN offices in Tripoli after NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
 bombed Muammar Qadaffy's family compound.

Officials said a son of the leader and three of his grandchildren were killed in Sunday's attack.

The UN said it had fled run away evacuated its international staff from Tripoli on account of the unrest. Stephanie Bunker, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that 12 staffers had left Libya and were now in neighbouring Tunisia.

Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister, said on Sunday that the attack was the fourth attempt to assassinate Qadaffy, who was in the building at the time.

Kaim denied the presence of command and control facilities in the Tripoli neighbourhood attacked by NATO. He also denied allegations that his government had fabricated the deaths and said church leaders in Libya had been allowed to see the bodies in the hospital.
He then denied he was Khaled Kaim...
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, who commands NATO's operation in Libya, said that "we do not target individuals."
Correct; Canadians do not. But we do.
However,
The ever-popular However...
 the leaders of the US, Perfidious Albion and La Belle France have said Qadaffy must go, prompting warnings by UN Security Council members Russia, China and Brazil against NATO attempts to change the regime.

In some of its strongest language, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force"
And if there's anything a Russian knows something about, it's the disproportionate use of force. Ask the people of Grozny...
and cast doubt on NATO's assertion that it is not targeting Qadaffy or members of his family. The ministry called for "an immediate cease-fire and the beginning of a political settlement process without preconditions."

The vandalised embassies were empty and nobody was reported injured. But the attacks heightened tensions between the Libyan regime and Western powers and prompted the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
 to pull its international staff out of the capital.

The deputy foreign minister regretted the attacks on the embassies, saying the one copper on duty police force was overpowered by angry crowds.

Kaim said Libya would survey the damages and repair them. He said the embassies attacked included the British and the Italian and the US commercial and consular affairs department.
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