[Libya Herald] The murder of an army colonel and his daughter in Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
yesterday was Dire Revenge for the death of a man from Wadi al- Shaati during a prison breakout there last February, a relative of the slain officer claims.
"Arrrr! I must have Dire Revenge™!"
Yesterday evening, Bashir al-Hadi al-Hasnawi, an army colonel from the Shatti area but who lived in semi-retirement in Tripoli, was killed along with his beautiful 20-year-old daughter as they drove off from their home in the capital’s Ain Zara district, not far from Salahadeen. The occupant of a car blocking the end of the road got out and shot at them with a Kalashnikov.
"Father! Look out!"
[bangettabangettabangetta!]
According to the member of Hasnawi’s family, the colonel was targeted because the killer had a grudge against the Hasawna tribe whom he blamed for his brother’s death at the time of the breakout from Wadi al-Shatti’s Gurda prison in February. The brother was said to have been one of those involved in attacking the police jail and freeing the prisoners ‐ allegedly mainly Islamists ‐ and was killed in subsequent shooting between prison guards and the attackers. Many of the guards are said to have been members of the Hasawna tribe.
[sulk]
"Friggin' Hasawnas! I'll moider da lot of 'em! An' dere beautiful daughters, too!"
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
contrary to some reports, Hasnawi had not been in Wadi al-Shatti at the time of the attack and not been working in the police-run prison there, the relative insisted, pointing out that his cousin had been an army colonel not a police colonel.
"There's a difference, y'know."
"He's just as dead."
"He had no enemies, and was very popular with the neighbours", the relative said. He added that the family blamed Islamists for the killing.
In Libya? Is there anything else?
Those who attacked the prison in February and those who had been held prisoner there had been Islamists, he said. His cousin, on the other hand, was not. He had supported the revolution and had been in Tripoli ever since, travelling south only when family affairs required it.
That explains it then.
It is reported that a man accused of the crime has been tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
."Into th' paddy wagon wit' yez!"