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| Leading Benghazi assassin reported arrested |
| 2015-03-02 |
[Libya Herald] A man is reported to have been incarceratedI ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Benghazi, charged with the liquidation in December 2013 of Colonel Kamal Bazaza, head of military intelligence in the city, and in May last year of the editor of the Benghazi newspaper Burniq, Muftah Awad Buzid. The suspect has been named as Nuri al-Obeidi, a resident of the city's Ras Obeida district. He is also accused of the murder of 28 other people. No details have been revealed as to when he was arrested nor how the authorities discovered his identity. He is said to have admitted the killings of Bazaza and Buzid. The latter was rubbed out on Benghazi's Istiqlal Street while on his way to work. The former died when his car blew up, also in Istiqlal Street. Obeidi, believed to be in his 20s, is reported to have disclosed that he shadowed Bazaza for three days before attaching the bomb to his vehicle. He is said to have claimed that the killing was ordered by Ramadan Al-Rabaie, listed by the Saiqa Brigade last July as a member of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya and Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... and living in Leithi district. He said that he had been blackmailed by Rabie into carrying them out. He has also allegedly admitted to killing in September 2012 Sheikh Akram Saleh Al-Drissi, the imam of the Argam Ben Abi Al-Argam mosque in Ras Obeida, its muezzin Moutaz Al-Sharif and 26 other religious figures and political activists. Following the arrest, Obeidi's home was set on fire. |
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