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| Car boom in Benghazi |
| 2011-06-03 |
| [Iran Press TV] A car boom has reportedly gone off outside a hotel in Libya's opposition-controlled eastern city of Benghazi. The bomb went off in a parking lot in front of Tibesti hotel where foreign delegations are based and opposition authorities often meet, a Press TV correspondent reported late Wednesday. According to the report, five cars were set ablaze after the blast. No casualties have been reported. Angry crowds gathered outside the hotel and started chanting slogans against Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy. They said Qadaffy is a criminal and should leave the North African country. People blamed the car boom on the remnants of Qadaffy's regime, saying the Libyan dictator aims to undermine the revolution and make divisions among opposition forces in the crisis-hit country. Benghazi is Libya's second largest city where the revolution against Qadaffy started in February. The city fell into opposition control during the early days of the anti-government protests. Opposition forces have established a provisional government named the National Transitional Council in the eastern city. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Qadaffy forces have started arming criminals and drug pushers in Zlitan, a western town near Misratah, to crush the revolution, said Mohammed, a front man for opposition forces in the town. The Libyan government has rejected the reports, saying, "There is nothing happening to that effect in Zlitan." |
| Posted by:Fred |