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| Gaddafi supporters 'try to blow up Tripoli power grid' |
| 2012-01-01 |
| A Libyan militia chief said on Sunday his fighters had captured nine supporters of otherthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi who had been plotting to blow up Tripoli's power grid on New Year's Eve. "We captured explosives with them that they bought from the black market and now we're interrogating them," said Abdullah Naker, the commander of Tripoli's Revolutionist Council. Militia groups who helped oust Gaddafi last year still hold considerable power in Libya, and have taken the law into their hands in several areas, setting up road blocks and arresting suspects despite the presence of an official police force. Mr Naker said the nine Gaddafi supporters had been funded by a group of businessmen affiliated to the former leader, who was killed in October after militias overran his home town of Sirte. Mr Naker also accused the nine and their supporters of trying to relaunch the former leader's official television station Al Jamahiriya. The men had been planning to set off a number of explosions in the capital, state media reported, quoting a statement from Libya's electricity and renewable energy authority. |
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