[Libya Herald] A local army commander, Brigadier Hussein Hinshir, was murdered this morning, at around 8am. He was shot in the Sahil Bin Nasser area.He was one of officers who organised the resistance to Qadaffy during the revolution and helped found the Derna Martyrs Battalion. He was also commander of the Nasser Madhkur battalion which protected the town during the liberation war.
The identity of the killers is unknown although one Facebook site claimed that they were Qadaffy supporters who had dressed up to look like Islamists.
With -- according to its Congressman Abdulfatah Shalwi -- no functioning local council or security directorate, Derna is viewed as one of the most dangerous places in the country. Just six days ago, the head of the National Forces Alliance party in the town, Safowan Al-Masourie, survived an liquidation attempt. The previous day, a member of its Counter Crime Agency, Saad Abdulrazaq Al-Mansouri, was rubbed out by unknown gunnies while he was driving to work.
Two days earlier, air-defence police officer Abdulaziz Mahmoud Iddresi survived an attempt to kill him when an bomb attached to the underside of his car went
kaboom!in front of his house. He was not in the vehicle at the time.
Like Hinshir, Iddresi also played a prominent role in the revolution.
Last month, a prominent local Sufi holy man, Sheikh Mustafa Rajab Al-Mahjoubi, was shot outside his home in the town.